# ice cream sundae variations **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 9, 2005, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-sundae-variations/283882 "2005-01-09T14:12:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2005, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-sundae-variations/283882/1 "2005-01-09T14:12:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-sundae-variations/283882/2 "2005-01-11T02:09:58Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-sundae-variations/283882/3 "2005-01-11T02:18:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-sundae-variations/283882/4 "2005-01-11T02:28:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-sundae-variations/283882/5 "2005-01-11T03:08:50Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > 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. Yeah, when I said I was ‘taken aback’, I really meant ‘grossed out’, but I didn’t want to seem narrow-minded. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-sundae-variations/283882/6 "2005-01-11T03:10:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-sundae-variations/283882/7 "2005-01-11T03:34:28Z")
> [@lorene](#): > > 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. Yeah, like chocolate-dipped strawberries…mmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-sundae-variations/283882/8 "2005-01-11T06:13:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-sundae-variations/283882/9 "2005-01-11T08:51:15Z")
Softened vanilla blended with smashed saltines. YUM.