Whatever decent ice cream is in front of me. Unless it's vanilla.
Hong Kong Milk Tea from Humphry Slocombe Brown Sugar Banana from Strauss Chocolate Orange Confetti from Three Twins Passion Fruit sorbet from a local place Cardamom from a different local place (not the Three twins cardamom, bleh) Chocolate raspberry from a different local place Phish Food for Ben and Jerrys Coffee for Hagen Daaz World Class chocolate for Baskins Robbins? (I can't remember what it was called but I think that was a three chocolate flavor back when I was a kid and Baskins Robbins still existed) Mint Chip for Breyers
It is World Class Chocolate and Baskin Robbins still exists! Where are you and do I need to ship you some? I named it as my favorite. My local Albertson’s even sells it pre-packaged now. I always have a pint or two of it in my freezer.
Dirt Cake by a local ice cream maker. It’s super rich chocolate ice cream with crushed up Oreos. It is truly the best ice cream I’ve ever had.
If I’m not eating that brand, probably peanut butter cup or butter pecan (which I used to think was an old person flavor but I guess now I’m old, LOL).
Go-to: mint chocolate chip. I am perplexed by people in the thread specifying (green) here. Is there any other kind? Is this regional?
Some companies make mint chip and it looks like vanilla with choc chips in it; Haagen Dazs mint chip is white. I dont think it is regional because I've seen both white and green mint chip ice cream in the US and overseas. I prefer the green because I associate colors with tastes. When someone gives me a scoop of white/cream ice cream with choc chips in it, my brain immediately thinks vanilla and then gets all confused when it tastes like mint.
Chocolate Peanut Butter. Which, of course, they don't serve over here in England. Sigh.
lack of peanut butter is a legit reason I don't ever see myself living abroad in many countries. (I mean, that and I have a fairly solid comfortable life here in the type of career unlikely to lead to moving overseas, but also the peanut butter)
Actually there is a ton of peanut butter here and it's super fabulous (just nuts, nothing else is easy to come by). They just don't get into chocolate peanut butter ice cream. Sigh.
lack of peanut butter is a legit reason I don't ever see myself living abroad in many countries. (I mean, that and I have a fairly solid comfortable life here in the type of career unlikely to lead to moving overseas, but also the peanut butter)
Actually there is a ton of peanut butter here and it's super fabulous (just nuts, nothing else is easy to come by). They just don't get into chocolate peanut butter ice cream. Sigh.
Post by klingklang77 on Jun 4, 2019 4:31:52 GMT -5
I can’t decide. Ice cream is the only sweet thing I eat.
Baskin Robbins peanut butter and chocolate.I can only get this when I visit home, so like once a year. During that time, I just will have Ben and Jerry’s Peanut Butter Cup.
In Germany, I’ll just usually get gelato. Hazelnut and Stracciatella (vanilla with chocolate flakes) are my go-tos. Sometimes Yogurt with Cherries is nice.
lack of peanut butter is a legit reason I don't ever see myself living abroad in many countries. (I mean, that and I have a fairly solid comfortable life here in the type of career unlikely to lead to moving overseas, but also the peanut butter)
Good Omens.
..."Do you know," he said, "my cousin said that in America there's shops that sell thirty-nine different flavors of ice cream?"
This even silenced Adam, briefly.
"There aren't thirty-nine flavors of ice cream," said Pepper. "There aren't thirty-nine flavors in the whole world."
"There could be, if you mixed them up," said Wensleydale, blinking owlishly. "You know. Strawberry and chocolate. Chocolate and vanilla." He sought for more English flavors. "Strawberry and vanilla and chocolate," he added lamely.
Evidently, very true, lol.
I think they used to have 31 flavors, but that changed when they merged with DD.
When I was a kid and we did prank phone calls, one was from BR.
“Hi this is Baskin Robbins. If you can name 31 flavors in 31 seconds, you win 31 hundred dollars.” It was hilarious listening to people trying to get them all.
This was all done with a rotary phone and no Caller ID existed back then.
Actually there is a ton of peanut butter here and it's super fabulous (just nuts, nothing else is easy to come by). They just don't get into chocolate peanut butter ice cream. Sigh.
