Well for me, it’s got to be Ben & Jerry’s. They have it all. The best texture, the wildest flavors, and chock full of yummy stuff to crunch on.
Long live Ben & Jerry !!!
Dryer’s Dreamery has recently come out and they have some funky flavors.
Haagen Daz, Rum Raisin! Yummmmmmmmmmm!
<< peeking out of closet >>
Tofutti.
<< ducking back inside closet and holding door shut from the inside >>
Turkey Hill’s Chocholate Mint Chip (less chip than shavings)
and Death by Chocolate.
Ben & Jerry’s Wavy Gravy. Once drove from New Hampshire’s Lake Winnapesaukee to Burlington Vermont to stop at Ben & Jerry’s factory. That’s the longest I drove for ice cream.
Schwann’s Strawberry Ice Cream.
The best ice cream is Godiva.
raspberry cheese louise.
Dolly Madison Black Cherry…
ColdStone cheesecake (or chocolate); add whatever you like.
Hey aenea. Being the quiet, sober and reserved sort of chap I am, I didn’t draw any kind of connection with this thread and another one whose name…….i can’t remember.
Wait a minute, it’s here in my head, hang on, tip of my tongue. Damn, what was that…. I’ll remember in a minute, after the anything chocolate ice cream.
Never been able to understand why Cheech and Chong never diversified into ice cream. Well, I probably do.
ROFTL 
Umpqua Ice Cream from Rice Hill, Oregon, is pretty tasty.
Breyer’s Vanilla. No question.
They list the ingredients in huge letters on the top of the container – no artificial flavors, emulsifiers, no carageenan gum or guar gum or anything that sounds remotely like a chemical. And it tastes the way vanilla should.
The homemade stuff from roadside stands in Maine.
Especially those odd New England flavors that you can’t get down here in NYC, and that Haagen Daz would never think of manufacturing in thousand-ton lots. Maple Walnut. Black Raspberry.
I don’t like shit floating in my ice cream any more than I like it in my Jello. Plain smooth flavors are the best, ergo the fancy overpriced shit listed here can melt on the store shelves.
The best for my money is the homemade stuff. Specifically the stuff made at a pizza/ice cream shoppe down the road from me, the Banana flavor is to die for.
Baskin-Robbins Pralines ‘n’ Cream
I’m biased, since I worked at BR31 off and on for several years during high school, summers, and between college semesters. I’ve never had a store brand as good as Baskin Robbins.
Of widely available brands, Ben & Jerry’s and Bryer’s Dreamery. Dreamery has a Mad About Malt that is pure sin in a carton.
The carriage-trade and local varieties can be wonderful. But for commonly known names, B&J and Dreamery are great.
(Oh, and London Calling? You are one sly, dry, funny sucker.)
Veb
My favorite ice cream flavor is Pink Peppermint – which is only available during the Christmas season. One of the reasons this atheist loves Christmas…
During the rest of the year, I like Hagan Daas Dulce de Leche. Good stuff and it reminds me of my favorite musical.
::singing:: If I were a bell I’d go ding-dong, ding-dong, diiiiing!
Jess
My favorite is also the cheapest.
Thrifty, which had a drugstore chain here recently bought out by RiteAide.
They were an icecream stand long before, and still sell cones in the drugstore, in lots of flavors, a modern rarity for the drugstore. Takes you back to the old Woolworth lunch counter days.
The very best icecream, and I buy it by the 2-1/2 gallon economy size.
<<in a tiny voice, awaiting the inevitable newbie flame>>
Blue Bell Vanilla. From Brenham, Texas. No contest.
As the advertisements say (paraphrase), “Why does Blue Bell taste so good? Because the cows think Brenham is Heaven.”
YUM!
<<crawls back into hole>>