Even if you aren't an ice cream eater (who are you?!), this weather warrants a scoop or two. Some of us just love the cold, sweet aspect of ice cream and we're all over the map with flavors. Others have their one flavor they buy or make every time without fail.
According to the International Ice Cream Association, the most popular ice cream flavors in America are Vanilla (29%), Chocolate (8.9%), Butter pecan (5.3%), Strawberry (5.3%), and Neapolitan (4.2%), followed by a smattering of other flavors. We suspect our own survey will turn up different results, and yes, we've eliminated Neapolitan from the list on purpose. If that is your favorite flavor, let us know in the comments.
I LOVE mint chocolate chip
Yes, Anne! I love Mint Chocolate Chip, too. If the situation's dire, however, I get Ben and Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk.
I'm on a Coldstone kick right now. I LOVE banana ice cream chock full of oreos, cookie dough and reese peanut butter cups......drools
It all depends on my mood.
The stock guy in the grocery store told me, by the way, that vanilla is likely the most popular flavor because people tend to buy it to go with other things--pie, cake, etc. That makes sense to me.
mint chocolate chip!
I'm usually a fruity sorbet type, but sometimes, the green tea or chai flavours at the local ice cream shop (made in store!) cry out to be eaten
I love Mango Coconut, if I can find it. Otherwise a good Hazelnut Chocolate. MMmmmmmmm.
Right now we have chocolate and blood orange sorbet in the freezer (not together, though I have had a scoop of each together and it is tasty).
My favorite unique ice cream I tried recently was corn gelato from Cones in NYC. It's a sweet cream base with corn pureed in it, really tasty. I wish I could have a cone of that right now with this heat!
coffee!
I'm fruity type too, but green tea is excellent and so is the whole line of soy milk-based ice 'cream' made & sold at Cremerie Meu-Meu on rue St. Denis in Montreal. I had soy-mango, next I'll have soy-dark chocolate!
I love vanilla, I know boring. But a friend of mine LOVES rice gelato, which unfortunately for her she had in Italy and has yet to find it anywhere here. If anyone sees it they should give it a try.
chocolate pecan, mocha chip, and maple walnut. say it loud, say it proud: i'm a new england girl!
Yes Dorie, coffee is the only perfect ice cream flavor.
Has anyone else ever had teaberry ice cream? The Maple Grove Dairy, now long out of business, made a mean teaberry ice cream. A fruity, light wintergreen flavor.
Aside from Vanilla, Mint Chocolate Chip, or a combo of raspberry sorbet andPaech ice cream, or butter pecan and strawberry combo...
In Rome it's traditionl to mix, but the only thing I like is green apple sorbet.
I mix a few drops of vanilla with rosewater ..I love the flavour.
Sometimes I mix in a few cardmom ( spelling not right )
Once i ate icecream (mixed with some kind of wine ) in chelsea. 2 blocks from magnolia bakery. it was in around late march or around april - liked it very much.
There is an icecream shop in dallas in the historic downtown - i guess it is some kind of italian icecream sop. . It is one of the best icecream shop that I have been to in the US. I have it for breakfast lunch and dinner when I am in dallas
i love peach ice cream, but only when eaten with a hard lancaster county pretzel standing in as a spoon
i learned this from my grandmother and it is sooooooooo goood, if a bit odd
she said it was the pennsylvania dutch way of eating ice cream, but she might just be crazy ;-)
i absolutely HEART mint chocolate chip. but only breyers, which isn't dyed green.
close second: chocolate with peanut butter swirls. real peanut butter, not pb-flavored ice cream.
funnily enough, i did just buy some neapolitan because yes, sometimes on hot days i have ice cream for dinner, and that was all that was in the store. i think tonight i'll get some uncle louie g's instead, line be damned.
Haagen Daaz cookie dough ... or macadamia nut brittle ... or coffee.
Molasses Tipsy Cake Goat Milk Ice cream from Laloo's. The best!
It's not unusual but Cookies and Cream or Coffee, hands-down, every time.
Although I voted for chocolate, because it really is my all-time favorite, I have to give a shout-out to my childhood favorite: Black rapsberry soft serve with chocolate sprinkles (or jimmies as we call them up New England way).
Now that is a summertime cone.
