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Nothing says summer better than a heaping bowl of ice cream. My husband and I are what I like to call “ice cream connoisseurs”–which is basically a nice way of saying we eat way too much ice cream. I’ve sampled a lot of flavors over the years, and some of my favorites include Brownie Mud Pie, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough (in chocolate ice cream), and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup.
But the best ice cream I ever had is no longer made by Breyers: Oreo Mint Chip. Fortunately, however, I can still recreate my dream flavor by crushing Oreos into green mint chip ice cream–or have the folks over here do it for me.
If you could create your dream ice cream flavor, what would it be?
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something with Lactaid in it so I could digest it
My favorite flavor came from a dairy in upstate NY called Marble Farms. My parents used to stop there on the way home from Grandma and Grandpa’s house. It was Peppermint Patty. The ice cream was pink, and mint flavored with chocolate chips and chocolate covered red and green mint candies. I don’t even know if you can still get it. I always had Peppermint Patty ice cream on a sugar cone. Yummy!
Does anyone remember Honeymoon ice cream? I remember it from years ago and I think it was made by Good Humor. I did a cursory search for it on the internet a while back and couldn’t find a trace of it. If I remember correctly, it was something like a blend of butter pecan and cherry. I just remember liking it very much.
We have a similar ice cream place here in Baltimore that’s called Cold Stone Creamery. It’s good and the servers always sing whenever you put a tip in their jar.
Steak-flavored ice cream! With ketchup!
I used to love Oreo Mint Chip, and wondered why I never see it anymore. Oh well, one less temptation.
Growing up, my favorites were Peppermint Stick and Butter Pecan from a chain called Friendly’s (I’ve only seen them on the east coast). I’ve had other brand’s versions of those flavors and they’re just not the same. I don’t know if Friendly’s made them better or if it’s a case of nothing being a good as childhood memories.
When I lived in Spain my favorite ice cream flavor was leche merengada. I don’t know how to describe the flavor - leche means milk and merengada refers to egg whites. I looked up a recipe and it mentions cinnamon stick and lemon juice, but their flavors are subtle - it doesn’t taste like a mix of cinnamon ice cream and lemon ice cream (which doesn’t sound appetizing).
My favorite ice cream when I was 5 was pistachio. Now, nearly half a century later it is still pistachio. My wife calls that boring. I call it sticking with a good thing. So I’m sticking with her too!
My dream ice cream is coffee-flavored ice cream, with almonds and fudge swirled in.
My second dream ice cream is plain pistachio. Xion has great taste!
Cold Stone Creamery around here (Buffalo) has a lot of great choices, and I love Friendly’s - usually I get coffee flavoured. Mmmmmmm!
Perry’s Ice Cream, in Akron NY, is good if you’re getting a half gallon to have on hand at home. They make a lot of store brands as well as their own. My dad worked at the factory next door, and sometimes they would bring over free samples.
I couldn’t create an ice cream–even in my mind–better than Peanut Butter Chocolate by Baskin Robbins. They figured out a way to get excessive sugar and salt in one tub.
Their Pecans and Pralines is pretty outrageous as well.
Talk about boring, I stick with plain CHOCOLATE! It’s always been my favorite and most likely always will be.
And Perry’s Chocolate is the best.
Ooops - meant to add that my 2nd favorite would be Panda Paws (also by Perry’s) - vanilla ice cream with miniature Reese peanut butter cups mixed in.
When we go to MI to visit, the local mom and pop ice cream parlor serves up something called Bear Claw Ice cream made by Denali - it is chocolate with cashews.
There’s a local place around here, called Cote’s, that makes an incredible Peanut Butter Fudge ice cream - peanut butter ice cream with chopped peanuts and chocolate fudge swirls. Their coffee ice cream is really good, too. I sometimes get one scoop each of PB Fudge and coffee if I’m splurging on a treat. They’re only open May - September, and I don’t think I’ve ever had creamier ice cream.
I like toffee-flavored ice cream, coffee ice cream, and birthday cake ice cream (Marble Slab and Cold Stone both offer it).
At Cold Stone, I usually get coffee ice cream with Heath mixed in.
Breyer’s makes Thin Mint ice cream (from the Girl Scout line) that is excellent, as well.
The Creamery where we shipped our milk to years ago was about 20 minutes from home. After running errands in town we would stop to pick up cheese, butter, and ice cream. That 20 minute ride home would be just enough to slightly melt the edges of the ice cream. When I arrived at home I would have to open the carton before I put it away and have some of the ice cream from around the edges. It was alway rich, creamy and luscious. Vanilla was alway the best. I still do that sometimes.
