Apart from the potato, the ice cream produced here is arguably PEI's best-known export (there's even a COWS in Beijing these days). So it would be a crime not to sample some – you can take a self-guided tour of the factory, step into a cheese cave, try some Avonlea Clothbound Cheddar and, of course, eat enough ice cream to make yourself ill.
COWS Creamery
Charlottetown
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