What was your favorite brand of ice cream no longer made?

[oliverthecat]

Mine was dolly madison cookies and cream was the best!!

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

Do the still make Vienatta cake? I haven't seen it. I miss that stuff.

 

[jl]

Sealtest checkerboard ice cream. It came in chocolate & vanilla, and an orange sherbert & vanilla - maybe more that I can't remember.

 

[kuhltiffany]

Baskin Robbins used to make a chocolate raspberry truffle…that stuff was heavenly!

 

[bcla]

Frusen Glädjé brand. Apparently sold to Kraft in the mid-80s but the brand sort of died in the late 80s. Nobody quite knows what happened to the brand. Kraft might have thought they sold it off to Unilever, but they claim they don't own it.

There might be some of these old containers somewhere in my parents' house. They were perfect for reuse since they were all plastic.

It was low in pumped air, so you had to wait a while for it to soften. If you didn't, it would bend spoons. Of course that meant it was super rich with a lot more actual substance per volume served.

 

[bcla]

Another one that mostly vanished was Swensen's. There are apparently four locations left in the US, including the original in San Francisco. That was apparently operated by the original owner and then his family. Every other location is a franchise. They used to have franchises around the US and internationally. It still has a San Francisco theme, with sundaes with names like The Earthquake or Coit Tower.

I remember that they ice cream was typically made at the location and the machines were usually visible through a window.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swensen's

 

[njmom47]

I used to be able to buy Peppermint (Wawa had their own at one point, and maybe Friendly's?) but haven't found it the last few winters.

 

[crazymama]

I remember visiting my grandmother in Manitoba and getting "Blue Boy" French vanilla ice cream. No ice cream has EVER tasted as good since.

 

[bcla]

I didn't necessarily partake in a lot of this stuff, but there was a drug store chain called Thrifty (the name is complicated because it was used by competitors too) that had its own ice cream. Rite-Aid bought out the company, and apparently they still sell it, although there are no locations near where I live.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrifty_PayLess#Thrifty_Ice_Cream

I also miss ice cream sold in rectangular thin-paperboard boxes. You know - the kind that opened via a flap or tear strip on the side and had to be tucked in. These days I only see ice cream in tubs or round cartons. Most ice cream sold this way wasn't fancy, but it was comfort food.

 

[izzy]

Baskin Robbins used to make a chocolate raspberry truffle…that stuff was heavenly!

I loved that one, too!!! I also really miss the Baskin Robbins german chocolate cake.

 

[VAfamily1998]

Back around 1992 or Dreyer's (Edy's on the East Coast) made a fat free raspberry frozen yogurt. It was SO good. They don't make anymore (that I have been able to find).

 

[DaretoDis]

Has anyone seen "Ice Milk" anywhere?

 

[bcla]

Has anyone seen "Ice Milk" anywhere?

That name came from a labeling requirement for anything with less fat content than 10%. Now it can be labelled "low-fat ice cream" or "reduced-fat ice cream". I remember stuff sold as "ice milk" tended to be pretty bad, but I think the product has improved.

 

[Jaya]

Not ice cream, but I dearly miss Jello Brand Pudding Pops. Those things were frozen delights.

 

[tvguy]

I didn't necessarily partake in a lot of this stuff, but there was a drug store chain called Thrifty (the name is complicated because it was used by competitors too) that had its own ice cream. Rite-Aid bought out the company, and apparently they still sell it, although there are no locations near where I live.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrifty_PayLess#Thrifty_Ice_Cream

I also miss ice cream sold in rectangular thin-paperboard boxes. You know - the kind that opened via a flap or tear strip on the side and had to be tucked in. These days I only see ice cream in tubs or round cartons. Most ice cream sold this way wasn't fancy, but it was comfort food.

Not sure what city you are in, but Rite Aid is all over the bay area.

I grew up with it, but only when my parents cheaped out and wouldn't take us to Baskin and Robbins. The cartons just never seemed to be the same ice cream as the huge tubs they used to scoop the Thrifty ice cream from in the stores.

 

[arminnie]

I think it was Damian's. Made in New England. It had two ingredients - maple syrup and cream. It was so decadent.

 

[superme80]

Not ice cream, but I dearly miss Jello Brand Pudding Pops. Those things were frozen delights.

Me too! And the Disney popsicles from the 80s. They were shaped like the characters. I loved them! We only got them in the summer as a treat.

 

[bcla]

Not sure what city you are in, but Rite Aid is all over the bay area.

I grew up with it, but only when my parents cheaped out and wouldn't take us to Baskin and Robbins. The cartons just never seemed to be the same ice cream as the huge tubs they used to scoop the Thrifty ice cream from in the stores.

Not in my neck of the woods, which is dominated by CVS and Walgreens. Even the former ThriftyPayless locations have become CVS or Walgreens. There isn't a single Rite-Aid location between Pinole and Berkeley. And where there are Rite-Aid stores, the market is still dominated by Walgreens and CVS.

I looked up the number of Rite-Aid stores within 50 miles of my zip code and it was 10. CVS and Walgreens didn't have a distance option, but there were at least 10 each within 10 miles.

Of course the place I grew up with is Fenton's Creamery in Oakland. It wasn't really that great, but the portion sizes and cheap prices were legendary. It's still there, but the product has gone upscale.

 

[bcla]

Maybe not a brand per se, but there were ice cream shops from my youth that are gone. Many didn't serve their own ice cream. There was a place called McCallum's although I'm not sure what they served. There was a corner shop called Ortman's on the corner of Solano and Colusa in Berkeley that's now a Starbucks.

And the real kicker was Edy's in Berkeley, which was named after Joseph Dreyer's business partner as well as the original name of their brand. When that place closed, the location seemed cursed. Nothing stayed there very long and occasionally they'd use it for seasonal stores like for Halloween or Christmas.

And speaking of Dreyer's, I don't think the company owned shop on College Ave in Oakland is still operating. They had some far out flavors there that I rarely saw in stores. Edit: yeah it's still there, but I don't head that way very often.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/dreyers-grand-ice-cream-parlor-and-cafe-oakland

 

[Jedana]

Mine was dolly madison cookies and cream was the best!!

Loved Dolly Madison ice cream! When I was younger, my dad would take me to a DM shop. BR was right across the square, but I always wanted DM. So old-fashioned, sitting at the counter while they scooped the ice cream. (I think dad liked taking me there, because he'd leave me at the counter to enjoy my ice cream and go next door to the bar, but that's a whole nother story.)

My favorite memory with my dad is when he and I were talking--I must have been 9 or 10--and I told him "when you pay me my allowance this week, dad, I'm going to go to ice cream and get a triple scoop!" (up until then I was allowed single scoops, and I thought triple would be the awesome-est.) He told me to get my shoes on, so I did, and we hopped in the car. He took me to DM, and bought me a triple scoop cone, and told me we were having ice cream for lunch. I was so excited, I couldn't decide what I wanted. I ended up with Rocky Road, Mint chocolate chip and Spumoni.
Bad combination, BTW. And he sat with me the whole time I ate that cone.

When my girls were little-little, I'd take them there to get the ice cream cups. We'd bring back some for all my nieces and nephews (depending who was at my sister's house that day--anywhere from 4-14 each time). When my nieces or nephews needed someone to talk to that wasn't mom, I'd take them to DM. (For some of them, I was closer to their age than my sisters/brother!)