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Legend-dairy and legend-non-dairy ice cream, from scratch in PDX
📍 2021 SE Clinton
📍1647 NW 21st Slabtown
📍2742 E Burnside - Temporarily closed

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🍦 TODAY at Fifty Licks

$1 from every scoop sold today at all 3 locations will support [Kinship House](https://www.kinshiphouse.org?utm_source=chatgpt.com) and local children and families experiencing foster care.

Stop by for a treat and support the community while you’re at it 💛 by @fiftylicks

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This May, your plans can do something bigger. Every meal or drink at one of our Kinship Tables partners supports local restaurants and local children and families, helping kids build safe, stable futures with the care they deserve. 💛

Make a plan, invite your people, and show up.

Special thank you to our partners for showing up for local kids and families.

@pamanapdx @kulfipdx @fiftylicks @oakbrewpdx @omashideaway @daughterswineshop @mcmenamins @portlandburger by @fiftylicks

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This might be my favorite flavor we’ve ever made. It hasn’t been on the menu since 2012 because making it is like walking a tightrope. It boils for hours and hours, but if you overcook it even by 30 seconds, the whole batch is ruined.

Still, I couldn’t stop thinking about it so we brought it back. Get some while you can because I don’t know when we might make it again. by @fiftylicks

Coconut lemon saffron is back!! I first made this beloved flavor back in 2009 for a pop up dinner. The chef asked me to make something vegan from what she had in her pantry. Ok coconut cream.. maybe we do something southeast Asian… you’ve got some saffron and lemons. Ok! Persia is in the mix! Oh! Cardamom and star anise from India. We’ve got a Silk Road thing going here.

It immediately became the flavor we were known for and CLS fans accept no subtitutes.

Welcome back Coconut Lemon Saffron! We missed you!! by @fiftylicks

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One year ago today, I stood on Burnside Street watching firefighters put out the fire that destroyed our flagship shop. The scoop shop that transformed Fifty Licks from a struggling business into something of an institution was gone along with the five apartments upstairs and two other businesses on the ground floor. 
There’s a unique grief that comes with watching something you’ve built burn. The shop represented years of risk-taking, 18-hour days, and the unlikely success that finally came when we found this perfect corner. I used to drive by Burnside saying, “If that location ever becomes available, I’m taking it.” When i saw the for lease sign, my wife made me pull over and call immediately—a moment that changed everything. 
This past year has been a lesson in resilience. We’ve operated from a pop up food truck parked at @burnsidecollision (thank you!) in the immediate days after the fire, hustled to build a new ice cream truck (constructed in record speed by @gottbuilt), and poured everything into keeping our other locations thriving and our staff employed while wondering if we’d ever return to Burnside. 
When the community showed up—from @rosecityguitarcompany who gave us a place to rest immediately after the fire, to @built4retail, the regular customer who offered us space in front of the theater at Bridgeport Village, to every person who made the trek to find our ice cream elsewhere—I realized we’d built something that transcends brick and mortar. 
Just weeks after the fire, the Willamette Week readers voted us Best Ice Cream in the city. In our darkest moment, you all reminded us why we do this. 
Through all of this, my mind keeps returning to Mackenzie, the young woman who first noticed the fire before anyone in the building was awake. She ran through the upstairs hallway, knocking on doors, making sure every resident got out safely before the smoke was too thick to see. (Another resident ran back inside to rescue her cats.) I hope she knows that she is a hero.

Happy fire-versary everyone! We can’t thank you enough for your support! by @fiftylicks

@eatlikenhi & @travelportland are checking out Slabtown on our Portland Progressive Brunch series where we check out several spots in walkable neighborhood.

On today’s agenda:

* coffee @memento.mori.cafe
* brunch at @westportland
* pool & pinball at paymasterlounge
* dessert at @fiftylicks

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“I’m happiest where art and science intersect with each other. That’s what I love.”

@fiftylicks founder Chad Draizin said when giving us a rare look at how the company’s ice cream is made.

He even explained how he had a dream about a new flavor, figured out how to create it, and it tastes exactly the way he envisioned. 🍨

Here’s this @koin6 #NorthwestGrown by @fiftylicks