ICE CREAM

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Yum.

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

Gelato, speaking of Italy - mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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!

Look out: extremely skilled gastropornographer in the area.

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!!!

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

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?

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

Mmmm, DIM SUM. Could eat that all day.

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

Coffee ice creammmmmmm

LIght red meaning. Thank you.

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

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

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

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

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gaytime
Aussies have a gay old time with ice cream!

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

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).

My fave self-made icecream

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

aw!!

nice

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

You can all LICK it. lol

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

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!

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...

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!

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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.

raspberry frozen yoghurt can be very nice

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

hmmmn

Blue Bell half gallons, 3/$13.

Dessert Trio
Coffee
Homemade Vanilla

Happy 4th, y'all.

New Yorkers, any assents or demurrals?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Bought the Breyers chocolate/vanilla split 7".

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.

as far as supermarket brands

it has to be aldens

best so far

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

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

depends on the flavour i believe

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