Ice Creams you like vs Ice Creams you dislike

I always love Breyer’s, not so hot on Dreyer’s. I don’t like dense ice cream. The best I’ve ever had is Blue Bell, but they don’t sell it in CA!

Baskin-Robbins

Any commercial brand that isn't HD is lesser.

^^Says Andrew Cunnanan, back from the dead...

As I get older I have become an ice cream snob. My ice cream has to be Haagen Dazs quality or higher. I love Haagen Dazs vanilla and also caramel cone. I have made the mistake as you did OP and bought that exact same ice cream. I love black cherry anything. But it has to be good quality. I don’t waste calories on crummy ice cream. There’s too many crappy ingredients in Turkey Hill. I also enjoy Strauss, McConnell’s, Graeter’s and Jeni’s ice cream.

I have a fondness for sherbets. I tend to stay away from anything with the word ‘mint’ in the name.

R6-You have a fondness for SHERBERTS.

It's NOT 1975.

Blue Bell, especially Pecan Praline.

Ben and Jerry's used to be EXCELLENT but since Unilever took them over the quality has plummeted. It's too sweet and they put in high fructose corn syrup in a lot of their varieties.

Haagen Dazs is still good in spite of being taken over by Nestle's. My favorite flavor was Banana Split, unfortunately they stopped selling it about four years ago.

Carvel is still VERY good but they are EXPENISVE. I l buy a big tub of the soft serve- 2/3 vanilla and 1/3 chocolate, plus I buy a large cup of their roasted almonds to toss on top. YUM

I know I know I'm a FAT WHORE.

Actually, OP, we love Turkey Hill Vanilla Bean. Have not tried any other flavors. Heaven Daz generally remains my favorite.

I prefer gelato, better mouth feel and taste than ice cream.

R7, I meant what I said, you uncultured swine.

Jeni's Almond Brittle Ice cream- her other varieties I don't care for but this one is very good.

We just moved to a place that sells Friendly's ice cream in the grocery store. In high school I used to eat at Friendly's ice cream from the restaurant and stand alone ice cream shops. Is their grocery store ice cream like the restaurant?

Jeni's sucks CUNT! What overpriced garbage. R13, I will take your word for it!

McConnell's has impressed me , however.

Friendly's was good basic American food and their sundae's were good until Hershey's took them over. Then they started to decline. They were sold again and that was the end of the end. All of the Friendly's near me are long gone.

Why do old people call them Sun-dees?

It's SUNDAYS, BITCH!!!

You want an ice cream sun-dee?

Huh!?

R17- Some people would call Hot dogs RED HOTS

I thought it was sundaes.

Fat people are gross

R7 bless your heart, moron. Sherbert (pronounced “shur-bert”) is a common misspelling of sherbet that resulted from a common mispronunciation.

R19 it is. R17 is either a dumbass or kidding.

Are all Friendly's gone? My 70 year old mom talks about the one in the Freehold Mall. (I haven't been back to NJ in 8 years.) Do I need to get her to a doctor?

My favourite ice creams is a sherbert sunday.

R23- I'm in Westchester county

R23 if only there was a way to find out

R11- Wouldn't you say that a COCK has a better mouth feel than either Gelato or Ice Cream.

Y'all too fancy for me.

I like Kroger brand. Peanut Butter & Jelly. Chocolate Brookie. Rocky Road. During the holidays they make a mean Spumoni.

R22- In the northeast old people pronounce sundaes "sundees" it drives me crazy,

I can't think of a brand of ice cream I've liked since Brown's Velvet and K&B went the way of the dodo.

Brown's Velvet Black Walnut was manna from heaven, tasting exactly like the black walnuts from my mom's family farm in South Carolina. Their Banana Split was incredible, as well.

K&B's Creole Cream Cheese ice cream could make you weep from pure, innocent gladness.

That was long before American ice cream--hell, American ANYTHING--became too fucking sweet.

Our mother always said sweetness will never take the place of good quality ingredients and flavor. And building flavor takes time, whether it's ice cream, pecan candy, biscuits, coconut cake, gravy, tomato sauce, or fig preserves.

R29- I'm from the Northeast and I pronounce it SUNDAY

Been having a craving for Turkey Hill lemon pie ice cream lately.

One of the best I've encountered was Hood's Rhode Island coffee ice cream studded with chocolate lighthouses, which had liquid caramel centers.

after almost an entire lifetime I'm back to my childhood with BR (who was in their Birthday club for a free cone?)

My grandmother in Cleveland called it Sunduh (born in 1900) R31

Believe it or not I buy the Breyers low carb vanilla because it’s not too sweet.

HD mint chip mixed with HD chocolate. Or, HD caramel cone mixed with chocolate.

When I was a kid ca. 1979 my mother would make one of her fabulous cakes , such as- Sour Cherry Crumb Cake and serve it with softened ( by leaving it on the counter for 30 minutes- this was before microwaves were ubiquitous) Schraffts Ice Cream which at that time was THE premium ice cream before Haagen Dazs and Ben And Jerry's appeared.

R33 You give me life, Chile!

WHAT THE FUCK IS A SUN-DUH???

Sun-dee is bad enough.

But Dun-DUH?

Fly up and hang with me tonight, my liege!

Also, I was first man mounted on a place called Turkey Hill.

He found me from behind and intruded on my rosebud on Turk-ee Hill.

I barely felt it.

I go to Whole Foods at least once a week. The last three Sunday's in a row I bought Whole Foods Organic Ice Cream Sandwiches. They are GOOD.

Yes, yes - FAT WHORE here.

R37 i did not know it was a St Louis thing

Tivoli Majors, a linguist and assistant English professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, says the pronouncing of sundae as “sunduh” is only found in St. Louis. “There is speculation that some started to pronounce ‘sundee’ much like they took the word “opera” and pronounced ‘opree.’’’ With influence from the northern dialect, Majors suggests that “sundae” became pronounced as “sunduh.”