Just a really good chocolate. Bonus if it has something tasty in it like brownie bits or quality chocolate chunks, or caramel.
Storebought - Ben and Jerry's Bob Marley's One Love, which is Banana Ice Cream with Caramel & Graham Cracker Swirls & Fudge Peace Signs.
ETA: Oh, and B&J Phish Food is wonderful.
Safeway has B&J on sale this week for $2.99 if you buy four or more. You local chain might have the same or similar deal going on. Brought to you by my shopping cart today. Forced me to clean out my freezer this afternoon.
And imo there's really no such thing as a bad ice cream. (Well there is but even a bad ice cream is ice cream.)
I'll add butter pecan to the list if it's not in any of the last four pages. But today was gelato day. Mint, vanilla caramel swirl, coffee...
ETA: having read to page three, it makes my heart happy to see that I'm not the only old person. I was old when I was eight and it was my favorite Thrifty ice cream flavor. Fifteen cents for a scoop. (Did I mention in the "Thrifty Ice Cream is sold at Rite-Aid" that I went to e-bay to see if I could buy one of their trigger scoops and they were selling for $100 and more? Or was that on Facebook and nobody here even knows what I'm talking about? Pretty sure it was Facebook but Thrifty Drug store in Cali used to sell the most awesome butter pecan and rocky road ice creams. Maybe because they came in cylinder shapes instead of balls and they used a really cool ice cream "shooter" instead of a traditional scoop. And scoops were only 15, 20 and 25 cents for a single/double/triple.)
lack of peanut butter is a legit reason I don't ever see myself living abroad in many countries. (I mean, that and I have a fairly solid comfortable life here in the type of career unlikely to lead to moving overseas, but also the peanut butter)
Good Omens.
..."Do you know," he said, "my cousin said that in America there's shops that sell thirty-nine different flavors of ice cream?"
This even silenced Adam, briefly.
"There aren't thirty-nine flavors of ice cream," said Pepper. "There aren't thirty-nine flavors in the whole world."
"There could be, if you mixed them up," said Wensleydale, blinking owlishly. "You know. Strawberry and chocolate. Chocolate and vanilla." He sought for more English flavors. "Strawberry and vanilla and chocolate," he added lamely.
Evidently, very true, lol.
I have to imagine that's not the case anymore, right? Like the UK has their fair share of artisan/hipster ice cream with crazy flavors now?
lack of peanut butter is a legit reason I don't ever see myself living abroad in many countries. (I mean, that and I have a fairly solid comfortable life here in the type of career unlikely to lead to moving overseas, but also the peanut butter)
Actually there is a ton of peanut butter here and it's super fabulous (just nuts, nothing else is easy to come by). They just don't get into chocolate peanut butter ice cream. Sigh.
Oh thank God. My dreams of living abroad almost died today.
Just a really good chocolate. Bonus if it has something tasty in it like brownie bits or quality chocolate chunks, or caramel.
Storebought - Ben and Jerry's Bob Marley's One Love, which is Banana Ice Cream with Caramel & Graham Cracker Swirls & Fudge Peace Signs.
ETA: Oh, and B&J Phish Food is wonderful.
Safeway has B&J on sale this week for $2.99 if you buy four or more. You local chain might have the same or similar deal going on. Brought to you by my shopping cart today. Forced me to clean out my freezer this afternoon.
And imo there's really no such thing as a bad ice cream. (Well there is but even a bad ice cream is ice cream.)
I'll add butter pecan to the list if it's not in any of the last four pages. But today was gelato day. Mint, vanilla caramel swirl, coffee...
ETA: having read to page three, it makes my heart happy to see that I'm not the only old person. I was old when I was eight and it was my favorite Thrifty ice cream flavor. Fifteen cents for a scoop. (Did I mention in the "Thrifty Ice Cream is sold at Rite-Aid" that I went to e-bay to see if I could buy one of their trigger scoops and they were selling for $100 and more? Or was that on Facebook and nobody here even knows what I'm talking about? Pretty sure it was Facebook but Thrifty Drug store in Cali used to sell the most awesome butter pecan and rocky road ice creams. Maybe because they came in cylinder shapes instead of balls and they used a really cool ice cream "shooter" instead of a traditional scoop. And scoops were only 15, 20 and 25 cents for a single/double/triple.)
