What was your favourite ice cream flavour or type when you were a child and now ?

[WildRosie]

I grewed up in the 70s and 80s when there wasn't quite the choice there is now. There was Lyons Maid, Walls and Midland Counties with vanilla, Cornish, raspberry ripple and Neopolitan. I think I liked Cornish the best. Some shops sold the fancy Napoli soft scoop ice cream - I usually had the lime flavour but sometimes orange or strawberry. I never liked chocolate ice cream. King Cones or Cornettos were just becoming popular in the mid 70s.

I haven't had any ice cream for years so I don't know what's popular these days. Is pistachio any good ?

As a kid, Raspberry ripple the cheap supermarket own brand big tub or blackcurrant ripple from the posh farm shop near grandmas.

Now coffee flavour. But if that posh farm shop still existed I think I'd still like the blackcurrant ripple.

Then (1970s) probably vanilla, or strawberry ice cream- or orange sorbet.

Now- vanilla from Notriannis in Blackpool, or rose and violet ice creams I had in Brittany last year.

@RoadworksAgain I have violet ice cream when we go to south of France. It's is the best ice cream ever!

I was a Gino Ginelli aficionado as well. I can still sing the entire jingle from the ad. My favourite was the strawberry one that had strawberry pieces in it, although I liked tutti frutti as well.

My favourite now is Phish Food. I don’t actually like chocolate ice cream on its own though.

Raspberry Ripple then and still is :)

Loved neapolitan.

Lactose intolerant and my teeth aren't what they were so don't eat ice cream any more.

My favourite as a child was either mint choc chip or rum & raisin. I thought I was so grown up being allowed that

I very rarely eat ice cream these days so there's probably a world of flavours I've never tried. As it is my favourite is still mint choc chip (I haven't seen rum & raisin for years), or cheap vanilla with soy sauce.

cheap vanilla with soy sauce
Are you Heston Blumenthal?!
Fave ice cream as a child was a Midnight Mint choc ice. These days I like the occasional vegan almond Magnum.

@motorcyclenumptiness in Japan they have some bizarre ice cream flavours including cuttlefish or red bean. also many exotic (and some weird) kit Kat flavours as well.

@motorcyclenumptiness

cheap vanilla with soy sauce Are you Heston Blumenthal?! Fave ice cream as a child was a Midnight Mint choc ice. These days I like the occasional vegan almond Magnum.

no! I wish I was as clever with food as him! DS saw it on a YouTube video where they were trying weird food combos. We had the ingredients so thought we'd try it. It works! Like salted caramel I guess.

Maxibon then and now

Mine choc chip was my favourite. I'm not a huge fan of ice cream these days but I like plainish flavours like vanilla or pistachio if I'm having one.

Mint choc chip, or orange choc chip, as a child, if we had scoopy ice cream.

As an adult, one scoop pistachio, one scoop coffee. I very seldom find these two on offer at the same place, but I live in hope.

Although if we ate out at the local Italian, I would have lemon sorbet inside the frozen lemon for pudding, which was an utterly thrilling concept to the 8 year old me.

I never really liked ice cream as a child. Then I discovered bubble gum ice cream as an adult. I bloody love it! Can't get it anywhere though, unless at a proper ice cream shop

Mint choc chip when I was a child. Now that ice cream is much nicer, (or I can afford much nicer) I like vanilla.

I hate most of the shop bought ice cream as it is far too sweet. I still love Mr Whippy! However when in Hampshire I go for the New Forest ice cream. Honey and ginger or rum and raisin. I also love coffee. I must admit Waitrose did a lovely coffee one but not my local one. They also did a smashing lime and coconut one too.

I absolutely hate all those sickly salted caramel and cookie dough nonsense that pollutes the shelves - looking at you B&J and Hagen Daaz!

I actually prefer sorbet though.

There's a dairy farm ice cream parlour near me called Wallings which does in red ice creams.
Blackcurrant Liquorice, Rum Raisin and Christmas Pudding are my favourites.

As a child I used to love strawberry supermousses

Always been mint choc chip! I look forward to going to the coast just so I can have one! Mmmmm

Rum and raisin or choc mint as a child and it was a holiday treat. And I still choose rum and raisin now if its available, in fact I had one last week on a day out.

My favourite now is Hagen Daz Belgium Chocolate.... yummy!

Mint choc chip seems to be a recurring flavour on here.
I once made blackcurrant ice cream (Delia Smith recipe) using tinned blackcurrants in syrup. I didn't know what I could do with the syrup so it went down the drain but the ice cream worked a treat.
I've seen Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall make tomato ice cream on television. Odd idea but it proved popular.

@TinySongstress

There's a dairy farm ice cream parlour near me called Wallings which does in red ice creams. Blackcurrant Liquorice, Rum Raisin and Christmas Pudding are my favourites.

As a child I used to love strawberry supermousses

Callesticks farm near to Perranporth does the most amazing ice cream flavours. Last time I was there I had a scoop of rhubarb and a scoop of jaffa cake

I dont eat icecream at all now but as a kid it was a special treat. The highlight of my year growing up was going to Edinburgh zoo and being treated to an icecream. They were yellow and square and you put them in a square cone thingy. I remember them being the best thing ever, like frozen custard. No idea what they were as I never saw them anywhere else.

Double chocolate was always my choice as a kid, now it’s either rum and raisin or fudge (if they have it)

Another tutti Frutti fan here can't get that anywhere now!

Nowadays it's a close call between mint choc chip, Irn bru and tablet flavours (but the latter 2 have to be not too sweet which some places theirs are)