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Cherry for me, my grandma would always have it and it was always delicious.

(I ask this as I am eating cherry ice cream)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Spumoni. They even make that anymore. Probably only in the Mediterranean area.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Boysenberry. It's weirdly become very rare at least where I live. It used to be quite common

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Kay's Butter Pecan. I don't think you can get it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Hokey Pokey ice cream. It's a vanilla ice cream with honey comb pieces inside of it. I'm positive that most kiwi kids would answer the same way. A close second is boysenberry ice cream.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Same! Passionfruit also. Mmmm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nobody said Cookie Dough...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Okay so, When I was a kid my mom warned me against cookie dough being dangerous.

Perhaps others had a similar experience?

Perhaps it was a generational trauma we missed?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I don't even remember who made them, but the little single serve cups of chocolate ice cream with the wooden spoon

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Back in my home country we had this "cream" flavor that was like a mild yellow colored vanilla buttercream. I've never been able to find the exact equivalent in the US. Closest are panna cotta or butter (ie: butter pecan)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Not technically ice cream, but rainbow sherbet. I try to have some from time to time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

After eight.
As a kid in Italy. A grown up taste but I loved it.
Reminds me of that holiday.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Chocolate chip, without mint, in baskin robbins.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Pumpkin or peach ice cream has the strongest childhood association for meβ€”a place by the highway sold it fresh & seasonally. These aren’t common flavors either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

What was your first memory of eating it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Young coconut ice cream. It's one of those flavors we can easily get from those ice cream carts that stop by the neighborhood usually in the middle of the afternoon. There's also mango and avocado completing the usual three flavors the cart would have, and I would always buy all three flavors available (unless I really hate the flavor).

Some of the adults would opt to have the ice cream served in a bread bun (usually just repurposed hamburger buns, without the sesame seeds), but I always opted for the sugar cones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have you ever tried the bun?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yep, I tried it. It actually is good with the bun. It's like a poor man's ice cream sandwich.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Vanilla ice cream and raspberry syrup mixed in in a ripple effect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Ooo, does the ripple seep into the vanilla creating a yummy gradient?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Neapolitan. We always seemed to have it around when I was very young.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Plain vanilla dyed blue; they used to call it delfino I think

Edit: I guess not lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Did the blue make it taste like blueberries?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Bryers vanilla would if it was the same as it used to be. That was my go to add a kid. It sucks now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Hoodsie cups in the northeast.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Two come to mind.

  1. Classic cookies n’ cream
  2. The 1-gallon vanilla-fudge swirl that they used(?) to sell at walmart. I think it was called the party bucket or something like that.

Those two flavors usually take me back

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Vanilla soft serve with rainbow sprinkles (or jimmies for certain nor-easterners). I even have one tattooed on my arm as part of a boardwalk sleeve.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not gonna lie, I don't know all I remember about it was that I grew up in London UK and it was yellow. It was like standard ice cream growing up but I have no idea what it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Can you ask your parents?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Crappy 4L bucket tiger ice cream

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

that's also great for meat, minus the ice cream part

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Ooo, That's super cool!

It's like, all the berries combined.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honeycomb, from the northern Irish ice cream shop that was Queen Elizabeth's favourite. The only shop they ever made outside of NI was in Windsor as the queen liked it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Did it involve honeycombs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Tutti Frutti. I mean, I hated it then and probably wouldn't like it as an adult but it seemed to be everywhere when I was a kid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

soft serve or soft ice. back in the country (GDR) where I grew up there was no other ice cream than that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Plain old vanilla. We used to get those big gallon buckets of ice cream cause they were cheap.

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