All the flavors get run usually once a week, sometimes twice. He's considering making butter pecan a standard offering, alongside vanilla and chocolate, and having a fourth daily alternative. The public buys just a few flavors that are exceptionally good, and that's what they adhere to. Some of those other flavors are odd. Fans of the weird and wonderful can track down flavors through The Custard List, a composite list of southeastern Wisconsin custard stands available on the Web.
Volunteers send in flavor forecasts from their local custard stands.
We get e-mail from L.A., from New York, from Milwaukeeans who live vicariously through our list. They use it so that when they visit town for business, they go to the stand that has their favorite flavor. All rights reserved.