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What is your favorite kind. Do you put stuff on it ?

― anthony, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Argh, why do I have to think about this while I'm on a diet. My favorite is the Starbucks Dulche De Leche - it's damn freaking good. I only put stuff on it if it's plain ice cream. Like you go to the ice cream man and do a cherry dip on vanilla, wicked good.

― Ally, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ben'N'Jerry's Caramel Chew-Chew. To put stuff on it would be an insult.

Actually, really, any B&J with chocolate in it. I don't like their fruity or nutty things, but their chocolate cannot be beat. New York Superchunk Fudge, Half Baked, Phish Phood (crap band, but ACE ice cream), Mint Chocolate Cookie...

Good god, this stuff is better than crack. And more expensive than crack, as well, in most of the UK. £3.69 for a little tiny pot.

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

God, lately Ben & Jerry are so tempting and I don't know why!

I've discovered the wonders of:
chunky monkey, wavy gravy, chubby hubby and raspberry gone coconuts, which is good because I was beginning to think all food had to do was rhyme and I'd become obsessed with it.

― Nude Spock, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Out with a gorgeous voluptuous supachick last night, she insisted on about 8 kinds of Haaaaagen before Shrek. I'm good so I had one teeny spoonful of hers, which was caramel explosion - awesome. But even after that she wouldn't take me home, goddamn.

Best of all though, chocolate brownie flavour with actual bits of chocolate brownie in it. Is that B&J? Good god that shit melts.

I'm leaving Paul way behind now.

― chris, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, B&J are classic as fuck. Oh my god. I used to be obsessed with White Russian. Then I wanted nothing but Cool Britannia. I was touristing countries thru ice cream. Both are now discontinued, THOUGH Cool Britannia is featured in one of their "mixed up" batches. S'Mores B&J is pretty good, as is the Brownie one and Cherry Garcia.

OH! Has anyone ever had Microbatch ice cream? IT IS THE ICE CREAM OF GOD. Tiramisu, Strawberries & Champagne, Apple Pie - you will never, ever, ever eat anything like this in your life. Like a Midori Sour, it is like nothing you've ever had.

― Ally, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wish to put forward the honourable "From Russia With Buzz". It is ice cream! With caffiene!! YARS it is GRAND!!! No stuff. Eating from tub = classic. Scooping out tiny bits into a seperate dish = dud.

― sarah, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is an evil, evil thread because it makes me pine for some Ben and Jerry's and I really should keep away from the stuff.

It's all about the chunky monkey with me -- it is the flavor of the gods! They are all great though, there's not a flavor that exists that I would say no to.

The cool britannia (which, pathetically enough, I think I've mentioned on the boards before) was wonderful too. Bring it back, Euro company that bought Ben and Jerry's!

The microbatch stuff I've not heard of before, but if they have a flavor with champagne I definitely have to check it out.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cool Britannia was like awe inspiring. I mean, it was fantastical stuff. Microbatch is wicked, but hard to find - I've only seen it in NYC, though this could just be the result of not leaving NYC very often recently for ice cream.

Haas anyone from the west coast ever gone to Cold Stone Creamery ice cream parlour? Now THAT'S the shit. They take your flavor of ice cream and then mix in whatever you want in practically the universe right in front of you.

― Ally, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry to rub this one in but until next thursday I live it Italy. Ice cream is cheap plentiful and not worth buying unless its made on the premises, (microbatch?), as it is almost everywhere. The top round here is a place called Miretti. Does coffee icecream like no other. My current favorite is Meringata, creamy with little pieces of merangue in it great with strawberry or peach. Tiramisu coffee straciatella, giuduja, wich is like dark nutella, bacio bacio bianco. However possibly the best was a place in rome near the trevi fountain that wouldn't allow oyu to have combination that they thought were inappropriate.

Also from rome the greatest Granita al Caffe, chunks of sweetened coffee ice with cream underneath and cream below. Crack for the soul.

― Ed, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ed, are you going to Italy with anyone?

― chris, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

::drools uncontrollably::

Forgot From Russia With Buzz.

Some day, the food of the gods will be made, which will encompass all the divine food groups: Coffee, Ice Cream and Alcohol. I've tried pouring Kahlua over From Russia With Buzz ice cream, but that's not quite it yet.

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Make a pot of really strong black (real) coffee. Dissolve a bit of sugar. Leave to cool. Put in fridge. When chilled, pour into cups add vanilla icecream and a lot of bourbon. sprinkle nutmeg.

Yum.

― chris, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Going, I've been living here for a year, till next thursday. Student exchange programme. Slacking off lectures in a different language and the EU gave me some money to do it aswell.

― Ed, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nice life, jammy git.

― chris, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm pretty anal about this as I start with Vanilla. If the maker can't get it right, they're fuk'd. So:

Haagen Dazs vanilla and Breyer's vanilla - yeah, the one with pod bits in.

― suzy, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Even more fundamental than the vanilla is the plain cream flavour. That has to be right before even you get to the vanilla.

― Ed, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Cold Stone place I spoke of had the BEST sweet cream ice cream EVER IN THE WORLD.

Gelato, speaking of Italy - mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

― Ally, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just got back from Italy: that stuff if wicked good. Over here I like the one with the chunks of cookie dough, grocery store brand being preferred for social (i.e. fuck Ben and Jerry) and financial reasons.

― Kris, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I must add to the B&J worship, especially since I was one of the semi-original fans from the early eighties -- it was big news when they opened a franchise in Saratoga Springs, and lemme tell ya, I think that place was always packed.

A Slice of Heaven -- in 1993 or so, I came into about 100 free pints of Ben and Jerry's via coupons via a friend. About fifteen went to my dad as a birthday gift, thirty to my class at the time. The rest I hoarded, then devoured. Num.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Favorite as a kid was Peppermint Stick from Friendly's in New England. It's gone way downhill, though. Now I'd go with the Haagen Daz Dulce con Leche. Never had the Starbucks version Ally mentioned, but I have been to Cold Stone Creamery and yup, it's incredible. So sweet and creamy and they beat it up just right. The staff is hard to take, though. Did they do that whooping and hollering routine when you tipped them, Ally? Really discourages gratuities, I think.

