Shaw’s Ice Cream is a family business, and their best-selling flavour was inspired by the owners’ childhood visits to their grandma’s kitchen. London Morning host Andrew Brown met with Dorothy McLaughlin, known as Grammy, and Kelly Heleniak, co-owner of Shaw’s and one of Grammy’s 14 grandchildren, at the shop near St. Thomas.
When it comes to ice cream flavours, it turns out Grammy knows best.
Shaw’s Ice Cream is a family business, so when it comes to their most popular flavour creation, the three sisters who run the company looked to their Grammy’s cupboard for inspiration.
“So growing up, we would always visit our Grammy, and she’d have her homemade chocolate chip cookies, homemade peanut butter cookies, and these little brownies in the cupboard,” said Kelly Heleniak, co-owner of Shaw’s Ice Cream. “We thought, ‘Hey, what if we throw together all of these ideas, and we have a flavour called …