{"id":15778,"date":"2019-05-14T23:45:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T03:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=15778"},"modified":"2021-08-30T19:43:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T23:43:46","slug":"ritas-italian-ice-frozen-custard-130-forum-drive-suite-14-21-april-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=15778","title":{"rendered":"Rita's Italian Ice &#038; Frozen Custard, 130 Forum Drive Suite 14: 21 April 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580683.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580683_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580683_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580683_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580684.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580684_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580684_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580684_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580685.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580685_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580685_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580685_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580686.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580686_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580686_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580686_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580687.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580687_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580687_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580687_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580688.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580688_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580688_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580688_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580689.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580689_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580689_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580689_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580690.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580690_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580690_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580690_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580691.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580691_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580691_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580691_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580692.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580692_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580692_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580692_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that the one time I tried <i>Rita's<\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=10403\">the one in Harbison<\/a>) I was not impressed.  I had the <i>Key-lime<\/i> ice, and it had such an after-taste that I eventually had to buy a salty snack to chase it with.  Perhaps I would have been happier with custard.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, the one at <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=village-at-sandhill\">Sandhill<\/a> is now gone, leaving just the Lady Street location locally.  Of course as there is now apparently a <i>Pelican's<\/i> on every corner, your options for slushes are still pretty good.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 30 August 2021<\/b> -- This is surprising: <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=brusters-real-ice-cream\">Bruster's<\/a> ice cream is using this vacancy to re-enter the Columbia market:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730281.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730281_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730281_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730281_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730282.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730282_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730282_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730282_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/130-14+Forum+Dr,+Columbia,+SC+29229\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit that the one time I tried Rita's (the one in Harbison) I was not impressed. I had the Key-lime ice, and it had such an after-taste that I eventually had to buy a salty snack to chase it with. Perhaps I would have been happier with custard. At any rate, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[2781,3316,2782,168,2783,3,36],"class_list":["post-15778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-130-forum-drive","tag-brusters-real-ice-cream","tag-custard","tag-forum-drive","tag-italian-ice","tag-restaurants","tag-village-at-sandhill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}