The Block | The “Central Philosophy” of Betty Rae’s Ice Cream

It’s a mystical thing, ice cream. Just listen to Betty Rae’s owner David Friesen expound on the “central philosophy of ice cream… It’s just that everything is perfect for a minute.”

Folks flocked when Friesen and his wife opened the first Betty Rae’s at 7140 Wornall Road in Waldo in 2016. In 2018, they expanded to a second location at 412 Delaware St. in the River Market.

Betty Rae’s is named after Friesen’s grandmother, who went to great lengths to spoil him with food he couldn’t get at home as a child.

“Ice cream can kind of like, do a lightning bolt right into your brain to that memory spot,’’ Friesen says. “I just wanted that spirit to continue.”

It’s working. See more in this week’s installment of “The Block.”

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