This weekend, the story came up again about “51 In a Bucket,” the mythical menu item at Charlie’s Shake Shop in Mukwonago, Wisconsin. It seems that any time a new person comes into my life and the subject of ice cream comes up, I have to mention it. Pretty soon, people are going to believe I am just making it up, as I have yet to find a reference online. Truth be told, one website does come up when I search, and that is my own blog.
I have posted on local “remember when” sites, and the craigslist that would be local to the area and have not come up with one person that can recall the existence of the shop with Scratch N Sniff Stickers sold at the counter and a chocolate syrup smudged Joust video game in the back. Charlie’s closed sometime in the late 80s and either became a bicycle shop, or had been a bicycle shop before the ice cream shop. My memory is a little disorganized on that fact. At any rate, go read the post to be either delighted or grossed out by the celebrated dairy gluttony.
