Spumoni. They even make that anymore. Probably only in the Mediterranean area.
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Boysenberry. It's weirdly become very rare at least where I live. It used to be quite common
Kay's Butter Pecan. I don't think you can get it anymore.
Hokey Pokey ice cream. It's a vanilla ice cream with honey comb pieces inside of it. I'm positive that most kiwi kids would answer the same way. A close second is boysenberry ice cream.
Same! Passionfruit also. Mmmm.
I don't even remember who made them, but the little single serve cups of chocolate ice cream with the wooden spoon
Nobody said Cookie Dough...
Okay so, When I was a kid my mom warned me against cookie dough being dangerous.
Perhaps others had a similar experience?
Perhaps it was a generational trauma we missed?
SUPERMAN!
Back in my home country we had this "cream" flavor that was like a mild yellow colored vanilla buttercream. I've never been able to find the exact equivalent in the US. Closest are panna cotta or butter (ie: butter pecan)
After eight.
As a kid in Italy.
A grown up taste but I loved it.
Reminds me of that holiday.
Chocolate chip, without mint, in baskin robbins.
Not technically ice cream, but rainbow sherbet. I try to have some from time to time.
Orange sherbet in a cone. My grandfather used to get it for me after taking me to the park to play when I was around 4-6 or so. He passed away almost a decade ago and every time I have some, I think of him. He was the best.
Orange sherbet was also a thing my step dad gave me, he'd always be excited to bring it home.
Pumpkin or peach ice cream has the strongest childhood association for meβa place by the highway sold it fresh & seasonally. These arenβt common flavors either.
What was your first memory of eating it?
Raspberry ripple!
Whats the ripple?
Vanilla ice cream and raspberry syrup mixed in in a ripple effect.
Ooo, does the ripple seep into the vanilla creating a yummy gradient?
Young coconut ice cream. It's one of those flavors we can easily get from those ice cream carts that stop by the neighborhood usually in the middle of the afternoon. There's also mango and avocado completing the usual three flavors the cart would have, and I would always buy all three flavors available (unless I really hate the flavor).
Some of the adults would opt to have the ice cream served in a bread bun (usually just repurposed hamburger buns, without the sesame seeds), but I always opted for the sugar cones.
Have you ever tried the bun?
Yep, I tried it. It actually is good with the bun. It's like a poor man's ice cream sandwich.
Bryers vanilla would if it was the same as it used to be. That was my go to add a kid. It sucks now.
Boysenberry
that's also great for meat, minus the ice cream part
What is it made of?
I would imagine boysenberries. π
Ooo, That's super cool!
It's like, all the berries combined.
Plain old vanilla. We used to get those big gallon buckets of ice cream cause they were cheap.
Neapolitan. We always seemed to have it around when I was very young.
chip'n'mint
I learned to like it because of Johnny Test, it still is great.
Same. I didn't care for it much. My dad always got the good stuff, vanilla.
Strawberry.
Hoodsie cups in the northeast.
Honeycomb, from the northern Irish ice cream shop that was Queen Elizabeth's favourite. The only shop they ever made outside of NI was in Windsor as the queen liked it.
Did it involve honeycombs?
None, the closest thing would be cheap chocolate spread with some medicine (we didn't have a lot of sweets at home)
Oh, and Snickers ice cream. It conjures up images of vacationing in Holland or Denmark and trying to fish for crabs with a cord and a cracked open clam. For some reason I feel like the clam tastes like the caramel from the Snickers.
Lemon in an absolutely tasteless cone. I don't have a specific image in my head except for the ice in one of those factory made cones.
Plus the song Gelato Al Limon by Paolo Conte. My parents had it on cassette and we would hear it in the car all the time.
Whisky & Ginger, from the front at Whitby Harbour.
Ooo, that sounds like a smacker.
How does it melt?
Two come to mind.
- Classic cookies nβ cream
- The 1-gallon vanilla-fudge swirl that they used(?) to sell at walmart. I think it was called the party bucket or something like that.
Those two flavors usually take me back
Vanilla soft serve with rainbow sprinkles (or jimmies for certain nor-easterners). I even have one tattooed on my arm as part of a boardwalk sleeve.
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