Any ice cream junkies here? Favorite brands? Flavors?

[bif]

The creamer and richer the better. So my go-to brands are Kroger Private Selection, Tillamook, and Guernsay Farms (Michigan brand).

[marble falls]

1. Blue Bonnet - any flavor. Breyers in the 70s - killer vanilla. Not so much now.

[Freddie]

3. Breyer's was made in West Philly

Til the company was sold to Unilever and they moved out of town. Product has been downhill ever since. Plus I think they were the first major ice cream brand to shrink the box.

[marble falls]

13. They shrunk the box on the cache being to say Breyer's was in it. They lied. ...

... we got Breyer's in Akron. It was worth the extra half buck a gallon.

[ILikePie92]

2. Love it!

I love ice cream, virtually any flavor. I have fond memories of my grandmother making ice cream in her old hand operated ice cream maker at home. Peach was her favorite and mine!




Bad thing is.....it makes me sick. Something to do with the milk. I can't drink lactose free milk either so it's something else.

[MuseRider]

4. Blue Bell Homeade Vanilla

https://wwwNit.

Not sure that works anymore but it is a link to Bell the singing cow

[Ritabert]

5. Tillamook....any flavor is good but Neapolitan is a favorite

[marble falls]

14. Tillamook is only worth it in Oregon, sadly. Fortunately I have Blue Bell here in Texas.

[Laffy Kat]

6. Haagen Dazs, coffee ice cream.

Naturally, I love Haagen Dazs, as it has such a high butter-fat content. Really, any coffee flavor ice cream does it for me. Yum.

[TheRickles]

8. Beat me to it!

[Walleye]

29. That's always my choice too!

[womanofthehills]

50. I like coffee Hagen Dazs too

Especially like that it has no chemicals. Many Hagen Dazs flavors list less than 5 ingredients.

Have no idea why someone would buy ice cream with 30 ingredients.

[SheltieLover]

7. Tillamook Musdlide

[Americanme]

9. I love ice cream

Tillamook makes several good flavors, really creamy. Hudsonville is a favorite of mine, their Traverse City Cherry Fudge and Deer Traxx are both great. And Ben and Jerry's makes some really good ones too, their Core ice creams are really good.

[FakeNoose]

10. Giant Eagle is a store brand here in western PA ... they make "Coffee Chip"

... which is an awesome coffee ice cream with chocolate chips. It's outstanding!

[catbyte]

11. I'm partial to Hudsonville Strawberry with Sanders hot fudge

Hudsonville & Sanders are also Michigan brands, but you know that, lol.

[cloudbase]

12. When I'm up in Minnesota or Wisconsin,

I always get some from the Chocolate Shoppe. Peach is the best, but it's seasonal. Heading up next week.

[BBbats]

15. In Philadelphia PA We Have Bassetts!

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Sold at the Reading Terminal Market.
Might be the oldest Ice Cream brand in the USA. Since 1861.
You can find it in some Philly area stores too. High butter fat content. The Rum Raisin & Vanilla are amazing.
Bryers used to be great but hasn't been for years.
And let's give a shout out to New Jersey's Richman's Ice Cream. That's good too.
Local PA brand Turkey Hill is less expensive & pretty good too. I like almost any Ice Cream though I did try Vegen Ice Cream & wasn't too thrilled.
Without Dairy it ain't Ice Cream!

[Freddie]

17. Turkey Hill has some great flavors

Normally I’m one for the most chocolate possible, but I live Turkey Hill orange-vanilla swirl. Vanilla ice cream with swirls of orange sherbet.
Green’s is another local PA brand that’s great, especially the chocolate.

[bamagal62]

59. I know the CEO

Of Turkey Hill. (Not well, but lived down the street from him) Big ass trumper. Would not buy turkey Hill because of it.

[Freddie]

62. Did not know that!

Looks like they’ve joined Martin’s Potato Rolls on the Do Not Buy list.

[BBbats]

15. In Philadelphia PA We Have Bassetts!

Sold at the Reading Terminal Market.
Might be the oldest Ice Cream brand in the USA. Since 1861.
You can find it in some Philly area stores too. High butter fat content. The Rum Raisin & Vanilla are amazing.
Bryers used to be great but hasn't been for years.
And let's give a shout out to New Jersey's Richman's Ice Cream. That's good to.
Local PA brand Turkey Hill is less expensive & pretty good too. I like almost any Ice Cream though I did try Vegen Ice Cream & wasn't too thrilled.
Without Dairy it ain't Ice Cream!