R39 has pig sized loved handles.

So sad for you. Why don't you eat spinach for desert like NORMAL GOD FEARING FOLKS??

Sinner!

R40. WTF?

I must google this Tivoli Ma-hors as I consume my PIG SIZED Brownie Sun-dee!

I love my brawn-tee sund-dee!!!!

R41- You mentioned pigs. That gives me a craving for PIGS IN THE BLANKET. I must go to Stop and Shop tomorrow and buy a BIG thing of frozen FRANKS in a blanket. The ones made from beef.

F. Whore

B+J:

Chubby Hubby Peanut Butter Cup

You’re welcome, Fatties!

[quote] The last three Sunday's

Oh, dear R39

McConnells ice cream used to have a great flavor called banana salted caramel. I loved it but they stopped making it.

Love my McConnells! East Coast but have it shipped at XMAS.

Though Friendly's restaurants have largely disappeared, their ice cream is available in many grocery store. Hands down, they have the best black raspberry ice cream.

I wlll say- that I like Turkey Hill's Coffee Ice Cream.

It melts far quicker with hot fudge for Ice Cream Sun-dees

But it is 1/8 the cost of Haagen Dazs!

R49 i may try their vanilla bean and coffee.

But this black cherry is not good.

R 50- I know that you are serious about this shitty black cherry.

The coffee is actually okay. Truly. And I am a picky BITCH. Hell, I am a fan of McConnell's Turkish coffee (creme de la creme)

The Turkey Hill Coffee flavor is a a really good buy.

Gelaterias in Italy are amazing.

Oh my god, so delicious. We have one in my city in the UK. Really gorgeous ice cream.

The best ice cream I ever tasted was near Cedar Point in Ohio, a place called Tofts Dairy. Just heaven.

I buy our "step-up" store brand HEB Creamy Creations because there's no HCFS vs the regular store brand. It's still cheaper than HD or B&J's but tastes just as good.

R52- It's VERY late in the UK.

What are you still doing up?

Haagen Daz is hands down the best widely available supermarket ice-cream out there. Their coffee and strawberry flavours are outstanding.

Preferring B+J's to HD is a sign of poor breeding.

R56- B+J used to be EXCELLENT now it's AVERAGE.

R55 I couldn't get back to sleep after getting up for a wee in the night.

My mom used to take me to a Carnation ice cream parlor on Ventura Blvd, in Studio City. They had the best strawberry ice cream I've ever tasted. I've never had better over my lifetime. These days I'm not much into ice cream. There were two flavors I always loved, orange custard and lemon custard. I can't find them anymore so if I want one of them I'm forced to make them from scratch. Too lazy though.

Graeter’s. The End.

r60 - I second the nomination for Graeter's from Cincinnati. The raspberry chocolate chip is amazing!

I still like Breyers - but you have to be careful. Some flavors are ice cream and some flavors are "frozen dairy dessert". I only buy flavors that are ice cream.

I like Ben and Jerry's ice cream, but they always put too much shit in there and sometimes I just want ice cream.

BlueBell Butter Pecan because it’s really buttery.

R59 what made it taste so good? Fresh strawberries? Texture? I love strawberry ice cream.

In my neck of the woods in NE Pennsylvania, the best ice cream, both "hard" and "soft," came from a local company with the delicious name of "Grablick's."

It is still extant and still makes the best ice cream. I only prefer the big three in ice cream: vanilla, chocolate or strawberry.

Never a fan of exotic flavors.

Haagen Dazs Chocolate covered almond vanilla is meh at best. Too much hard candy in there.

Turkey Hill has a very good Dutch Chocolate and the best of all is Southern Butter Pecan.

Why can’t anybody make a good banana ice cream? I’ve been addicted to it since I was a kid. I’ve made it home with ok results but my ice cream machine is gigantic and ancient and running out of freon.

Trader Joe's makes a Cookie Butter flavor that I cannot keep in the house because it will disappear in 24-48 hrs.

Anyone who says "sherbert" also had egg creams.

It's sherbet and sundae, not sherbert and not "ice cream Sunday."

Beware *** Haagen Dazs fans: the quality of the ice cream bars has gone down.

R68

We had great banana ice cream at a local place in NJ when I was a kid (Buxtons), but haven't encountered that flavor much since.

I was a fat kid growing up in Ohio from a diet of United Dairy Farmers chocolate malts, and my parents always had Neapolitan ice cream and pineapple sherbet in the house. Most there still say ‘sherbert’. Lol. Ice cream is still my primary fix today, and the regionalism is something I always try when travelling. I developed a taste for both green tea and durian ice cream spending time in East Asia.

I love a good green tea (matcha) ice cream as well.

First World Problems!

Oh dear

The DARFUR ORPHAN troll

Is the Blue Bell Bride's Cake ice cream any good?

Haagen Dazs Pineapple Coconut doesn't get the love it deserves.

Green tea was one that I associate with Japanese restaurants in my distant youth.

I dislike strawberry, and pineapple, but almost any other flavor okay.

Am linking one ice cream that struck me as especially toothsome - corn kernels great for crunch!

R79- My 7x6 COCK doesn't get the love it deserves.

Any ice cream that’s in a gallon or half-gallon size is horrible. It’s pints or nothing. But lately people have been putting horrible quality ice cream in pints too. Magnum pints are disgusting and taste like frozen Cool Whip yet they sell them for the same price as Haagen Dazs. Museum of Ice Cream pints taste like shit.

Thrifty Ice Cream, now sold by Rite-Aid, but not sure if it's available outside California/the Southwest.