I didn’t think anybody else liked pistachio!! I had pistachio gelato while I was in Europe this summer, and there is nothing else like it. I’ve also tried yogurt-flavoured gelato … delicious.
American ice cream cannot compare.
Probably the most unique ice cream I’ve eaten was in Salzburg: I tried chocolate-chili ice cream. The chocolate was sweet and milky, and then there was a little spicy bite when you swallowed.
I love vanilla with dark cherries, and ginger peach. Both home-made, if possible.
The best Ice Cream flavor in the world is not even Ice Cream. It is Copa Mista made by Classico Gelato Company.
Nothing even comes close but home Made and carefully churned Vanilla Bean is pretty close especially with a little chocolate, of any kind, on top or perhaps some fruit of any kind.
But it is pretty hard to mess up one of the basic food groups. I cannot remember ever throwing away any ice cream of any kind that was too bad to eat. But this is pretty much true of the other basic food groups - Chocolate, Cheetos, beer, pizza and last but not least Cake/Pie
I like Baskin-Robbins Pralines ‘n Cream and Starbucks Java Chip, so no need to create a dream flavor myself.
Chocolate, Cheetos, beer, pizza and last but not least Cake/Pie = 40 extra pounds Llama.
#19
It’s hard to mess up ice cream but not impossible. There was an ice cream shop I used to pass occasionally when I lived in NJ, and I’d think about going in to try it sometime. One day I finally decided to treat myself. I checked out the various flavors, finally picked one, and prepared to enjoy it. But it had very little taste, and lousy consistency. I don’t know if it had been allowed to thaw and refreeze, or came from a bad batch, or what. But I decided it wasn’t worth the calories. I seem to remember the store also had a video game arcade - maybe that’s how they stayed in business, because I couldn’t see anyone going there more than once for the ice cream.
#21 VS,
There was another food group that has been officially dropped. It was called ’smokes’ as in cigarettes, stogies and such. When Smokes was a food group there was no 40 extra pounds to talk about. But since its been gone - poof you weigh a ton.
I am now convinced that it is not the other food groups that are the problem but a lack of one instead. One that is smoky.
So, I am going to add BBQ as a basic food group just to try an make up for the smokiness that is obviously now missing from my diet. I am sure that once perfectly smoked slabs of ribs, pork shoulder, sausages, brisket and chicken come my way, the pounds will melt away
When a student at Texas A&M, I would go to the school creamery on campus with a bunch of friends. The flavor was always chocolate, but it was wonderful. I am sure it had a lot to do with the company and the fun in walking over there.
Now, I watch for sales of Blue Bell ice cream and always get Cookies and Cream, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, and regular chocolate, though the Century Birthday Cake was pretty good.
Kyle # 7
I work at an ice cream shop each summer, called
Ritter’s Frozen Custard. You should find one and try out the Mocha Almond Fudge. It’s exactly what you described, and I can tell you from my experience that it is amazing!
My personal favorite is Peanut Butter Rush (peanut butter ice cream with fudge and Reese’s cups swirled in). A close runner-up is Turtle Somethin’…especially when I make it with extra caramel!
My cholesterol level is going up just thinking about it. Ice Cream does so many bad things to me, I shouldn’t even contemplate it.
One ocassionally finds “Chicago Brick” here around the Windy City - It is three flavor strpes: Orange Sherbert and Vanilla and Caramel Ice Creams.
A friend and I drove across country one summer, mapping our route by a book titled “The Very Best Ice Cream and Where to Find It”. I stuck to chocolate a coffee. She tasted the varieties.
My favorite was Herrell’s chocolate pudding which we ate in a converted bank vault in Boston.
My least favorite was a little place in the south wehre the butterfat content was so high that I didn’t need any Chapstick for a week after trying to eat a scoop. Yuck.
I’ll throw in kudos here for Graeter’s in Cincinnati (amazing chunks of chocolate)and Amy’s in Texas (great ice cream, and ambience to spare).
For pure novelty, check out this list from Polly Ann’s in SF. http://www.pollyann.com/cream.asp Everything from Avocado to Zucchini. Not award- winning ice cream, but worth the visit for the sheer creativity.
I know Llama…but I couldn’t resist adding to your torment.
Karen O said something the other day about backing away from the feed bag when you mentioned the weight gain due to stopping smoking. She made that in response to a comment you made on a previous thread and how we can’t say we’ll try to do anything - we just have to do it.
So now you have two of us (in addition to your wife and daughter) who are on your case.
Good job on giving up the smokes. Those cravings will calm after awhile and then you can think about giving up the cheetos etc.
