Getta Betta The Lakes to exclusively sell three Frosty Mango soft serve flavours

Just in time for summer, NQ’s iconic Frosty Mango has rolled out three flavours that tap into the nostalgic joy of eating soft serve. See where to find them.

Appropriately decked out in his distinctive mango Hawaiian shirt, Townsville’s legendary media personality Steve ‘Pricey’ Price had a difficult decision to make – just what flavour of the new Frosty Mango soft-serve ice cream he liked most.

The retired radio star was mulling the conundrum on Thursday inside the new Getta Betta Coffee + Burger The Lakes store, which had been flat out welcoming customers through its doors and drive thru since opening last week in the former Taco Bell building.

The new store will exclusively stock three soft serve ice cream flavours from the iconic NQ business Frosty Mango – Classic Mango, Vanilla-licious, and The Twist – a combination of them both.

Shovelling the tasty desserts into his mouth, mango-loving Pricey was torn deciding which he liked better, before eventually naming Classic Mango as his winner.

“I’ve loved (Frosty Mango) since day dot when Alf Poefinger created it. I just love them both,” Pricey said.

“The soft serve reminds me of when I was a kid, when you used to get the whipped ice cream from the bloke who drove around with the van and the bells ringing.

Decisions decisions, as Pricey weighs up Fosty Mango’s soft serve flavours The Twist and Vanilla-licious at the Getta Betta store at The Lakes. Picture: Evan Morgan

“The new twist is magnificent. I love it, and you’ve got to try it, but I’m a bit of a classic (fan) too … because you’ve got that little swirl of mango in it.

“I’ve been promised a lifetime supply. They better come through and they better start picking the mangoes now.”

Getta Betta Lakes has just opened. Picture: Evan Morgan

Getta Betta was created by Otto’s Fresh Food Market co-owners Rob Aumend and Don Peel, who combined Getta Burger and their Good Morning Coffee Trader brand to create a hybrid model capable of attracting customers with premium burgers and drinks from breakfast to dinner.

Just weeks after Mr Peel and Frosty Mango Wholesale chief executive Tom Freeland announced they would sell 16 flavours of Frosty Mango’s ice cream at Frosty’s Fruit Market and the Frosty Mango Hut kiosk in Castletown Shopping Centre, the next exciting partnership was revealed across the lake.

Frosty Mango Wholesale chief executive Tom Freeland and Getta Betta co-owner Rob Aumend at Getta Betta's new Currajong store, which has just launched Frosty Mango's new soft serve varieties. Picture: Leighton Smith.

Pricey has been a Frosty Mango fan since it was launched in 1989. Picture: Evan Morgan

Mr Aumend said Getta Betta’s new store had been bustling since opening, helped by its central location next to busy roads, their premium ingredients, and now the soft serve offering.

“(Customers) love it, and I didn’t even realise how many people would want mango,” Mr Aumend said.

“Sometimes it’s a bit divisive, some people like mango, some people don’t. But almost everybody that we’ve offered a trial to has just gone, ‘yes please, we love that’.”

He said the Twist was probably the most popular flavour, where customers could experience the best of both worlds.

Inside Getta Betta Lakes. Picture: Evan Morgan

Inside Getta Betta Lakes. Picture: Evan Morgan

Mr Freeland praised the team who helped develop the new soft serve varieties within three months and adapt the soft-serve machine technology to allow for the coarser mango mix.

Provided the soft-serve trial was successful, the potential was there to expand it to Getta Betta’s other stores.

There were also future plans to supplement the ice-creams with add-ins sourced from Frosty Mango’s orchard, like crushed macadamias and pieces of mango, dragon fruit, and lychees.

For more information, visit: www.gettabetta.com.au.

Originally published as Getta Betta The Lakes to exclusively sell three Frosty Mango soft serve flavours