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WORLD WAR ICE CREAM HAS BEGUN!

(this is where you mention the best fucking ice cream place on the planet, that is -- of course -- just walking distance from your neighborhood -- which automatically makes it the best fucking ice cream place ever)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

hi, i'll take the obvious, commercial answer, but i really like Ben & Jerry's

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmmmmmmmmm Phish Food

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going to trump Ned and mention Hans' Homemade Ice Cream in Santa Ana, CA (near Costa Mesa), just because I still remember it is as the best ice cream ever. (Seattle doesn't have much good ice cream places as good gelato places)

Oh, and FROZEN YOGURT (or "FROYO"), GELATO, SOY ICE CREAM, etc. all DO NOT COUNT. It must have real dairy cream in it. (sorry vegans, keep in mind I'm eliminating myself from this war, partially, by definition)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going to trump Ned and mention Hans' Homemade Ice Cream in Santa Ana, CA

Fucker. (You are right, though.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

If it's got to be within walking distance in my neighborhood, then it's got to be Baskin Robbins.

Mmmmpeanutbutterchocolatesugarcomakillme.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm, outside of italy:

ciao bella (2 locs: SoMa & Ferry Bldg), SF CA

a lot of people will probably say another local brand (like Mitchell's, Dreyer's, Fenton's or Bud's), but trust me on this.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

When the Marble Slab Creamery carries its chocolate peanut butter ice cream (which I usually manage to check on oh, say, once or twice a week), that day is a really, really good day. That ice cream is perfection and I love having a waffle cone filled with that be my lunch for that day.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I miss the old Double Rainbow on Polk & Clay in SF. But there's still Bob's Donuts nearby. Not ice cream, but....mmmmmmm....donuts.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

double rainbows are all over the bay area, there was a great place in pacific heights called Rory's that closed about 2 years ago. i used to hike up from japantown for that ackshun.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

If it's got to be within walking distance in my neighborhood, then it's got to be Baskin Robbins.

Mmmmpeanutbutterchocolatesugarcomakillme.

*cries in happiness* My standard ice cream fix while growing up via Baskins-Robbins was a peanut butter and chocolate sundae with butterscotch and whipped cream. Oh man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Mondo Gelato, Cold Stone Creamery

― D Aziz (esquire1983), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Chinatown Ice Cream Factory, Chinatown, NYC, USA.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

(walking distance if it's a nice day and i feel like crossing the manhattan bridge)

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

also, emack & motherfuckin' bolio's (three locations in nyc)

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Being down here, "walking distance" is frigging relative, but lately my saviour has been TCBYs literally 45 minutes from my door. I've fallen hard for their Strawberry Shortcake Supreme Sundae. Shake on the chocolate bits and leave me for 10 minutes.

2nd choice? Definitely Chunky Monkey from B&J.

If it's got to be within walking distance in my neighborhood, then it's got to be Baskin Robbins.

Esp. on Free Cone Night. Pile it on high, and free too?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)

(not a question. Damn that twitch!)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

uh, the only place to get ice cream in my neighborhood is sonic. :(

i'm going to the store for a pint of ben and jerry's. damn this thread. . .

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

uh, the only place to get ice cream in my neighborhood is sonic.

So THAT's what he's calling it now?

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Mmm, sweet torture.....

http://www.benandjerrys.com/assets/images/our_products/packaging/7684040021.gif

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"hi, i'll take the obvious, commercial answer, but i really like Ben & Jerry's "

NO,
ever since Bryars bought them out and reduced the cream content to a much lower amount it just hasn't been any good. I guess they figured the change was subtle enough and the reduce in the making cost was significantly lowered. But five year ago Ben & Jerry's is better by far.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)

to whoever first decided the mixing of ice cream and raw cookie dough was a good idea -- well done, friend.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

NOOOOO, ever since Bryars bought out Ben & Jerry's the cream percent was lowered significantly. (the taste difference is subtle, and the making cost is lowered a lot) but That subtle change in taste really sucks. 5 years ago Ben & Jerry's is so much better, and all that's left is a memory.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

omg damn you all to hell, and damn this pint of haagen-dazs tres leches for being on sale for $2.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

oops, I pretty much post the same message twice

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Swoon! The sugar has just short circuited my brain. Buy, Jody, you must!

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

(xpost) "Inspired by a treasured Latin American dessert, Haagen-Dazs Tres Leches ice cream is the perfect combination of cream, sweetened condensed milk and skim milk blended with pieces of lightly rum-flavored sponge cake and laced with a delicate swirl of golden caramel."

