With summer rapidly approaching, snow cone stands are opening their doors. Lindie Lou’s Snow Cone and Ice Cream Stand in Mathiston has already opened and is doing a thriving business across the street from the local post office.
Three of Lindie Lou’s best customers are Tracey, Socks and Spot Clark. They show up daily in the back of Lee Clark’s truck, which is fitting since they are his dogs.
“When I get here before school is out, I can sit on the porch and they line up for their snow cones,” Clark explained. “They don’t even consider going out into the street. They are waiting for their treat.”
The practice started a few years ago when he was struggling to get the animals to take their regular medicines. Put it with a snow cone, though, and it goes down easily. The dogs enjoyed it so much that Clark began bringing them regularly.
“I bring them every day that they’re open here,” Clark said. He started with ice cream but found that his dogs preferred snow cones. And he tried strawberry, banana, wedding cake flavors before he realized that their favorite was piña colada.
He always gets an extra one to take with him. It goes into the freezer for those winter days when Lindie Lou’s is closed. “Thirty seconds in the microwave and they’re just like fresh snow cones,” he said.
The owner of Trace-Way Restaurant, Clark loves his dogs. Tracy and Socks are sisters; Spot just showed up one day. He gave him to one of the ladies at the restaurant who took him home, about half-way to Grenada. She put a collar on him and tied him by her garage to get accustomed to his new surroundings. The next day, the collar was there but the dog wasn’t. And two weeks later he was back at Lee’s.
“He’s our dog, too, now,” he says as he spoon feeds piña colada-flavored snow cones to each of the waiting pups.