All you mint choco-chip lovers should click on my name for a recipe for truly the best mint choco-chip ice cream I've ever had.
I answered vanilla in the survey only because that is one I can always eat, especially if I have fun things to mix with it, cookies, honey, jam, pretzels etc.
But other flavors I love include: rosewater, pasticho, pumpkin, hibiscus sorbet, and anything with carmel or coffee
i love green tea ice cream. and kulfi.
and toscanini's (in cambridge) occasionally has grapefruit sorbet. it's amazing, especially when the weather is hot!
Peppermint!!
Or, sometimes, coconut. Or black cherry, with real black cherries inside. Or gingerbread, from Toscanini's in Cambridge, Mass.
If I had to stick to the ice cream equivalent of primary colors, then plain chocolate.
And any kind of fruit sorbet, esp. ones you don't see every day, like grapefruit, cranberry, etc. Oh, and chocolate sorbet and coconut sorbet.
I love far too many to pick just one. But a few of my favorites:
-All you mint-chocolate chip lovers should check out Emack & Bolio's (in Boston & NY) Peppermint Patty--super minty (not green) ice cream w/chocolate flakes, Oreos, and Junior Mints
-A place I used to go to in St. Paul made "Coffee Break" ice cream--coffee ice cream with Oreos. It was my favorite. Emack makes something similar, but their coffee flavor isn't as strong
-The same place also made a plain, Sweet Cream ice cream that was perfect when I was feeling like a purist
--Cones Dark Chocolate. Velvety goodness.
--I had a ginger ice cream at Gramercy Tavern that was heavenly. Not something I could eat everyday, but memorable
mmm...
2 more things I forgot:
-grapefruit-basil sorbet. So refreshing in the heat of summer.
And for a "Mango Monday":
Get thee to an Indian grocer. Buy a can of Alfonso Mango Puree (it comes in a yellow and blue can). Scoop out some of your favorite vanilla ice cream. Top with puree. Enjoy.
I once had the best lavender ice cream. I've yetto find that flavor sold anywhere.
So I usually go with breyer's coffee of Edy's light double churned chocolate.
They had lavender ice cream at Meu-Meu. Good, but not enough to veer from the soy selections.
Purity's green tea ice cream, made here in Ithaca is my alltime favorite.
Chestnut gelato, oh and pistachio ice cream, and I can't forget cajeta ice cream or a caramel....
Mmmmm... for some reason here in Austin, gelato rules-there's gelaterias everywhere...
mint chip, or coffee (never together).
I dislike very much chocolate based ice-creams. I find that the cold makes the chocolate taste not very delightful.
Nutella
Rice
Parmigiano Reggiano
Mint chocolate chip. I think I could eat it 'til I vomit.
nutella, nicciola, super dark chocolate, preferably with peanut butter, ginger marmalade or bitter orange marmalade mixed in. right now i am trying to recreate the taste of dark chocolate chili truffle i had at my favorite chocolatier in la (picholine) although since this will be my first attempt at ice cream, i don't have high hopes for the result.
ann, i'm going to have to try that pretzel as spoon trick. i'm a total sucker for salty and sweet combos.
when i have it, which is not all that often, i fully induldge and must have chocolate and peanut butter! sometimes i'll even add more peanut butter to it if there is not enough!
Saffron Rose or Cardamom ice cream from an Indian ice cream shop on Valencia in San Francisco. I also love Red Bean ice cream when I'm lucky enough to find it.
Turkey Hill Mint Chocolate Chip. The best!
Just had the smoothest, sweetest burnt sugar and butter ice cream at Lickety-Split in Williamstown, MA. It was heavenly.
Also, I was once served fresh coconut ice cream in a real coconut while dining alfresco in Chiang-Mai. It nearly blew the top of my head off it was so good.
Somehow most of my best travel memories involve ice cream. I could probably think about this all day.
Though, I am tempted to say Cinnamon ice cream, I have to admit that Pralines and Cream is my go to at any time. But cinnamon ice cream in a chilled silver cup at the counter of Saunder's in Grosse Pointe was life affirming for a wee child back in the 70s.
The homemade place in my neighborhood does a mean coffee and cookies, which is tough to beat...
