What Delightful Regional TV Commercials! I love Mr. Tom Carvel's warm voice as the narrator & all the ice cream desserts look delicious & colorfully attractive! A wholesome family business that I really want to enjoy someday. I grew up here on the West Coast in Southern California & I've never been to East Coast, except for a short visit down South to Atlanta & Tampa but I'd love to vacation in the NorthEast someday & visit one of the Carvel stores!
I always felt I had to get ice cream from there when he always said Thank You. We had one in my hometown, but didn't last very long..early 80's. But always loved his ads and his sincerity in his voice.
I'll never forget these ads, I had seen them when I was living in Dania, FL. Just hearing his voice makes you want to go out and get the wonderful treats. There's nothing like Carvel, it's the best.
the Carvel ice cream cakes sold in the supermarkets are not the same as the ones in the stores but they are just as expensive. I wish there were more of the stand alone Carvel ice cream shops, these cakes look really awesome.
Carvel cakes really were the best. I have no idea if they're still around but from my childhood memories they were amazing. My aunt used to hold a Thanksgiving Day party every year that featured a couple of ice cream turkeys.
When I was a kid I used to love the Parfait, and my favorite was the double chocolate parfait. They were pre made, and you'd take off the lid and that would become the base. I also used to love a Carvel ice cream Sunday where they make it in a mini upside down MLB batting helmet. I think they probably had all the teams, but I remember the Mets and Yankees.
The voiceover was done by Tom Carvel, who invented the world's first soft-serve ice cream machine and was the founder of Carvel. His terrible voiceovers were part of the charm of those old Carvel commercials. :-)
