# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/101 "2023-01-10T02:14:11Z")
I miss Blue Moon ice cream. I’ve never seen it here in Tucson. I must patriotically plump for the excellent ice cream that is [Babcock Hall ice cream](https://babcockdairystore.wisc.edu/product-category/scoop-ice-cream/). ---
**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 10, 2023, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/102 "2023-01-10T03:45:36Z")
There is a resemblance. One of the alternate names of the plant, itself, is “American Wintergreen”. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/103 "2023-01-10T13:20:00Z")
The absolute best ice cream I ever had was a scoop of vanilla. An older woman got dropped off at Friar’s Bay Beach in St Martin. She had a big cooler and a card table. We watched her set up. She hand cranked an ice cream churn, making vanilla with fresh gooey vanilla beans. She had no sign. We eventually walked over and asked how much she charged, but she spoke no English. I held out a five dollar bill and she gave us each a dish. I offered another five but she turned it down. She quickly sold out, leaving a dozen people wanting, then cleaned and packed up her stuff. When we got our beach gear together, she pointed to our car and her stuff and we worked out that she wanted a ride. We took her home to Marigot. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/104 "2023-01-10T16:45:59Z")
In Canada, at least in these parts (Edmonton) it is an almost standard flavour. Very tasty. I seem to remember it used to also have white (vanilla) streaks in it, but I haven’t see that for awhile. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/105 "2023-01-10T17:01:47Z")
Most of the flavors from Lopez Island Creamery, located in Anacortes, Washington. It’s the brand served at most of the high end restaurants in Western Washington. Even their plain ol’ vanilla is a treat. My favorites are their blackberry and blueberry flavors. I find most everything from Blue Bunny to be barely edible. The weirdest was a huckleberry champagne at a place near Glacier National Park in Montana. Not great, not bad, just weird. ---
**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 10, 2023, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/106 "2023-01-10T21:10:58Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > I find most everything from Blue Bunny to be barely edible I second this. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/107 "2023-01-10T22:02:19Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Ice milk was one of the earlier “diet” ice cream concoctions in the 90s. I can remember ice milk from the 60s. It’s been around for ages, and, yeah, I always thought of it as cheap ice cream, not dietetic ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/108 "2023-01-10T22:07:18Z")
I remember ice milk as a “diet” option in the 90s because my parents were heavily into Weight Watchers at the time. It was actively promoted as a “low point snack” for people using their system of counting points instead of calories. I hadn’t heard of it prior to that, but I had parents that needed Weight Watchers. 😉 Ice milk is ice cream with less fat and more air. Cheap ice cream is ice cream with less fat and more air. In the end, it’s all marketing. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/109 "2023-01-10T22:10:05Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > I remember ice milk as a “diet” option in the 90s because my parents were heavily into Weight Watchers at the time Well, yea. WW jumped on a lot of bandwagons. ---
**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 10, 2023, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/110 "2023-01-10T23:02:13Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > > [@racer72](#): > > > > I find most everything from Blue Bunny to be barely edible > > I second this. I third it. I don’t like many major brands, usually because of all the air they whip into their ice cream and the additional, unnecessary sugar that is added. Haagan Dazs, some Ben & Jerry’s and one Tillamook flavor excepted. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/111 "2023-01-10T23:27:58Z")
I like Blue Bunny, and wish we could get Blue Bell in my area. Someone on another website started a thread that said “This ice cream tastes like ass!” which of course led to jokes about whether it was made with donkey milk, and she did leave enough clues that I was able to figure out that she was talking about Arctic Zero, which is 150 calories a pint. Never tried it myself. Does anyone remember this story from late 2014? Yeah, some people were also joking that we should put some Ben & Jerry’s on a ship and send it to west Africa, but the story was this: One of the American aid workers who got Ebola had regained the ability to keep solid food down, but not his appetite, and they were going to put in a feeding tube if he couldn’t eat at least 1,000 calories a day. This solved the problem, because a pint of Ben & Jerry’s contains about 1,100 calories. > **[Hospital Uses Ben & Jerry's Secret Ebola Cure](https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/hospital-uses-ben-jerrys-secret-ebola-cure-n202381)** > > Doctors treating Ebola patient Dr. Rick Sacra may have stumbled on the cure for him — Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/112 "2023-01-11T00:34:20Z")
I can’t get behind dough or cheesecake in Ben and Jerrys flavors. It just seems like the wrong venue and a distraction. Also hate it when they put the oreo style filling into a cookies and cream. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/113 "2023-01-11T00:49:14Z")
I’d just love to find a nice spumoni. I don’t remember the last time I saw it anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Capn\_Carl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/114 "2023-01-11T01:12:24Z")
Wife makes my 2 favorite flavors. She gets recipes from magazines, then tweaks them to perfection. Her chocolate has a fair amount of malt in it, and we’ve enjoyed it for decades. A year ago she began fine tuning a raspberry flavor that she dribbles melted dark chocolate into while the ice cream is stirring. It’s wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/115 "2023-01-12T14:47:16Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I’d just love to find a nice spumoni. I don’t remember the last time I saw it anywhere. My Italian grandma always had spumoni in here freezer. I hated it when I was a kid. I doubt if I’d like it much more now. Didn’t it have rubbery fruit pieces and nuts? Was it green? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/116 "2023-01-12T15:43:48Z")
It has nuts, fruit and is tri-coloured. [Mmmm, Spumoni](https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload/f_jpg,q_auto:eco,c_fill,g_auto,w_1500,ar_1:1/k%2FPhoto%2FRecipe%20Ramp%20Up%2F2022-01-Spumoni%2Fkitchn_deckitchn_dec4447-1). ---
**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 12, 2023, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/117 "2023-01-12T20:47:37Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > Was it green? Green only is pistachio. Spumoni is pink, green, and white with nuts and sometimes candied fruits. Drats, @Ike_Witt for the win. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/118 "2023-01-16T15:16:34Z")
Ok - now I remember. What does the ice cream part taste like? ---
**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 16, 2023, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/119 "2023-01-16T15:21:15Z")
The green ice cream is pistachio -flavored. The white is vanilla-flavored. And the red/pink is cherry. Once in a while brown/chocolate ice cream is substituted for the white/vanilla. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897/120 "2023-01-16T15:28:16Z")
In my experience, the chocolate version is much more usual than the vanilla one, but I know this is a regional thing. I could swear I just saw a chart of what three (or sometimes more) flavors are in spumoni based on where you’re at, but I can’t seem to find it anymore. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-flavors-best-worst-and-weirdest/977897.md?page=7)