Until this weekend when I tried the limited edition Haagen Daaz Sticky Toffee Pudding Cake Ice Cream. I recommend running out to try it now.
I vote for mint chocolate chip as well. There is nothing better than that ice cold fresh minty cream taste with a touch of chocolate on a hot day.
Voted for vanilla -- but I never decline Ben & Jerry's NY Superfudge Chunk!!!!!
I voted for Butter Pecan but my other favorite is strawberry cheesecake...yummy!
MINT CHOCOLATE CHIP, fools!
barring that, blue moon. if you don't know what that is, i shake my head in shame at you.
Dulce de Leche
The worst ice cream flavor ever: Lobster. Sold in Maine tourist trap. Awful, awful.
BLUE MOON! Yes!
Thanks, Jen. How could I forget? It's especially good in a soda.
mint chocolate chip all the way! although i had an amazing twist on it last weeked: instead of chocolate chips, it was oreos. that was some good eatin'! very girl-scout-cookie-esque!
Mint chocolate chip!
Pistachio!
coffee-oreo with realy very strong coffee flavor to cut the oreo -man i am going right now to go get some
honestly, i'll devour pretty much any flavor, but i love love love the asian inspired ones - macapuno, ube, red bean, taro, mango, green tea. mmmm.
A deep coffee icecream - not too sweet. Or a decadent pistachio concoction. drooool......
mint chocolate chip.
I'm so psyched to see there are other Peanut Butter Chocolate fans out there! It's my absolute favorite ice cream flavor--started with Baskin Robbins, but now has appeared elsewhere, which couldn't please me more!
Some other favorites: Nutella gelato, chocolate brownie, Mint choc chip or Mint cookie, coffee...and plain old chocolate.
Oh and Chris, I have had teaberry ice cream--well, custard, actually...not my favorite, but very interesting!
- Blueberry
- Chunky Monkey
- Vanilla mixed with cookie dough (*drewl*)
I adore Maple Walnut ice cream! A New England favorite, and for good reason.
Well, just thinking about ice cream is a pleasure. I looooove Edy's low fat Chocolate Silk. Cinnamon is hard to find but is delicious.
My all time favorites are mint chocolate chip or Rum Raisen (which I don't see much anymore).
earl grey
---and if anyone could point me to a place in NYC that I could buy a pint, I would be forever indebted....
I generally like ice cream with caramel in it.
Il Laboratorio del Gelato has a mean earl grey.
http://www.laboratoriodelgelato.com/flavors.php
One of my colleagues loves Lady Grey tea, which is a delicate version of Earl Grey and tastes amazing. Wonder if they'd do that as an ice-cream.
I'm vegan now, but black sesame icecream from Il Lab., is still lusciously tempting.
Does the indebtedness cover you picking a nice warm green for my walls?
I tend to like somewhat offbeat flavors and cozy presentations (handmade waffle cones with a marshmallow at the bottom). But straight out of the carton works too.
Current Fave: Haagen-Dazs Almond Hazelnut Swirl. Stone cold addictive!
Gold Standard: Haagen-Dazs Ltd. Edition Vanilla Caramel Brownie is unbelievable! My digestive system can no longer withstand that much sugar in a shot, but man is it good.
I Shall Not Look Upon Its Like Again: Ben & Jerry's Peach-Raspberry Crumble. Summer of '97 the 3rd Ave scoop shop (NYC) carried this flavor. Clearly such ecstasy was not meant for mankind, for I haven't seen it since.
All-Around Winners: H-D Strawberry Cheesecake, B&J Primary Berry Graham (for the graham cracker crust swirl), H-D Strawberry Shortcake, H-D Dulce de Leche/ Pecan Caramel Swirl, and the H-D Brownie Bar (which is like 500 calories each, ridiculous!)
Blue Moon! I'm not sure if it's available outside of Wisconsin, though. . .
-- Turkey Hill Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. No.Other.Brand.Will.Do!
Instead of a vanilla ice cream base like those other people, they use brown sugar/molasses ice cream and the dough tastes like cookie dough, not sweet paste of indeterminate flavor. Have this, and you will be forever converted.
-- Teaberry, apparently a Pennsylvania thing. Available from Hersheys and TH, but only from scoop shops. Super refreshing in the summer.
