{"id":232202,"date":"2026-06-30T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232202\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T21:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:46:08","slug":"frio-creamery-millies-homemade-ice-cream-on-petas-nice-cream-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232202\/","title":{"rendered":"Frio Creamery, Millie\u2019s Homemade Ice Cream on PETA\u2019s \u2018Nice Cream Trail\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PETA wants to reward people for eating vegan ice cream, should they be willing to trek across the Keystone State to do so.<\/p>\n<p>In a take on the state\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitpa.com\/explore\/trips-trails\/scooped-ice-cream-trail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> Ice Cream Trail<\/a>, the animal rights activism organization recently challenged ice cream lovers across Pennsylvania to follow the \u201cNice Cream Trail\u201d to 10 hand-picked shops that regularly serve up vegan ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>Among those included in the Pittsburgh area is Frio Creamery on Butler Street in Lawrenceville, which at any one time carries three dairy-free options. Also part of the trail is Millie\u2019s Homemade Ice Cream, which maintains several Pittsburgh-area <a href=\"https:\/\/www.millieshomemade.com\/locations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">locations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first Pennsylvanian to complete the trail by submitting photos of their receipts and reviews of at least 50 words on the flavors they sampled at each will win a vegan ice cream party with PETA\u2019s \u201ciScream\u201d truck for up to 50 guests. Submissions should be sent to SPD@peta.org.<\/p>\n<p>Other stops on the trail include Lu &amp; Aug\u2019s in Ardmore, Dreams Ice Cream Factory in Glenside, Honey Bear in Harrisburg, Vegan Treats in Bethlehem, Lancaster Sweet Shoppe in Lancaster, The Main Freeze in Lansdale, Milk Jawn in Philadelphia and Scoop DeVille in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Participating shops will display a <a data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"5\" data-outlook-id=\"f4ff7ce3-7faa-42cc-aa4c-544dd9504611\" href=\"https:\/\/tracking.us.nylas.com\/l\/fd0ea0dd12794eb68120acd6e51298be\/5\/4fda5bdda0a995bd7bcd11dd76aa70b5017b9d4f25b6ac28a393d6079a884ffc?cache_buster=1782753730\" title=\"https:\/\/tracking.us.nylas.com\/l\/fd0ea0dd12794eb68120acd6e51298be\/5\/4fda5bdda0a995bd7bcd11dd76aa70b5017b9d4f25b6ac28a393d6079a884ffc?cache_buster\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">window sign<\/a> and distribute <a data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"6\" data-outlook-id=\"c4a1d60b-d22e-4708-9399-14e432d1695b\" href=\"https:\/\/tracking.us.nylas.com\/l\/fd0ea0dd12794eb68120acd6e51298be\/6\/d40a13e104c30cbe1edfdd211db01fb41b248324fda422f9d33778a73222d036?cache_buster=1782753730\" title=\"https:\/\/tracking.us.nylas.com\/l\/fd0ea0dd12794eb68120acd6e51298be\/6\/d40a13e104c30cbe1edfdd211db01fb41b248324fda422f9d33778a73222d036?cache_buster\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trail maps<\/a> showing all the sweet stops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPennsylvania is home to a plethora of parlors serving up delicious dairy-free desserts that are as kind to cows as they are to taste buds,\u201d PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk said in a press release. \u201cPETA\u2019s \u2018Nice Cream Trail\u2019 gives ice cream lovers the scoop on where to beat the heat with vegan sweets, and we encourage everyone to support Frio Creamery and other forward-thinking local businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PETA wants to reward people for eating vegan ice cream, should they be willing to trek across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-232202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}