Paula–I used to live in Cincy and when we go back to visit my folks, we love stopping at Graeter’s. The chocolate chunks in their ice cream put other brands to shame.
Those from Cleveland may know of Honey Hut, which offers some seriously good ice cream. Last weekend while visiting my grandma I got to try Jamocha Chip–Yum!
Kristin- Last time I was at Graeter’s I actually heard someone complain the chunks were too big. Excuse me? Do you know where you are?
You can tell I get excited about ice cream. I didn’t even stop to proofread my posts, and I’m usually compulsive about it!
I cannot possibly see how such rational human beings would tolerate the combination of chocolate and mint together in ice cream. What is the world coming to? I have a theory: chocolate/mint ice cream was created by the Nazis to corrupt the palates of the rest of the world. If a presidential candidate supported the use of waterboarding to repress such a concoction, I would consider voting for him.
Seriously, I love Cold Stone/Mable Slab’s Cake Batter flavor. That is absolutely just about the best flavor ever. Caribou Coffee makes a chocolate/coffee flavor that’s great as well (and a lot cheaper than CS/MS!).
Ice Cream! Yet another food item that makes me glad to live in a metropolitan city. In San Francisco being an ice cream connoisseur mean small batch, locally produced, and organic (and a sundae is cheaper than at a Baskin Robin’s).
(We will not get into the subject of gelato here, or the issues that demand ice cream and gelato not be lumped into the same category).
At my favorite ice cream parlor I get one of two sundaes. Either:
Chocolate ice cream with organic bergamot infused olive oil, sea salt, and whipped cream.
OR
A mix of salted caramel and orange-cardamom ice creams with hot fudge, homemade toffee, and whipped cream.
At my second favorite ice cream parlor, I get pistachio-saffron!
Since the topic here is to invent your own dream ice cream though, I’ll play along.
Drawing inspiration from gelato, it would be lemon-torrone!
I love ice cream.
# 35: Even chocolate ice cream with olive oil and sea salt sounds better than chocolate/mint ice cream.
Adios,
May I go with you for a peanut-butter-and-chocolate cone sometime? It’s my favorite too. (Purity makes a good one as well.)
I’ll pretty much go for any flavor with lots of chocolate: moose tracks, heavenly hash (haven’t seen that one recently), and yes, mint chocolate chip. Or just “plain” chocolate. I avoid milk products in the winter months, and then love the opportunity to buy cheese and ice cream again. I have yet to buy my first ice cream of the year yet, but probably will next time I go shopping.
# 37: “…and yes, mint chocolate chip.”
Cheryl, I am afraid this revelation by you is very damaging to our friendship. However, your mention of Moose Tracks is somewhat redeeming, so I will let your lapse in judgment slide this time.
#31 VS,
Under the right circumstances - I might actually kill for a Cheetos. But that is not unlike the other food groups either
I have actually lost a pound or two in the last week by not eating breakfast or lunch and only consuming half a cow for dinner. Made some fabulous Chicken Etouffet for Sunday dinner and had a small, but just lovely, setback. It will be tough but anything, except giving up Cheetos of course, is better than exercising.
That exercising stuff will just kill you when you least expect it to
Paula,
Ditto on Amy’s. Their Mexican Vanilla with ginger snaps is enough to make the most vehement atheist reconsider the existence of a benevolent deity.
I love a good, plain vanilla ice cream, like Golden Vanilla or French Vanilla. Cookies-&-Cream or Fudge Ripple would be next in line. A nice creamy chocolate would also be good.
If I could make my own flavor - How about a pistachio without the actual nuts?
I used to love ice cream with lots of “stuff” in it, but now I prefer creamy ice cream with nothing in it that I’d have to chew. Cookies-&-Cream is an exception to that cuz the cookie part isn’t that chewy.
(My teeth are in fine shape, though.)
And I’d love a mint ice cream without choc. chips or candy pieces - just the mint ice cream.
TIP - I saw on a PBS special about ice cream that the best beverage to have with it is water. I’ve found that to be true.
A gelato story - Years ago there was a restaurant, in a town kinda far away from where we lived, with a delicious vanilla gelato. The first time I had it, it was after a large meal & I couldn’t finish it.
I decided that the next time we went there, which I know wouldn’t be too soon, I’d have a light meal, & then enjoy the whole serving of gelato.
So a couple of years later, my chance arrived. We went there with my MIL, who was visiting for the weekend. She sat directly opposite me.
When dessert arrived, she scowled at me & the dish of gelato (which wasn’t all that large), & said/demanded, “You’re not going to eat all that, are you?”
Oh my. She was intimidating enough that I couldn’t eat it & enjoy it. I ate about half. My “rebellious” hubby ate all of his.
