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.
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??
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.
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.
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]
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).
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.
