TUES 6/9 to THUR 6/11: Scooper Bowl

More to come, but this deserves its own spot.

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Noon to 8pm
Scooper Bowl
at City Hall Plaza, Boston (Govt Center)
$8 / $4 for children ages 3 to 9

All-you-can-eat ice cream, 'nuff said!

Nine cold, sweet, creamy companies usually have about 4 flavors of ice cream, frozen yogurt, and/or sorbet at any given time. For $8, consider this a meal replacement. If you do it right, you won't want to eat again for a day.

If you've never been, young and old people act as if they haven't eaten in days and probably spend hours proudly piling up cups in their sticky hands.

I've seen people seemingly satisfied at 7 or 8 scoops, but I suggest trying as many flavors as possible to find your favorites -- then going back to gorge on multiple cups of the ones you like...

If there ever was a good reason for unabated, decadent gluttony; it's cancer research!

FYI: This is a rain or shine event.

The tentative flavors are as follows:

Baskin-Robbins

* Cotton Candy
* Rock 'n Pop Swirl
* York Peppermint Pattie
* Premium Churned Light Raspberry Chip

Ben & Jerry's

* Orange & Cream
* Oatmeal Cookie Chunk
* Chocolate Macadamia
* Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road

Breyers

* Vanilla
* Coffee
* Cherry Vanilla
* Cookies & Cream

Brigham's Ice Cream

* Vanilla
* Chocolate
* Confetti & Cream
* Black Raspberry Frozen Yogurt

Edy's

* Coffee
* Take the Cake
* Mint Chocolate Chip
* Low Fat Caramel Praline Crunch Frozen Yogurt

Garelick Farms/Gifford's

* Chocolate
* Old Fashioned Vanilla
* Mint Chocolate Chip Yogurt
* Maine Lobster Tracks

Häagen-Dazs

* Zesty Lemon Sorbet
* Chocolate
* Bailey's Irish Cream
* Vanilla Honey Bee

HP Hood

* New England Lighthouse Coffee
* Cookie Dough Delight
* Fenway Fudge
* Maine Blueberry & Sweet Cream Frozen Yogurt

Spasso

* Amaretto gelato
* Dulce de Leche gelato
* Chocolate gelato
* Chocolate Chip gelato
* Crema Cafe gelato
* Lemon sorbet
* Coconut sorbet
* Mango gelato
* Raspberry gelato
* Zabaglione gelato

Proceeds benefit the Jimmy Fund / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.