Franklin Mint Chip - The Franklin Fountain

Franklin Mint Chip - The Franklin Fountain

ice cream specialties
Splits SODA
from the
fountain
The Franklin Mint 
MINT CHIP and VANILLA ice creams striped in chocolate
syrup, FLUFFY MARSHMALLOW glaze and Crème de Menthe
finished with home-made whipped cream and
a mint green maraschino cherry.
Our own breath freshener!
$10
Homemade Hot Fudge 
Two dipperfuls of PHILADELPHIA VANILLA BEAN ice cream
suffocated in FRANKLIN FOUNTAIN HOT FUDGE and
topped with our fresh whipped cream and a cherry...
a true American icon.
Wilbur’s dark chocolate is churned SMOOTH with fresh local milk,
cream and butter, then cooked ON-SITE in an antique copper candy kettle.
Honest ingredients are the best policy for flavor.
$8.50
The Lightening Rod 
A dark Chocolate brownie surmounted by COFFEE ice cream
bathed in a SHOT of ESPRESSO and peppered with chocolate
covered espresso beans, white chocolate shavings
and finished with a salty pretzel rod.
Will surely ELECTRIFY even the most enervated!
$10
Mt . Vesuvius 
A mountain of CHOCOLATE or VANILLA ice cream
ERUPTING in chocolate brownie pieces, CASCADING with
hot fudge and BLANKETED in malt powder.
A dollop of whipped cream indicates her smoking signal.
A true display of Pomp-eiin circumstance.
$10
Peach Melba Parfait 
FRESH PEACH ice cream DOUSED in raspberry puree,
sprinkled with diced almonds and finished with a collar of
RUFFLED whipped cream. Following soprano Nellie Melba’s
performance of Wagner’s Lohengrin in 1893, French chef
Auguste Escoffier was moved to create
an exquisite dessert for Dame Nellie.
This is a variation on Escoffier’s famous dessert.
$8.50
The Southern Sympathizer 
RUM RAISIN and PISTACHIO ice creams with pecans
and pistachios SMOTHERED in hot caramel
and STUDDED with candied pralines.
This Franklin Fountain original is as pretty as a sweet-talking
LOUISIANA GIRL in her Sunday best.
$10
Maple Leaf Rag 
An homage to Scott Joplin’s popular 1899 piano ballad, two dipperfuls of CHOCOLATE ice cream are shellacked in pure MAPLE
WALNUTS, the syrupy sweetness cut by “The Sting” of tart PINEAPPLE, crushed fresh and piqued with whipped cream.
In season, ask for the BANANA Ice Cream variation.
{as famously featured in the New York Times}
$8.50
The Stock Market Crunch 
ROCKY ROAD ice cream coated in thick peanut butter sauce,
paved with crumbled salt pretzels and topped with whipped cream.
William Dreyer and Joseph Edy concocted the first batch of
ROCKY ROAD ice cream in 1929 following the great stock market
crash to give consumers something to SMILE about during the
impending Depression.
$10
Broken Hearts 
“...put a slice of brick VANILLA ice cream on a 6-inch plate.
Cover the ice cream with fresh, sweetened, and slightly mashed
strawberries, and over these put sweetened whipped cream; top off
with two whole strawberries and serve with two nabisco wafers.
Sells for 20 cents.”
{F. Varney, Dispenser’s Formulary, 1910}
$10
yyyyyyyyyy COLLEGE ICES yyyyyyyyyy
Once upon a Simpler time, a young Fraternity gent asked a
pretty College girl out for a Row or a round on his Velocipede,
later accompanied by some Ice Cream refreshment.
College Ladies were known to prefer a small amount of sorbet
or ice cream accompanied by a fruit or nut dressing.
Choose one Scoop Ice Cream and one Topping.
