Snow Place Like Home

These are the best snow cones around. There are several flavor options!
The only reason I am giving 4 stars is because it took several minutes (about 8) to get our snow cones.

What all can you really say about a snow-​cone?
Apparently a lot, according to my wife who had a serious… and I do mean serious… craving for snowcones during her pregnancy. For those following my reviews, you’re likely noticing a pretty large trend^. Anyways, we found ourselves going from stand to stand all over DFW looking for the best snowcones. The ice had to «have the right consistency». This small stand is typically found outside Ol’ South Pancake House and it’s usually run by one or two guys. They have plenty of flavor options and the right ice consistency (according to my better half). So we’re rocking four stars for these guys.

I make little secret of the love that I harbor for snow cone joints, and the way that I see it, that’s at least a singular pleasure derived in the face of a summer climate that regularly springs 100+ temperatures on locals in the summer. In lay terms, I’m saying it gets hot here, and the advent of said hotness surprises no one, and we all tend to queue (if we’re paying attention) when the mercury spikes with the inherent idea that cooling down with flavor beats just cooling down any old day.
And so, it was, that I set upon Snow Place Like Home, a likely entrant in Fort Worth’s fictional Most Punny Business Name award, although it says probably something about me that I at least considered that it me be punny times two (one and a half?) if it might be No Place Like Cone instead. That said, they didn’t ask me, it’s run by a TCU kid, and I got the chance to gulp down a little flavor in the hardscrabble heat of Texas summer as a bonus. No complaints.
There are things they do quite well here as little extras and things that I found a challenge: for folks accompanied by little ones, they top most cones with gummy bears. On the less perfect side, I’m not 100% sure that the flavors I asked for were the ones I got, and they were out of cream on this day. Perhaps that’s a big sell. Either way, it’s good that if you’re cruising down University on a steamy summer day and you spy a trailer in the parking lot of Ol’ South, there’s a pretty good chance it’s this one. And you’ll be helping along a local enterprising college kid in the process. But I’m ready for ‘em to really nail those flavors, and talk up all the mash-​ups mix-​ups I loved as a kid. And for that reason, I’ll be back again. Because with the little one in all of us, hope abounds.