I just stared at it, then ran out of Shaw’s. “I walked down the aisle to find it, and there we were. He got to the Shaw’s grocery store in Augusta 15 minutes before closing, and as he approached the ice cream aisle, he took a deep breath to steel himself. Then, a childhood friend shared a photo of the ice cream aisle at the Shaw’s in Waterville, and Quint knew he had to drive to Maine to see it for himself. I saw this picture of her, went to a wall, leaned on it and fell apart, speechless.
“I was in New York City, and for a couple of days, I was a complete wreck. “It showed up in Augusta, in Waterville, and I completely and utterly lost it,” Quint said, adding that the picture his sister took really brought it home to him. But the ice cream traveled much farther than that. Maybe he’d see it in Portland, he thought, the city that’s widely considered to be Maine’s most liberal. After the deal was struck, Quint figured that there was a chance Big Gay Ice Cream could be stocked in some stores in Maine. In March, the Shaw’s and Star Market grocery chains, with 153 stores throughout New England, signed on to carry the brand.
