Yes, I know I misspelled sorbet. It is intentional because one of my favorite people in the world, the father of TLV, made a joke about me eating sorbet in Gore Bay. I do not know if you can purchase sorbet in Gore Bay, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada. Perhaps in the small, co-op grocery store but I didn't look because.................
Gore Bay has something much more delicious than sorbet. Even, I think, more delicious than the scrumptious, premium ice cream that is made right on Manitoulin Island. Gore Bay has the world's best (my superlative) frozen yogurt.
The place where you can buy the world's best frozen yogurt is actually a tiny health-foods store in a nondescript building right on a corner of the downtown of Gore Bay, Ontario, population approximately one thousand. Outside the structure is a tri-pod-shaped sign that simply reads: Frozen Yogurt.
What is the big deal here?
The big deal is that in the United States, frozen yogurt is becoming harder to find. Sure, you can purchase it in the frozen section of your favorite supermarket, but the real stuff, the consistency of soft-serve ice cream, seems to be going the way of the woolly mammoth. Twenty years ago there were frozen yogurt franchises everywhere you turned and as numerous as the famous Seattle-based coffee shops that saturated American cities. Not any more.
Instead, you must travel to Gore Bay, Ontario to find the 'real' thing. Gore Bay frozen yogurt is not for the impatient. You will wait for your frozen treasure for several reasons. First, there is always a line of regular folk who also love their frozen yogurt. Secondly, is the way this particular concoction is made. Real slow and real tasty!
We talked with the woman whose job appears to be totally devoted to the production of FY. She explained that the machine she uses is forty-plus years old and is no longer available. ('Twill be a very sad day when the machine stops working.) After prepaying one clerk for your FY, you move along to the FY lady. You have a choice of the fresh fruit flavors of banana, blueberry, peach, peach/mango, strawberry, mixed berry, raspberry, melon combo, and ginger/peach. After you make your fruit selection, she opens a small freezer adjacent to the yogurt machine and lifts out a tray with your fruit choice in it. Taking small tongs, she places the fruit into the machine. She then opens a packet of frozen yogurt, one package per person's order, and adds that into the machine. Finally, she lowers a lever and the magical machine goes to work, producing a product of unimaginable quality and superb taste. You can have your FY in a cup, a traditional cone or a waffle cone. The yogurt is well worth the wait and the cost of traveling to Gore Bay, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada.
I highly recommend the trip!
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