Been having a debate since last night about flavours of ice cream. I like banana. Yet, every time i go to coventry to somewhere that sells ice-cream by the boat load. They do not sell banana. In wolves, the common default flavours are chocolate, vanilla, and banana. Everywhere else, the banana is replaced strawberry.
I ask you, is it strawberry or banana? There are lots of other flashy fly flavours. But i dont care about them.
Mint choc chip is where its at.
Are you on about a metropolitan?
Ben and Jerry cookie dough is the winner for me.
Banana ice cream can do one. You must love a Macies banana milkshake?
Strawberry-lemon is what I've gotten since I was a kid. I've deviated from that pairing very few times.
I'd go banana every time, but you never see it. Chocolate is rank, and if I'm being honest, I probably haven't eaten any ice cream since about 2004.
I would say strawberry is far more common than banana. Vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate are the big three.
Oh and Magic you plank, it's Neapolitan.
Originally Posted by Disco
Thats the one that is a mix between the three. Never even tasted it. Sounds awful.
LOL.
I absolutely hate vanilla ice cream, it's fucking dreadful on it's own. Fine with a pie or whatever but even then I prefer cream and/or custard.
Fruit flavoured ice cream oh yes, chocolate is meh, though the weird flavours are awesome. Coffee.
Pistachio ice cream is brilliant but it seems to have completely vanished.
Yeah coffee is boss. Ice cream is just a great thing generally. Branching out to 'lollies' and suchlike, I gotta make a shout out to my fave frozen snack, the twister lolly
Not liking chocolate ice cream is one of the diagnostic criteria for being a massive deviant.
Edit: also, gelato > ice cream (unfortunately).
Isn't gelato just ice cream for wankers?
Gelato is just Italian for 'ice cream'.
No it isn't. It uses different proportions of the ingredients and is made differently.
It's pretty obviously different if you've tried them both.
I remember in London getting an espresso ice cream and them bringing out a scoop of vanilla ice cream then pouring a cold espresso on top of it.
Also I can't believe people genuinely like Twisters. They are fucking disgusting. Solero > Magnum > Feast > Cornetto.
It's a type of ice cream, not a separate thing. Gelato is the Italian word for 'ice cream'.
What you said is like saying 'Greek yogurt > yogurt', or 'Spanish football > football.'
It's the absolute don.
OK, since apparently it broke your mind working out what was obviously implied:
Italian ice cream (gelato) > English ice cream.
That's the one, although anyone who eats them mixed together deserves everything they get. We had it all worked out as kids, my Dad only wanted the chocolate (confirmed deviant) and I would always eat the strawberry leaving the vanilla for when the strawberry ran out (or for my sisters but who gives a shit about them).
And gelato is clearly a type of ice cream, saying otherwise is like claiming a ham sandwich and a cheese sandwich aren't both sandwiches because they have different things in them.
Its more like saying brownies are different to cake.
It's kicked right off in here.
Ironic in an ice cream thread we should see a meltdown.
Mint choc chip, pistachio and hazelnut are the absolute dons. I only tried hazelnut last year but it's amazing.
Mastic is also quite nice.
It's making a bit of a comeback.
I know Waitrose and Tesco supply some now.
Yes. My mind is the broken one.
There's a 'gelato' place in Silverburn that does parmesan flavour. I've never seen anyone buying it, but if I did I think I'd be dutybound to cut them off at the knees.
Oomami ice cream.
Cheese and ice cream makes a certain amount of sense, I can see that working.
Mint Choc chip is the only flavour worth talking about.
Mascarpone or ricotta, definitely, but when would anyone ever eat parmesan on its own?
It's honeycomb.
I need some of that mint choc chip in my life. Sounds delicious.
Equally, when would anyone eat vanilla on it's own?
If I'm buying it out and about I will always go for vanilla so that it's a constant and you can judge the quality of the actual ice cream. If I'm buying tubs of it to eat in one go like a depressed fat lass, that salted caramel Haagen-Dazs is pretty great, and them biscuit core ones Ben & Jerry's do are good as well (I take it we all only buy these when they are on offer, since lol at paying a fiver for them).
I hate the Ben & Jerry's ones. They are fucking bastardising all that is good about ice cream (which isn't much). Fuck 'em.
If I want to eat cookies I'll fucking buy cookies, there's no need to chuck some ice on it and price it at £4.50 for a small tub.
Apart from coffee, I don't think there's a single flavour of ice cream that I've not enjoyed.
Vanilla isn't really available in a form conducive to eating 'raw'. If the vanilla fruit was like an apple people would be eating it all the time. Everyone could be sticking blocks of parmesan on their cheese boards, but it just isn't a pleasant flavour by itself.
The real villains of the ice cream world at the moment are 'Kelly's' though, with that hateful advert. I want to throw my entire living room at the television when that twat appears.
In Ben & Jerrys, this is the best:
It's amazing.
This, except coffee is great too. All ice cream is great. Fuck it I want fucking ice cream
It's the best.
Pistachio is good.
Every ice cream I tried in Rome was pretty great. Still, I'm not quite as passionate about gelato as RL or John.
It's not just that.
"It's is churned at a much slower rate, incorporating less air and leaving the gelato denser than ice cream. Gelato is served at a slightly warmer temperature than ice cream, so its texture stays silkier and softer. Because it has a lower percentage of fat than ice cream, the main flavor ingredient really shines through."
Well done @randomlegend
I don't think I've ever had Gelato? Sounds like right pretentious wank.
Where do people stand regarding sorbet?
It's really good.
We had this tiny little place near our hotel in Rome called Mr Ice that looked like a dodgy corner shop. We ended up going every night we were there, it's the best frozen cream-based dessert product I've ever had.
The Bueno flavour
If it's from a proper place then chocolate is quite good. Generic one is to be avoided.
My favorite would be that coconut one I used to get in Acapulco. Absolutely fantastic. There was this Italian place that would make quite excellent fruit ice cream (I think they called it something else,) with mango probably being the best.
Mint chocolate chip.
Did anyone suggest eating parmesan on it's own? It's (apparently) being used as a flavouring. Only approving of things that are both nice and convenient to eat on their own is a slippery slope.
Mint would be out for a start.
I didn't bring convenience into it. I think parmesan is a shitty idea for an ice cream because it's not a pleasant dominant flavour. It's only nice as a note in a pasta or whatever.
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