Ice Cream: What are your favorite flavors?

[hardcorestitch]

I’ve mentioned it before, but it’s not always real ice cream these days. Read the label carefully.

“frozen dairy dessert”

 

[Giraffe_Zen]

Hood Mint chocolate chip, Kennebunkport Cookies and Cream, or BoSoxBrownie! There are times though where I just want vanilla.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

I’ve mentioned it before, but it’s not always real ice cream these days. Read the label carefully.

Shopkeeper: Take this object, but beware it carries a terrible curse.

Homer: [worried] Ooooh, that's bad.

Shopkeeper: But it comes with a free frogurt.

Homer: [relieved] That's good.

Shopkeeper: The frogurt is also cursed.

Homer: [worried] That's bad.

Shopkeeper: But you get your choice of topping.

Homer: [relieved] That's good.

Shopkeeper: The toppings contain potassium benzoate. [Homer stares] That's bad.

 

[tvguy]

I’ve mentioned it before, but it’s not always real ice cream these days. Read the label carefully.

I know the products you are talking about, but I have a different perception I guess. By law to be called ice cream it has to have 10% butter fat. Yes, there are non-dairy desserts, sugar free, fat free, low fat frozen desserts now. But growing up in the 1960;s we RARELY got real ice cream. Too expensive. Most of the freezer in the store was full of ice MILK. Now .......comparing 8 year old me to 68 year old me..........it just seems the freezer case has a larger percentage of actual ice cream than I ever remember.

 

[citruscurtis]

it is no longer available-tillamook blood orange

We lived in Oregon... but these came from the Yuma garbage grocery store.... for $2.00 each

 

[bcla]

“frozen dairy dessert”

Yup. Typically with fillers in place of butterfat, like palm or coconut oils.

 

[bcla]

I know the products you are talking about, but I have a different perception I guess. By law to be called ice cream it has to have 10% butter fat. Yes, there are non-dairy desserts, sugar free, fat free, low fat frozen desserts now. But growing up in the 1960;s we RARELY got real ice cream. Too expensive. Most of the freezer in the store was full of ice MILK. Now .......comparing 8 year old me to 68 year old me..........it just seems the freezer case has a larger percentage of actual ice cream than I ever remember.

It’s not exactly the same, but ice milk has more or less morphed into “light ice cream”. I’m OK with that. But then there’s “frozen dairy dessert” with tropical oils in place of real butterfat. That stuff just has a weird texture and doesn’t taste right.

Just look for anything from Dreyer’s these days. Or most novelties like Drumsticks. It’s really all about cost savings.

 

[tvguy]

It’s not exactly the same, but ice milk has more or less morphed into “light ice cream”. I’m OK with that. But then there’s “frozen dairy dessert” with tropical oils in place of real butterfat. That stuff just has a weird texture and doesn’t taste right.

Just look for anything from Dreyer’s these days. Or most novelties like Drumsticks. It’s really all about cost savings.

I agree. All the money/cost is in the butter fat. That is why a gallon of non-fat milk is $2.86 and a gallon of whole milk is $3.04. And whole milk is only 3.25% butter fat, one-third what is required in ice cream.
Slightly off topic, they used to also sell "Extra Rich" whole milk which was 3 to 6% butterfat. Can't remember the last time I saw that in the store. Decades I am sure.

 

[kanne323]

It depends on where it's coming from. I don't really buy ice cream at the grocery store, but have certain ice cream shops I like and different kinds at each. It could be black raspberry, chocolate chip, mocha chip, or strawberry, depending on where. And black raspberry tends to be a summer-only flavor for me (I really don't know why it's never my choice other times of year.)

 

[Chupaca bruh]

New York Super Fudge Chunk
Oats of this Swirled
Butter Pecan
Rocky Road
Tillamook Mudslide

 

[goooof1]

Check the ingredients !! Very few have cream as the first ingredient (Tillamook does ! Dreyers does NOT! ) Yet another way to go cheap....probably barely allowed to be called ice cream.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Most any flavor of the day frozen custard from Culver's.

https://www.culvers.com/flavor-of-the-day

 

[bcla]

I agree. All the money/cost is in the butter fat. That is why a gallon of non-fat milk is $2.86 and a gallon of whole milk is $3.04. And whole milk is only 3.25% butter fat, one-third what is required in ice cream.
Slightly off topic, they used to also sell "Extra Rich" whole milk which was 3 to 6% butterfat. Can't remember the last time I saw that in the store. Decades I am sure.

You can look at it, and basically anything in the Dreyer’s main line is “frozen dairy dessert” but their “Slow Churned” is “light ice cream”. I believe that means they just pump more air in there. But I’m ok with it as long as they don’t use tropical oils to substitute for butterfat. I find light ice cream can be pretty good.

And yeah, the butterfat is too valuable. Not necessarily in milk, but it’s also used to make (obviously) butter.

 

[hardcorestitch]

Most any flavor of the day frozen custard from Culver's.

https://www.culvers.com/flavor-of-the-day

I remember having Culver’s after attending an anime convention in Atlanta over Memorial Day weekend (and meeting a Disney alum in the process)! Haven’t tried their ice cream though…

 

[bobbiwoz]

Graeters Coconut Chip, or Black Raspberry Chip!