# What ever happened to cherry-flavored dip for ice cream cones? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 28, 2015, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-cherry-flavored-dip-for-ice-cream-cones/729142 "2015-08-28T05:27:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-cherry-flavored-dip-for-ice-cream-cones/729142/21 "2015-08-29T04:17:40Z")
I grew up in small town eastern Washington State. There were three DQs within close distance; two have always had chocolate and butterscotch, and only those flavors. The third one had chocolate and cherry as its options, but I haven’t been there in a decade so I don’t know what they do these days. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-cherry-flavored-dip-for-ice-cream-cones/729142/22 "2015-08-29T09:09:10Z")
I vaguely remember it, but only as something strange that some place had. Cherry syrup? Sure. But not the kind that got hard. Though it does sound amazing, so I hope I can find some once we have money again. (This time of year is always the hardest.) ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-cherry-flavored-dip-for-ice-cream-cones/729142/23 "2015-08-29T12:05:37Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > Mr. Softee, the mobile soft-serve truck found throughout NYC, offers cherry dip. If you ask real nice and the guy’s not busy, he’ll give you both chocolate and cherry. 😃 I’ll grant that its disgusting, but I enjoy it now and again. Our Mr. Softee (called Mr. Ding-a-ling\* here), doesn’t make fresh cones for you. He only serves pre-packaged things on a stick. \*He was always called My Softee when I was a kid. The parents of one my daughter’s friends bought an old Mr. Softee truck, and re-named it. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-cherry-flavored-dip-for-ice-cream-cones/729142/24 "2015-08-29T15:19:27Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > Our Mr. Softee (called Mr. Ding-a-ling\* here), doesn’t make fresh cones for you. He only serves pre-packaged things on a stick. > t. That’s terrible. Here in NYC, we call that a Good Humor truck or just an ice cream truck, although they’re less common now. Mister Softee is sacred, and only refers to Mister Softee (note however Mister Softee also sells a small assortment of packaged ice cream bars/fruit bars ) They also sued other operators who were trying to resemble them, and won. Only Mister Softee can have the blue stripe and play the Mister Softee music. [Mister Softee](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/zzodaDCD798/maxresdefault.jpg) [Imposter!](http://s3-media1.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/AisYoUTirA-pNrUEdA-r7Q/o.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-cherry-flavored-dip-for-ice-cream-cones/729142/25 "2015-08-29T15:37:28Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > What annoys me is that peanut butter dip is gone now, because of peanut allergies. Seriously? Peanut butter dip is not like peanuts. It doesn’t have particles in the air, and honestly, there are all kinds of peanut butter ice creams, with peanuts in them even, so why is only the peanut butter dip gone? It was my favorite! > > Oh, and my local ice cream parlor does still have cherry dip. But I do not like cherry dip! Unless they got rid of all peanut and tree nut products, I highly doubt that was the reason behind it. Ice cream shops are pretty much off limits for tree nut and peanut allergic people because the risk of cross-contamination is so very high. Edit: I grew up in CT and cherry dip was definitely a thing. I preferred butterscotch dip, as a kid, but cherry was my second choice. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-cherry-flavored-dip-for-ice-cream-cones/729142/26 "2015-08-29T19:04:02Z")
I used to love getting chocolate dipped cones, now a cherry one sounds delish! If I ever get the chance, I have to try one. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-cherry-flavored-dip-for-ice-cream-cones/729142/27 "2015-08-30T15:07:22Z")
The dip is only cherry-flavored in the same way as things like cough syrup are cherry-flavored. It tastes more like cherries than it does beef jerky, I suppose, but it is yer basic sickly-sweet synthetic flavoring. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-cherry-flavored-dip-for-ice-cream-cones/729142/28 "2015-08-30T17:25:52Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > I grew up in Chicago, and I remember chocolate and butterscotch, but never cherry. Same here. Never heard of this cherry dip before. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-cherry-flavored-dip-for-ice-cream-cones/729142/29 "2015-08-30T17:34:07Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > The dip is only cherry-flavored in the same way as things like cough syrup are cherry-flavored. It tastes more like cherries than it does beef jerky, I suppose, but it is yer basic sickly-sweet synthetic flavoring. I was kinda getting excited about the idea of cherry dip, but I already had my suspicions that the above was the case. Kinda like “cherry” twizlers. They aren’t “cherry” flavored. They are “red” flavored. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-cherry-flavored-dip-for-ice-cream-cones/729142/30 "2015-08-30T19:19:20Z")
They had ‘cherry’ dipped cones in Pensacola when I was a kid there, 50-60 years ago. It tasted like wax. I also remember that the Dairy King (not Queen) dipped the cones so that the chocolate lapped down OVER the top of the cone so that the ice cream didn’t melt out of the seam onto your hand. Why can’t they do that now? Pikers! ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-cherry-flavored-dip-for-ice-cream-cones/729142/31 "2015-08-31T01:32:10Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I was kinda getting excited about the idea of cherry dip, but I already had my suspicions that the above was the case. > > Kinda like “cherry” twizlers. They aren’t “cherry” flavored. They are “red” flavored. Yeppers. The brown and beige flavored dips bear the same relationship to chocolate and butterscotch. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-cherry-flavored-dip-for-ice-cream-cones/729142/32 "2015-08-31T03:35:14Z")
[QUOTE=Scumpup] The dip is only cherry-flavored in the same way as things like cough syrup are cherry-flavored. It tastes more like cherries than it does beef jerky, I suppose, but it is yer basic sickly-sweet synthetic flavoring. [/QUOTE] > [@billfish678](#): > > I was kinda getting excited about the idea of cherry dip, but I already had my suspicions that the above was the case. > > Kinda like “cherry” twizlers. They aren’t “cherry” flavored. They are “red” flavored. The flavor the cherry dip, cherry cough syrup, and cherry Twizzler manufacturers are going for is \*maraschino \*cherry. The fact it comes out tasting chemically-treated and synthetically sickly-sweet is appropriate since maraschino cherries are chemically-treated and synthetically sickly-sweet. Just out of curiosity, has anybody come across any candy that was Bing cherry or Rainier cherry flavored? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-cherry-flavored-dip-for-ice-cream-cones/729142/33 "2015-08-31T13:18:48Z")
> [@MoonMoon](#): > > Unless they got rid of all peanut and tree nut products, I highly doubt that was the reason behind it. Ice cream shops are pretty much off limits for tree nut and peanut allergic people because the risk of cross-contamination is so very high. > [@Shalmanese](#): > > Because if a worker accidentally gets a drop of the PB dip in the cherry dip and then someone with a peanut allergy orders a cherry dip and goes into anaphylactic shock, that’s a big deal for the company. That is the reason they got rid of it when asked. “Allergies”. But I don’t really care about any bullshit about MAYBE getting a drop of the PB sauce somewhere, when you still have peanut butter ice cream, peanut butter cups, peanuts in various chocolates, peanuts, peanuts, peanuts. No, they got rid of it because it was convenient to them or whatever and they look me in the face and lie. :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-cherry-flavored-dip-for-ice-cream-cones/729142.md?page=1)