R82 thats what Turkey Hill Black Cherry Tastes like to me. Cool Whip. Or Cake Frosting frozen. Only it’s not thick enough.

I LOVE getting a Carvel soft serve vanilla in a cone with the Chocolate dip.

The cherry dip is artificial fun too.

Salt and Straw ice cream is not that good. I don’t understand the lines. It’s $13 a pint, up from $11 just 2 years ago. Their ice cream has tapioca flour as a main ingredient and also Xathem gum which gives the ice cream a horrible mouth feel. These are things true ice creams like Haagen Dazs don’t have.

R78 That flavor looks delicious.

I briefly liked Cold Stone Creamery.

I had just finished a session with my SHRINK and was walking by one of their stores. This was in 2004. I bought cherry ice cream and they added chopped cherries to it , topped it with REAL whipped cream all in a waffle cup. YUMMY

Unfortunately the other 2 or 3 times after that I found their ice cream tasteless and OVER priced.

I have never been more disappointed than when I tried Biscoff ice cream. I love the Biscoff brand and thought cookie butter ice cream would be amazing but they use such an inferior ice cream that it tasted like cookie butter Cool Whip. Why disparage your brand by using such bad ice cream? It could have been really great if they used Haagen Dazs quality ice cream.

Now Cold Stone really does taste like frozen frosting. It has the consistency of frosting too.

Talenti, and nothing else.

I used to love Cold Stone but they’re just meh these days

Talenti is overrated, IMO.

R93- It's not surprising considering that Unilever owns Talenti and Ben & Jerry's ( which they ruined)

Talenti is for the storage jars once the contents are gone! Coincidentally, I just bought two today on sale: caramel sea salt and pistachio.

Don't put anything too hot in those Talenti plastic jars, though. Cool off things, first. Otherwise, yes, good, clear plastic jars that you can reuse for storage.

Blue Bell - Bride's Cake (Amaretto), Banana Pudding, and Spiced Pumpkin Pecan. Vanilla bean also a solid choice. I have to look for my favorites in the small container bc fitting in my pants is a good thing.

We used to eat Sealtest back in the day. Delicious. I'm a Talenti fan now and buy it when it is priced under 4 dollars--which isn't often. I like the raspberry sherbet eaten with the dark chocolate. Tastes like eating a raspberry chocolate from See's Candies.

Growing up, we always had a plastic tub of a local dairy's vanilla ice cream in the freezer. It was hard as hell to scoop out. I suppose that was the higher fat content.

As an adult, I'm happy to have less dense options like Graeter's (black raspberry chocolate chip) or Jeni's (Texas Sheet Cake).

R99 I like Graeter’s as well but why do they have to put chocolate chips in everything? I just want plain old black cherry.

Try Haagen Dazs cherry vanilla.

[quote] It’s pints or nothing.

You mean single serving.

Haagen Dazs "pints" are now 14 ounces, so an even smaller single serving.

R101 thats what I usually buy lmao.

Grocery-store and cheap brand ice creams push it to the absolute legal limit they are allowed to inflate ice cream with air to fill the containers and still label it ice cream according to the FDA. Which is why it is only half the amount when it melts.

Haagan-Dazs has the least amount of air inflation you can buy at the store.

Another vote for Haagen Dazs. Cherry Vanilla is their best, but I also like Pistachio, Pineapple Coconut, Rocky Road, Coffee and a few other flavors.

I agree that Ben and Jerry's is too sweet, but I think their Pistachio is outstanding, and Cherry Garcia is also quite good.

Breyers isn't what it used to be. Some of the flavors aren't even labelled ice cream anymore. But I will still occasionally buy their Cherry Vanilla.

When will it be safe to go to Italy again so I can have real gelato?

I grew up in Oregon and was spoiled with our local brands, Tillamook and Umpqua. Umpqua's chocolate peanut butter ice cream was my childhood favorite--it's plain chocolate ice cream with large, hardened chunks of sweet peanut butter in it. Simple, but it's so good, and the peanut butter is what really makes it.

As far as Tillamook goes, I've never really had a flavor I didn't like. They used to sell an amazing sticky bun ice cream with cinnamon and brown sugar which was delicious, but I haven't seen it in awhile. They have a malted milkshake ice cream too which is great if you like malt flavor (I personally love it). Some of the fruit variants are good too--they sell a peaches and cream one with real peaches in it which is amazing.

Kristen Bell recently mentioned going to 24-hour Meijer's with her friends in high school to buy Sanders Bumpy Cake Ice Cream, which you Michiganders will be familiar

Based on and inspired by Sanders Bumpy Cake

Butter cream flavored ice cream sound disgusting.

[quote] Blue Bell - Bride's Cake (Amaretto), Banana Pudding, and Spiced Pumpkin Pecan.

In other words, the white trash flavors.

R95, R96 you probably already know this but never put those Talenti plastic containers in the dishwasher. They will warp. Even in the top rack. Hand wash only!

I like vanilla

[quote]I go to Whole Foods at least once a week. The last three Sunday's in a row I bought Whole Foods Organic Ice Cream Sandwiches. They are GOOD.

Yes, yes - FAT WHORE here.

Oh, Fat Whore I love ice cream sandwiches-I never thought to look at Whole Foods. But now I'll check them out

I generally don't like store bought "premium" ice cream. I did like Haagen Daaz cookies and cream back when it was easily found. But beyond that, I guess I'm trash lol. I just like the local dairy air whipped basic ice cream -- the type my mom would always buy. Though I really don't eat that much ice cream at this point.

Another person who misses Schraffts. Their coffee ice cream was delicious and had a lovely, creamy texture.

[quote] I just like the local dairy air whipped basic ice cream

What! Why? Why don’t you just buy a tub of Cool Whip to eat then? Much cheaper.

