# Favorite Ice Cream from a grocery store **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 30, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436 "2003-05-30T02:27:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/41 "2003-06-01T03:46:03Z")
- - - I used to be addicted to Edy’s Snickers ice cream, but they went and cheapened it. The label says “Improved With More Candy!” but that’s BS: now Edy’s Snickers is just the same as another cheaper brand sold for almost half the price. The ingredients are not the same as they used to be: now there’s just “Snickers”-chocolate-covered peanuts instead of real chopped-up candy bars, and much less caramel mixed in. The cheapo stuff only has enough to color the vanilla ice cream brown–so you know it’s not supposed to be plain vanilla, but Edy’s used to have thick veins of the stuff swirled through it. And Edy’s is still priced the same as before! $4.50 for a quart, while the cheaper brand with the same ingredients is about $3.50 a _gallon_. I tried the cheaper brand once and found it lacking. And now knowing what it used to be, the current stuff just isn’t satisfying. I gave it up on principle, haven’t really bought much since. ~ ---
**Author:** ![macabresoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@macabresoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/macabresoul)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/42 "2003-06-01T04:02:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hokienautic \* > **Have you had their Chocolate Rainbow? Five different varieties of chocolate in a rainbow of subtle flavor differences. Mmmmm.** I am not much of a chocolate person, although that does sound good. I just like the plain old taste of the sugary sweet sherbert. It’s been my favorite since I was a wee one. Only dreyer’s carries sherbert at my grocery store… I hope it doesn’t become extinct! > [@](#): > > …Kaberry Kaboom (strawberry and blueberry swirled ice cream with white fudge covered pop rocks). That sounds like a diabetic coma waiting to waiting… But I’d be lieing to say I wasn’t salivating thinking about it! ---
**Author:** ![macabresoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@macabresoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/macabresoul)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/43 "2003-06-01T04:07:43Z")
waiting to **happen** \* ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/44 "2003-06-01T04:23:56Z")
I wish Ben & Jerry’s made Pumpkin Pie ice cream. They would blow everyone else’s version away! I’m partial to the Godiva ice creams (all of them), but I haven’t seen them around here lately. I can’t remember the exact names of the flavors, but there was a Chocolate Raspberry, a Chocolate Praline Truffle, and IIRC a Chocolate Hazelnut. They were all amazing. I’ll happily settle for B&J’s NY Super Fudge Chunk, though. (Can you tell I’m a chocoholic?) Eva Luna, 3rd-Generation Ice Cream Professional ---
**Author:** ![Grit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@Grit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grit)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/45 "2003-06-01T04:45:35Z")
My fondest memories of ice cream are sitting on the porch helping my father turn the crank on the ice cream maker, adding salt occasionally and carefully pouring off the water and adding more ice. Later I would pour Hershey’s Syrup out of the can onto the ice cream and stir it up into a dreamlike mixture. Heaven on earth as only a kid can experience. The only store bought ice cream I’ve ever had that comes close to that is Breyer’s Vanilla Fudge Twirl. So very close but still not the dream ☹ . ---
**Author:** ![Shana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Shana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shana)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/46 "2003-06-01T07:59:50Z")
I am hooked on the Godiva “Chocolate Raspberry”. That one just blows me away. However, now that I know that Haagen-Dazs makes a “Banana’s Foster” flavor I am going to HAVE to find it. I have a feeling that one is going to be incredibly good! Oh, and I abhor Starbucks coffee (bleck) as well, but their ice cream is nothing short of a miracle. Especially the “Mocha Almond Fudge” flavor with dark chocolate covered almonds. Mmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Honesty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f04885/32.png) [@Honesty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honesty)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/47 "2003-06-01T08:13:25Z")
I guess I am just boring but I enjoy \*\* Butter Pecan \*\*-- really doesn’t matter who makes it, it’s alwys sooo good. Good thing is that no one knows how good Butter Pecan is, so at my school, I can always pluck it from the school cafeteria while others grumble, “WHO TOOK THE LAST TRIPLE CARAMEL BUTTERFINGER CRUNCH FUDGE AND RASPBERRY EXPLOSION!!%!!” Heh, these ice cream names now a days really are terrible. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/48 "2003-06-01T10:07:58Z")
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the little chocolate fishes in Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food are repeating shordurpersavs for me. Hagen-daas dulce de leche would be up there, too, but it seems to do unpleasant things to my normally-steady system, so I’ve pretty much sworn it off. ---
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/49 "2003-06-01T11:42:21Z")
