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My local grocery store has started stocking a "limited edition" apple pie ice cream (message me for the details, don't want to be shilling). It's one of my favorites -- not only does it have chunks of real apple and graham cracker crust, but the ice cream itself has a delicious apple flavor. The whole thing tastes like you took a slice of apple pie with vanilla ice cream and blended it chunky style.

I always figured there was some boring food-science reason you couldn't make a decent apple ice cream, but this shows it's perfectly possible. So why isn't it more common? Apple pie is one of the most popular deserts, and you find apple flavoring in plenty of drinks and candies. What gives?

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[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 hours ago

Caramelized apple ice cream is amazing !

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Why isn't orange (the fruit) ice cream more popular? I don't mean sherbet, I mean ice cream. It can be bought in Florida, but I've never heard of it anywhere else.

[–] lando55@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I feel silly asking since you mentioned Florida, but do they use real oranges? Any time I've ever seen or tasted orange ice cream it was always that fake stuff.

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago

I do believe it's made with real orange, especially if you're get it from a street vendor near the beach. Been years since I had it.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 11 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I've wondered about the same but with kiwi fruit it's delicious and refreshing yet you don't see any flavored drinks or ice cream with that flavor.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

I suspect it's related to the difficulty in processing. Kiwi fruit are quite small and non-trivial to extract the flesh from. This would make it more expensive to extract.

This is less of an issue now that a few decades back. However, most people are quite conservative on their juice choices. Low sales still mean higher cost, which reduces sales.

[–] inconel@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Kiwi and pineapples have enzyme to break proteins down, causing it taste better if they have contact to diary products long enough. Canned pineapples don't have this issue but I haven't seen canned kiwi, maybe that explains no kiwi ice cream

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 10 hours ago

Maybe. I have seen pineapple flavored drinks though

[–] SirSnufflelump@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

In the US we have a lot of strawberry kiwi flavored drinks. Rarely just kiwi by itself though.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 11 hours ago

I'd drink it. Still just kiwi would be great imho

[–] renrenPDX@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Applesauce ice cream sounds foul.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 13 hours ago

Is it the one I saw at ALDI? (or possibly the same supplier)

It was pretty freaking good ngl

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

damn good question

[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There is such a variety of apples it's hard to pick one apple flavor.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 57 minutes ago

Granny Smith. You're welcome.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 57 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Making ice cream with actual apples involved is a nightmare due to acidity influencing other ingredients. But making it apple-scented is trivial.

But you raised a very good question...

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

I feel like dehydrated apples might work.

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 73 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because it's too expensive to crunch up a whole iPhone just for one cone.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 23 hours ago

This should be higher. Even broken iPhones from 3 years ago sell for tens or hundreds of euros.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 8 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Idk but grape icrecream is illegal

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not really into sweets, but one day i saw a bar of chocolate with grapes on it, and i was like: chocolate with pockets full of grapes? Ymmi. At home i unpacked it and stuffed it in my mouth.

I almost threw up because it wasn't grapes, it was grappa. Of course we can't have nice things, we have to waste grapes on rotten ugly juice.

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Chocolate with raisins is super common though...

[–] Decoy321@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Killed someones dog

[–] s_s@lemm.ee 7 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Apples turn brown when you freeze them.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago

While that is the case, modern industrial ice cream rarely contains the actual fruit. Just take standard Neutro mix, regenerate it with water, not milk, and add some food coloring (a light green), an acidic component like citric acid, and "natural" "apple" flavor.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

you'd end up with apple cider vinegar as your flavorant, and that doesn't play well with milk.

[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

What, you don't like cold soured apple curd tart cream? It has nutmeg in it!

[–] JASN_DE@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are we talking Apple or apple pie? Because from your post I can't really tell.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What flavour is apple pie?

[–] 4th_Times_A_Charm@sopuli.xyz 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And brown sugar.

Gotta get those cinnamons-syrup-swirls, amirite?

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[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

I've recently had a similar discussion on why orange ice cream isn't that popular, but exists in form of water ice

Our conclusion was that acidic flavors, like orange and apple just aren't good combined with cream, instead being better served as a sorbet

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago

Ok. Why is apple or grape sorbet uncommon?

[–] Fish@midwest.social 3 points 17 hours ago

Orange creamcicle flavored ice cream is pretty easy to find. But I think it's usually vanilla ice cream with layers of orange sherbet. Strawberries are acidic and strawberry ice cream is a popular flavor.

In my experience, apples just don't taste very good when frozen. Maybe that's why they don't sell frozen apples at most supermarkets?

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

What about orange creamsicles?

That sort of goes along with his point. The orange part is separate from the cream part.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I make ice cream as a hobby and found orange ice cream is too rich to eat even a scoop in one sitting. It's completely possible but it's hard to eat.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

I had this delightful tangerine sorbet. a golfball scoop is all we needed

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[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Most apple flavored stuff sucks, except for apples.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Apple brandy would like a word. One of my favorite liquors, it's fantastic.

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 2 points 14 hours ago

Apple brandy counts as a serving of fruit, not apple flavored.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Where do you live? Where I live (Austria), apple ice cream is maybe not 100% universally available at all ice cream vendors, but common enough that I have no problems getting it if I want to.

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[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Cinnamon apple jelly should be more common too! (Not apple butter… fuck Apple butter).

Apple cinnamon all the things!

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[–] jecht360@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Forget apple, we need more banana/banana creme ice cream flavors.

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