-- Howler's Vanilla Gelato.
Loved and lost: Ben & Jerry's Festivus.
I love chocolate chip mint and also coffee chip. As Paolo Conte sings: Chips, chips...
Friendly's Peanut Butter Fudge Swirl!!
I voted for vanilla, but one of all time fav combos is coffee flavour along with stracciatella (kind of like a vanilla with dark chocolate chips)gelato, if i can lay my hands on them
Banana. But really, I just love ice cream period.
edy's slow churned chocolate chip cookie dough. mmmm...think I'll go buy some right now...
creme brulee on any given day of the year.
Right now- lemongrass
it depends...for just plain ice cream with nothing in it definately a banana fan. If I'm going to add things I prefer Sweet Cream to Vanilla any day. Rocky Road is my favorite pre-mixed, and burnt sugar is becoming a definate regular.
Ben & Jerry's used a make this twisted flavor with Chocolate Fudge Brownie and Cherry Garcia that I used to love (i still mix the two toegther). Now I love Yogurt flavored ice cream that you can find all over Europe, but not here somehow.
I too voted for vanilla, but I'll be tempted into panna cotta.
All time favourite flavour is lychee - amazing.
Coffee Cardamon
Pineapple Basil
Strawberry lemon vervena
Pear Anise
ICE CREAM...so many great options
Hmmm... where should I begin?
Haagen Daz's Coffee IceCream,Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey,Ciao Bella's Scharfenberger Chocolate mixed with Hazelnut Ice Cream. Mary's Dairy Chocolate Raspberry mixed with Chocolate Mint, Il Laboratorio's Hazelnut IceCream, Mitchell's Mango IceCream mixed with Ube (purple yam) Ice Cream, Coldstone's Banana Ice Cream mixed with bananas, almonds, and caramel, ShakeShack's Concrete Jungle, Sweet Sketch's Basil ice Cream mixed with Earl Grey Tea Ice Cream, Haagen Daz's Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice-Cream, and Mitchell's Thai Iced Tea Ice Cream. Oh... I'm sure I have some more favorites if I really think about it. :P
coffee, then green tea.
avocado ice cream
shiner bock beer ice cream
Coffee, black sesame.
Daiquiri ice from Baskin Robbins. Very refreshing, especially on a hot day.
Astonished at the strong showing for mint chocolate chip! I love it, too, but in a well-stocked freezer, it would be a fall-back choice.
First, I remember with great affection the Carvel a short distance from my childhood home. Their 3 machines would always have vanilla and chocolate, of course, and a different one every day in the third. My favorite there was ALWAYS Black Raspberry. A BR cone dipped in chocolate which would harden---a Brown Bonnet!! My favorite. It cost 15 cents! And I will never forget being permitted to go there alone, age 8, with a dime and nickel to get one.
Coffee is also superb, as is nearly anything with cookies in it.
If you haven't visited Ben & Jerry's website, you ought to. It has a graveyard of flavors that have passed on. AND they are having a contest--- invent a new flavor. Fun. Everything about ice cream -- apart from the fat content --- is fun!
Chocolate w/ Peanut Butter
Anything bought at Emack and Bolio's. WOW!
mexican chocolate jalapeno ice cream -- a perfect blend of both of my addicitions!
It's not super high-end, but I like to go to Patel Brothers grocery in Jackson Heights and pick up a big tub of thandai ice cream. It's got cardamom pods, saffron, coriander seeds, rose water, and I don't know what other spices. It's sooooo yummy. Mmmmm...my favorite.
VANILLA
pistachio
I LOVE mint chocolate chip ice cream!!! Of course I love vanilla, but mint chocolate chip is incredible!!! Those two flavors are staples in my fridge!!!
Right now I love that new Nestle Tollhouse cookie dough ice cream from Dreyer's. Its sooo amazing, maybe just because I love the actual Nestle Tollhouse cookies! And they use the original chips all throughout the ice cream to, and the dough is the absolute doughey-est. Its bliss, and thats all there is.
Teaberry! Especially from Heisler's Dairy.