Thanks - I don't think there's a Safeway anywhere near me, but ShopRite runs a similar B&J sale often.
I'd never had butter pecan until I started working at an ice cream store. I wound up liking it very much.
Ditto, even sub-par ice cream isn't absolutely terrible. I've definitely been disappointed by ice cream but never to the point where I was like, "Ugh, this is gross" or couldn't finish it.
Actually there is a ton of peanut butter here and it's super fabulous (just nuts, nothing else is easy to come by). They just don't get into chocolate peanut butter ice cream. Sigh.
Oh thank God. My dreams of living abroad almost died today.
I don't think I totally hallucinated this PB shortage issue - I swear I got this from somewhere. Maybe it's france or germany where you can't get it readily? Or at least it's expensive? But the UK is safe!!
Oh thank God. My dreams of living abroad almost died today.
I don't think I totally hallucinated this PB shortage issue - I swear I got this from somewhere. Maybe it's france or germany where you can't get it readily? Or at least it's expensive? But the UK is safe!!
I think it used to be tough to get but like many other items, it's all over now. I'm sure there are small locations where you can't get Jif but peanut butter itself is usually easy enough to buy in many locales.
..."Do you know," he said, "my cousin said that in America there's shops that sell thirty-nine different flavors of ice cream?"
This even silenced Adam, briefly.
"There aren't thirty-nine flavors of ice cream," said Pepper. "There aren't thirty-nine flavors in the whole world."
"There could be, if you mixed them up," said Wensleydale, blinking owlishly. "You know. Strawberry and chocolate. Chocolate and vanilla." He sought for more English flavors. "Strawberry and vanilla and chocolate," he added lamely.
Evidently, very true, lol.
I have to imagine that's not the case anymore, right? Like the UK has their fair share of artisan/hipster ice cream with crazy flavors now?
My mom used to tell me about growing up in Puerto Rico (she had to walk a mile to school! ...along a sandy beach). She vividly remembers the day they got a fourth flavor of ice cream (tutti frutti).
I love the weirdo salt&straw flavors, especially anything on the savory side. My favorite is smoked salt with chocolate crunches. Currently they have a huckleberry with spruce tips that I really like. My standby is olive oil.
Easy to find, TJs mint chip is so fucking creamy.
The Honey lavender is my favorite and I always say I am going to try something else and I end up with that damn delicious purple scoop! I do like the strawberry balsamic black pepper and they had a cardamom rose chocolate one earlier this year that was tasty. Tried the Buttermilk Pancakes, Eggs and Bacon on saturday and it was disappointing.
They're pretty generous with samples and I have no shame.
I wanted to try the cardamom rose and there was one with saffron recently, but I didn't get in soon enough. Wah-wah.
OOO we do a vanilla bourbon with spicey pecans. The ice cream has vanilla beans and bourbon, and the pecans are toasted with spices (cumin, pepper, salt, paprika, & chili if I remember correctly). I can look it up the recipe if you want more details.
Oh thank God. My dreams of living abroad almost died today.
I don't think I totally hallucinated this PB shortage issue - I swear I got this from somewhere. Maybe it's france or germany where you can't get it readily? Or at least it's expensive? But the UK is safe!!
When I was a kid, neither peanut butter nor chocolate chips were available in London. My mom would pack her suitcase with both when we returned from visiting the states
I don't think I totally hallucinated this PB shortage issue - I swear I got this from somewhere. Maybe it's france or germany where you can't get it readily? Or at least it's expensive? But the UK is safe!!
When I was a kid, neither peanut butter nor chocolate chips were available in London. My mom would pack her suitcase with both when we returned from visiting the states
You can get peanut butter in Germany, but you need to go to a major supermarket and look in the international aisle. It isn’t bad. I just use my commissary friends for the natural peanut butter from smuckers.
When I was a kid, neither peanut butter nor chocolate chips were available in London. My mom would pack her suitcase with both when we returned from visiting the states
You can get peanut butter in Germany, but you need to go to a major supermarket and look in the international aisle. It isn’t bad. I just use my commissary friends for the natural peanut butter from smuckers.
These were the days before British supermarkets. Separate grocers / butchers / bakers :-)