# Chocolate Vs. Vanilla **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 5, 2006, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094 "2006-02-05T10:47:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/1 "2006-02-05T10:47:11Z")
Chocolate shake or vanilla? Chocolate ice cream or vanilla? For me - Chocolate shake. Vanilla ice cream…with toppings that may include chocolate. (Strawberry fans, stay away!) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/2 "2006-02-05T11:45:41Z")
I can go either way, depending on mood at moment. If somebody were to follow me around and talk into their sleeve every time I made a choice, I suspect the tally would go something like: Chocolate 60% Vanilla 40% But then you’d have to factor in the other stuff (nuts, fruit, other subsidiary flavors) that was in there along with the basics. How do you count Rocky Road, Heavenly Hash, Moose Tracks, Turtles, etc? ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/3 "2006-02-05T11:59:50Z")
Chocolate 75% Vanilla 15% Mixture of the two 10% When I was in high school, one of the objects of my affections would always drink two cartons of milk at the same time…one chocolate, one white, straw in each, sucking them up together. When I asked, he said the chocolate was too chocolatey and the white was too white. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/4 "2006-02-05T12:38:29Z")
Chocolate. Period. End of discussion. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/5 "2006-02-05T14:41:37Z")
vanilla shake (no shake because it gives me ice cream headache) vanilla ice cream–but NEVER plain–choc topping, and nuts, please. as for baked goods: chocolate all the way. Accept no substitutes. We don’t mention fruity desserts–there is no purpose for them on Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/6 "2006-02-05T14:44:55Z")
If those are the only two choices, Vanilla. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/7 "2006-02-05T15:46:43Z")
Chocolate shake Chocolate ice cream with chocolate sprinkles and hot fudge and maybe some peanuts (not walnuts) if they’re available. I’m a chocoholic. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/8 "2006-02-05T17:19:51Z")
Chocolate shake. Vanilla ice cream, loaded with toppings. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/9 "2006-02-05T17:25:45Z")
Once you go cocoa, eating vanilla seems loco. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/10 "2006-02-05T17:26:34Z")
Vanilla for just about anything where there’s a traditional dichotomy. However, I don’t think anyone would try to come up with a vanilla-and-caramel candy bar, or a vanilla-and-fondant-cream easter egg. (My two chocolate weaknesses.) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/11 "2006-02-05T17:31:26Z")
In all things non-ice cream, the answer is chocolate. However, chocolate ice cream is nasty, nasty, nasty.\* So to answer your questions, vanilla to both. \*Wanna know one of the reasons my wife and I make such a good team? She feels that way about vanilla ice cream. Since ice cream cake is almost always 1/2 chocolate and 1/2 vanilla, we each simply eat “the good half”, and then swap plates. ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/12 "2006-02-05T18:20:46Z")
Ice cream is ruled by Chocolate in the kingdom of my mind. It doesn’t matter what format - shake, ice cream cone, cup, soft serve - when I have ice cream, it will almost always be chocolate. Vanilla is a flavor I prefer with warm creamy desserts. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/13 "2006-02-05T18:34:27Z")
Chocolate shake, chocolate ice cream. Vanilla ice cream with chocolate cake or brownies. It’s a nice contrast. StG ---
**Author:** ![Tamryne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tamryne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamryne)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/14 "2006-02-05T19:04:00Z")
Chocolate shake (with m&m’s preferably) Vanilla Ice cream. Plain is fine, or with walnuts. After working at an ice cream store, you tend to be set in your preferences 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jmac755](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@jmac755](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmac755)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/15 "2006-02-05T19:13:38Z")
i thought this thread might be about the future of nola for which we need at least chocolate-vanilla swirl, if not more than neopolitan. since it’s not. chocolate shakes vanilla ice cream cheers, ---
**Author:** ![Dusty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Dusty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dusty)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/16 "2006-02-05T19:43:43Z")
Vanilla for both. In ice cream form, I sometimes like it with caramel. Almonds can be good too. I like white chocolate, but I don’t care for chocolate-chocolate much at all. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/17 "2006-02-05T20:07:29Z")
When I was younger it was all chocolate, all the time. Now that I’m older I’ve really grown to appreciate the subtle, sublime flavor of good vanilla and find chocolate too overpowering. (this is for ice cream, BTW, it makes no sense but my mild lactose intolerance is bothered more by shakes than by ice cream) ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/18 "2006-02-05T20:27:39Z")
Chocolate. The darker the better. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/19 "2006-02-05T20:33:59Z")
I loooove chocolate anything, but if I can get my Angel Food Homemade Vanilla brand ice cream on sale I’ll take that please. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-vs-vanilla/343094/20 "2006-02-05T20:40:32Z")
Vanilla’s good once in a while, but I prefer kinks. Er. Chocolate. With extra chocolate. And chocolate chunks. And chocolate syrup. And brownies. And hot fudge. With M&Ms.