Trip Down Memory Lane: Nutty Buddy
Dorchester Connection
While scrolling through social media over the weekend, we were reminded of a delicious ice cream treat from our childhood and its roots in the neighborhood!
The Nutty Buddy is an ice cream cone topped with vanilla ice cream, chocolate, and peanuts. It’s delightful!
Did you know?
The Nutty Buddy was originally created and produced by the Seymour Ice Cream Company which was located in the Port Norfolk neighborhood of Dorchester. The ice cream was named after its owner, Buddy Seymourian. Sadly, Seymour Ice Cream shut down in the 1980s.
The official Nutty Buddy is no longer produced commercially in large numbers across the United States. Sweetheart Cup Company, the former manufacturer that made the machines that made the cones went out of business in 1998.
The closest thing you can find like a Nutty Buddy would be a Nestle’s Drumstick – but honestly, it’s not the same.
Maureen Dahill is the editor of Caught in Southie and a lifelong resident of South Boston sometimes mistaken for a yuppie. Co-host of Caught Up, storyteller, lover of red wine and binge watching TV series. Mrs. Peter G. Follow her @MaureenCaught.
Nope, I just bought one in Davis NC Ice Cream Drumstick called Nutty Buddy. Tried to upload a picture but this app won’t allow it.
What year was the Nutty Buddy invented?
Not to mention every grocery store in America sells their own branded version of this
Thank you! I was explaining what a Nutty Buddy was to my wife and she said, “You mean a Drumstick?” “Sorta, but better and Nutty Buddy came first!” I was happy to find your article on the orginal, often imitated, never duplicated Nutty Buddy.
Every time my other half goes to store and shops for ice cream he searches for nutty buddy cones. In my life they have been missing from store coolers for a great many of years. Sorry the remake is absolutely not the same. I am guessing that great taste is forever gone