# Besides Butter Pecan: What are the 'American' flavors? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 24, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635 "2010-05-24T23:24:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/21 "2010-05-25T03:47:48Z")
Sassafras? ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/22 "2010-05-25T03:51:01Z")
> [@](#): > > Creamy vanilla ice cream with tasty chunks of chocolate crème cookies. We were first to create this innovative flavor. “[We](http://www.bluebell.com/IceCreamFlavor?fid=18)” being Blue Bell Creamery, based in Brenham, Texas. Definitely All American; some of their other flavors are more specifically regional. Like [Southern Blackberry Cobbler](http://www.bluebell.com/IceCreamFlavor?fid=29) or Southern Hospitality. [Here’s the list](http://www.bluebell.com/what_were_crankin_out/our_ice_cream.html). ---
**Author:** ![Joanie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@Joanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joanie)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/23 "2010-05-25T04:37:05Z")
Texas BBQ is about as quinticential American as you can get. I’ll never forget the snooty French chef who used to work for the Kennedys but quit when LBJ took office. He conducted a very large rant in some newspaper about how the Johnsons were a bunch of uncouth animals because all they wanted to eat were sides of beef cooked in the style of Texas BBQ. According to this pretentious French snob, anyone who preferred to eat that style instead of the famous French dishes were a bunch of classless and tastelss creeps and he wouldn’t have anything to do with them. I always thought that was pretty funny considering that Texas BBQ is some of the best eating I’ve ever tasted. Oh. Also Pecan Pie. Isn’t that purely American? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/24 "2010-05-25T04:44:00Z")
Not American per se, but of American origin: Grape Nut Ice Cream. This is actually quite popular here in Panama - I think it originated somehow in the old Canal Zone. It has bits of Grape Nuts cereal in it. ---
**Author:** ![Rahne\_McCloud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Rahne\_McCloud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rahne_McCloud)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/25 "2010-05-25T05:25:41Z")
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/26 "2010-05-25T06:36:23Z")
Chocolate and Peanut butter ice cream. Rainbow sherbert cones… [Superman Ice cream](http://www.google.com/search?q=Superman+Ice+cream&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a). [Strawberry Cap’n Crunch Bars](http://www.flickr.com/photos/60585948@N00/535140450/) from the wayback machine. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/27 "2010-05-25T06:44:13Z")
Part of the problem is that Haagen Dasz and Ben and Jerry’s are now selling in many other countries. Cookies and cream may have started out as a typical American flavor, but it’s been available up here in Troll Country for several years, and we’re usually the last place in Western Europe to get new imports. Recently mint chocolate chip has shown up, too. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/28 "2010-05-25T06:49:25Z")
Cookies and Cream (esp. Oreo cookies) Praline Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/29 "2010-05-25T06:51:36Z")
[Rocket Pop](http://www.google.com/search?q=Rocket+Pop&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) -Cherry Limeade Flavor in Red White and Blue. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/30 "2010-05-25T06:51:55Z")
Stepping a bit outside the ice cream realm (which is allowed by the OP, but only a few folks in this thread seem to be thinking outside the box)… Concord grape S’mores (and in general, anything that uses graham crackers as an ingredient) Samoa (Girl Scout cookie and ice cream ingredient) Buffalo sauce Ranch sauce/dip Riffing on **devilsknew** ’s mention of chocolate and peanut butter, I was told by a British friend years ago that our fondness for chocolate and peanut butter in general is definitely American. I’d sent her a bag of Reese’s cups in a big care package of American goodies, and they were quite unpopular. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/31 "2010-05-25T07:07:16Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > I dunno–butter brickle is a pretty common British flavor, isn’t it? Nope… never heard of it. > [@](#): > > Certainly toffee is, which has IMO a similar flavor. This is true. It’s probably the most common flavour after vanilla, strawberry and chocolate (going by the choice available in the supermarket, anyway – I haven’t done a survey or anything). > [@](#): > > I have a cookbook from England of ice cream recipes, and it had something that was basically breadcrumbs caramelized in butter and sugar and turned into ice cream. I’d think that butter pecan would be a perfectly acceptable flavor to Brits. It is, yes. Very nice. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/32 "2010-05-25T08:35:12Z")