My favorites are butter pecan, rum raisin, & Baskin Robbins' lemon chiffon

My least favorite is Pistachio.

Rum raisin is awful. No taste.

I bought the Haagen Daaz Rum Raisin a few weeks back and it was inedible.

I don't really like Baskin-Robbins ice cream (flavors aren't great), but if I had to choose a flavor, it would be pistachio. Doesn't taste like pistachio, but has crispy almonds in it.

What are YOUR favorite flavors then, Mr. Fancy @ R112? Jesus, what a tiresome snob you must be.

Breyer's is awful. I do not get the love. Take their vanilla (PLEASE!) It's like ice-milk. Texture is bad, flavor is not good. MANY other brands have VASTLY superior ice-creams to Breyer's.

The only American ice cream I have ever seen sold in Italy is Haagen Daz. It's pretty courageous of them to do so.

My local supermarket carries it. One day I bought it and served it to my Italian friends. The simple vanilla. It passed approval with everyone.

Now back in the US, I have to say the only supermarket ice cream in the spirit of Italian gelato is Haagen Daz. No, it's not the same but it's closer than the others.

It annoys me how so little ice-cream is fruit based these days. Fruit ice-creams are by far the best. But you go into some ice-cream shops and the only one you'll see is "Strawberry". And most strawberry ice-creams are SO lack-luster.

My favorite ice-creams? Banana, peach, raspberry, cherry, black cherry, lemon, apple-cinnamon, apricot, black raspberry, mango....

Growing up we made our own damn ice-cream on the regular. Most frequent flavors we made from scratch were banana and raspberry and strawberry, because they were the easiest.

Baskin Robbins Chocolate Chip is great

R107 When in Italy stay away from gelato joints that display their gelato in that manner. Those gooey sticky glistening mounds are for the tourists.

This is what the serious stuff looks like:

R125, Haagen Dazs mango?

I agree R125. I think mango is pretty easy to find, but I had this tart cherry sorbet in France that I still think about, have never found anything like it in the US. Very refreshing.

Beware the Haagen Dazs mango sorbet, though. Tastes like overripe mangoes.

[quote] The only American ice cream I have ever seen sold in Italy is Haagen Daz. It's pretty courageous of them to do so.

But it looks like they also sell Magnum, the worst ice cream in the world, so they have no room to talk.

I learned the hard way about Talenti jars by trying to store hot rice without waiting for it to cool; wouldn't have considered the dishwasher as they strike me as too flimsy to withstand the water pressure.

Funny story about rum raisin: I always considered it a WASPy item, until I saw it sold at a Latin supermarket. Butter pecan and maple walnut are about as WASPy as ice cream gets.

Having moved recently from the west coast, I will miss Tillamook! Luckily, ice cream is an area where Publix does well.

R31 Magnum is a snack ice cream sold mostly as ice cream bars. It is a Belgian brand (originally Danish) and of high quality. It is sold in every country in Europe.

I like the Magnum bars.

You bastards have made me go on an ice cream run. Hope you’re happy.

You bastards have me eyeballing my old ass ice cream maker and my overripe bananas! Too bad I don’t have any heavy whipping cream on hand or it would be on!

Ben & Jerry’s Coffee Heath Bar Crunch

Haagen Daz Strawberry

Haagen Daz Coffee

Blue Bell Creole Cream Cheese

I have found that Blue Bunny chocolate is an incredible ice cream. In fact, for the cost, I like Blue Bunny brand.

Who knew?

If I go to the grocery store and I see even ONE sugar free or low fat ice cream brand, I'mma have fuck me up a bitch!!!!!

ONLY Haagen Dazs

R109, R110 I concur that that is amazing ice cream! My mother introduced me to the bumpy cake back in the 70s. It’s still remains a favorite of mine.

R111 The entire ice cream is not butter cream. It’s just a little bits of butter cream in addition to chocolate frosting, and chocolate cake mixed into the ice cream. It’s very good. Give it a try if they sell it near you.

R132-, Kate Lawrence on FAMILY once made homemade Rum Raisin ice cream for Christmas.

I miss Ben and Jerry's WAVY GRAVY ice cream which was discontinued in 2006.

Italian gelato has lots of fruit flavors. Much more so than American ice creams.

What does cantaloupe gelato taste like?

R115- You won't be disappointed.

Whole Foods Organic Ice Cream Sandwiches are very TASTY.

I'm craving Talenti pistachio.

R64 Honestly, I don't know. It tasted very fresh and was lightly creamy. There was enough air in it that it wasn't 'hard' and buttery like some of the premium ice creams. I don't like heavy, overly rich ice cream. I'm thinking it was because it was a true Carnation parlor. It was fresh.

Talenti salted caramel truffle layered pints wow! The different textures are a real treat. I liked it better than Ben & Jerry’s chunky monkey which is my favorite.

Here in west Michigan we have a regional brand, Hudsonville, that is quite good and has a wide variety of flavors. It’s typically the only ice cream I’ll buy. Their Bananas Foster Flavor is amazing!

The talenti pint containers are excellent for holding your pot stash.

I love caramel but the caramel used in the Magnum bars is sickly sweet

Don't believe the skinny girl DataLounge fat whore rhetoric.

I love burying my face between two big ice-cream fattened ass cheeks.

Ice cream threads on DL never fail to get well over 100 responses.

You all type fat ;)

The only ice cream that matters is Sealtest.

R153 find one example

I don’t usually like butter pecan ice cream. But then I tried Talenti’s gelato version. It is excellent!

R156 i may have to try that

R53 Get to the Point!

I've always been more of a frozen yogurt person than ice cream; it's just too dense for me (ice cream). i like gelato better than ice cream. that said, i like Rocky road and mint choc chip ice cream. i don't ever buy it so i don't have brands to name.

