# Neapolitan ice cream: what do you eat? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neapolitan-ice-cream-what-do-you-eat/620096 "2012-04-27T02:34:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neapolitan-ice-cream-what-do-you-eat/620096/41 "2012-04-28T04:44:53Z")
Although I voted for chocolate and vanilla, I would never actually buy Neapolitan, and if I were someplace where it was offered as a refreshment, I would politely decline. The chocolate and vanilla portions were hopelessly contaminated before they even made it to the retailer just by virtue of being in the same container with that vile pink substance. Don’t get me wrong. I love strawberries. But that stuff bears absolutely no resemblance–not in flavor, not in appearance. I don’t know why labeling it as strawberry isn’t considered false advertising. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neapolitan-ice-cream-what-do-you-eat/620096/42 "2012-04-28T18:21:08Z")
Buying Neapolitan ice cream always seemed like someone was trying to make everybody happy and not succeeding in making anybody happy. I love strawberries but that artificial crappy strawberry flavor in Neapolitan tastes like bad perfume in a frozen form. ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neapolitan-ice-cream-what-do-you-eat/620096/43 "2012-04-28T19:09:22Z")
I’d eat the chocolate and strawberry first (assuming it’s a good ice cream with real strawberries). Save the vanilla for last, and load it up with toppings. Like chocolate syrup and strawberries. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neapolitan-ice-cream-what-do-you-eat/620096/44 "2012-04-28T19:27:19Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > All of them at the same time. Scoop right across the carton, then, when it in the bowl, stir it until it’s a uniform grey-brown color and eat it. I have done it this way since I was a child. Yes! It turns the most distressingly gross non-food color when you mix it all up, and doesn’t taste like anything in nature, but it’s the only way to eat it. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neapolitan-ice-cream-what-do-you-eat/620096/45 "2012-04-28T19:54:59Z")
> [@Dr.Woo](#): > > I’d eat 'em all. But separately. If I didn’t have a knife to separate them, I’d pass. I like all three flavors, but not _together_. Veeeeery interesting. Now tell me about your mother. 😉 ---
**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:** [April 28, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neapolitan-ice-cream-what-do-you-eat/620096/46 "2012-04-28T20:25:40Z")
My preference, in order, is vanilla, chocolate, and then somewhere way down, strawberry. Strawberry ice cream just never did it for me, though I love good fresh strawberries. I’d actually prefer a bowl of strawberries or a hot filling of strawberries and sugar with a scoop of vanilla ice cream to strawberry ice cream. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neapolitan-ice-cream-what-do-you-eat/620096/47 "2012-04-28T20:26:55Z")
> [@Spectralist](#): > > All of them. But not at the same time. I’ll mix the chocolate and vanilla or the strawberry and vanilla but not the chocolate and the strawberry. Oddly enough, of the combinations, it’s chocolate and strawberry I like the best. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neapolitan-ice-cream-what-do-you-eat/620096/48 "2012-04-28T20:49:36Z")
One word: Spumoni. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neapolitan-ice-cream-what-do-you-eat/620096/49 "2012-04-28T21:30:15Z")
All of them when I ate Neapolitan, which I haven’t in quite a few years since I realized that they were pretty low-quality versions of the flavours, compared to getting a carton of straight-up chocolate, vanilla or strawberry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neapolitan-ice-cream-what-do-you-eat/620096.md?page=2)