Whatever happened to Danken's Chocolate Decadence Ice Cream??

[Greg Lovern]

Once upon a time, the best chocolate ice cream in the world was
Danken's Chocolate Decadence.

First, it was available at the Dankens storefront in Seattle's
University district, near the corner of University and 45th. They had
a lot of weird and unpleasant flavors that came and went, but usually
had their incredible chocolate decadence.

Then the storefront closed, but small cartons became available in
grocery stores, or at least in Larry's Markets. And I could usually
find their chocolate decadence.

Then the cartons disappeared, and I read somewhere that the people at
Dankens were making a line of ice cream for (I think) Dreyer's. I
watched for anything like Danken's Chocolate Decadence to appear in a
Dreyer's carton, but never saw anything like it.

Danken's Chocolate Decadence was not only the best chocolate ice cream
ever, it was also just different than other chocolate ice creams.

Are the people behind Dankens still making ice cream?

If not, can the recipe be made public so that maybe someday someone
else will make it?

Greg

[jeremy]

Greg Lovern wrote:
They had
> a lot of weird and unpleasant flavors that came and went,

I think this might explain it.

JJ

[Jim McGill]

Dan and Ken are long out of the ice cream business (I think Ken bailed
before they closed the Ave shop). Dan went wholesale for a while and
wore out. The brand name was sold to a fellow that followed their
recipes for a while and then basically lost interest and turned it over
to staff. It drifted downhill, losing accounts slowly and finally
disappeared, joining other good things like the Turbulent Turtle and
Wally's that had good concepts but not enough market share or business
skills to survive.

[s1steve]

and who could ever forget their coconut ice cream NOT sorbet
a scoop of heaven - yum
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