I sometimes mix peanut butter with vanilla, since Haagen Daz no longer makes that flavor.

― Arthur, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ben and Jerry is good. But here in canada they have reese penut butter cup icecream . Choclate fudge with PB swirls and then these little cups .

― anthony, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love Ned claiming he's an original B&J fan. Soon he'll be cutting 4REAL into his arm and spitting on us new B&J fans.

― Ally, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

FUCK YES. But I was not in Vermont in the late seventies or so, so clearly I'm "Stay Beautiful" era instead of "New Art Riot."

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I knew I'd catch you on a technicality, you cult of Jerryiest.

― Ally, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*weeps bitter tears of reproof*

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ben and Jerry are motherfuckers, I met them once and they talked about corporate mergers like they were Satan. WTF? This was before they were bought out. Their plant in VT is alright, though, you get free ice cream. Add homemade chocolate sauce, freshly picked raspberries, local maple syrup, and marshmellow sauce, and B&J is pretty great. But only Bart's has french toast flavor.

― Otis Wheeler, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have been spoiled after working at an ice cream maker's shop for a year during college:

Toscanini's Ice Cream (located in Cambridge, Mass, in Central Square, Harvard Square, and at MIT) makes the best vanilla i have ever tasted. Other flavors of mention: Guiness, Cardamom, Cappicino, Grape Nut, Orange Creamsicle, Belgian Chocolate, Mexican Chocolate, Mango, and hundreds of others.

Definately worth a visit the next time you are in Boston.

― marianna, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ed, I did exactly the same thing, slacking off lectures and spending Erasmus money. If I could spend another year of my life over again, that would be it. Italian ice cream knocks socks off everything as far as I'm concerned. A scoop of cinammon and a scoop of hazlenut, from Frulli in Bergamo is tops, but a scoop of really sour lemon and a scoop of raspberry from pretty much anywhere is nearly as good.

If we're talking posh supermarket ice cream, it's got to be cookie dough, straight from the tub, don't stop until it's finished. If we're reaching into the freezer at the newsagents, it's a Tangle Twister for me. And I *have* to lick it round in a spiral.

― Madchen, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You know, I used to go to the same B&J shop in Saratoga as Ned, back in the early 80s (it was walking distance of Cafe Lena where my dad used to do sound and reminice about Bob Dylan with the hippies). But you don't see MEEEEEE claiming original fan status, do you? No, cause real Old Skool fans don't have to advertise how long they've been into X, they just are.

― masonic boom, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For those of us who've ever been to or lived in Oxford, George and Davis beats Ben and Jerry's anyday. They have a petition whereby you can request new flavours. Get enough signatures and they'll make it. Hence Turkish Delight ice cream and so on...

Fave flavour from a tub, though, is B&J Caramel Chew Chew.

― Paul Strange, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I had tiramisu and pannacotta gelati in (sigh) Venice, it (d)rools.

Mourning the loss of: Haagen-Dazs swiss almond vanilla. The bastards make green tea 'scream for the Japanese market and I WANT SOME.

Horrible stuff: Maple Nut from Kemps, my mother's very effective form of keeping her children out of her freezer stash.

Apparently B&J market-tested KitKat chunk in vanilla but didn't launch it. Idiots. They're also turning into a very un-PC company, as they're Starbucking someone's nice wee chain so they can take over in Texas.

Kate: we'll try to work out an ice cream cocktail for you. I think the White Russian Milkshake is a very good idea and a very useful application of my drugstore diner skills.

― suzy, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

White Russian Milkshake... uuuuuuuhhhhhhhh...

No! No! What are you people trying to do to me? I have to stick to my diet! I have to leave on tour two weeks after that party! It's OK if all of London thinks I'm a fat slob, but not the rest of the UK!

― masonic boom, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's a tacky American diner on the corner of Old Compton St where we once took my homesick American friend to play Gene Pitney records at her. We found it to be the home of the Kit Kat sundae! Yeah! Chocolate sauce everywhere!!! Would this count as an "indie" ice cream? Or PUNK?? YEAHPUNKROCK with extra drizzle.

There was also this specialist ice cream shop in Gisburn which made their own. It was beautiful. Quite sad it's in one of the remotest places ever... even from Barnoldswick it's not that easy to get to. Dough!

― sarah, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tacky American Diner? What kind? What kind? The Old Skool made out of a train's diner car and serving anything you like so long as it's fried in lard kind of diner with shiny chrome and red leather? Or the more interesting NYC Greek diner with the weird "it is our pleasure to serve you!" coffeecups with pictures of the Parthenon on them? Oh, I miss diners! I could kill for an "Athenian Omelette". And a kit-kat sundae... that doesn't sound very American, but it sounds delicious, anyway. Must investigate. Is it 24 hours? All good diners are 24 hours.

― masonic boom, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Urgh, Ed's Easy Diner. I'm REALLY anal about diner food that purports to be American. My first job was in one of the last drugstore diners, we had to wear the uncomfy white pinnies and everything. My mum, aunt and sister all did their stints there as teens so you can imagine I come from stock with (ahem) very definite ideas about what's a hamburger, what's a sundae, what's a milkshake, etc.

Look out: extremely skilled gastropornographer in the area.

― suzy, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Greasy Spoons are the work of G-d. I will die of a heart attack because all i eat is ethnic and deep fried .

― anthony, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ed's Easy Diner? Oh, thanks for getting my hopes up for nothing. Poo. Ed's Easy Diner is about as American as Arthur Treacher's English Style Fish & Chips is British. Sigh.

I keep hoping for a REAL diner in the UK, but I fear there's no such thing. I mean, even I can find a proper pub in NYC. Why is there no diner in London? Waaaahhhhhh!!!

― masonic boom, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I dunno, we have your McDonalds, your Burger King, your KFC, your Pizza Hut, your Starbucks and 5 billion other US food emporia and now you are moaning that we don't have your diners! Give us a break!

But Italian icecream rules even above Ben and Jerry's and George and Davis.

