# whats your favorite ice-cream? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 26, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752 "2002-09-26T20:35:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SparrowHawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SparrowHawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SparrowHawk)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/21 "2002-09-26T23:17:02Z")
Plain chocolate is boring. Plain raspberry is boring. Chocolate raspberry truffle is the food of gods. There is more than one kind of truffle. One is a mushroom. The other is not. Peanuts have nothing to do with it. From Merriam-Webster online: Main Entry: truf·fle Pronunciation: 'tr&-f&l, 'trü- Function: noun Etymology: modification of Middle French truffe, from Old Provençal trufa, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin tufera; akin to Latin tuber swelling, truffle – more at TUBER Date: 1591 1 : the usually dark and rugose edible subterranean fruiting body of several European ascomycetous fungi (especially genus Tuber); also : one of these fungi 2 : a candy made of chocolate, butter, sugar, and sometimes liqueur shaped into balls and often coated with cocoa Ice cream with nuts is also good - butter pecan, maple walnut, pralines and cream, rocky road, tin roof sundae. All of which I can get at my local grocery store. You would not believe what I can get at my local grocery store, including mochi ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![JayElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@JayElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JayElle)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/22 "2002-09-26T23:22:05Z")
From back in the day when I ate ice cream: Amy’s Ice Cream Shiner Bock or Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia. Nowadays it’s Breyer’s Madarin Orange Sorbet. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/23 "2002-09-26T23:25:54Z")
When little, my favorite was chocolate chip. Now that I am mature, it happens to be butter pecan. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Juliet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cc9497/32.png) [@Lady\_Juliet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Juliet)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/24 "2002-09-26T23:31:46Z")
No mint chocolate chip? Blasphemy. Your boss is insane. Besides that my favorite ice cream is called moose tracks. Not on the list there, but it’s heaven in a carton. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/25 "2002-09-26T23:33:20Z")
What? No one has me for a favorite?😉 ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/26 "2002-09-26T23:33:42Z")
**Jester** - I absolutely _love_ mint chocolate chip. And, call me crazy, it has to be the artificially green flavored. There’s something about that light green color that tugs at the heart strings. Tell me you love it green too, won’t you? Won’t you?? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![japatlgt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/27 "2002-09-26T23:34:44Z")
Double scoop cone w/P’nut Butter & Chocolate and Butter Pecan. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/28 "2002-09-26T23:35:13Z")
Off to **IMHO**. * * * **Cajun Man** - SDMB Moderator ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/29 "2002-09-26T23:42:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by StGermain \* > \*\*I would normally say Baskin Robbins peanut butter/ chocolate, but I had some homemade Chocolate manadrin in Bethesda when I visited there. It was faboo! I want to go back just to visit that ice cream shop. > StG \*\* Where in Bethesda did you find this divine treat? I must have some! Sheri ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/30 "2002-09-26T23:52:18Z")
I’m a big fan of chocolate chip cookie dough but TheLadyLion doesn’t like it. We’re both good with cookies and cream but recently become enamoured with carmel/pecan turtle crunch. Bordeaux cherry chocolate chunk is good too. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/31 "2002-09-26T23:57:21Z")
Frozen Custard! I finally found some! 😃 😃 😃 😃 Been looking for years! A joint in Murfreesboro called _Poppy’s._ ---
**Author:** ![Lisa\_Ann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lisa\_Ann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa_Ann)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/32 "2002-09-27T00:03:09Z")
No coffee or mocha? Evil boss! You must at least buy a little pint of_coffee_ ice cream or the world stops spinning! ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/33 "2002-09-27T00:20:08Z")
There’s a frozen custard place just down the block from me. YUM, this thread is making me want to go get an espresso and cream sundae. From the list, I’d probably go with the mandarin or New York Cheesecake. My personal favorites are Dreyer’s Dreamery Chocolate Truffle Explosion, Haagen Daz Coffee, and Ben and Jerry’s Phish Food. For you tiramisu lovers, you haven’t lived until you’ve tried the Haagen Daz tiramisu gelato. Dee-lish. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/34 "2002-09-27T00:24:58Z")
Awhile back, your sweet ol’ Auntie Gingy started a thread on [the best Ice Cream in the World.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=72830) I also enjoy Breyer’s Natural Vanilla from time to time. For me, though, nothing beats a good, goopy ice cream. In fact, I have some in the freezer now called ‘Snapper’. It is caramel ice cream with pecans and caramel and chocolate. No fish. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/35 "2002-09-27T01:36:54Z")
Oh, there are so many good ones. First, the generic flavors: Mint chocolate chip (definitely the best of the ones that everyone has) Strawberry (just plain strawberry. yum.) German chocolate (I love coconut) Peanut butter and chocolate (although Baskin-Robbins is the best) Blueberry (somewhat rare, but still counts as generic) When I was in high school, I worked at Braum’s, which is an ice cream and hamburger chain in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas, and in addition to the above, the eggnog and pumpkin ice creams (note: separate flavors, not eggnog and pumpkin together) we’d get in the fall were awesome, particularly in milkshakes. Nowadays, almost the only ice cream I buy is Ben & Jerry’s, so: Mint Chocolate Cookie (_definitely_ the top of the heap) Cherry Garcia (a close second) Cool Britannia Everything But The… EntangledMints Chunky Monkey Apple Crumble Chubby Hubby (mmm…peanut butter-filled pretzels) Triple Caramel Chunk Chocolate Heath Bar Crunch The thing that galls me is that fully three of these (Cool Britannia, EntangledMints, and Chocolate Heath Bar Crunch) are no longer being produced. :mad: [sub]Yeah, I spend a _lot_ of time thinking about ice cream…:o[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![rexnervous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rexnervous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rexnervous)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/36 "2002-09-27T01:59:30Z")
Ben & Jerry’s **From Russia with Buzz** All the others are merely pretenders ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/37 "2002-09-27T02:32:29Z")
My favorites tend to be fruits, chocolate, or mixes thereof. I’d forgotten about chocolate raspberry truffle. Mmmmm… Sorbets. Raspberry, orange, grapefruit, lemon… My all-time favorite has to be a flavor that Ben & Jerry’s released in Japan for only a week or two (frickin’ teases!): Coffee chocolate chip. Bring it back, dammit! Reeses peanut butter cup sounds yummy, though. Time to start petitioning the local Baskin-Robbins (or 31, as it’s called here). ---
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/38 "2002-09-27T03:01:07Z")
**scout** , I ADORE it green. It’s not the same any other way. My especially favorite way to eat it is to drizzle it with chocolate syrup, then let it melt a bit. The melted, radioactive greenish ice cream blends in with the syrup, and it’s pure heaven. I really want some now. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/39 "2002-09-27T04:59:53Z")
**Jester** , you’re making me hungry. Mmmmmmmm…chocolatey-minty goodness… ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752/40 "2002-09-27T06:24:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rexnervous \* > \*\*Ben & Jerry’s **From Russia with Buzz** > > All the others are merely pretenders \*\* Does that explain your screenname? 😉 I must aquire a pint of this it sounds awesome. Diet? What diet? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ice-cream/129752.md?page=3)