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20 | August 2020 Hit & ICE CR E A M Miss Andy's Ice Cream It isn't every day you find a place where you can buy a book of postage stamps, a mismatched set of luggage, a bouquet of artificial flowers and a scoop of the some of the best homemade ice cream in town. But you can at Andy's Ice Cream inside the Cedar Creek Road Post Office at 804 Cedar Creek Road. For Andy Jackson, it didn't start with a love of ice cream; it started with a love of tractors and the old John Deere "hit and miss" engine he used to power his churn. He learned some of the secrets to homemade ice cream from the Amish in his native Lancaster, Ohio. e rest he learned from Tommy Gross of Gross Farms outside Sanford, who advised him never to skimp on the quality of his ingredients. "I've been to ice cream shops all over the country," Jackson said. "ey have big fancy buildings and marble countertops. But they spent all their money on the building instead of concentrating on the ice cream." ese days, he buys his ice cream mix from Jackson Dairy in Dunn – "16 percent butterfat," he said – and adds peaches, blueberries or strawberries that have been enhanced by his wife of 40 years, Hyon. He ships his chocolate in from Forbes Chocolate, the Cleveland, Ohio company that's been in business since 1901. Before the pandemic hit, Jackson was invited to tractor shows and other events to sell his ice cream, but, of course, those kinds of things have been put on hold. Still, he has a steady flow of customers, including those who like a scoop not long aer their morning coffee. "ey come in and ask, 'Andy, is it too early for ice cream?' " he said. Of course, it's never too early for ice cream. Aer all, as one of the signs hanging on the wall, says: "You can't buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream."

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