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Where to find the best summer snoballs in Baton Rouge

Jennifer Tormo Alvarez

May 10, 2017

By late March, cars are already lined up at the Cool Tiger Ice Snowballs drive-thru. In the 90-degree weather, customers wait in their cars, blasting the A/C and anticipating the cool, sticky sugar rush. Inside the humming, pastel-yellow snoball shack, owner Debbie Nelson whips up one colorful creation after another: bananas foster praline, Blue Suede Shoes, Key lime pie.

And at snoball stands around town, you’ll find similar scenes. “When spring starts here,” Nelson says, “that’s when people say, ‘I want crawfish and snoballs.’”

We offer up our picks of some great snoball flavors to try around town and where to find them.

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By Jennifer Tormo Alvarez

Jennifer Tormo Alvarez was the editor of “225” for nearly 11 years, leading the magazine through two print and digital redesigns, three anniversary years, a flood and the pandemic. She is obsessed with restaurant interiors, sparkling water, Scorpio astrology memes and, admittedly, the word “obsessed.” She is willing to travel to see indie bands in concert, but even better if they play a show at Chelsea’s Live.