As a belgian, i’m flattered belgian chocolate scores so highly with so many people in this thread 🙂 Thanks! We use more cocoa butter, the _real_ cocoa, i mean, and less sugar. That’s why it tastes so yummy 🙂 My absolute favourite chocolate would be Cote D’or, the one with the small gold elephant as an emblem. My favourite ice cream, however, has to be B&J’s The Full Vermonty. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/50 "2003-06-01T11:50:49Z")
Despite the fact that hokey-pokey flavour is a beloved New Zealand icon of Kiwiana, I prefer passionfruit flavour first, followed by (a close second) boysenberry. If I saw yoghurt-flavoured ice cream around, I’d add that to the list – the creamy texture is heavenly. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/51 "2003-06-01T15:00:16Z")
I just bought a half-gallon of Great Value (Wal-Mart store brand) Chocolate Chip & Mint this morning. It’s wonderful stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Ally424](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/82dd89/32.png) [@Ally424](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ally424)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/52 "2003-06-01T15:04:02Z")
Rolo or Cherry Cheesecake icecream !! ---
**Author:** ![Fujerica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@Fujerica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fujerica)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/53 "2003-06-01T19:17:04Z")
I love just about any mint-chocolate ice creams out there… Edy’s ice cream is pretty darn good… it is marketed as “Dreyer’s” ice cream west of the Rockies Does anyone remember when Haagen Daaz had their Amaretto di Saranno flavour? OMG it was so fantastic… does anyone know of a smiliar flavour from ANY maufacturer? ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/54 "2003-06-01T20:14:46Z")
Bailey’s Haagen-Dazs. ummmmm-yummmy!! Big fan of their pecan-caramel one too, although I think they call it something different. Best actual ice-cream I’ve ever eaten was from a shop in Florence, near the Ponte Vecchio. Coffee, with real coffee beans and choclate in it, and peach made with proper peach pulp and studded with bits of skin. ---
**Author:** ![Aviator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Aviator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aviator)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/55 "2003-06-01T22:34:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DougC \* > \*\*- - - I used to be addicted to Edy’s Snickers ice cream, but they went and cheapened it. The label says “Improved With More Candy!” but that’s BS: now Edy’s Snickers is just the same as another cheaper brand sold for almost half the price. The ingredients are not the same as they used to be: now there’s just “Snickers”-chocolate-covered peanuts instead of real chopped-up candy bars, and much less caramel mixed in. > ~ \*\* I can tell you that the candy is still chopped up Snickers bars, and chocolate coated peanuts are not added as a separate ingredient … whatever peanuts you find came out of the candy bar. The chop size of the candy was changed from the very small size the product was originally formulated with, to the new larger size. This was done to address complaints about the original small size. So, larger size but added at the same rate (pounds per gallon) makes it look like less candy. It’s one of those damned if you do/don’t situations. ---
**Author:** ![hermann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b487fb/32.png) [@hermann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hermann)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/56 "2003-06-02T22:28:43Z")
Blue Bell Banana Split, especially when you get a slice of frozen banana in your spoonful. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/57 "2003-06-02T23:22:09Z")
I guess I’ll be the outcast here and just say that I’m not the biggest fan of ice cream. About the only kind I like is Cookies n’Cream. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/58 "2003-06-03T01:22:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Beadalin \* > \*\*Haagen Dazs just came out with this new line of dessert flavors, so on a whim I bought a pint of their Bananas Foster flavor. > > Oh. > > My. > > God. > > It was instant addiction. I took my first few bites on a Sunday morning, and by 3:00 that day the whole thing was gone. I could hear its siren call from the freezer all day. I couldn’t stop. It’s like eating cold, creamy bananas foster. And that is such an indescribably good thing. So yeah, I’m addicted, and I’ll probably turn into a size 800 because of it, but I won’t even mind. It’s that good. \*\* I’m a Hagen Daze guy from way back, but I’m not much for banana flavored anything. But after I read this post, I figured why not try it. Last night a friend and I split a pint. I wish we had another pint or two, because it is really GOOD! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![lillyflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@lillyflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lillyflower)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/59 "2003-06-03T01:42:40Z")
Ben and Jerry’s chocolate fudge brownie ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436/60 "2003-06-03T02:35:05Z")
I’m going to have to go with Hagen Daz Tiramisu Gelato. I’m also quite fond of Dreyer’s Dreamery Chocolate Truffle Explosion, and Ben and Jerry’s Bovinity Divinity. Moo. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-ice-cream-from-a-grocery-store/178436.md?page=4)