FOOD TRUCKThree day weekends are rare. There’s always something that comes up. Somehow, I made it through the Labor Day weekend without any last minute work assignments.
We went to J’s parents house near Centreville like we usually do for holiday’s. We got a late start because L had a figure skating exhibition Friday night and practice before her trip to Florida on Saturday.
We headed towards St. Joseph County around 4:00 Saturday afternoon. L had talked us in to letting her bring a friend so all three of the kids spent the rest of the weekend either in the lake swimming or in the basement playing Roblox.
We pretty much always grill our meals while we’re at her parents house but will occasionally go out for ice cream or something after dinner.
There were a couple of food trucks at nearby Island Hills Golf Course right outside of Centreville. One of my favorites, MaMazonni’s Italian Beef was there but we had just eaten lunch. What we ventured out for this time was Italian ice and gelato.
Repicci’s Italian Ice & Gelato is a franchise of Italian ice trucks mostly in the midwest and southern part of the country. The only truck is Michigan is based in Southwest Michigan with a phone number linked to a White Pigeon address. It makes a lot of it’s stops in that area and this one near Centreville was in that area as well. The truck is actually a smaller pull behind trailer with a walk up window on one side.
The six of us walked up to the truck just before the Labor Day weekend event at the golf course was about to end. The menu is on the side of the truck right next to the window. The kids all knew what they wanted right away and dove right in to ordering.
We all ordered mediums because the cups looked pretty small. Little did we know, they really packed the Italian ice and gelato in to those little cups. All of the kids did a scoop of Italian ice and a scoop of gelato. I didn’t even attempt to write down everyone’s order for purposes of this blog post because it would have just been multiple paragraphs of the same. Every one loved their selections.
Like the kids, L and her mom both got a scoop of gelato and a scoop of Italian ice. The “scoop” of Italian ice was actually like 3 scoops and the gelato was packed in to the bottom of the cup. You had to get through the Italian ice to get to the gelato.
I was the weird one. I just wanted gelato. I got Cookie’s & Cream gelato and dang, was it tasty. None of the kids knew what gelato was and I tried to explain that it’s a really rich, really creamy ice cream but my limited vocabulary wasn’t to truly convey how delicious gelato really is.
The cost for all this sugary goodness was right around $45 which J’s mom graciously took care of for us.
Ice cream trucks have been around way longer than the current food truck trend but Repicci’s Italian Ice & Gelato isn’t an ordinary ice cream truck. There are a lot of great ice cream shops around the lakes between Sturgis and Centreville so we never are short on options but this newer option is something totally different and something totally delicious.