[quote] Magnum is a snack ice cream sold mostly as ice cream bars. It is a Belgian brand (originally Danish) and of high quality. It is sold in every country in Europe.

Magnum is NOT of high quality. I had to throw my pint out because the texture was like Cool Whip. And I NEVER throw ice cream out so you know how bad it was. Completely inedible. They have a good gimmick of cracking the chocolate shell but it’s useless if the ice cream itself is no good.

[quote] Whole Foods Organic Ice Cream Sandwiches are very TASTY.

Do they make this in store? Do they sell it at their deli or bakery? Or is it a pre-packaged thing?

R21 yes! I was staring at that in confusion for ages, wondering why on Earth anyone would make sherbert-flavoured ice-cream. For those who don’t know, in Britain sherbert refers to a sugary-sweet and fine flavoured edible powder, used to make a drink bubbly or eaten by itself using fingers or a confectionary stick. We don’t make ice-cream from it.

As for ice-cream, I’m partial to brown bread, myself, preferably homemade by a local parlour. Whisky & ginger is quite nice, too, and honeycomb is also rather a lovely flavour though hard to find. For a more orthodox choice, I find strawberries & cream or clotted cream hard to beat.

R162 Sweets separated by a common language. Sherbet in North American is essentially a sorbet with usually 1-2% milkfat added. It’s like Smarties and not Smarties in the US. What they call Smarties are Fizzers here. They’d assume UK Smarties are an off brand of M&Ms. More confusingly, Canadians call Fizzers Rockets. The foam bananas you get in the Sweet Shop here magically transformed into orange ‘Circus Peanuts’ in the US, yet they still mysteriously have the ersatz banana flavour instead of tasting like peanuts or maybe oranges as you’d expect. So much lost in translation! ;-)

[quote]Magnum is NOT of high quality.

I see that Magnum has been bought out by Unilever. So I stand corrected: it used to be high quality.

Also: Magnum built its reputation on chocolate covered ice cream bars and cones. Not pints of ice cream. Those are a recent addition.

Magnum reveals it's level of quality by constantly being on sale and marking everything down

R161, I've seen the 365 or Whole Foods brand ice cream sandwiches in the freezer section. It's located where al the other ice cream stuff is located. (It's premade, like Fat Boys.)

It's on my list to try as well.

Try to give some business to the small ice creameries. The families who still do this are committed to quality. Best of the best is Graeter’s out of Cincinnati. Meijer grocery stores carries it, as well as some others. They’ve been making it since 1870.

[quote]Try to give some business to the small ice creameries.

I would, but I live in Brooklyn and a lot of it is hipster, artisanal nonsense and I really don't like rosewater and white peppercorns in my ice cream.

This is the best ice-cream in the world:

Graeter's Black Raspberry Chocolate Chip (CHUNK!)

R169, right?

Everyone's always pushing "Jenni's" ice-cream on me, but it's utter shit. First of all, anyone who wants to eat fig, anise, and goat-cheese ice-cream needs their fucking head examined. Second, when I found a flavor that wasn't ridiculously pretentious bullshit, "Berry Crumble", it was extremely over-priced and VERY mediocre. STORE BRAND ice-creams are better for chrissakes.

Haagen Dazs Chocolate Peanut Butter is the only ice cream that feels decadent enough to me to justify the splurge.

HEB's "Creamy Creations" Banana-Peanut-Butter ice-cream is amazingly good.

R171 I believe Jeni’s uses cream cheese at its base rather than egg yolks. I have made ice cream using both and I prefer the egg yolks.

Jennni's ice-cream is over-priced over-rated shit.

R175- Jeni's ice cream has ONE good flavor which I mentioned earlier in this thread- Jeni's Almond Brittle Ice cream. -

R101? Are you talking to me?

Talenti Belgian Milk chocolate

Haagen Dasz vanilla Swiss almond or HD coffee

Much cheaper than air fare to Rome for gelato

Anything else is just not worth the Kcals

Turkey Hill mint choco chip is great

Thanks to you guys, I bought some ice cream sandwiches while shopping today. Not any premium brand, but good.

Another quick ice cream fix for me is the McDonald's vanilla ice cream cone. I get it in the drive through and eat it while driving.

In Paris Berthillon is amazing ..sold near Norte Dame..small family co

I'm the original poster who mentioned how good Whole Foods Organic Ice Cream Sandwiches are. I just looked at my receipt- $4.99 for a box of 6. That's very reasonable , especially considering how good they are.

R108 — I love Tillamook. I haven’t been able to get all 28 flavors currently manufactured but have been able to experience 18. (This is Michigan.) Among the flavors which stand out: Old-Fashioned Vanilla, Chocolate, Waffle Cone Swirl, Peaches & Cream, Malted Moo Shake, Cookies & Cream, Coffee Almond Fudge and, one flavor I would not normally get but which surprised me, Birthday Cake. Want to try some other flavors I can’t get: Marionberry Pie, Mountain Huckleberry, White Chocolate Raspberry, Banana Split, Udderly Chocolate, Monster Cookie, and Oregon Hazelnut & Salted Caramel.

R149 — I am in the area of Detroit, Michigan. Every store here which has any supply of ice cream carried Holland, Michigan-based Hudsonville. I first tried it when I was given a birthday sundae in a restaurant that used Creamy Vanilla from Hudsonville. It is fine ice cream. I have been appreciating more of TIllamook; so, at some point, I will get back to Hudsonville when I am ready.

R183 all you need is some Häagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream and Saunders milk chocolate hot fudge. It’s truly wonderful!

R30 -- Fellow New Orleanian here. Too young for K&B, but oh boy do I remember Brown's Velvet pecan praline ice cream dearly. Blue Bell's Mocha Almond Fudge is a sweet coffee experience that'll make you stay up all night.

