I love Ice Cream. Growing up as a child, my dad would take me to the Southend Air Show every summer and he would always buy me a Rossi ice cream from one of the stalls. This was always my highlight more than actually seeing the aeroplanes fly past. They're one of the few UK makers of Ice Cream that still use fresh milk as opposed to powdered milk.
Originating back in 1932, Pietro and Luisa Rossi moved to Southend to start an Ice Cream business with a local family, also called Rossi. Unfortunately in 1937, the partnership dissolved but Pietro kept the business together with a small kiosk alongside the Westcliff Seafront.
The production of the Ice Cream halted during the war years but following a family reunon in 1946, business resumed in Southend. The 1950's and 60's saw the business flourish and an Ice Cream Factory was built to cope with demand. Nowadays, Rossi is now under new ownership but Ice Cream is still being produced to the same traditional recipe first introduced in 1932.
Rossi now produce a wide range of ice cream products from the simple tubs with a wide variety of flavours to Lemon Sorbet (which actually won an award for the UK's top lemon sorbet).
Rossi Ice Cream products can be bought from a range of retailers across the Anglia region and I seriously suggest at least trying them out. Better yet, if you are ever at some sort of event in the region like the Southend Air Show, you'll be sure there will be a Rossi stall somewhere.
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