[electric_blue68]

20. When I visited my dis in Philadelphia while she went to school there I might have had it.

Could they have had it in South Jersey? Might have had it there (vacation)

[beaglelover]

18. Ben and Jerry's. Mostly from one of their stores. We are lucky to have one closeby. Anything with caramel in it.

[GoCubsGo]

47. That's my favorite, as well.

Never met a flavor I didn't like. I'll forever be pissed off that the local stores refused to carry Schweddy Balls, because it sounded delicious. No Scoop Shops nearby, but I'm okay with the pints. With you on the caramel, but I wish they'd have more flavors containing coconut.

[electric_blue68]

19. Ooo...Did someone say Ice Cream?! 😍

Non-chocolate:
•Butter Pecan
•Only had Peach Ice Cream 2x
B&J when they introduced themselves to NYC'rs waaay back had a festival in Central Park they had peach ice ...?sweet cream with chunks of fresh peaches. Yum!
They then sold it in their stores at a certain of year for several years.

Chocolate
I am a chocohalic! 😄
■B&J's
Chocolate Therapy
New York Super Fudge Chunk (was my fav till CT arrived)
Chocolate Brownie

■Baskin Robbins
their World's Best Chocolate is quite tasty
I love their Jamoca Almond Fudge

It's gelato but
■Talenti's
Double Dark Chocolate may beat them all!
It also has these craggy shaped, teeny dark choc chips. Little power houses! 😄
I like raspberry - they have raspberry w the same choc chips.

Never had Tillamook

One of our as tweens/terns family vacations fun things - we'd get the local ice cream.

[Dem2theMax]

21. I'm coming to your house.

It appears your freezer has all my favorites in it!

[electric_blue68]

40. Hahaha! I'll have a bowl & spoon ready for you.

😄

[Dem2theMax]

42. One can always rely on a fellow chocoholic!

[electric_blue68]

43. U got it 😄

[buzzycrumbhunger]

27. THE best for chocolate lovers...

Publix Chocolate Trinity—dark chocolate ice cream with swirls of fudge and wee fudge cups (like PB cups but without the PB).

I’m vegan and really can’t do dairy without being overloaded with mucus (sorry), but if I succumb to the urge, what a way to go!

https://www.publix.com/pd/publix-ice-cream-classic-chocolate-trinity/RIO-PCI-122628

[electric_blue68]

41. Sounds yummy! And it seems there was one Publix store in NYC, now gone.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

48. Argh

I thought they’d made inroads out of FL… at least they’re creeping northward (NC, SC, VA, TN, AL, and GA, with a sixth state being added soon).

[bamagal62]

60. If you like Jamocha fudge,

Next time pair it with a scoop of pistachio.
Best combo ever!

[electric_blue68]

61. I'll have to give it a try. Not quite same but....

For a short I was in an area where there was a coffee, and pastry shop that also had gelato.

I'd get a scoop of dark chocolate, and a scoop of hazelnut. Yuuuum! 😄

[wyn borkins]

22. Baskin Robbins

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PRALINES 'N CREAM

[Emile]

23. Lemon Custard

The Custard Cup
https://g.co/kgs/fDRRTRU

[Boomerproud]

24. Graeters raspberry with chocolate chips.

To die for. Peach ice cream also.

[zanana1]

25. Turkey Hill Dutch Chocolate

Not your average chocolate ice cream.

[yorkster]

26. Brigham's Vanilla Bean. We get it in Maine.

It's made by Hood, but better than regular Hood ice cream. I like it because it's not as creamy, so the flavor dominates.

[fierywoman]

28. Rice flavored ice cream (only find it in Italy.) And: my grandfather made ice cream machines for private ice cream

parlors and used to bring us lemon ice cream from one of his clients. Yes, ice cream, not sorbet! (The rice flavored ice cream tasted like rice pudding.)

[no_hypocrisy]

30. First, Louis Sherry chocolate chip (no longer made)

Second, Schraft's coffee (no longer made)
Haagen Dazs strawberry

[elleng]

44. SCHRAFT'S, a name I remember well!

(Grew up in NYC.)

Now, fave is Haagen Dazs coffee. May try H-D strawberry soon.

[malthaussen]

31. Turkey Hill Cookies and Cream.

Regional brand with some national-level marketing. It has been reviewed by ice-cream critics as the best non-boutique ice cream out there.

Some job, eh? Getting to taste-test ice cream? Almost as good as Andy Capp's job testing mattresses.

-- Mal

[markie]

32. Not a big ice cream fan, but

Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia is fun once in awhile

[WmChris]

33. Whiteys

A local Moline, Illinois brand. Many delightful flavors our favorite is moose tracks

[ProfessorGAC]

34. Flavors, Yes

Butter pecan, mint chocolate chip, & pistachio.
But, I'm not at all fussy as to brand. I buy whatever is cheapest that day.
I've had great homemade ice creams & gelato all over Italy. So, I know what very good is like, but I'm not very particular.

