# Ice cream flavors, best, worst, and weirdest **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [January 8, 2023, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897 "2023-01-08T23:31:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/1 "2023-01-08T23:31:24Z")
That potato chip thread inspired me to start this one. Best: In recent years, Breyer’s Thin Mint ice cream. I was eating it out of the container, and realized it was going to make me sick if I took another bite. It was that good, and that’s why I haven’t purchased it since. In the distant past, we have a local dairy called Whitey’s that had Malted Moose Tracks briefly many years ago. That was every bit as good, and my figure thanks them for not continuing to make it commercially available. Worst: Can’t think of a really bad flavor right now, although Halo Top has a really weird texture. You also have to eat it right away or it gets a “skin” on it. It appears that they put something in it to increase its volume to make it appear low-calorie. Weirdest: I’ve never been to Japan, but I’ve heard that shrimp, garlic, wasabi, etc. are indeed available as ice cream flavors. ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/2 "2023-01-08T23:36:26Z")
Jalapeno ice cream was the worst I ever tried. Nasty! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/3 "2023-01-08T23:43:57Z")
Ben & Jerry’s has tried some flavors that didn’t work out so well. “Hot Chocolate” was chocolate ice cream with jalapeno peppers in it, and there was one flavor that had gummy worms in it. They hadn’t planned on the worms freezing rock-hard solid. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2023, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/4 "2023-01-08T23:49:35Z")
Dreyers had once – _once_ – Chilly Chili, vanilla with a mole ribbon and spicy Spanish peanuts. Alas, after a couple weeks when, I assume, the batch ran out it was never repeated. Worst was Yankee Doodle from a company I don’t remember. It was Neapolitan with blueberry replacing the chocolate so, red white and blue. It didn’t _taste_ bad but when it started melting the three colors would blend into a highly unappetizing magenta. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/5 "2023-01-09T00:10:08Z")
IMHO, the key to good ice cream is quality, not flavour, and the best purest ice cream flavour that can be appreciated for the undisguised quality of the actual ice cream is vanilla. In terms of mass-market availability, IMHO the best generally available vanilla ice cream is Haagen-Dazs, though I’m sure there are better ones that are homemade or in specialized markets. I would also acknowledge Haagen-Dazs strawberry ice cream as acceptable because vanilla ice cream and strawberries are a match made in heaven, but if strawberries are going to be involved I much prefer the ice cream to be pure vanilla with fresh strawberries on top. All other ice creams are an abomination. I have spoken. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/6 "2023-01-09T00:11:42Z")
I can give you a weirdest: [Tiger tail](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_tail_ice_cream). I could not persuade myself to try it. Orange + Licorice. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/7 "2023-01-09T00:38:56Z")
Grand Ole Creamery, an old fashioned ice cream shop in St. Paul has a flavor so basic that it is wonderful paired with just about anything. The flavor is cream. No flavors or fruits added. Honestly, it pairs with just about everything, including garlic, or licorice, or pesto. With cream flavor, I can add whatever I want provided it is available in local markets. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/8 "2023-01-09T00:39:52Z")
There’s another local ice cream shop, one that makes theirs on-site, that has a licorice-flavored ice cream. I had a sample, and it was good but I like black licorice anyway, but to me, it would work better as a topping than as a whole scoop. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/9 "2023-01-09T00:40:35Z")
Cold Stone Creamery, the chain, has Sweet Cream flavor. It, too is very good. ---
**Author:** ![CorpusNeptune](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corpusneptune/32/17561_2.png) [@CorpusNeptune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CorpusNeptune)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/10 "2023-01-09T00:42:12Z")
I love churro-flavoured ice cream from Trader Joe’s. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/11 "2023-01-09T00:53:29Z")
The next time I go to TJ’s, I’ll have to look for this! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/12 "2023-01-09T01:55:43Z")
This event was quite famous in northern California > **[Gilroy Garlic Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilroy_Garlic_Festival)** > > The Gilroy Garlic Festival was a food festival in the United States, held annually from 1979 to 2019 at Christmas Hill Park in Gilroy, California, on the last full weekend in July. After cancellation in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a drive-through festival was held on July 23–25 and 30–31 July and August 1, 2021. In April 2022, the Gilroy Garlic Festival Association announced the indefinite suspension of the traditional large-format festival, and that it would instead host smaller An annua... Sadly it was marred by a mass shooting in 2019 and cancellation for COVID in 2020 & sorta in 2021. So now it’s dead. But they had garlic ice cream. And garlic wine. Both are as bad as you’d expect them to be. And I say that as somebody who lurves him some garlic. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/13 "2023-01-09T01:57:56Z")
Anybody on the SDMB tried squid ink ice cream? I’ve always been very curious about that. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/14 "2023-01-09T02:33:53Z")
Blue Bell had Little Debbie Oatmeal patty IC for a short spell. They tweaked the vanilla flavor slightly to be closer to the creme filling and tossed in chunks of oatmeal. Yum! Hopefully they’ll have it back in stores soon; I think they’re testing regional response. Come on, BB, I’m only one man! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/15 "2023-01-09T02:37:43Z")
Publix, a company with good generics, had a chocolate peanut butter ice cream, a good flavor (in theory). It was so vile we couldn’t ingest it, or convince any of our pets to. Garbage. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/16 "2023-01-09T02:37:53Z")
I love Red Button Licorice ice cream. > **[Packaging — Red Button Vintage Creamery](http://www.redbuttoncreamery.com/flavors/#itemId=558996a8e4b09503829b3d04)** ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/17 "2023-01-09T03:18:53Z")
Was it perhaps sugar-free? ---
**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/18 "2023-01-09T03:42:28Z")
I used to love the licorice ice cream at Rummel’s in Waterville, ME. ---
**Author:** ![am77494](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@am77494](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/am77494)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/19 "2023-01-09T03:56:22Z")
Well not exactly ice-cream, but in India we have something called kulfi. There are many flavors, but essentially it’s thickened milk, mixed with flavorings , fruits, nuts etc etc, and then frozen. One of the most interesting is Bhang Kulfi or marijuana kulfi! ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/20 "2023-01-09T03:57:45Z")
IIRC it comes in pistachio and rose. I am crazy for rose flavored sweets. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897.md?page=2)