# Does anyone sell non-vanilla plain ice cream?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 17, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036 "2015-01-17T01:25:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/1 "2015-01-17T01:25:17Z")
That is, ice cream made only from milk, cream, sugar and eggs? It strikes me that I’ve never seen a plain ice cream without vanilla before. Seems odd that there doesn’t seem to exist any non-vanilla version of plain ice cream. Has anyone seen it?
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### Author:  [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/2 "2015-01-17T01:29:36Z")
I’ve seen it at Coldstone Creamery - I think they call it sweet cream or something.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/3 "2015-01-17T01:35:34Z")
I’ve seen Sweet Cream at Coldstone and other ice cream shops. I personally really like it.
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### Author:  [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/4 "2015-01-17T02:49:07Z")
Coldstone has Sweet Cream (says the ex-Coldstone manager) but if you buy it from them be prepared to spend a crapload of money on it.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/5 "2015-01-17T02:55:30Z")
Why not make it yourself? use any standard vanilla ice cream recipe. Don’t add the teaspoon of vanilla.
It would be an interesting experiment.
heres a no cook receipe. (no eggs in it) its just heavy whipping cream, half-and-half cream and sugar
[http://allrecipes.com/recipe/vanilla-ice-cream-2/](http://allrecipes.com/recipe/vanilla-ice-cream-2/)
Alton brown’s has eggs. I think they are needed to give non-vanilla ice cream some flavor.
> **[Vanilla Ice Cream](https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/vanilla-ice-cream-recipe-1916246)**
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> Get Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe from Food Network
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### Author:  [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/6 "2015-01-17T03:00:53Z")
Here ya go
[http://www.mcconnells.com/sweet-cream-pint/](http://www.mcconnells.com/sweet-cream-pint/)
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/7 "2015-01-17T03:03:16Z")
With Alton Brown’s version use regular sugar and not vanilla sugar. for non-vanilla ice cream.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/8 "2015-01-17T03:07:53Z")
Granted, this was 35 years ago, but they had it at Baskin-Robbins when I worked there. It wasn’t sold by the scoop, however; it was used for some of their decorated cakes.
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### Author:  [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/9 "2015-01-17T04:14:38Z")
Excellent new flavor-name
“Plain”
😃
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### Author:  [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_Hey_Paula)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/10 "2015-01-17T04:22:40Z")
> [@April\_R](#):
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> Here ya go
> [http://www.mcconnells.com/sweet-cream-pint/](http://www.mcconnells.com/sweet-cream-pint/)
Oh man, one of the few things I really miss about living in Santa Barbara (I moved away in the mid-80’s) is going to the McConnell’s Ice Cream shop. ☹
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/11 "2015-01-17T07:45:37Z")
Boulder Ice Cream is another company that sells [Sweet Cream](http://bouldericecream.com/famous-sweet-cream/).
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/12 "2015-01-17T13:43:42Z")
Nuthin’
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/13 "2015-01-17T14:46:56Z")
Italian-style gelato places often have a non-vanilla plain flavor.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/14 "2015-01-17T16:36:25Z")
The _reason_ vanilla is treated as if it meant plain is that (for the most part, and I’m drawing upon homemade ice cream recipes) the other flavors generally also have vanilla in them; hence vanilla is not something you only put in vanilla ice cream, it’s in raspberry and chocolate and dulce de leche and blueberry and so on and so forth.
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### Author:  [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2015, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/15 "2015-01-18T23:48:29Z")
There’s a coffee creamer in Coldstone’s Sweet Cream flavor. It’s pretty good (if you’re not some sort of coffee purist snob anyway). I didn’t think the icecream described in the OP sounded very good, but may have to go to a Coldstone some time to try it, since the creamer is good.
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### Author:  [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2015, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/16 "2015-01-20T06:52:25Z")
There is an unflavored “ice cream base” available from most dairies, in liquid form that many shops use to create their own custom flavors. Or at least it existed in the 70s when my family had a soft-serve ice cream truck.
This is probably useless to you unless you have a soft-serve mixer and need to make at least a gallon at a time (if I remember correctly, the size of the bag.)
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/17 "2015-01-20T17:06:18Z")
“Sweet Cream” is also available from Austin’s most prestigious ice cream chain, Amy’s.
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### Author:  [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/18 "2015-01-20T17:19:08Z")
Cornish ice cream from Cornwall.
> **[Cornish ice cream](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_ice_cream)**
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> Cornish ice cream is a form of ice cream first made in Cornwall, England. It is made with Cornish clotted cream, and may be made with sorbet. Today, it is still produced using milk from many farms in Cornwall, although Cornish ice cream (and brands of Cornish ice cream) are sold in supermarkets all over the United Kingdom. It may be made with regular ice cream and vanilla essence. Some companies of Cornwall, such as a company in East Looe, claim to make Cornish ice cream using only Cornish mil
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### Author:  [@May\_20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/May_20)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/19 "2015-01-20T18:27:05Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> Why not make it yourself? use any standard vanilla ice cream recipe. Don’t add the teaspoon of vanilla.
My aunt did that one summer. After the initial surprise (because leaving out the vanilla was a mistake), we kids were amazed that it tasted so good.
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### Author:  [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-sell-non-vanilla-plain-ice-cream/710036/20 "2015-01-20T19:23:46Z")
What ever happened to “ice milk”? Used to be sold alongside ice cream, but I haven’t seen it for a long time.
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