[Phoenix61]

35. Hardcore addict here. I can wipe out a half gallon in 24 hours.

I stick with Publix frozen yogurt… any of them, key lime, peach Melba, raspberry roadrunner, and the standard Neapolitan when I can’t make up my mind.

[electric_blue68]

49. On a rare occasion I'd finish off a pint of Ben & Jerry's in an evening! 😄 Yuuum

Usually make it 2 (possibly 3) night's worth.

[Morbius]

36. I've tried making ice cream.

I didn't buy the right kind of machine; turns out you really need one that scrapes the sides. Also, as it happens it's quite expensive to make your own ice cream. Still, it tasted good.

Ever heard of a band called Cibo Matto? They were a pair of Japanese-American women from New York with a band with an Italian name meaning "Crazy Food". Pretty good band, actually. They had a song called "White Pepper Ice Cream," and for 20 years now I've been wondering how that tastes.

[DFW]

37. Key Lime Cheesecake

Made and sold by Sweet and Savory, summer months only, in Truro, Massachusetts.

They make their own flavors, including Cranberry Bog and a coffee-chocolate mix called Mississippi Mud Flats. But Key Lime Cheesecake is always sold out soon after a new batch is delivered. The word has definitely spread.

[bif]

38. Wow! That sounds great!

I miss going to the "Cod". We vacationed there several times when our kids were little. Haven't been in years.

[DFW]

39. We first spent 2 weeks on the Cape on a whim from my wife--in 1984.

We liked it so much, we went back the next year, too. We liked it again, and so decided for another time the year after that. And so it went. Our girls grew up looking forward to it every year. This year will be our 42nd year in a row! People we met that first year have moved away, passed away, or just stayed there, and gotten old with us. The first year, I heard the local community radio station play 5 Leo Kottke tunes in a row!! I called them up during their fund-raising drive and pledged them some money and made sure they knew it was for the Leo Kottke marathon. They invited me to come on, and so for 40 years, I have been doing a brief community radio stint on WOMR-FM, outer community radio. The place DOES grow on you if you let it—or even if you try not to let it!

[Mad_Dem_X]

45. My current fave is Haagen Daz Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

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I love any kind of chocolate chip, or peanut butter cup.

[elleng]

46. THANKS for the thread!!!

[julmur]

51. Ben

and Jerry’s salted caramel

[julmur]

52. Ben

and Jerry’s salted caramel

[DinahMoeHum]

53. Commercial brand: Tillamook

unfortunately I can't get Huckleberry Swirl or Marionberry Pie out here on the East Coast anymore.
So, for now, it's Tillamook Mudslide, Apple Crisp, or Peaches and Cream.

On the local scene, I've got Longfords and Bona Bona. Bona Bona has "boozy milkshakes" as well

[Jeebo]

54. Haagen Dasz Chocolate

For years -- decades, really -- I've been hearing about how good Ben & Jerry's ice cream is. So, every time I hear that, I decide, well, if it's that good, I'll try some the next time I go to the grocery store. And then, when I get to the grocery store, I look and look and look for Ben & Jerry's CHOCOLATE ice cream! Ben & Jerry's has all these crazy flavors, but why can't I find Ben & Jerry's CHOCOLATE ice cream? So I always end up buying Haagen Dasz Chocolate ice cream instead. Because Haagen Dasz actually has it in CHOCOLATE! And Haagen Dasz is good ice cream, too.

To this day, I've still never tried Ben & Jerry's ice cream. When the day comes when I'm in the grocery store and I see Ben & Jerry's ice cream in plain ol' CHOCOLATE, I will buy it and take it home, and try Ben & Jerry's ice cream for the first time in my life.

-- Ron

[CrispyQ]

55. Private Selection Chocolate Ganache.

It's wickedly delicious! Very chocolaty, not too sweet, super creamy.

[Enter stage left]

56. Tillamook vanilla Bean...yum!

[dai13sy]

57. Tillamook, Kroger Private Selection and Umpqua

[KT2000]

58. Tillamook

Udderly Chocolate, Oregon Strawberry, Old Fashioned Vanilla
and everything else

[Passages]

63. Trader Joes Vanilla Ice Cream.

OMG

The fat content and level of vanilla are exceptional.

One of my favorite summer desserts is ripe peaches sliced and put over somewhat softened vanilla ice cream.

[malaise]

64. Devon House, Jamaica

Coffee
Coconut
Delish!
Pretty much island wide