R178 I remember reading in one of the ‘Lets be Lesbians’ threads here that Haagen Dasz Vanilla Swiss Almond is an extremely sapphic preference.

Yesssss, R185, Brown's Velvet pecan praline was my late Mom's favorite, as well!

Reminds me of a story Mom often told: She grew up in upcountry South Carolina, where they pronounced it "PeaCAN PRAYleen." When she married my father and moved down to Louisiana, Daddy had to set her straight: from now on, it was to be "PuhCAHN[soft"p"] PRAH-LEEN." Which was rich, considering his country-ass family in rural Pointe Coupee Parish always said "PUH[hard"P"]-CAOHWN PrawLEEN."😂😂😂

R187, here in Texas it's puh-CAHN PRAY-LEEN.

R188- Here in the north it's PEEKAHN

I like a good butter brickle, but you don't see it that much. You see things with toffee that aren't quite the same and of course butter pecan. I find there's a lot of variation within brands - a single brand will nail some ice creams and other ones in their line up are trash.

I've never been a big fan of Ben and Jerry's and their everything but the kitchen sink approach. Lol. Even the more basic, simpler flavors, I'm not a big fan of B&J. Mint Chocolate Cookie is decent.

[quote] Here in the north it's PEEKAHN

I'm from NJ and MA, pronouncing it more with a short I than a long E (pih-kahn).

[quote]I've never been a big fan of Ben and Jerry's and their everything but the kitchen sink approach.

Lots of junky trashy flavors . And those cutesy names and labels. . I find Ben and Jerry's revolting.

I love rum raisin. I also love ginger ice cream, which has a nice tang.

[quote[R188]- Here in the north it's PEEKAHN

I don't. I use "Puh-kahn."

Hey R39, R115 and other ice cream sandwich fans. If you’re on the West Coast there’s one called the Cream’wich. It’s delicious! I found it at Whole Foods and at Gelsons. They’re pricey but worth it in my opinion. Check out the store locator at the link.

Anyon got U.K. brands and flavours they highly recommend? Preferably available to order in the South-West.

Yes, R188, but y'all also say [italic]BY-OH[/italic] for bayou.

Tsk, tsk😘

I'm from the north and I KNOW I'm pronouncing it wrong when I say - New OrLEENS.

I still love Superman ice cream as an adult!

R54 Is "HCFS" the new "WHET" on DL?

Does anyone remember Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls?

r199 Fuck Superman ice cream. All those pretty colors and it's just vanilla? But, I guess it stays true to the name.

I like my own homemade ice cream, and can't understand why people who like ice cream don't make their own.

Laziness? Ignorance?

Plus, it EASY.

R202 it actually has a distinct taste to it. Can’t put my finger on what it tastes like but it tastes good!

The food coloring is the distinct taste.

I'm going to get out my Cuisinart ice cream maker and start making my own this summer. I haven't been happy with store bought ice cream in awhile. The only good ice cream is expensive and I'm not spending a fortune for a small pint that I would eat in one sitting.

Homemade sounds great, but some of us have never created from scratch before. If you know how to make excellent ice cream, then please share your recipes.

Even so much so-called 'gourmet' ice-cream is shit these days. If you check the label you see glucose and vegetable gums as substitutes. Vile.

Good story here on Berthillon: definitely one of the world's finest ice-creams. I had to laugh about the poster who said they would eat a pint at a sitting: a sign of crap ice-cream. You could only eat at most a small scoop or two of Berthillon. The natural flavours are so incredibly intense, and intensely satisfying, you savour it. But it's always best to only buy it at the Ile St Louis shop, not the couple of street vendors.

For a while, there was a brand called Lady Horton’s Ice cream in Michigan. Their double strawberry was hands down the best ice-cream I have ever tasted. It lasted for a couple of years, the only place I could find it was in Detroit.

I don't know why but I can't see myself buying an ice cream from a brand called 'Turkey Hill', not least because it seems to have to plaster 'REAL Ice Cream' all over the packaging as if to somehow trick you into believing that it is. Like, what the fuck else is it going to be?

Haagen or Ben & Jerry's for me.

Ben & Jerry's had an amazing "Chocolate Cherry Garcia" frozen yogurt that I really miss and haven't seen in years.

R212 yeah I agree, I used to love that as well and haven't seen it for ages - assume it's been discontinued :-(

Turkey Hill is pretty good, R211, but sorry you don't care for the packaging.

Most commercial brands are far too sweet and many just so artificial tasting

Haagen-Dazs uses few ingredients and it has a smooth consistency.

Berthillon paraît magnifique, r209.

If I buy ice cream, it would be Ben & Jerry's. I haven't had it in a while, so maybe it's not as good as it used to be. I'll buy ice cream in town...two places that make their own home made...delicious.

I'm another Ohioan who is spoiled by Graeter's ice cream. I can buy it at my local Kroger, but I have a couple of Graeter's ice cream parlors within a few miles from my house, where I can still sit down to eat an ice cream sundae, and pick up some cookies or pastries to bring home. I'm a purist, so I usually buy their Madagascar Vanilla Bean ice cream.

I love banana ice-cream... but why does everyone think you have to put fucking walnuts in banana ice-cream? NOTHING ruins a good banana ice-cream faster than putting fucking walnuts in it! STOP DOING THIS!

I bought some Tillamook marionberry ice cream, but I will have to buy Haagen-Daz next time.

What's fascinating about Berthillon for a foreigner is how tiny the scoops are. About a 1/4 the size of an American ice-cream scoop. But 4 times the flavour.

But it looks huge at R216.

Blue Bell is the best ice cream

I'm a fat eldergay and I have tried everything (even lived in U.K. for a while during the 70s -their ice cream sucked back then) and trust and believe this old fattie - Blue Bell is the best.

