A quick summer update on some new offerings at Rita’s Italian Ice. Please prep yourself by reading our initial guide here:
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/food/free-ritas-italian-ice-cales-guide-to-frozen-sugar-water/
3 new flavors have been introduced, the first was Sweet Tea. Now I have this theory that you had to grow up drinking iced tea as a child to really enjoy it. You can’t just become a tea drinker later in life. I don’t know why, but my mom just didn’t whip out the iced tea during the summers. I’ve tried to become a tea drinker for years, and it just doesn’t do it for me. It’s not bad, but I’m just not excited about it. So the sweet tea ice was about the same. I had someone who was a big ice tea drinker and he assured me it was awesome and that I was retarded. Seems to go well with raspberry and lemonade. A biased 2 out of 5 stars.
Here is me 6 months ago: Dear baby Jesus, please please make peach flavored Rita’s. Seriously.
And now we get Georgia Peach. I’m going to give myself all the credit. It’s phenomenal. Up there with the best fruit flavors. I’d suggest going with a gelati over a Blendini though, the vanilla custard peach combo is good, but the separation is preferred. 5 out of 5 stars.
Oh, such sweet, juicy joyfulness indeed! Much like Shorts IIIII.
And finally on July 4th we got Key Lime. Sounds nasty-bo-jasty, but it’s actually not half bad. Goes well with vanilla custard. 4 out of 5 stars.
Coming in August: Cotton Candy
and in the Fall: Pumpkin
I’m designating pumpkin as as hi-pot flavor (that’s short for high-potential). Imagine a pumpkin ice vanilla custard blendini with nilla wafer bits simulating a pumpkin pie. Just imagine it! Cotton Candy on the other hand will most likely be too artificial tasting to be a strong contender (think Birthday Cake), but it could be a surprise hit like Key Lime.
Hot Summer Tip: Pick up a party bucket of Passion Fruit and mix in some rum for your next pool-side get together!
New Rita’s location coming soon:
1410 Good Hope Road
Washington, DC 20020
Existing locations:
1781 Florida Avenue Nw
WASHINGTON, DC 20009
3237A 14th Street NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20010
2318 RHODE ISLAND AVENUE NE
WASHINGTON, DC 20018
8900 Baltimore Avenue
COLLEGE PARK, MD 20740
2950-F Donnell Drive
DISTRICT HEIGHTS, MD 20747
9101 KINNEY PLACE
CLINTON, MD 20735
15430 OLD COLUMBIA PIKE
BURTONSVILLE, MD 20866
Firstfield Shopping Center 509 Quince Orchard Road
GAITHERSBURG, MD 20878
3233 SPARTAN ROAD
OLNEY, MD 20832
905F Herndon Parkway
HERNDON, VA 20170
3353 Corridor Marketplace Suite 100
LAUREL, MD 20724
3329 SUPERIOR LANE
BOWIE, MD 20715 USA
GERMANTOWN CENTER 12801 WISTERIA DRIVE
GERMANTOWN, MD 20874
Potomac Mills Mall 2700 Potomac Mills Circle
WOODBRIDGE, VA 22192
Columbia East Shopping Center 7351 Assateague Drive # 50 (Corner of Rts. 1 & 175)
JESSUP, MD 20794
2163 DEFENSE HWY. ROUTE 450
CROFTON, MD 21114
3312 LEONARDTOWN RD.
WALDORF, MD 20601
1111 ODENTON ROAD
ODENTON, MD 21113
HARPERS CHOICE VILLAGE CENTER 5485 HARPERS FARM ROAD, SUITE C
COLUMBIA, MD 21044
44050 Ashburn Village Shopping Center Suite #155
ASHBURN, VA 20147
All images from: http://www.ritasice.com/, even this one:
Cale’s “Free Rita’s” post introduced me to Ritas. I’ve come to take his word on Rita’s as gospel.
July 14, 2008 at 2:08 pmNicole - ditto on the tea.
July 14, 2008 at 2:18 pmre: Shorts MVCIIIVCIIIMZXXI, those big girls need love too.
also, why aren’t you forewarning ppl about the soggy wafers half-way towards the bottom of those blendinis?
July 14, 2008 at 2:30 pmtheir lemon flavor is better than any lemonade i’ve ever had. it’s so sour!
July 14, 2008 at 3:38 pmThe Bowie Superior Lane location is what’s good.
I used to steal money from my roommates and walk down the street to get nice with gelatos.
July 14, 2008 at 5:07 pmit bother’s me that the peach and mango are the exact same color.
also, i liked sweet tea when i was little but wan’t allowed to drink it and i don’t like it now, or any tea for that matter.
i don’t know how i feel about pumpkin ice, i love pumpkin ice cream, but i’ll give it a go when it comes out.
July 14, 2008 at 5:12 pmThe picture is misleading, in reality the peach is quite a few shades lighter than the mango.
July 14, 2008 at 5:42 pmI had the key lime slenderita blendini last night. so good.
July 15, 2008 at 10:14 ami had the chocolate chip cookie dough today, it was wonderful, not as good as mango, but wonderful still.
July 15, 2008 at 11:04 pm
I was wondering how the Key Lime was. And I’m rather excited for the pumpkin.
As for the iced tea theory, I agree. I grew up an unsweet iced tea drinker (my mom drank it unsweet so thats what I got - and in the south no less). To this day people are often mortified when I drink unsweet tea and/or refuse their offers for sugar packets. Seriously, even the slightest twinge of sweetness in my tea makes me gag. Ew.
July 14, 2008 at 2:03 pm