I used to really enjoy bubble gum Ice Cream in the Superman flavors. It had real chiclets of bubble gum impregnated in the ice cream. Wasn’t sherbert, definitely a milk based custard cream. Can’t remember the flavor of ice cream though, it was definitely overshadowed by the real “pink bubblegum” that was the “everlasting gobstopper” of the ice cream. Becasue even after the ice cream had been slowly licked away as you chewed on the frozen chiclets, slowly bringing them to temperature and the rubber gum to chewworth malleability, there were bubbles to be blown. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/33 "2010-05-25T11:38:36Z")
I think the whole idea of having lots and lots of ice-cream flavors is American. When I was a kid growing up in England there were only three flavors normally available: vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate. (You could also get blocks of Neapolitan, which had stripes of vanilla, chocolate and green pistachio.) They did various things like coating the ice-cream with chocolate (a choc-ice) or putting it inside an ice-lolly (a popsicle to you Yanks), but there were not other flavors of ice-cream as such. When they did start to introduce other flavors, it was sold as American Style ice-cream; so I think nearly all ice-cream flavors are American. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/34 "2010-05-25T12:16:39Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > I think the whole idea of having lots and lots of ice-cream flavors is American. When I was a kid growing up in England there were only three flavors normally available: vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate. (You could also get blocks of Neapolitan, which had stripes of vanilla, chocolate and green pistachio.) They did various things like coating the ice-cream with chocolate (a choc-ice) or putting it inside an ice-lolly (a popsicle to you Yanks), but there were not other flavors of ice-cream as such. When they did start to introduce other flavors, it was sold as American Style ice-cream; so I think nearly all ice-cream flavors are American. Neapolitan is strawberry, vanilla and chocolate – and, of course, you’re forgetting that great favourite of Cockney rhyming slang, Raspberry Ripple. When did you grow up in England? Even in the 70s, you could easily find other flavours: Mint Choc Chip, Rum ‘n’ Raisin and Tutti Frutti are ones I remember as being favourites, and available at the local supermarket. They weren’t sold as American Style, either. ---
**Author:** ![Promethea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/35 "2010-05-25T12:19:14Z")
It’s not unique to the USA of course, but Cinnamon as a flavour option in stuff like toothpaste etc is waaaaay more popular there than here in the UK. so I always think Cinnamon = USA. I _love_ Cinnamon so I always stock up like crazy whenever I visit the USA. Especially those cinnamon flavoured breath strips that Listerine make. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/36 "2010-05-25T12:24:50Z")
Blueberry Cranberry Maple ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/37 "2010-05-25T12:27:53Z")
Heath ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/38 "2010-05-25T12:34:47Z")
> [@PatriotGrrrl](#): > > Cranberry? Brits have it with their Christmas turkey. Swedes put the very similar Lingon with just about everything. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/39 "2010-05-25T12:35:58Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Root Beer. Arguably similar to the British Dandelion and Burdock. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635/40 "2010-05-25T15:22:05Z")
> [@Promethea](#): > > It’s not unique to the USA of course, but Cinnamon as a flavour option in stuff like toothpaste etc is waaaaay more popular there than here in the UK. so I always think Cinnamon = USA. > > I _love_ Cinnamon so I always stock up like crazy whenever I visit the USA. Especially those cinnamon flavoured breath strips that Listerine make. Cinnamon in the US is also different. It is actually _cassia_, as opposed to the true cinnamon used in England, Mexico, and much of the rest of the world. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/besides-butter-pecan-what-are-the-american-flavors/540635.md?page=3)