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World's Largest Twistee Freeze

St. Joseph, Missouri, United States
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Listed, not yet checked · Oct 2026
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Closed for the 2026 season and due to reopen in March 2027, Kris and Kates Ice Cream occupies a pink-and-white building shaped like an ice cream cone at 2330 N. 36th Street, off the Belt Highway in St. Joseph, Missouri. According to the shop, it opened in 1993 as a Twistee Treat.
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World's Largest Twistee Freeze
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Site-level location · 39.7825° N, 94.8195° W
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The shop is closed for the 2026 season and expects to reopen in March 2027.
Kris and Kates Ice Cream runs from a building shaped like a giant ice cream cone, which the shop's own history page calls "hard to miss" beside the Belt Highway. Its slogan is "Meet me at the cone."
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The cone-shaped building houses an ice cream shop that serves ice cream from the building in season. Its website says it is closed for the 2026 season and expects to reopen in March 2027, so only the exterior can be seen until then.
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2330 N. 36th Street, St. Joseph, Missouri 64506, off the Belt Highway; a business open to customers in season, closed for the 2026 season according to its website.
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