Butter Pecan is an acceptable substitute when Maple Walnut cannot be had. It lacks the violent walnut flavor, though.
I used to think I had favorites, but as I’ve grown older and have a larger sample size to work with, I realize I just go through phases and like a bunch of different ice cream treats.
When I was younger, I loved mint chocolate chip sugar cones. Then I discovered Blizzards at Dairy Queen. Later, I found a place called Bruster’s and with it, the world’s best chocolate-chip cookie-dough. For awhile, I was on a Klondike kick: Heath bar flavored, then just plain old vanilla. Now, I’m loving, of all things, Wal-Mart store-brand chocolate.
I think if I *had *to pick one thing it would be tough to top Bruster’s chocolate-chip cookie-dough, but I think chocolate malts have it beat. Nothing better. The malt is like a chocolate intensifier, and I could drink the stuff until it came out my ears. I can’t have gluten anymore though, so I can’t have malts. Of course, I can’t have the chocolate-chip cookie-dough either. Ain’t that a bitch?
A good story about butter pecan…
When I was growing up (and my mother before me), my grandfather always had a pack of butter pecam in the freezer. Years later, my uncles and I were reminiscing, and realized that we hadn’t seen butter pecan in stores for a long time (it’s less common in California). We went and checked a couple supermarkets and eventually found some, so we brought it to bring home for my grandfather. We thought he’d be delighted to see his favorite flavor.
When he got it, he chuckled. It turns out he only bought it because he figured it was the flavor that the kids were least likely to get into.
Really my all time favorite ice cream is a Klondike bar. I often rather have that then a bowl of ice cream. I like both. Depends on my mood.
I have never liked mint anything. As I have grown older, the simple tastes take precedence.
That is why I asked the question in this thread.
(No - I do not want a Smurf Berry covered ice cream cone with sparkly sprinkles that light up the night sky when one bites into them …even if it is free…)
Dreyer’s (Edy’s) French Silk: holy shit, is that stuff addictive.
Salted Caramel
You bite your tongue! If you’re eating IC, you’re still a kid. (Rum raisin is too adventurous for me!)
And superb butter pecan story! +1
Favorite flavor: peppermint
Runners Up: coffee/jamoca, banana, chocolate-banana. huckleberry, red hot cinnamon, cherry-chocolate
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Beware of Breyers! They have adulterated so many of their products that they are not even allowed to call them ice cream anymore. Read the labels carefully. They are placing these concoctions they call frozen dairy dessert right next to the few real ice cream products that they have not yet modified. With nearly identical packages you might not even know the difference till you taste it. Then you will know the difference immediately. It’s terrible.
Here is alink discussing the issue.
But to address the OP, my favorite flavor of ice cream is Coffee. I like to add it to my actual cup of coffee in the morning for a smooth rich flavor. Sadly, Breyers no longer makes real coffee ice cream. Evil bastards!
My favorite ice cream treat is a slab of vanilla ice cream with a banana sliced lengthwise and hot fudge sauce. There must be a perfect ratio of ice cream to banana.
Amaretto cherry cordial or green tea ice cream.
I’m not an old man, but butter pecan and rum raisin are two of my favorites. A recent find is Hazgen Dazs Banana Rum Jam. And I will never get tired of good vanilla ice cream with caramel sauce.
Ice Cream flavor. I don’t care. I’m having it!
Don’t know if they still have it, but I loved Daiquiri Ice, and Licorice when they had it for Halloween. Used to make my lips and tongue black.
Breyers used to be good. For years, one of their selling points was their ice cream was only made cream, sugar, and all natural flavoring. Then Unilever bought them out and began cutting corners on the ingredients so that now their “ice cream” seems like something concocted in a chemistry lab.
Mint, with or without chocolate chips.
Cookies and Cream - THE BEST I ever had was most definitely Pine State when I was a wee one. Gawd, that was a sad beyond sad day when that little North Carolina creamery shut down and faded into oblivion. And you know you’re a North Carolinian when you remember, and forever so, the sheer wonder that was Pine State ice cream, some of the smoothest and creamiest ice cream EVER made. Although, Blue Bunny has come the damn closest to duplicating the Pine State magic…their Mint Chocolate Chip and Vanilla are among the creamiest I’ve recently had. Really and seriously need to try their Cookies and Cream.
Vanilla - Honestly can’t choose between the aforementioned Blue Bunny, Breyers Vanilla, and Edy’s Vanilla Bean…all three are deadly delicious.
Cookie Dough - It’s all good, but my current top candidate is Ben and Jerry’s The Tonight Dough…has the one-two KO of chocolate chip cookie dough AND peanut butter cookie dough, complete with being mixed into Rocky Road-esque vanilla/chocolate combo ice cream. Oh baby, to put it very, VERY mildly.
Cherry flavored ice cream with big chunks of cherry (black and red, IIRC) and a dash of rum. Similar in taste to rum raisin (I ate a carton of that last week), but with strong cherry overtones.
They had it at Bridgeman’s in MPS/StP, but I haven’t lived there for more than 20 years, and I don’t know if the restaurants are even still there. Back in the day, I loved ordering rum cherry sundaes smothered in cherry syrup and whipped cream with (of course) a cherry on top!
Sticky Chewy Chocolate at Swensen’s (which BTW, despite the San Francisco origins and decorations, I was surprised to learn not too long ago has become a Canadian company).
I’m with you. Same goes for flavoured coffee and potato chips…seriously if I wanted steak flavoured anything, I’d eat a steak!
I tend to stick with the old fashioned chocolate, strawberry and vanilla but my favourite from my childhood has always been orange pineapple. It was always a big treat to go to the ice cream shop in the Public Gardens in Halifax and get one. Never thought about it for years but happened upon it one day a few years ago and now every time I go back home that’s what I order. Still tastes as good…often childhood memories are spoiled when you try them again as an adult but not orange pineapple.
There is an italian ice cream parlour here, that does lemon-mint and lemon-basil ice cream. They’re both heavenly!
I made a batch of ice cream myself today: chili-ginger-lemongras. It turned out quite nice, if I say so myself. I am aware though, that it’s a very love-it-or-hate-it flavour. 