― Emma, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My New York diner experience: On the second vist to a diner, the gruff burly newyorker Waiter/Server came over and said very disdainfully, 'IN NEW YORK WE TIP'. Now we thought we had done so quite hansomely on the previous visit. we were far too scared to eat there again. But proper diner food/ambience is an absolute classic but surely cannot be transplated as sure as you can't transplant a fish and chip shop or a pub or a proper pizza restaurant.

You can however get a half decent chocolate malted (to my english tastebuds).

Suzy can you make us milkshakes in your blender at the party?

― Ed, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That meant to say

You can at least get a half decent chocolate malted (to my english tatsebuds) at Ed's Diner, which must count for something

but I got diverted.

― Ed, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm pathetic, I have no blender. Bring one, and it's White Russian milkshake time.

― suzy, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll see if I can borrow my dad's, shouldn't be too difficult seeing it has no actual function in his kitchen, it is meerly another chrome doodad.

― Ed, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think we have one, but we're bringing the boombox.

Sigh... Emma, the problem is, Diners are the one GOOD purely American food, while they've only imported the crap Burger Kings and McDonalds and stuff. And where the heck are the Dairy Queens? I mean, honestly... why can't Britain bring over the good stuff?

― masonic boom, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cooool. You're also prosecco boy, therefore you rule. I'm off to the bank now, freelance cheques ahoy. Wait a while before you drop this info on the picnic thread, as I've just posted No Blender = No Milkshakes type bribe and want a glut of blenders to make us all very happy.

I am so going to have to get a bottle of special Mexican K using the Sin Fund.

― suzy, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kate, you're excused because ja, I am thanking you for the music. Tak somykket.

And SNAP, SNAP, SNAP on the diner/soda fountain opinion. It's like my other chief London annoyance: Chinese food does not come in the little white box. I have been saying for 10 years that the first quality C- food takeaway to open up and USE the white boxes in Central London will make a fucking fortune, the public will love it and the style mag set will totally wet themselves. But I digress. Green tea ice cream, anyone? I haven't figured out how to make it alcoh...uhhhh, yes I have. Saké.

― suzy, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You can buy Chinese ready meals in US styley cardboard boxes all ready to go in the microwave, not sure which particular purveyor of ready meals make them but they exist. I'm sure it is just the same as your American Chinese boxes.

Also - if there are any quality Chinese takeaways I have yet to find them. In my experience London Chinese takeaway is always utterly disgusting.

― Emma, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Good Chinese takeaways are few and far between in London. But we seem to have fortunately found a not too revolting one. They fry good tofu. Unfortunately, for most of you, it's in Wimbledon. Laughing at us Sarf of the River type folks now, are you? Unfortunately, it still doesn't use those cool little box things.

Oh, wait, I was going to make coffee and you distracted me with thoughts of Chinese takeaway.

― masonic boom, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Emma, they're the M&S ones...and are shit. More to the point, they are WRONG because they have a colour scheme. Only acceptable design for the white box is little red bit of Chinoiserie on the side. And must have metal wire handle. Otherwise, some fuckwit in some marketing department somewhere has been madcap and zany with madcap, zany focus groupies from C1C2 households in Hertfordshire who holiday in the Kissimmie/ Orlando area and vote Tory.

Mmmm, DIM SUM. Could eat that all day.

― suzy, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't get a proper soft serve lateyl. WHat's up with that? Soft ice cream rips of hard's cock any day.

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Snigger...... poor ole M and S, they can't get it right anywhere can they? Soon their No. 1 retail position will be OURS, surely?

Maybe you should start a dim sum thread, I luv it. I like those funny turnip cake things.

― Emma, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just want to say, virtually with no reason at this point in the thread, that that bullshit Otis posted about putting homemade maple syrup and fresh raspberries on his ice cream (?!?!) gives me the most hilarious image of Otis in overalls out in the fields, tapping trees and picking berries now. This whole drinking/puking/waking up in hot tubs rubbish is a front - he is a farmer.

― Ally, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

WHat about people puttin g fr uit on the breakfast cereal? Classic or dud?

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fruit? On cereal? Just plain WIERD!!!

― masonic boom, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It has always seemed the enterprise of the rich to do it. In my book. We poor cannot aford blueburries.

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ooh, bananas in cornflakes, fucking a.

― Ally, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My girlfreind does it. I am always envious. Do I deserve it? I always just use sugar. Hey guys, ever have OJ in your cheerios!? It ssucks!

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dried fruit is so fucking cheap that it seems a crime not to sprinkle a few raisins over your bran flakes. Though I like Special K with the Diet Marshmellows in the shape of supermodels..

― Pete, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bananas don't count as fruit for the purposes of breakfast cereal eating.

What always bugged me, was when they'd show in the adverts... "Part of this nutricionally complete breakfast" where the whole breakfast - including toast, fruit, milk, orange juice - would have been nutricionally complete *without* the Sugarbombz.

― masonic boom, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I eat, on average, 4 bowls of Golden Crisp a day in the summer, with raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries. I also drink sap from the bucket and a couple weeks ago I helped someone make ice cream. If this makes me a farmer, so be it.

― Otis Wheeler, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And I grew up on Oatios in orange juice. I love it.

― Otis Wheeler, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Coffee ice cream: sinning twice.

...and Toufutti is not the same as ice cream. It never will be. Figgered I'd just throw that out there.

― JM, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And Oatscream sucks, aside from its freakish ability to never melt.

― Otis Wheeler, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bananas are actually an herb. Odd.

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*still laughing* Best goddamn thread of the week, I think.

To put it plainly -- the UK *FAILS MISERABLY* at these key factors to ensure culinary survival:

1) Good Mexican food. Scratch that, even *mediocre* Mexican food.

2) Fast food -- as has been said, you've been colonized by The Shit and not The Good. Such are the natures of multinationals, I realize.

I will allow for the fact that we don't have as many Indian places out here as we should. This however will hopefully be changing (and happily we've got a good slew around where I live, so there is further hope).

