To prefer English Ice Cream from Devon to Italian Gelati

[MrsMarigold]

I feel the stuff we get here is just so much yummier and when Italians talk about their ice cream, I just smile politely but inside I think it is over-rated.
Also I think the yogurt here is so much more delicious..

Blech Carte Dor surely isn't ice cream, it is that weird frozen plastic stuff, isn't it?

Real ice cream and real gelato are both wonderful, at the right time. I love both, in their rightful places. OK, I love them both in all the wrong places too

Ice cream is the frozen alternative to custard, served with old fashioned sticky toffee pudding (not the new horror that seems to be all over the bloody place). It also rightfully lives in cones, between wafers and in a bowl with fruit/other stuff.

Gelato never thrives alongside stodgy puds but does really well next to lighter desserts. It also enjoys a seat in a cone, in a small tub, doesn't need fruit as it is great when packed with it.

And now I want to eat some of each... after turning the heating up, obviously

Fruit flavoured gelato is the very best!

So what is everyone's favourite local British ice cream maker/seller then (and your favourite flavour?)

I like Purbeck (Dorset), especially their chocolate orange ice cream
New Forest Ice Cream (Hampshire) ginger ice cream
Jude's Ice Cream ginger ice cream

I once had an excellent whisky and marmalade ice cream but can't remember where.

I love Dunstaple Farm ice cream.

dunstaple.co.uk/ice-cream/

Well I am in a quandry - the best ice-cream I have had is from this shop in Seaton Delaval in the North East. However they are Italian :)

www.arrighis.co.uk/crescent-cafe/ice-cream/

It is fabulous and when we still lived near it was a great treat and there was always long queues out the door come rain or shine. The closest I have come in the shops is Mackies. I also had a similar ice-cream from a little stall near Buttermere a few years ago, home-made on the farm near the lake - gorgeous after a long walk around the lake.

My favourite ice cream is from Joe's in Swansea - fantastic.

The original 'Joe" was Italian, so I don't know if it's ice cream or gelato.

We also had amazing ice cream in a little shop in Budleigh Salterton in Devon.

Carte d'Or is disgusting. It tastes powdery. I do love Italian gelato but whenever we go to Devon or Cornwall we have such delicious ice cream in all kinds of different flavours. So happy to be going to Cornwall in April!

Icecream isn't one of my favourite things, but, I have such happy memories of caravan holidays with my mum and step-dad at Weston-S-Mare in the 1980s - they would drive me and little DD1 to Cheddar for a day out, and we always stopped at a little shop en route for icecream, which came with a scoopful of clotted cream on top (actual cream.)

I don't suppose I could even find the shop now... Ah, happy memories.

Favourite, Mrs Roskilly's.

We have been eating their ice cream and visiting the farm shop since they started and it is delicious.

But for a huge vanilla hit that goes back to my early childhood, Jelberts in Newlyn. One flavour, optional clotted cream, in a teeny tiny shop, delicious. Don't go looking for a website though

I much prefer gelato. Ice-cream is okay in small doses but I find it's really sweet and sickly after a while.

It has to be proper Gelato made in an Italian gelateria though, not "gelato" thats mass-produced and available in a tub from a supermarket.

A second vote for Joe's in Swansea. The best ice cream (or possibly gelato) I have ever tasted.

Kelly's of Cornwall ice cream is the best to buy in a supermarket

YANBU. I'm half Italian and I reckon Cornish ice cream is the best in the world -- no question. It's all in the green green grass .. Jelberts yes I know it, isn't their daughter an Olympic athlete?

Yes, Helen Glover the rower! They are a hugely sporty family.

YADNBU about gelati. Scottish icecream is good too: I love Mackie's vanilla.

Can't beat proper Italian gelato for me. Dozens of flavours all lined up in the shop!

I find Cornish too sickly sweet but each to their own.

Mmm Callestick Farm ice cream. Yum yum yum

I'm not especially fussy though, I like it all

American is not bad either. I regularly have a threesome with Ben and Jerry

I went of B+Js after they sold it, the new owners don't send anymore Cherry G over here and all those core thingies sound horrendously sweet.

Ridiculous when you know that it was a UK/Dutch company, Unilever, that bought them out!

Don't like the Ben and Jerrys core I must admit

I love Mrs Roskilly's, Jude's and if in the supermarket Mackie's.

From a farm not too far away from here, Mr Moo's rhubarb and ginger. Best icecream ever.