McConnell's black cherry

Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey...mmm mmm

R224, HEB's "Creamy Creations" is actually better.

The Blue Bell "King Cake" ice cream was just fucking disgusting.

r14 the ice cream that was scooped and sold from the Friendly's shops and restaurants was different from the pre-packed gallons sold in grocery stores under their label. It was denser (less air), firmer and more flavorful. Their restaurant vanilla ice cream was superb, an all-time favorite.

The stuff sold under their name in grocery stores is average at best, over-whipped and full of fillers. Its a shame about the bricks-and-mortar shops, many have shut down or closed and there are very few left nowadays. No place left in the Northeast to get a refreshing Watermelon Cooler (watermelon sherbet, sprite, and club soda) in the summertime, shame.

R219 I too am a banana ice cream fanatic! And I hate anything else added to it except maybe caramel. I may have to dust off my old ice cream maker and make it myself! If you’re interested in making it yourself this is a pretty good recipe.

[quote] I had to laugh about the poster who said they would eat a pint at a sitting: a sign of crap ice-cream. You could only eat at most a small scoop or two of Berthillon. The natural flavours are so incredibly intense, and intensely satisfying, you savour it.

Mary!

In the South, we have peach ice cream in the summer when peaches are in season. Homemade peach ice cream is amazing!

I don't think they even have peach ice cream up North.

Homemade strawberry ice cream is also amazing. But so is Haagen Dazs strawberry ice cream. (I don't even really like strawberries.)

R230 I may have to try making peach ice cream this summer. I also make cherry ice cream when the cherries are in season. I want to get my hand on some marionberries and try to make ice cream with them as well.

Ben & Jerry's is awful. Tastes chemically in addition to all their silly flavors.

You fat whores going on and on about banana ice cream. Just make a healthier version with a yonana!

How about I make one with yo mama?

Do they still make Sealtest?

Is that a sealant? Seems like something you would get at Home Depot.

I enjoy Breyer's , Dolley Madison, Haagen Dazs, Turkey Hill, HALO, Blue Bunny and Ben & Jerry ice creams.

I don't enjoy ENLIGHTENED and non-dairy frozen desserts and store generic brands. These taste artificial.

I can remember growing up and my mother making homemade ice cream outside and my job was to make sure it had plenty of ice and rock salt. I had to turn the crank on the machine before we got an electric maker. For my hard work, I got to lick the beater when the ice cream was ready. I'll never have ice cream as good as that again.

Summer was so much fun when I was a kid.

[quote] I enjoy Breyer's , Dolley Madison, Haagen Dazs, Turkey Hill, HALO, Blue Bunny and Ben & Jerry ice creams.

Who the fuck enjoys Halo? It’s more of a necessity thing for keto dieters.

The only really enjoyable ice cream left is Carvel's soft serve vanilla ( especially dipped in chocolate).

I adore the Sealtest troll.

When I was a very little boy growing up in New York I do recall that brand! I remember liking it.

I don't think we ever had it in New England, we moved up here in the late 80's..

The brand up here similar to Sealtest was/is probably "Hood".

Hoodsies, yum. With the little wooden spoon.

Back in the late 70s there was an ice-cream brand (maybe a "store brand") called "Gaylord".

Gaylord Chocolate Ice-cream was ... weird. It was pink, not brown, and it tasted NOTHING like Chocolate. But it was DELICIOUS whatever it was. I remember it fondly, and I really miss it.

When I was a kid, we always had Sealtest or Breyers...or the Acme brand of butter pecan ice cream. Back then, even the Acme brand was pretty good. Maybe it had better ingredients then, or as a kid, I didn't know better..lol. My dad always had his huge bowl of butter pecan every night, while watching the 11 o'clock news. He was slim, too.

R245, wasn't the Acme brand of ice cream called Ideal....or am I remembering wrong?

R234 wtf is a yonana?

American ice cream is awful. It's weird. I wonder why gelato shops haven't caught on in American?

R246...Yes, it was called Ideal. I forgot that. Great memory... :)

Does anyone remember Mellorine? It was an imitation ice cream that was popular in the 1970s because it was cheaper than ice cream. My grandparents used to serve it to us grandkids when we visited.

[quote][R234] wtf is a yonana?

It's a machine that turns frozen fruit (esp. bananas) into a soft serve treat!

How is that different from a blender?

Seriously, Breyers is just awful. The texture of ice-milk. Bland. Why the fuck would anyone choose that over any of the far superior ice-creams out there?

This shit is DA BOMB!

R251 I have never heard of that kitchen gadget before. Do you own one? Is the frozen fruit tasty?

Bring em bring em bring em, bring em home some Brighams

Whenever Ben and Jerry's is on sale, I would buy them a lot, don't really pay attention to particular flavors, just grab them. Once I picked one called "Justice Remixed", I thought it was a tie in with the comic movie "Justice League", but it's not, it's about social justice,

Cinnamon & Chocolate Ice Creams with Gobs of Cinnamon Bun Dough & Spicy Fudge Brownies

It's a miss for me, I don't like it, they don't blend well together, especially the "spicy" brownies.

I just woke up from a dream in which I went to Berthillon and lots of their flavors on little tiny cones. The last one I tried was so beautiful, vanilla studded with something red, but it turned out to be beets.

Going back to bed.

Ben & Jerry's Netflix & Chill'd is a recent favorite.

Also plain old Giant Eagle brand rainbow sherbet. Not technically ice cream, and not particularly "good", but I love it. It's like eating a big, neon-colored bowl of childhood.

Frusen Glädje, of course.

I always was pulling shit like this-

Mom, can we stop and get some ice cream? No, you stay here- I'll run in! (Convenience store)

Okay, little one. (She has in mind your standard 1/2 gallon of some mid range brand)

I head right to the top quality pints with the fanciest packaging and most foreign sounding names.