And Kate, I have pose and preen about B&J, for I am a Mere Male and measure myself accordingly against societal standards. Now if you excuse me, I have to go down to Hooters in my red Ferrari dick car and shout loudly about tits while pounding down Coors Light. That is what people do there, right?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Culinary Survival? Is that gonna be a new reality TV show starring Jamie Oliver, Lovely Nigella and Anthony Worrall Thompson on a desert island with only a jar of capers and some evaporated milk?

Getting patriotically irritated by US 'our junk is better than your junk' nonsense. This is patently a fact that does not need to be debated since about 75% of Seppos are obese (though we are catching up, even without Taco Bell or Dairy Queen or whatever).

― Emma, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bread is where the US fails miserably. Last time I was in the America I couldn't find a single loaf of bread that did not contain sugar. Bread + sugar = BUN, not bread! My French friend, living there at the time, actually took to making her own bread in order to have a proper loaf on the table.

― Madchen, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I agree that most bread here is a disaster. Specialty shops are useful things, though, so there's hope.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know what you people are talking about, I always have wicked good bread. Then again, I don't generally buy loaves at the supermarket...or really have any food in my house in general at all, so really I'm talking about restaurant bread or bread I make myself when I get a random urge.

Otis is a big time fucking hippie.

― Ally, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

England has curry though . I have a hard time findinig a good hearty curry thats also inexpensive. A friend came back from Lonfon and siad there was one on every corner. Could we do a trade. So mexican and chinese takeaway places for some Curry ones.
About Coffee Ice Cream great with iced coffee in milk cartons

― anthony, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well your bread is fucking crusty.

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Seppos. Actually, 40% of us are obese, weighing in at 80% of the total weight of the populace.

Food has improved here in great big leaps, though. When I moved here the only place that did The Dazs was Harrods Food Hall and I had to buy Ocean Spray from Fortnums to introduce London to the concept of the Sea Breeze. Now, lots of good food (no Mex, but how many of them want to move here?) and as birthdays and family-visit bonus, ALL the poncey restaurants are around my flat.

― suzy, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My sister is down ("down"=newcastle) from glasgow (=city of KULTUR). She comments that she has never seen so many hideously fat people for a long time (she refers to "heifers") Up here in cold north east of england we have many, many v-cheap good quality indian & chinese takeaways & restaurants. Ther may be a connection there. My favourite ice cream is ben & jerry's chocolate fudge brownie. I don't put stuff on it. In fact, it doesn't always make it into a dish.

― Norman Fay, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't stand curry, the smell of it gives me heart burn.

As far as Southern California goes, everything here is a chain. I go into a nice-lookng, family-owned Greek or Turkish place, everyone there looks the part, speaks the language -- cool right. I flip over the menu and see a list of other "California locations" and "Herb from Texas" walks out of the kitchen with the chef's hat on. Please........

― tOM p, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Peppermint ice cream is the best there is. And I like it unadorned. Well, maybe with jimmies (chocolate sprinkles).

Sounds like somebody in London could cull some $ with a good cheap burrito joint. Anybody want to open a business? I'll cook, you can provide the downpayment and liquor license.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There is SO good Mexican food in London. You just have to look for it very carefully. It's in Covent Garden, and it's called... Cafe Pacifica or something like that. However, you do have to watch out for their very good and very tasty and very deadly jugs of Margaritas. Oh, the times that I have ended up completely slaughtered by them.

Oh, and their food is good, too. Though you do have to ask them to bring out hot sauces and things.

Taco Bell, however, would be a great addition to the flora and fauna of London's fast food...

― masonic boom, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There used to be a taco bell in london. It was near...er (provincial memory blank) er....that place where the big tower records is, and the lit up hoardings (::blank::) you know where I mean, anyway...

xoxo

― Norman Fay, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There was a Taco Bell in Leicester Square about ten years ago where the Pizza Hut is now (sandwiched between Burger King and Chiquito's piss poor Mexican). It did appalling business because back then no- one understood how to eat out of soft tortillas. These days even BK does Deli Wraps... Nasty.

Yep, that place in Covent Garden is pretty good. Emma passed out in the toilets there once. That's how good it is.

― Pete, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've passed out in those toilets, too! yay, Emma!

― masonic boom, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Taco Bell may still be in the Earl's Court Road, I'm not sure.

― suzy, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I did not actually pass out properly. I merely came over a little unnecessary, as my mum would say. And it was not through alcohol either. Nor was the time I passed out in that Greek restaurant and bashed my chin on the table scarring myself for life. I have a worrying tendency to pass out for no reason. Haven't done it for a while actually, I'm about due for a fainting fit.....

― Emma, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Could you be anaemic, Emma? That's one of the more alarming symptoms. Do you also bruise easily? If you get to the point in anaemia where you get dizzy and faint a lot, be careful, cause they'll drag you off to hospital and change your blood.

― masonic boom, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nah, I am very robust and hearty. I just have very low blood pressure which, as my mum keeps reminding me, is useful when you are pregnant.

I once fainted at college during a belly dancing class. I banged my head very hard on the floor and all the other girls crowded round and assumed that I was anorexic (well, a curvy anorexic). I had such a bad headache I could not do my essay that week and explained to my tutor. He thought I said 'ballet dancing' and was quite impressed but when I explained that it was belly dancing he was a bit flummoxed.

― Emma, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Are you vegetarian?

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have these spells of cognitive dissonce . Where i cannot move and do not know where i am . So i feel your pain Emma.

― anthony, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Green tea and red bean ice cream are the only flavors I will eat.

― Melissa W, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Miretti's daily secial today was casatta. It was the best ever. I'm going to miss miretti's so much.

― Ed, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hate Japanese Ice cream, and fo r that matt er most of their sweets. Why the beans! Beans are for salty dishes!

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Like Taiwanese cakey sweetie things. It's like: Here, have a cake. Oh, thanks, don't mind if I do. WHAT THE FUCK? There's a hard boiled egg in here! What's that all about!

― Emma, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I agree. All these special kinds of IC that are made of things that are not sweet. But i do love chinese buns .

― anthony, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I heard CHinese weiners are small

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four months pass...