$6
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Dr Dovey’s Classic 1904 Banana Split
Choice of Twenty-Five Flavors! REGULAR $2 LARGE $3
Phosphates
In a proper banana boat is placed a banana, SPLIT lengthwise
with one scoop each of VANILLA, STRAWBERRY and
CHOCOLATE ice creams covered in crushed pineapple,
strawberry topping and chocolate syrup, garnished with whipped {Tart old-fashioned sodas with a dash of citric or PHOSPHORIC acid}
$5
cream, chopped nuts and two maraschino cherries. Originated in
1904 by pharmacist David Strickler in Latrobe, PA. An
Japanese Thirst Killer 
Apprentice, Howard Dovey, brought the BANANA SPLIT to
Orgeat {almond}, Grape juice, & Angostura Bitters
PHILADELPHIA where he attended medical school. Dr. Dovey
with Phosphate
is credited with popularizing the FAMOUS dessert by instructing
PHILADELPHIA soda dispensers on how to make a SPLIT
Egyptienne Egg Shake 
properly. We hope he’d be proud of ours, served in authentic
Orange & Rose, rising with a golden EGG representing
period dish.
the sun god RE. Bejeweled with a sweet date.
$14
/ The consumption of raw or undercooked eggs may increase your risk of /
Tarzan of the Apes 
This swinging swashbuckler was born in 1912 by a middle aged
pencil sharpener salesman named Edgar Rice Burroughs. As the
story goes, a supple young man {a generous serving of Vanilla}
with Ape blood {CHOCOLATE Syrup} is raised on tropical
FRUITS {bananas & berries} and crowned King of the Jungle
{with almonds and whipped cream headband}. This dessert’s
Intelligent Design makes for a SLIPPERY slope and can SPLIT
audiences right down the middle!
$10
Banana Split for My Baby 
A smaller variation of the American Classic, inspired by LOUIS
PRIMA’S 1949 tune for that waist-conscious lady or man.
A banana sliced into coins LADEN with CHOCOLATE and
PEANUT BUTTER ice creams coated with HOT FUDGE,
peanut butter sauce, Spanish peanuts, and finished with whipped
cream and one cherry.
Served with a glass of plain water for him.
$12
ICE CREAM
By the Cup or Cone
Small $4.60
Medium $5.55
Large {Pint} $6.75
food borne illness, especially for: young children, senior citizens and pregnant women.
ice cream sodas
$7
Root Beer Float 
Ladies Choice 
Raspberry Soda infused with Peach Ice Cream & Sweet Cream
Coca -Cola and Ice Cream 
Cherry Bomb 
A ball of Chocolate Ice Cream dropped in a Cherry Soda
MILKSHAKES
Regular $7
Large $8
Thirst - Ades
$5
Made with pressed whole fruit!
LEMONADE
LIME RICKEY
LIMEADE
NEW YORK EGG CREAMS
$5
Vanilla or Chocolate {Fox’s}
ICE
CREAMS
TOPPINGS
VANILLA
COCONUT
CHOCOLATE
PEACH
FRANKLIN MINT CHIP
STRAWBERRY
CHERRY VANILLA
GREEN TEA
PEANUT BUTTER
BUTTER PECAN
CHOCOLATE CHIP
PISTACHIO
HYDROX COOKIE
COFFEE
ROCKY ROAD
MAPLE WALNUT
TEABERRY GUM
RUM RAISIN
BLACK RASPBERRY
COTTON CANDY
SEASONAL SORBETS
SUGAR FREE FLAVORS
DAIRY-FREE ICE CREAMS
FEATURED FLAVORS
homemade hot fudge - $2
fresh whipped cream - $1.50
homemade hot caramel - $2
chocolate syrup (cold) - $1
homemade peanut butter sauce - $2 marshmallow sauce - $2
jimmies (chocolate or multicolor) - $1
malt powder - $1
chocolate brownie pieces - $3
salted pretzel pieces - $1.50
chocolate covered espresso beans - $2.50
white chocolate shavings - $2
hydrox cookie pieces - $2
whole pistachio nuts - $2
fresh crushed pineapple - $2.50
walnuts in maple syrup - $2.50 sliced bananas - $2
chopped almonds - $1.50
raspberry puree - $2
salted pecans - $2
crushed strawberries - $2
spanish peanuts - $1.25
mixed berry compote - $2