09/07/2026
I don’t even know where to start with this one. I’ve invested more time and energy into this project than anything I’ve ever made before, and I’m real friggin proud of it.
I present to you... Stewart’s Frozen Dessert Flavor Index (link in bio). I pored over old newspapers, digital archives, microfilm, archived versions of the Stewart’s website, library collections, dairy industry publications, and anything else I could get my hands on, in an attempt to catalog every publicly documented Stewart’s flavor that has ever existed. I’m not sure how many I was expecting to find when I started this project, but it was definitely… less than this.
Every flavor name gets its own page (all 516 of them), and on that page I’ve included every piece of information I could find about that particular flavor. Some are only a flavor name and the year it was first documented. Others include things like awards the flavor has received, alternate names it may have gone by, components of the flavor itself, documented formula changes, and some even have fun little tidbits like naming inspiration or contest winners. Every fact is sourced, and the book includes a total of 596 citations, each on the page of the flavor it applies to.
In the back of the book, I’ve included 11 different indexes that allow the reader to look up a flavor by year, dessert format, base flavor, particulate, variegate, flavor family, local geography, institutions, people, brands, or awards. Every fact is accompanied by a citation to back it up. I’ve really wracked my brain about how I could have been more thorough with this book, and just haven’t been able to come up with anything. (cont. in comments)