WHY THE ICECREAM PUT THE STABILISER THAT CAN BE FORMING THE TEXTURE , AND THE VANILLA FLAVOUR IS IT COMING FROM PINE TREE SKIN , PLEASE ANSWER THEM . THANK YOU FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION ! WINSTON LEUNG

― LEUNG MAN KIT WINSTON, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"What is your favorite kind."

The kind that pokes out the top of low-cut Baby Phat tee shirts in the summertime, of course.

"Do you put stuff on it ?"

In this order: my fingertips, lips, paperclips, gatorgrips, Biore strips (I cannot abide leaving a young lady's nipple prone to comedogenic attack apres-freaknasty. I am a man of substance and finesse.)

― Sweet Dick Willie, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan, I told you to cut back on your speed intake.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate Japanese Ice cream, and fo r that matt er most of their sweets.
Wah? I love Pocky. I love doorayaki. I even love those powdered red bean buns they serve with macha tea. Some have been known to choke on'em. I also like macha ice (green tea ice). What about red bean soup? Yummy.

― helen fordsdale, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

GINGER [sp]ice cream

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eight months pass...

strawberry flavou any kind of ice cream as long as it's strawberry organic strawberry ice-cream is nice too. I prefer my ice cream without anything on it but if i do have something it would have to be strawberry syrup.

― , Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

banana split is yummy!

― Julio Desouza, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A few nights ago I found an old container of ice cream in the freezer, it was left over from when I this boyfriend and this one time that we bought some ice cream. It was one of those ice cream containers that has two varieties of ice cream in it, this one was half Vanilla and half Goody Goody Gum Drops. But when I found it there was only Vanilla left. Vanilla was my half of the ice cream purchase. So I ate it.

― rainy, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

when I this boyfriend = when I had this boyfriend

― rainy, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

rainy- eating ice cream can be tough, no?

I have been eating ice cream everyday, just before I go to bed...

― Julio Desouza, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah.

― rainy, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like strawberry best but it is surprisingly hard to find, at least at a reasonable price, so I generally buy vanilla which is very cheap indeed.

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just read that Sainsbury's six top selling ice creams are all Vanilla?!?!?!?!? what fresh madness is that?

I am a new convert to Phish food, dodgy hippy connotations aside, it is princely.

― chris, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris! Hello! I add to From Russia With Buzz, also Cherry Garcia and Baileys Hagen Daz and an ice cream I bought from a small shop by Lincoln Cathedrall which actually tasted like apple pie, not just apples. I'm not sure jow it works, but it tastes love

― Anna, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

http://www.dreyers-dreamery.com/image/flavorImages/1844p.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 February 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

Strawberry, mint chocolate chip, coffee heath bar crunch, oreo cookie, cookies and cream, and in the freezer now but not yet sampled: cherry vanilla.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 14 July 2003 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Gianduja, Coffee, Vanilla, cookies and cream.

Italian ices esp. Benfaremo and esp. peach and lemon. Sorbets esp. Ciao Bella and esp. blackberry.

Latin Playboys' "Lemon 'n Ice"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 14 July 2003 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

without question, the best ice cream can be found here:

http://www.thehotspotonline.com/thewurld/articles/GandD1.jpg

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 July 2003 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

mark h. i was in oxford for the first time in like 10 years and i met that cow! highlight of the weekend for me.

my faves are mint chocolate cookie and coconut. mint chocolate milk shakes rule.

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 14 July 2003 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I could eat ice cream until it came out of my nose. in fact I often do

however, ice cream that has more chunks and gunge and foreign bodies in it than actual ice cream = dud.

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 14 July 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

MARINE ICES!!!

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 14 July 2003 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Colette, there are now two G&Ds in Oxford - the original George & Davis in Little Clarendon Street and the newer George & Danver in what was the St Aldates Cafe. The latter is bigger and more central and has decor which includes grass for the cow to eat (wooden spiky bits painted green), but the original one has mooing competitions. If yr moo is judged the best you win free ice cream!

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 July 2003 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Ice cream rules! We had home made ice creams in the garden yesterday with waffle cornets & neopolitan ice cream. num! (n.b. neither the ice cream or cornets were homemade - just putting them together was our inspired genius!)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 July 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks Mark H...i'm going to a wedding in oxford on saturday, so maybe i'll try to get into town early to have a cone and check out the cow stuff a bit more. is it bad that i'm wondering if that will be more fun than the wedding itself?

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 14 July 2003 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Colette - do not feel guilty, cows & ice cream, there is no more fun to be had!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 July 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I had mint chocolate chip ice cream last night. Yum!

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Monday, 14 July 2003 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I miss miretti in Turin. I still have not found a better ice cream parlour.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 14 July 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

There can be only one... McConnell's Turkish Coffee.

The ragnarock of coffee ice cream

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Rum and raisin, mint chip, jaffa, mocha, coffee cream, I'd kill for any of them!

― Karen, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 06:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I am sitting in a humid, sweltering, unairconditioned office. Just bring me ice cream. Any ice cream. This is a challenge for west end-based ILXors - email me and I'll tell you where to bring it. Thanks!

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

NB any ice cream made of dairy. If anyone tries anything with that soy crap, why, I'll...

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

mark, you should work here. it's also unairconditioned, but when it gets really hot, my boss buys ice cream for us all. nothing too fancy, just magnums and similar, but it is such a nice treat to have once in a while.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Did I mention that our cafe is loaded up with buckets of the stuff for free ;o)

and fresh buckets too, which is always a pleasure

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

The best place is on Lygon St which is just like in italy cause they make it fresh every day, my favourite is Ferrero Rocher but I liked the fig as well. IT was good, I had fun.

― Nellie (nellskies), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Well Collette, I'm out of work and very clever and stuff, so I'd be happy to! Where are you, and when do I start?

Um, the rest of you, I don't mean to nag but could you get your butts over here? I'm wilting, yo.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a scoop of toffee creme, a scoop of banoffee and a scoop of strawberry cheesecake. And I'm still wilting.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

somebody is here right now with free ice cream. I just went vegan. *sigh*

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm freezing, co our air-conditioning is far too efficient. I had to have a soup at lunch to warm myself up, and I need to buy some tights so i can put them on when i get into work.

Still, I'm sure I'd like an ice cream as soon as the heat hits me when I walk out the door.

