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My local grocery store has started stocking a "limited edition" apple pie ice cream (message me for the details, don't want to be shilling). It's one of my favorites -- not only does it have chunks of real apple and graham cracker crust, but the ice cream itself has a delicious apple flavor. The whole thing tastes like you took a slice of apple pie with vanilla ice cream and blended it chunky style.

I always figured there was some boring food-science reason you couldn't make a decent apple ice cream, but this shows it's perfectly possible. So why isn't it more common? Apple pie is one of the most popular deserts, and you find apple flavoring in plenty of drinks and candies. What gives?

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

I'm not sure if I'd personally like apple that much. I like apples and the flavor is refreshing and good, but I just don't think it'd fit ice cream of all things. Though, if I had one, I wouldn't be opposed to trying it and I'd rather try apple flavor than something gross lol

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

Artificial apple flavor is awful and that is what most companies would use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Proprietary ice cream lmao

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Corporate studies show that the most popular ice cream flavors are the flavors we've always made and new flavors are risky because we don't know how popular they will be and so we only do the same flavors so we're always right.

Same reason why you only get reboots and remakes, it's a safer bet for investment.

Because CaPiTaLiSm BrEeDs InNoVaTiOn~!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Lemmiers Trying Not To Be Communist For 2 Seconds Challenge(Impossible)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Is that what we are?

Lemmiers and not lemmies? Or even better lemmings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds like a Babylon 5 character. I vote for Lemmier!

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

But I want to be a lemming, that way my suicide ideation is just normal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I say lemmiers because we are partaking in the act of lemmying

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Caramelized apple ice cream is amazing !

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Wait... do you mean caramel apple ice cream, or caramelized apple ice cream? They're not the same...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

Applesauce ice cream sounds foul.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Why isn't orange (the fruit) ice cream more popular? I don't mean sherbet, I mean ice cream. It can be bought in Florida, but I've never heard of it anywhere else.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel silly asking since you mentioned Florida, but do they use real oranges? Any time I've ever seen or tasted orange ice cream it was always that fake stuff.

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

I do believe it's made with real orange, especially if you're get it from a street vendor near the beach. Been years since I had it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I've wondered about the same but with kiwi fruit it's delicious and refreshing yet you don't see any flavored drinks or ice cream with that flavor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

I suspect it's related to the difficulty in processing. Kiwi fruit are quite small and non-trivial to extract the flesh from. This would make it more expensive to extract.

This is less of an issue now that a few decades back. However, most people are quite conservative on their juice choices. Low sales still mean higher cost, which reduces sales.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Kiwi and pineapples have enzyme to break proteins down, causing it taste better if they have contact to diary products long enough. Canned pineapples don't have this issue but I haven't seen canned kiwi, maybe that explains no kiwi ice cream

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

Maybe. I have seen pineapple flavored drinks though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

In the US we have a lot of strawberry kiwi flavored drinks. Rarely just kiwi by itself though.

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

I'd drink it. Still just kiwi would be great imho

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Is it the one I saw at ALDI? (or possibly the same supplier)

It was pretty freaking good ngl

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

damn good question

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

There is such a variety of apples it's hard to pick one apple flavor.

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

Granny Smith. You're welcome.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Apples turn brown when you freeze them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago

While that is the case, modern industrial ice cream rarely contains the actual fruit. Just take standard Neutro mix, regenerate it with water, not milk, and add some food coloring (a light green), an acidic component like citric acid, and "natural" "apple" flavor.

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