I don’t think I ever did get to go back. When next I asked my husband, the restaurant had closed.
Cheryl D.,
Have no fear of TJ (as if you needed to be reminded!)–he knows perfectly well that I love all things chocolate with mint. He tolerates that while I ignore that he adds raspberry to positively everything!
I’m with TJ - I don’t think “chocolate” and “mint” should ever be used in the same sentence together (except, perhaps, this one).
Mommy is my new best friend!
Raspberry is far superior to mint. It tastes good in chocolate, tea, even chewing gum.
Yes, TJ, raspberrry is wonderful, and goes very well with chocolate. (Sometimes I spoon raspberry jam on the top of brownies before I bake them.) I also like orange and chocolate.
But I will not recant my love for chocolate and mint as well. York peppermint patties (in moderation) or the box of bite-sized chocolate mints (not in moderation) are favorites. And I rarely buy mint-chocolate chip ice cream anymore because I don’t necessarily want a whole carton of it, but a bowl of it with chocolate syrup drizzled on top makes a fine dessert. You’re simply wrong, I’m sorry you aren’t man enough to admit it, and I have nothing else to say about it–your loss.
Cheryl & TJ - Raspberry-&-chocolate, & orange-&-chocolate are classic combinations in baking.
TJ - So I guess Thin Mints aren’t your favorite Girl Scout cookie, huh?
Karen — I have three words for you: thin mints, yuck!
Cheryl — despite your stubbornness, I will grant you another pass for your absolute brilliant recommendation of raspberry jam on top of brownies. Brilliant!
We just came back from Graeter’s (first time, based on the recommendations above!), and bought a couple of pints. Cameron got Toffee Chip and I got the Chocolate Brownie flavor. Yum!
BTW, Thin Mints are of the devil.
Why make up a new flavor when tin-roof sundae is already available? Of course, if I could have French vanilla with chocolate covered coffee beans, that would be nice.
Peter L, I though it was tin roof, rusted. That’s what they serve at the Love Shack.
Karen O,
They’re not TJ’s favorites, but they are my favorite, so I buy several boxes each year, knowing I won’t have to share!
She puts the devilish cookies in the freezer, corrupting the whole compartment as a result. I’ve tried in vain to cast them out (literally!), but have thus far been unsuccessful.
We may need to seek counseling.
I keep telling my dad he should write a book title 1001 Reasons to Eat Ice Cream. But first he’ll have to trim his list down to only 1001.
1) Weight loss. My dad lost 30 pounds on his ice cream diet.
2) My ice cream did not come out equally with my pie. So I need more ice cream. Oops! Now I have ice cream left on my plate, so I need more pie. ad infinitum. After many years of using this trick, my dad once finished his ice cream in the same bite as his pie. It was such a rare occurrence that he had to celebrate . . . with more ice cream and pie!
3) The freezer quit, so we have to eat all the ice cream for breakfast. (been there, done that)
4) The back of the pill bottle says ‘take with ice cream’. Because of my dad’s reputation, no one believed him until we read it for ourselves.
RobHays (#40) - very glad to see you back!
A (#55),
Your dad would have liked my dad. Of course, I grew up in Phoenix, where ice cream wasn’t a luxury (we didn’t have air conditioning, but a cooling system called “swamp cooling” that kept the heat under 90 and the humidity above 90).
We always had several cartons of ice cream in the freezer. If Mom hadn’t planned another dessert, we had ice cream. Sometimes Mom had in fact planned NOT to have dessert. But we kids learned to keep quiet when supper was finished. If we asked what was for dessert, Mom was likely to say, “We don’t have dessert with every meal.” If we didn’t ask what was for dessert, Dad’s single-word question, “Dessert?” always resulted in dessert. And he could be counted on to ask, if Mom didn’t volunteer first.
Breyers Triple Chocolate ice cream…only forget the triple and just give me the dark chocolate portion. Super creamy, very chocolaty. Yum! http://www.icecreamusa.com/products/product.cfm?u=77567-26550&b=1
TJ, I’m disappointed. Graeter’s has a phenomenal raspberry. I guess you’ll have to go back. What a shame.
I am obviously going to have to hit the freezer. This is too much.
Okay, I have tortured myself and read every entry on this thread. I love chunky ice cream like cookies and cream or Reeses’ peanut butter cup etc, but that’s just not available here. I will have to get some ice cream next time I go into “the big city” though. I haven’t had any in months, maybe even years. I’ll have to start making my list of things I want to eat when I get back to America next year.
Paul, I saw one flavor that had raspberry (black raspberry, maybe?) but wasn’t sure. What specific flavor would you recommend?