One of the takeaways in Walthamstow have a freezer with Kulfi to takeaway, I think by the time I get out of the vicky line this afternoon I'll be needing one....

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Teeny, turn back! There's still time! I hope you took one anyway, to, uk, look after it for someone else...

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

it must be nice having one's own Underground line.

I can't remember the name of the ice cream i had the last time I was at G&Ds (see reference upthread), but it had brandy in it, that much I do remember. It was huge too.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

Hey Annabelle!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Ice Creeeeam!" was one of the dumbest things I used to say at when listening to techno buildups. "Sugaaaaa!" and "Get Ready For The Paaaaain!" too. I should have been shot.

― LC, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, suddenly techno buildups sound GRATE! I will try and emulate this technique at Club FT tonight, if it isn't copyrighted, or anything.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Noone regulates your world but you! Go for it tigerstyle!

― LC, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter is all powerful, yes

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

ICE CREAM IS ESSENTIAL

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 27 March 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll bet some creamy milk chocolate ice cream, with thumb-sized chunks of chocolate-covered maple cream, would be really spectacularly good. But dammit, it's Lent, and I said I wouldn't!

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 27 March 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

two words: aero honeycomb.

you already did.

jesus isn't looking, I swear.

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 27 March 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

But I'd already bought the Aero honeycomb for post-Lenten use! The ice cream, I'd have to go buy the ingredients and all. It'll wait. I don't have any maple candy (that's what I meant, not maple cream) right now anyway. But it sounds good.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 27 March 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

dammit, yes it does. you're killin' me here.

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 27 March 2004 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

You could do it yourself with Breyer's extra-creamy milk chocolate ice cream and some chocolate-covered maple creams (American Spoon makes them). Damn, that'd be like the best sundae ever. With pecans! Roasted sugar-covered pecans still hot from the oven.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 27 March 2004 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Tep, you're killin' me here.

Ice cream -- hm, well, right now I'm really craving a DQ-style banana split, but having it be an all-strawberry affair instead of the three flavors it normally puts. Complete with chopped nuts on top. Mmm.

I'd go on and fantasize about all the super-rich chocolatey goodness that comprises many of my favorite flavors/kinds of ice cream, but seeing as though I'm developing a pimple just thinking about it, I won't.

I do, however, highly resent the implications made early on in this thread (ha, three years ago!) that Taco Bell = Mexican. That's just crazy talk. Taco Bell bears little relation to actual Mexican food. And I would adore the opportunity to bring actual Mexican food to Europe, but I don't have the funds to do so. Drat.

*sniffles, shuffles off to sleep*

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 27 March 2004 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

where are some good places to get ice cream, in london?

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 14 July 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

Rose Petal ice cream and Salty Caramel ice cream .. oooh, I could get some today!

Sorry, gareth.. back to you.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 14 July 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

Dunno about London but the kiosk at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh has delicious ice scream. As does Luca's in Musselburgh and Morningside.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 14 July 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

Watch these rap niggaz get all up in your guts
French-vanilla, butter-pecan, chocolate-deluxe
Even caramel sundaes is gettin touched
And scooped in my ice cream truck, Wu tears it up

Yo honey-dips, summertime, fine Jheri drippin
See you on Pickens with a bunch of chickens how you're clickin
I catch shootin strong notes as we got close
She rocked rope, honey throat smellin like Impulse
Your whole shell baby's wicked like Nimrod
Caught me like a fresh-water scrod, or may I not be God
Attitude is very rude Boo, crabby like seafood
It turns me on like Vassey and Lahrule
They call me Starky Love-hun, check the strategy
By any means, Shirley Temple cross was done by Billie Jean's
Black Misses America, your name is Erica, right true
Lazy eyeball, small piece, six shoe
Caramel complexion, breath smellin like cinnamon
Excuse me hon, the Don mean no harm, turn around again
God damn, backyard's bangin like a Benz-y
If I was jiggy, you'd be spotted like Spudz McKenzie
I'm high powered put Adina Howard to sleep
Yo pardon, that bitch been on my mind all week, but uhh
Back to you Maybelline Queen let's make a team
You can have anything in this world except CREAM
So whatchu wanna do? Whatchu wanna do?
Let's go ahead and walk these dogs and represent Wu

Watch these rap niggaz get all up in your guts
French-vanilla, butter-pecan, chocolate-deluxe
Even caramel sundaes is gettin touched
And scooped in my ice cream truck, Wu tears it up

Shaolin's finest, whattup Boo, peace your highness
Yo I'm loungin, big dick style, y'all niggaz is the flyest
Moves you're making too fly jewels are shaking
not a rape patient, you're looking good fly colored Asian
Ghettoes, them is your hometown, we can go the whole round
After that, I'm shootin downtown
I'm rockin hats and you wig is all intact
Who's that queen bee chick, eyes curly black
Freaks be movin in fly sneaks
Two finger rings and gold teeth, and ain't afraid to hold heat
So when I step in the square dear
You better have CREAM to share, Ricans, ven aqui yeah

Watch these rap niggaz get all up in your guts
French-vanilla, butter-pecan, chocolate-deluxe
Even caramel sundaes is gettin touched
And scooped in my ice cream truck, Wu tears it up

Black chocolate girl wonder, shade brown like Thunder
Politic til your deficit step, gimme your number
Your sexy persuasive ta-ta's and thighs
Catch my eyes like highs I want your bodily surprise
Double dime some time, Ice Cream you got me fallin out
like a cripple, I love you like I love my dick size
ooh baby I miss you, your sweet tender touches
take pulls off the dutches, orgasm in my mindstate
masterbate in your clutches, I want you for self
like wealth, so play me closely
Bitches paranoia for the sting, who want the most of me
Only a hard dozen want to be callin me cousin
Thirsty for my catalog, baby shoppin spree you're lovin
Call me if you want to get dug like the pockets
I jizm like a giant break brooms out of their sockets

Wu-Tang in the cut, for real niggaz what?
It's the after party and bitches want to fuck
Ice cold bitches melt down when my clutch
They want they titties sucked, ice cream
Yeah, your guts

Watch these rap niggaz get all up in your guts
French-vanilla, butter-pecan, chocolate-deluxe
Even caramel sundaes is gettin touched
Ice cold bitches melt down when in the clutch
They want they titties sucked, ice cream

One love to my chocolate deluxes, keep your nails done
and your wigs tight, word up
One love to my butter-pecan Ricans for calling me papi
That's for real
One love to caramel sundaes, with the cherries on top
Yeah
And big up to my french vanillas
Parlez vous, francais, mi amor, merci, oui oui, bon bons
and all that good stuff
That good stuff

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

apricot, melon

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 14 July 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

apricot sorbet!

