PHO-2828

Friday night, Casey planned a nice date for us. He took me to the place where we had our first date and then wanted to follow up by taking me to Swenson’s for an ice cream sundae. He hadn’t been to Swenson’s in years but he kind of remembered where it was. In the place where he remembered Swenson’s being, was now a little Asian diner called PHO-2828 (I’m guessing that’s their phone number too). So we sat in the parking lot while he used his phone to find the location of the nearest Swenson’s. Well, low and behold the location it spit back to us was none other than where PHO-2828 was. Casey said that the Swenson’s had been run by an Asian family so maybe it was the same place. We walked in and they did still have an ice cream bar. However, the overwhelming smell of Asian grill kind of through off the ice cream vibes. The flavors were a little off too (i.e. green tea and plum wine). The lady had already given us taste samples so we felt like we couldn’t leave. I got a scoop of cookie dough and Casey tried to get his classic Braum’s sundae (cookies and cream or black walnut topped with marshmallow cream). The funniest part of the night was watching Casey try to explain to the lady that he wanted marshmallow topping. She just kept saying with a questioning look (strawberry? chocolate?). Finally Casey accepted defeat and just took whip cream. When we left, we felt dirty because we had cheated on our beloved Braum’s for ice cream that wasn’t even that good. Needless to say, we will be returning to Braum’s for our next ice cream craving.