Thread: Ice cream...

Originally Posted by honedright

Isn't it? But trying to run one of those at a farmer's market or fair in California with all the food safety health regs and restrictions. That John Deere would be a problem.

That would be a great flavor - Diesel Delight!

Rainbow Sherbert from Wal-mart. I can't get enough of it!!!

Chris

I like natural vanilla and the many variations that can be run on it--chocolate chips, mint chips, all manner of toppings. On the whole I'm not real particular about flavors, though I don't much like strawberry or chocolate ice cream--wait a minute, that's 2/3 of Neapolitan, isn't it? Maybe I'm a little particular.

But one flavor that holds a special place for me is something called Baseball Nut that I discovered several years ago at our neighborhood ice-cream place--now closed, alas.

~Rich

The only ice cream that I absolutely just love, and cannot get enough of, is home made vanilla bean, with the actual vanilla bean and not some extract. I LOVE IT! I have an ice cream maker that I use, and that is about all that I truly love. All of the other flavors I tolerate, but home made vanilla bean is king.

As for my search, it is a little different than ice cream. For my senior year of high school i was a foreign exchange student in Australia, and fell in love with the country, its people, its culture, and its food. To all you Aussies out there, you don't know just how good you have it.

Violet Crumble!! The king of candy bars.
Meat Pies!! The pinnacle of portable carnivorous delight.
Vegemite!! I love salt, and this is the perfect sodium delivery system.
Victoria Bitter! Now that is Australian for beer, Mate.
Chips (steak fries) with chicken salt and gravy! Nuf said on that one.


However, the main event was their hamburgers, or maybe it was just the shop from which I purchased them. It was just something about how they were cooked, with some spice or sauce in the meat. Not on the meat, mind you, in the meat. Their catsup (Ketchup) is just a little different, and I don't know how. And beet root, and sometimes a fried egg, on the burger just topped it off. I have searched high and low for a burger of equal quality, but have yet to find it, and that was 17 years ago. My search continues, but I fear that the only way to find its equal is to return to the Land of Oz.

Like I said, you Aussies, you don't know how good you have it.

Matt

My favorite flavor is Mocha Almond Fudge made by Bluebell here in Texas. I do have fond memories of my grandfather buying me honey flavored ice cream at the state fair in Illinois when I was a kid.

JMS: Thanks for bringing back good memories!

I lived right in the same block as a 31 flavors ice cream parlor in the Greenlake neighborhood in Seattle for many years.

My favorite ice cream is still Rocky Road.

Originally Posted by Otto

JMS: Thanks for bringing back good memories!

I lived right in the same block as a 31 flavors ice cream parlor in the Greenlake neighborhood in Seattle for many years.

My favorite ice cream is still Rocky Road.

Glad I could help!

Keep them coming

Another flavor I really enjoy is made by Cold Stone Creamery, called "Sweet Cream." No vanilla, or other flavoring, just a pure dairy cream flavor. I think it's great on it's own, but also really good with their chocolate brownie chopped up and mixed in.

Anyone from California remember Farrel's ice cream parlor? The "Zoo" and the "Trough"?

Originally Posted by JMS

...But for me, not just any ice cream. In fact I have been searching for a particular flavor I had as a young boy. I was likely 10 or 12 when My mother took me to the local 31 flavors ice cream parlor and instead of getting my usual Rocky Road I got something called Lemon Chiffon...I was floored! It was a creamy lemon flavor like nothing I had ever had. Well, they discontinued the flavor and I have been searching ever since never finding this flavor again. Oh, I found imitators mind you, but they always lacked something or they were too sweet, or the lemon flavor tasted more like fake lemons. And so it went for the last 35 years...

Yesterday as I was finishing my morning tea
..................

I was going to say write a letter to 31 flavors.....

A better suggestion is to say THANK YOU in some
special way.....

My favorite is half a pint cut in half with a box cutter
from the now gone old Ice House cooler on a hot summer
afternoon. Wooden spoon too. The smell of those little
wooden spoons was almost as wonderful as the ice cream.

Vanilla went well with wild strawberries from the fields
as we walked home...

Good stuff....

Rite-aid Mint n chip.