It’s now called “low-fat ice cream”. The labeling rules were apparently changed in 1994.
“I’ll have wintergreen.”
“Unflavored for me!”
Thomas Sweet in Princeton (and New Brunswick) NJ has been making Sweet Cream ice cream for a long time – probably since they opened in 1979. Certainly since before 1989 (Cold Stone goes back to 1988)
On a side note, has anyone ever seen wintergreen ice cream for sale of is it just an invention of the Simpsons writers? Peppermint is one of my favorite flavors and wintergreen ice cream actually sounds appetizing to me.
I did a quick search and only saw recipes for homemade wintergreen but no retail sales. Must not be a very popular flavor. I hate peppermint, but would try wintergreen.
Both of those require an ice cream maker – and if you don’t have them they can go for for fifty bucks at LEAST. Pretty expensive just to satisfy one’s curiosity.
Better yet just buy an ice cream store. Then any extra you make you can sell.
“Sweet Cream” ice cream shows up on the flavor lists of a couple of local Boston Area ice cream shops from time to time (or maybe more often, I don’t really pay attention.) I find it super boring. I’d rather eat whipped cream with a spoon, and even then, the whipped cream would be better with a dab of good vanilla extract whipped in. 