Favourite ice cream flavour and/or brand

[TheTecknician]

It's decades since I've bought ice cream, consequently I'm very out of touch. When I was a bairn in the 70s and 80s there was very little choice. Vanilla, Cornish, Raspberry Ripple and Neapolitan was about it. The take-home market was dominated by Lyons Maid and Walls, with Midland Counties bringing up the rear. Vanilla was OK but a bit dull. I quite liked RR. I only liked the strawberry part of Neapolitan. The chocolate part never tasted like chocolate and I've not liked chocolate ice cream since.

What do folk buy these days?

Mint choc chip is, and always has been, my fave!
No specific make. I'm a vegan now, and unfortunately not many companies make it; but I've seen it twice. I must make my own...
If I fancy a more ubiquitous flavour I often get the make Swedish Glace in vanilla or chocolate. Booja Booja do gorgeous vegan ice cream, but seriously expensive!

I love love love liquorice ice cream, but it’s almost never found outside Scandinavia 😢

I like Rum and Raisin ice-cream.

I also love banana ice cream.

Struggle to source either so rarely have icecream

Haagen Dazs Praline and cream

Ben and Jerry’s Phish food

Joe’s vanilla ice cream (Swansea)

I adore pistachio ice cream but only really find it in Europe.

A cone with one scoop of hazelnut and one scoop of coffee gelato

From the supermarket - Ben and Jerry's half baked.

I make my own. Vanilla and cookie dough is my favourite.

Hackney gelato gingerbread ice cream is lovely.

Mint choc chip whenever it's available, failing that, banoffee, toffee, chocolate, strawberry, whatever... we had a glorious eight days in the Lakes earlier in the month, when it was sun and blue skies every day - I enjoyed lots of ice cream cones outdoors then. 😋

Kelly's strawberries and cream made with Cornish ice cream. Nothing comes close😊

I love this thread! I ate some fig and almond ice cream in Southern Italy and it was just the best thing I ever tasted. Totally irrelevant to your questions but you've just reminded me! At home I only really like Ben and Jerry's chocolate brownie but it's a rare treat

Move to Bedford. There's a gelataria in the arcade that does wonderful pistachio

Rum and raisin any brand

Do you have a farm shop near you? Most of them sell ice cream now, it's usually from a local dairy and honestly nothing from the supermarket even comes close.

toffee for me

Haagen Dazs Pralines and Cream for me, and for 'ice cream on a stick' it has to be the new Magnum Utopia Double cherry

I also love this thread! Loop and Scoop in Glasgow do a fab Belgian chocolate. Tiramisu ice cream is a favourite in Tenerife. And the little HD tubs are delicious!

Wallings. Not sure how far southwards that has travelled yet.

Top two faves in the world are Pistachio and Cherry - ideally in Gelato form!

Omg I have not had tutti fruiti since i was 11! Didn’t think anyone did it anymore (it was ginoginelli i think when i was younger)

off to google my nearest farm foods!

HD salted caramel
Kelly’s clotted cream

I also make my own, which is delicious and, while not exactly a health food, isn’t bursting with chemicals.

The Co-op does a very good coffee flavour.

I miss tutti frutti. You never see it anymore. My autocorrect doesn’t even believe it’s a phrase.

Oh should have read properly. Farm foods? I think we have a farm foods in the next town.

The best ice cream I ever had was from an ice cream truck in Cornwall. It was from an organic farm, I had lemon meringue, dh had Blackcurrant and cream. Both flavours were incredible, I’ve never had ice cream like it.
Our dd was 20 months old at the time and it was her first time trying ice cream, she went crazy for the blackcurrant one - we have a picture of her grabbing the cone, wide eyed 😂

mackies? It’s so fine!