ice cream sundae variations

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1

I am used to the following ingredients in an ice cream sundae:
ice cream
warm sauce (hot fudge, caramel, butterscotch, a fruit sauce if you absolutely must
whipped cream or marshmallow
nuts (optional)
marachino cherry on top

My daughter is watching a Teletubbies video as I type this. It just had a segment about ice cream sundaes which featured 2 children with British accents. Their ice cream sundaes contained:
ice cream
Jello
some type of red, runny sauce squeezed from a tube (jelly perhaps?)
sprinkles (looked like colored sugar to me, the kind you decorate cookies with)
a grape on top

Can this be true? What other ice cream sundae variations am I not aware of, due to my sheltered American ways? I have to say, I was pretty taken aback.

2

It’s not a sundae, but I adore orange sherbet with chocolate sprinkles. Mr. Rilch thinks this is bizarre. Even when I found a brand of sherbet that already has chocolate bits in it, he still wasn’t swayed.

3

Jello? On ice cream? I can’t see that working; the textures just wouldn’t come together. The grape’s a bad idea too; not sweet enough and its flavor would be lost next to the other ingredients.

I don’t know what the red sauce is so I can’t say on that. Strawbery or rasberry jam are both good on sundaes, so it it’s one of them, go for it. Sprinkles are also good.

Here’s a good topping I like: walnuts in corn syrup.

4

I’m allergic to most tree nuts, so my nutty toppings on a sundae must be confined to peanuts.

Warm butterscotch topping over chocolate ice cream is just da bomb, although most sundaes seem to be made from vanilla ice cream, which I loathe, and when it is the only flavor available, I obscure the taste with much hot fudge.

Strawberry jam, duly warmed, over chocolate ice cream, is also quite yummy.

I’ve always regarded the whipped cream and cherry as optional, unless I’m having a banana split.

5

Yeah, when I said I was ‘taken aback’, I really meant ‘grossed out’, but I didn’t want to seem narrow-minded.

6

Oh, and Rilchiam , when we were little, my sister used to loooove lime sherbet with chocolate sauce. Fruit and chocolate isn’t a bad mix, really.

7

Yeah, like chocolate-dipped strawberries…mmmmm…

8

I’m a sucker for a sundae made with soft serve vanilla ice cream, chocolate hard shell, hot fudge, pecans or almonds, and whipped cream. I’ve also been known to have regular ice cream (in whatever flavor catches my fancy, usually some kind of chocolate) with hot fudge and crumbled waffle cone.

9

Softened vanilla blended with smashed saltines.

YUM.