Open up the car door-

What did you get?

Frusen Glädje, SUCKER!!!!

My mother would flip the fuck out.

By the 2nd time, I was never allowed "to run in" again.

Ice cream is plural?

Has anyone ever had Earl Grey flavored ice cream. I've seen it around the net & on TV but never had the chance to try it.

It sounds delicious. Is it any good?

R261. That made me laugh. What a bitch you are.

Ice Cream is not plural. Kind of like deer?

Monica Colby for Frusen Glädje

R262! McConnells makes an Earl Grey and cookies (biscuits) ice cream.

I love McConnells.

THANK YOU R264! Need I say more?

Of course I chose the ice cream of Ms Tracey Scoggins and shaped like a Swedish Sculpture.

Only the best will do.

(Shocked that it was still around in 1988) I was 9 in 1986 and I thought that the ice cream was discontinued that year..

Damn you, R264. You had me thinking there was something wrong with my sound for a few moments. Then I realized it was the shitty audio on that commercial. Looks good though.

The Ben & Jerry's mix-ins are hit or miss.

Breyer's is a shadow of what it once was. Carvel had an odd consistency---haven't had it in ages and haven't really wanted it.

Super market ice cream often has been awful---Kroger's Country Club line, never really melted and always tasted of chemicals.

Graeter's--based in Ohio but with widening distribution is fantastic and rich. Jeni's (also from Ohio) is oddly popular even though it's really bland.

Agreed- Jeni's is particularly overrated. Coolhaus is TERRIBLE. Who fucks up vanilla? They did! They call it World's Best Vanilla- Not.

McConnells is well worth it. It has a more homemade vibe and is delicious.

Graeters I have had and was very good.

I really enjoyed the simplicity of Humphrey Slocombe too. Their Malt Ice Cream truly tastes like an old fashioned milkshake!

Bluebell

delicious

Maggie Moo's no sugar added was the bomb.

Right now I'm eating Coolhaus Sweet Cart Churro Dough ice cream .

It's good.

So there are no good supermarket ice creams?

R273- I bought my ice cream at Whole Foods.

R273, HEB's "Creamy Creations" Ice-Cream is quite good.

I generally like it better than Blue Bell.

Biscoff ice cream is on sale for $2.99 at Safeway. When I picked up a pint, I couldn’t believe how light it was. How could a pint weight so little? A Haagen Daz pint weighs twice as much.

They whip a lot of air into it.

The Kroger Private Selection ice creams are very good. I think they're the best ice cream out there for the money. It's not as good as Haagen-Dazs, but it's half the cost.

I get so confused about ounces being used to measure weight AND volume. How does that make sense?

"Ounces" and "Fluid Ounces" are two different measures.

I like Lewis Brothers Ice Cream on Commercial Street in Provincetown.

I love Lactaid chocolate ice cream. It's so smooth, creamy and rich you won't believe it's lactose-free.

Whole Foods has a line of the large tubs for only $6.00, which is about what a mere pint of the fancy brands cost.

The flavors are basic, unfortunately. WF does have a line of "gourmet" ice cream, but they're the overpriced pints.

I agree with the poster who singled out Turkey Hill mint chocolate chip. But it's hard to find.

My family lived in Italy when I was a kid, and the gelato there was unlike our American kind, with a different texture. And the pops were quite small. It wasn't a full-scale dessert, just a bonne bouche to get a sweet taste. I wonder if all European ice cream is different from ours.

I was excited to try Tillamook marionberry pie ice cream the other day. It was just meh. The actual marionberry swirl is very scarce and the little pieces of pie scared about were like eating a little clumps of doughy blah. Not gonna buy this again.

Jeni’s sells a Brambleberry crisp ice cream that is much better! Too bad no one makes a really good marionberry ice cream.

Now that we all can get the creamy ice creams made of natural ingredients, all those artificially constructed ice creams America used to have are going extinct

If you ever go to Britain, try clotted cream ice cream. I guess clotted cream (a very creamy butter that needs a more appetizing name) is the base. It can be found in ice cream shops everywhere.

So extraordinary. Even more creamy than gelato.

[quote]Oh, Fat Whore I love ice cream sandwiches

This thread is amazing.

[quote]I don't know why but I can't see myself buying an ice cream from a brand called 'Turkey Hill', not least because it seems to have to plaster 'REAL Ice Cream' all over the packaging as if to somehow trick you into believing that it is. Like, what the fuck else is it going to be?

Frozen dairy dessert, R211. I feel like people were pretty clear in this thread about how, in the US at least, a lot of ice cream is no longer ice cream but whipped air-filled dairy dessert that cannot be legally called "ice cream."

Turkey Hill coffee ice cream is really good. Their Rocky Road is a bit too sweet.

R286. I have an ice cream maker and would be curious to try to make ice cream using clotted cream. I am in Southern California and my store sells clotted cream and also double cream. Could you make ice cream using either one or just the clotted cream?

I don't like that name CLOTTED cream.

It sounds like CLOTTED ARTERIES.

As an ice cream alternative, try eating straight mascarpone cheese. You can put honey or whatever you like on it. I bought the Crave Brothers brand a while back and it was unbelievably delicious. Yes, tons of calories, maybe more than ice cream, actually. You can probably use it on scones, subbing for clotted / Devonshire cream.

[quote]Jeni’s sells a Brambleberry crisp ice cream that is much better!

I tried that, and talk about meh. The texture, the flavor, everything was just bleh. I do NOT get why anyone raves about Jeni's. It's grossly over-priced mediocre pretentiousness, and nothing more.

[Quote] . I am in Southern California and my store sells clotted cream and also double cream. Could you make ice cream using either one or just the clotted cream?

Since you have an ice cream maker, experiment a little