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

(and i did, nichole)

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Ambrosia, food of the gods

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

NOOOOO, ever since Bryars bought out Ben & Jerry's the cream percent was lowered significantly. (the taste difference is subtle, and the making cost is lowered a lot) but That subtle change in taste really sucks. 5 years ago Ben & Jerry's is so much better, and all that's left is a memory.

:-( No wonder the memories are fonder in my brain. *SIGH*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Whatever the name of the ice cream place on Isle de St. Louis is(Bertillions, maybe?) it rules this thread.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

the Haagen-Dazs Bananas Foster flavor restored my faith in humankind

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

midwestern frozen custard reprazent!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm not a fan of the tres leches ice cream

I just went to fiesta but they had no ben &jerry's. got dreyers chocoloate and peanut butter chunk instead.

they also had a new 'southwest' flavor line by blue bell: naranja & pina, dos amigos (mexican vanilla and mexican chocolate) and something de frutas. there was also a new 'lemon tart' flavor.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

the gelato laboratory on orchard street in nyc. opened by the fellow who founded ciao bella once upon a time. pistachio gelato (and cinammon and ginger and chocolate and sweet cream) and green grape sorbet (and black currant and raspberry and tangerine) so good that it's almost painful. i'm taking you there this weekend, gygax!, snow or no snow.

xpost

yes, frozen custard! east coast original's pumpkin rules the ohio division.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

also I like that the name of this thread is totally unparsable but we all magically through the power of dairy get what it means.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh shit! I totally forgot about custard. I can't remember the name of the one St Louis place that spawned them all, but DAMN was it good.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)

just thinking the same thing

xpost

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

ted drewes!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 18 March 2004 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

in Dallas it was Wild About Harry's. Here it's The Hop, about a 2 minute walk, yay. Incredible vanilla shakes, and boy is it cheap.

Gonna try that H-D Bananas Foster on J0hn's rec. Was scoping it last week.

― Aaron A., Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The best ice cream place ever has to be George and Davis in Oxford. It serves some of the best ice cream I've ever had, and does very nice brownies too.

but I'm still on the search for the best ice cream.. I had some gorgeous vanilla ice cream about 7 years ago, at someone's house. It had real vanilla bits in it and everything. Every since I've been trying to find that particular brand.. and I still haven't found it. I think it was some small company in London

― jellybean (jellybean), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

nice lauren!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Mardi Gras - Homemade ice cream made by an Indian family here .. Mango, Rose Petal, Coconut, Cardamom, I forget what else .. but it's the creamiest, richest ice cream ever... Ben & Jerry's - Ha!

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Heading north into PA towards lancaster is a small farm where the ice cream is made right there. It's in a wealthy area. In the summer the cows are roaming just on the otherside of the fence to the left of the counter. That ice cream is good.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

my answer in full:

http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2003/061203/hsg7.html

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The UES' Sant Ambroeus has moved its gelato downtown.

In Seattle, Procopio Gelateria.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

J.B. Scoops, in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, for their chocolate obscene and various caramel flavors -- assuming they haven't changed much, I haven't been there in years.

Ben & Jerry's The Full VerMonty gets an honorable mention.

Bart's chocolate hazelnut ice cream, and Herrell's root beer or espresso ice creams, in Western Massachusetts.

Edy's pink grapefruit sorbet tastes the way a fresh Texan grapefruit smells when you've just sliced it open.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)

tep, what did you end up buying at that super food store? i forget the thread title...

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going this weekend! I can't get ice cream, though, it's a 4 hour drive home. I forced myself to not even shadowshop the frozen section last time.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i was thinking, you should also get a jar of fleur-de-sel caramel

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, I was just talking about fleur de sel caramel in the car the other day. Best caramel on the planet. You are exactly right, I should.

Oh! obIceCream: There's a Louisiana-based ice cream distributor (I don't think they have their own shops, they just make and package and send off to stores) that makes "burnt sugar ice cream," which is just a radar-dodging way to say "Caramel ice cream." But it's really good. It tastes a little like the caramel Starbucks puts on top of their caramel macchiatos.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Ohio winners:

Ice Cream -- Columbus/Cincinnati: Graeter's
Cleveland: Mitchell's

Frz Custard -- as Lauren said, East Coast Original (now within walking distance of the house!!!)

― Jeff Wright, Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

why would they want to dodge calling it caramel ice cream?