I'm addicted to Haagen-Daz's "Chocolate Peanut Butter!" Medical Health Personnel warn that Vicodin, a Pharmacuetical Drug, is addictive however, no one ever warned me that Haagen-Daz's "Chocolate Peanut Butter" is MORE addictive. I'm a slave. I'm hooked. I'm coming out of the closet to share my heart. Can you help me?
Deliciously Addicted,
JLS
My current favorite flavor is orange-chocolate from Toscanini's in Cambridge, MA. Commercially, Haagen-Daaz Bailey's Irish Cream...
...but with so many delicious flavors out there having a pint a day just doesn't seem adequate!
i love MINT CHOCOLATE CHIP & HAS ANYBORDY EVR HAD CINAMIN? I LOVE IT!! IT IS SOOOO MUCH GOOD!!!SOME ONE EMAIL ME AT TGIRL894@AOL.COM!!!!!!I GET BORED SO TALK TO ME!
Teaberry, is my favorite flavor, unfortunately I have not been able to find it down here in Florida. I you know of a place in the Space Coast area, please email me at a_bmoyer@bellsouth.net.
I really like the new Sticky Toffee Pudding. However, I would've been interested into trying the others in the contest.
I love Maracuya(Passion Fruit) ice cream. It might sound kinda weird, but it's awesome! I go to SWEETOOTH ice cream in Sterling, VA and it's the best! Oh yea...another one of my favorites is Horchata (cinnamon)...it's really good.. mmmmm.Oh and choc. peanut butter,mint choc. chip.... i could go on and on.
Hey,
I love Chocolate with some mint and coa-coa nut onthe top of it..It taste really good with them top on it.
See you later
hazelnut is just beaut!!
My favourite is maple walnut. As a kid I thought walnuts came from maple trees because of this flavour. Also when in the mood, black liquorice is delectable. I make my own green tea ice cream and shall try wasabe flavoured as well...it is delicious in the restaurants. Maracuja pulp can be bought frozen in many stores and loving the fruit it also would be a good one to try. Another fruit I dream about but can't seem to connect to is the Australian custard apple. What lovely thoughts these writing conjure!! Thanks
I can't find Dreyers Maple Walnut ice cream here in Southern California. I'm from the east coast and am dying for it. Help!
WE LOVE THE FRIENDLY`S YOGURT FUDGE BERRY SWIRL BUT IT HAS BEEN VERY HARD TO FIND
i like lemon cuz its tart and sour!
My favorite is Teaberry. I have only seen it in NE Pennsylvania. Turkey Hill makes, but haven't seen it in Brooklyn. I'm from New York and most of my family is in Pa. so when I'm there I enjoy it, even if there is snow on the ground.
sara lee cheesecake is truely the most amazing ice cream ive ever eaten. The cream tastes just like cheesecake and the crust is perfect, the strawberry sauce is just plain "oh my goodness".
i LOVE pumpkin ice cream
Black raspberry ice cream
I love it! So here's my ideas
Tahiti Tango ( a mix of fruity orange, lemon, passion fruit, papaya and coconut) YUM!
Sweet Beats Vanilla (like a VEGAN flavor)
Ms.Chacalette and Mr. Brittle are having an Affair
or we could call it THE AFFAIR
(this would be 3 types of choc (white, dark and medium with vanilla, and then Mr. Brittle is almond, peanut and walnut brittle) and you can buy them together like a set or you can combine a bunch of the Haagen Daaz mini's collection to pair your perfect combo - wouldn't that be ideal?? :-)
I LOVE Coconut & Green Tea Thai ice cream!!! Yummm... of course I am in Texas and LOVE BlueBell brand Mint Chocolate Chip (easier to find than the Coconut/Green Tea)!!!
kiss my ass cALLIE HOFMANN
I LOVE HAAGEN DAAZ'S CAPPUCCINO COMOTION!!!
TRY IT!!! IT IS DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Teaberry ice cream is the one and only ice cream worth living for!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is the BEST!
Tillamook Peppermint...delicious!
My faves are green tea or passionfruit. However, when I need a chocolate fix, I'm all about Ben & Jerry's Marsha Marsha Marshmallow...
omg I love the blueberry lavender ice cream it was the best I cream I have ever Had in my entire life it was perfect amazing everything if you havent had it you need to get it its teh best thing I have ever had get it at baskin robbins!!!