― youn, Friday, 15 July 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

You could try zilli cafe on berwick st, gareth, their ice cream looks reasnoble.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 15 July 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

i had ben and jerrys for the first time today. the strawberry cheesecake one

why does everyone love it so much? its kind of average. the marks and spencer one is way better

still sad there is no dairy queen in this country. id love a quintroon strawberry blizzard right now

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 31 July 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE IS AWESOME

― The Original Jimmy Mod (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 31 July 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry. I was raised on Haagen Dasz Belgian Praline, as that was the only thing available in the Perfect Pizza freezer cupboard opposite my house during the mid 90s........

It would probably be a spasm-inducing revelation if something better entered my life.

― JTS, Sunday, 31 July 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

i had very good soft-serve pistachio frozen yogurt yesterday.

― i can move move move any mountain (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 31 July 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.haagendazs.fr/lib_flavor/imageParf_29.jpg

Vanilla Caramel Brownie

It just screams LICK ME like Rose McGowan does.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

Still my favourite is Dame Blanch (vanilla ice cream with hot chocolate).

― nathalie, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

Green tea!

― Jesse, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

But not mochi. When faced with mochi, I will peel off the gooey jelly coating and eat the ice cream inside.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

i want banana, walnut and pecan muffin ice cream

― blueski, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

Mackies honeycomb ice cream. Yum. I'm going to go and get some NOW.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

There was a company at GMEX doing the most wonderful ice cream. Whisky and ginger was particularly good; lemongrass also. But the king of them all was the Uncle Joes mint balls flavour. Incredible stuff.

― Matt, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

strawberry cheesecake is a dull B&J flavor and a rare example of them playing catch-up instead of leading the way (as they did with high butter-fat ice cream; with giant chunks of stuff inside it; with chocolate chip cookie dough; with heath bars)

what i can't understand is why nobody makes a red peppermint stick ice cream, which is my favorite flavor. the only way i get to eat it is if somebody actually makes it themselves! (not me cause i don't have a maker, perhaps this should change)

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

Ah macha ice cream is the bomb! Yes yes YES!

― nathalie, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

Dreyer's has (had?) Girl Scout Cookie ices cream w/SAMOSAS! coconut chocolate omg.

Has anyone tried Colbert's flavor?

― Abbott, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

several ohio companies make peppermint stick, tracer, although that's of no help to you. mitchell's is my favorite.

― lauren, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

now i want some.

― lauren, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

The B&J Coffee + Heath Bar is really dear to me. I'm in favor of more use of those carmelized sugar/dairy tastes in more things -- toffee, butterscotch, all these lovely variations on basic sugar tastes. (Honey too, actually.) Pairing it with coffee isn't just ridiculously tasty, it reminds me of my whole More Toffee agenda -- I feel like when I was young, coffee would have been considered a fairly oddball (or upscale) choice for dessert flavorings, but in the Starbucks era coffee/espresso flavors have been normalized into every sweet thing there is. And butterscotch and toffee have similar burny-war bitter + sweet tastes as lots of sugary coffee drinks. More of them! More! Also liqour tastes!

― nabisco, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

Green tea is only bested by sweet potato flavour in the Japanese weirdness stakes.
Anyway, in the boring old west Green & Black's chocolate flavour is well nigh unbeatable.

― Matt #2, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

I heard Colbert's "Americone Dream" was quite good, not found any over here in England though.

― james, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:14 (eighteen years ago)

I forgot to buy some!

Yesterday I had some toffee ice cream. Yum-MY!

― nathalie, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 08:22 (eighteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Vanilla ice cream w/Kahlua on top is damn fucking good and about all I ever want.

― Abbott, Monday, 21 January 2008 03:07 (seventeen years ago)

Coffee ice creammmmmmm

― Rock Hardy, Monday, 21 January 2008 03:47 (seventeen years ago)

eleven months pass...

LIght red meaning. Thank you.

― f_rankle, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 08:21 (sixteen years ago)

five months pass...

i'm eating away my misery w/ this bacon and maple syrup ice cream (i drizzled aunt jemima on top)

― boys (Tape Store), Monday, 15 June 2009 01:27 (sixteen years ago)

i have (most of a) pint of ben and jerry's mint chocolate chip ice cream and the remainder of the wire season 1 waiting for me at home :D

― susan fassbender (donna rouge), Monday, 15 June 2009 03:03 (sixteen years ago)

also who is this that makes bacon/maple ice cream?

― susan fassbender (donna rouge), Monday, 15 June 2009 03:03 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

WTF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pq8TFptKR4

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 11 July 2009 20:33 (sixteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f7/Golden_gaytime_box.jpg/450px-Golden_gaytime_box.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gaytime
Aussies have a gay old time with ice cream!

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 11 July 2009 20:39 (sixteen years ago)

Fat + sugar + cool + creamy = hard not to like

― Aimless, Saturday, 11 July 2009 21:14 (sixteen years ago)

There's a small ice-cream shop near my house called Whip & Dip; They make the best mint chocolate-chip ice cream I've ever had. There another ice-cream shop down the road called Wall's Ice Cream; they make the best coffee ice cream and Guinness-beer flavored ice cream I've ever had (sadly, I don't think they make the Guinness ice cream anymore).

― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 11 July 2009 21:25 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

My fave self-made icecream

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4777469585_4512540621.jpg

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:33 (fifteen years ago)

aw!!

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:49 (fifteen years ago)

nice

― is breads of india still tite (admrl), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:50 (fifteen years ago)

for some reason my comment didn't go through yestreday. that looks delectable!

― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Thursday, 15 July 2010 12:37 (fifteen years ago)

You can all LICK it. lol

My god, I'm 36 and I knit icecreams.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 15 July 2010 19:08 (fifteen years ago)

ten months pass...

Ew, my brother-in-law posted on Facebook that he had some bacon and maple syrup ice cream. That it exists makes me want to go into hiding.

My favorites - peppermint and bubble gum. I especially love mint syrup!

― Deremiah Was a Bullfrog (u s steel), Friday, 10 June 2011 16:06 (fourteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

I am going to eat ice cream tonight.

Madagascan Vanilla. Now, if only I could get some Devonshire clotted cream to go with that shit...

― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Monday, 4 July 2011 14:43 (fourteen years ago)

Sounds pretty good. Vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkles is a wonderful thing imo.

My favorites - peppermint and bubble gum. I especially love mint syrup!

― Deremiah Was a Bullfrog (u s steel), Friday, June 10, 2011 12:06 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Bubble gum ice cream is so revolting to me. Just the idea of it makes me want to vom.

Went out for ice cream last night. Wound up getting hard yogurt but it's so good you couldn't tell the diff. Oatmeal raisin cookie falvor with rainbow sprinkles. Always rainbow sprinkles. They're my fav.

― $^o$ (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 4 July 2011 14:47 (fourteen years ago)

raspberry frozen yoghurt can be very nice

― nakhchivan, Monday, 4 July 2011 18:24 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.ilovemygrub.com/news/2011/heston-blumenthal-mustard-ice-cream-waitrose

hmmmn

― nakhchivan, Monday, 4 July 2011 18:24 (fourteen years ago)

Blue Bell half gallons, 3/$13.

Dessert Trio
Coffee
Homemade Vanilla

Happy 4th, y'all.

― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Monday, 4 July 2011 18:40 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

New Yorkers, any assents or demurrals?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/dining/reviews/new-yorks-new-frozen-treats-25-and-under.html

― you call it trollin' i call it steamrollin' (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 July 2011 17:51 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

i would like to talk about jeni's salty caramel ice cream, which is the best ice cream i have ever had in my life.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, 7 March 2013 03:23 (twelve years ago)

there is a mostly finished pint of ben & jerry's karamel sutra in my freezer. i don't want to finish it because THEN i would feel like a glutton -- never mind the 3/4 that my bf and i already ate.

― johnny hit and run paul lynde (get bent), Thursday, 7 March 2013 03:57 (twelve years ago)

I would like to eat some salty caramel gourmet ice cream and then talk about it

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 03:58 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

Kroger's store-brand (Private Selection) ice creams are mind-blowingly good. They're not paying me to post this.

― hey, big dispender (WilliamC), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 17:14 (eleven years ago)

costco carries a generic vanilla icecream that is so FREAKING good.

also on the fancy end of things, Straus Family Creamery's vanilla is the bomb.

I recommend both of these as someone who doesn't even usually love vanilla icecream much at all, but these two are crazy good

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 17:59 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

Bought the Breyers chocolate/vanilla split 7".

― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 27 June 2016 01:52 (nine years ago)

Honestly it's really good. I don't understand why I ever pay for ultra-premium ice cream because I don't think it's all that much better than this.

― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 27 June 2016 01:52 (nine years ago)

as far as supermarket brands

it has to be aldens

best so far

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 27 June 2016 16:50 (nine years ago)

Bums me out that half the Breyers flavors are labeled "Frozen Dairy Dessert"

― JoeStork, Monday, 27 June 2016 17:38 (nine years ago)

Oh is that really still a thing? I thought they stopped doing that. This one was definitely ice cream.

― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 27 June 2016 18:03 (nine years ago)

depends on the flavour i believe

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 27 June 2016 18:31 (nine years ago)

i like breyers a lot, winco almost always has them for half the normal store-price

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 June 2016 19:08 (nine years ago)

eight years pass...

do you guys still ice cream? i have really cut back. but sometimes i need a stiff drink because i don't drink anymore. and before i know it i am filling a mug with half-baked unilever ben & jerrys and coca-cola and downing it like a sailor on leave. but not that often. just as a last resort.

what you buy if you want to ice cream?

― scott seward, Tuesday, 25 February 2025 00:58 (eight months ago)

i cant icecream at all now that i’m t2 diabetic so on the rare occasion that i have some saddo modified sugarfree dessert that would call for icream (brownie, pie, etc)i do whipped cream instead

i miss icecream so much tho

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 February 2025 01:04 (eight months ago)

I was jonesing for IC last week but almost all the brands have guar gum or soy lecithin in them and don't ask me why but those both make me really sick and I can't eat 'em. In some stores I can't find any frozen desserts at all that don't have one or the other. So I got two bags of frozen fruit puree--passionfruit and blackberry--thawed them at home and cut with oat milk and raw sugar, then refroze them halfway, then swirled together and froze all the way. Now I'm cutting off slices and it's basically popsicle consistency? Would be better if I had an ice cream maker.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 25 February 2025 01:12 (eight months ago)

sorry about that, VG! :(

― scott seward, Tuesday, 25 February 2025 03:41 (eight months ago)

i get to live vicariously through u, skott! don’t let me down

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 February 2025 04:05 (eight months ago)

we are lucky to have a local ice cream company here that uses good simple ingredients. and local ingredients too.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/assets.wholefoodsmarket.com/PIE/product/5e013730dc8c71464f7e5426_00048896100831-glamor-glamor5-2019-11-19t17-15-31-scotts-iphone-quality-90-1-14-3-user-5dc87eee7383b82129237e3b-bok6-131418.jpg

https://hagersfarmmarket.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/snows.jpg

― scott seward, Tuesday, 25 February 2025 04:26 (eight months ago)

Strictly into sorbet: stone fruit, berries, citrus or tropical, dark chocolate. I like the versions that mix fruit with herb / floral notes or that let the natural bitterness flourish. Exceptions made for Fior di latte, coconut, amarena is nice.

― Naledi, Tuesday, 25 February 2025 08:02 (eight months ago)

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