PLEASE make sure you revive that thread when you get back from the superstore, tep!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Supermarket Ice Cream Love -- many of Ben & Jerry's varieties, even though it has noticeably changed quality since about five years ago. Followed closely behind by the cherry ice cream manufactured by this area brand called Creamy Creations. Even though I think the Creamy Creations brand might actually be better these days.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Believe me, nothing entertains me more than being able to talk about groceries I bought. I'm not even a food geek in the "yeah, I got this air-dried bresaola, it's amazing, it's this artisanal stuff from this commune in Idaho" way so much as in the "fuckin A these are some great oranges right here" way, which is a lot harder to find an audience for.

I think "caramel" just sounds pedestrian and plain and normal, or at least that things are being marketed as though that were the case; as much as I love dulce de leche, half the things called "dulce de leche-flavored" are no different from "caramel," but there you go. Caramel's star has fallen, much as butterscotch's did in the days of yore.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

oh butterscotch! i miss you so much! COME BACK

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Too late! YOU CANNOT HAVE 1995 AGAIN! It's over!

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

(p.s. sorry Liz Phair)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

butterscotch was really one of my favourite flavours as a kid. hey this gives me a good thread idea

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually remember deciding, when I was like 5, that butterscotch was for kids and caramel was for adults. And then like ten years later I realized that only one of them used to be made out of hard liquor, and it wasn't caramel.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I like butterscotch more now than when I was young. Maybe that's because I haven't had it since then.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently the best way to make ice cream is with liquid nitrogen, which freezes the ingredients quickly (obviously) so that the ice crystals are smaller and thus the texture is better. I'm not sure on the details (like how it doesn't turn into a block of ice), but that's what i've heard.

― Sengai, Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

but does it give you a wicked buzz?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I have friends who do that, it's very dramatic: the nitrogen sends huge clouds of water vapor up, so you have this "smoking" bowl of creamy ice cream.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Miretti's just outside my old neighborhood in Turin, the creamiest cassata, the sharpest lemon, the freshest strawberry and rasberry and a coffee and chocolate richer than any other.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 18 March 2004 06:13 (twenty-two years ago)

that sounds extremely awesome.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 March 2004 06:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Toscanini's - Central Square, Cambridge MA
Hands down.
It occasionally saddens me that I'm 3000 miles away from it.

― walrustone (randomwalrus), Thursday, 18 March 2004 06:44 (twenty-two years ago)

toscanini's!! cambridge mass. ownz!!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 18 March 2004 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The liquid nitrogen thing is cool, and all *snicker* but the BEST ICE CREAM IN THE WORLD is to open the door of my house on a cold snowy night, and scoop up a pile of fresh clean Wyoming snow. Then mix it with cream, sugar and vanilla extract, Add strawberrys and chocolate syrup. The fast freezing works perfectly. No doubt the nitrogen works, BUT FOR CHRIST'S SAKE IT IS LIQUID NITROGEN!

― Speedy (Speedy Gonzalas), Thursday, 18 March 2004 07:53 (twenty-two years ago)

surely eating anything that falls from the sky is sheer madness.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 18 March 2004 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

what about frogs?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 18 March 2004 07:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Liquid nitrogen sounds like it would make for over hard over frozen ice cream. Ice cream should be frozen but soft, squidgy....

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 18 March 2004 08:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Liquid nitrogen ice cream is soft! doesn't make for over-hard ice cream at all

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 18 March 2004 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

also what about the insane freezer burn? Like most good things ice cream need to be made slowly, gently.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 18 March 2004 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The best ice cream in the universe if not several universes is McConnell's Turkish Mocha ice cream. Nothing else is close and you're a communist for suggesting otherwise.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 18 March 2004 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The best ice cream place ever has to be George and Davis in Oxford. It serves some of the best ice cream I've ever had, and does very nice brownies too.

Yes! Damn I miss that place. Turkish delight icecream! Dime bar Crunch! And if you get 50 people to sign a petition for a particular flavour, they'll make it. *sigh*

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 18 March 2004 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm, I love Ben and Jerrys. But, Mad MArtha's on Martha's Vineyard has some good ice cream.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 18 March 2004 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

JP Licks? I suppose I could walk to Toscaninis, but it would take a couple hours. It's way too fucking cold in this shithole town to eat ice cream anyway.

I must've used to live near D Aziz. Mondo Gelato is not ice cream. I never found any good ice cream in Berkeley.

Ted Drews custard is wild. That place is like some glowing yellow spaceship.

― Kris (aqueduct), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i have decided that when i'm rich i will print out a copy of this thread and travel the world in a private jet sampling these ice creams.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

And you're taking me with.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

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