Most apple flavored stuff sucks, except for apples.
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2024
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The same reason they took it back out of skittles and no one gets apple flavored suckers. It isn't up to snuff.
you'd end up with apple cider vinegar as your flavorant, and that doesn't play well with milk.
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I really wish I had one of those fancy ice cream makers like they have on cooking shows like Iron Chef because I would definitely see what happens if you tried to make apple ice cream. I don't know if I can get fancier than just basic ingredients with mine... Maybe if I made an apple compote? 🤔
I think it just works better making apple pie ala mode ice cream Cold Stone style with some vanilla ice cream, pie filling, graham cracker crust and caramel.
Do you have a ~~KitchenAid~~ stand mixer or anything like that? Best thing I ever learned is making ice cream with dry ice. I just put the base in the mixer, start it with the paddle, and start putting in crushed up dry ice, one spoonful at a time. I managed to get dry ice in the little cubes or pellets, put it in a cloth sack, and then use a hammer or blunt object to break it up into small pieces.
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I'd love if it was more popular!
Mighy try and make at home. Parfait ice cream is reasonably uncomplicated. Wonder if I should make it from dried apples.
It's probably not as common because other flavors are significantly more popular. Chocolate, vanilla, and berry flavors are staple flavors. There's only so much milk, production capacity, and retail shelf space to go around.
I've noticed, though, local ice cream shops are usually more willing to take a risk worth novelty flavors.
Making ice cream with actual apples involved is a nightmare due to acidity influencing other ingredients. But making it apple-scented is trivial.
But you raised a very good question...
Forget apple, we need more banana/banana creme ice cream flavors.
Even better, bananas foster flavor
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I've recently had a similar discussion on why orange ice cream isn't that popular, but exists in form of water ice
Our conclusion was that acidic flavors, like orange and apple just aren't good combined with cream, instead being better served as a sorbet
I make ice cream as a hobby and found orange ice cream is too rich to eat even a scoop in one sitting. It's completely possible but it's hard to eat.
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Yup. Sorbet is often made with orange or lemon flavours.
What about orange creamsicles?
That sort of goes along with his point. The orange part is separate from the cream part.
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Little boutique place near us has an "Apple Cheddar Pie" ice cream in the fall. It's never quite as good as you expect. Gotta try it again this year, to see how they've changed it.
(On the other hand, their Lemon Curd Blueberry is one of the greatest things ever served in a cone in the history of humankind.)
The ice cream joint neat my house makes a honey apple gelato that's pretty incredible, not sure why we don't see it around more
I came in thinking this was a dad joke sub..lol.. and was like wait .. this a not a punch line.. now we need to find a dad joke for this question..
Because it's too expensive to crunch up a whole iPhone just for one cone.
This should be higher. Even broken iPhones from 3 years ago sell for tens or hundreds of euros.
Pure speculation on my part, but it's probably a safe guess to assume some market studies and/or trial runs they did on the flavor showed it wouldn't make enough profit. It's always about the money. I'm sure many people would buy it and enjoy it, but we are talking about corporations run by people with expensive college degrees in min-maxing everything for profit.
Maybe, but you definitely see more niche flavors like pistachio, coffee, mango, pineapple-coconut, rum raisin, etc. Hard to believe apple would be less popular, unless it's more expensive to make for some reason.
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As I have lost the only vegan cheese dip in existence (in my country at least) do to that, I can totally believe it.
I'm still sad about the cheese, it was perfect for tacos and all things melted cheese.
That's a bummer. I have noticed products like that will often vanish. Or drop dramatically in quality when they swap out quality ingredients for cheaper ones.
Jesus. So you expect companies to produce products that lose money?!
Or, do you expect them to remove more profitable products, which by definition are widely loved, from the limited shelf space and replace them with less profitable products, which by definition, fewer people enjoy? You'd fail running a lemonade stand.
Profits are fine. Have you not been paying attention to skimplflation, CEO bonuses, etc? That's the min-max mindset I'm talking about here.
Where do you live? Where I live (Austria), apple ice cream is maybe not 100% universally available at all ice cream vendors, but common enough that I have no problems getting it if I want to.
Southeastern US. This is my first time seeing apple-anything ice cream on the shelves, from major national brands at least.
Hm. I rarely buy ice cream in stores so I am not sure whether there is apple ice cream in stores here, but at ice cream parlors it is definitely reasonably common here.
It's a popular flavor in new england. Gifford's has apple pie seasonally at their ice cream stands. They also have pumpkin pie ice cream which is my favorite.
Are we talking Apple or apple pie? Because from your post I can't really tell.
This particular one is apple pie, but the ice cream itself (minus the pie crust chunks) would be great on its own.
What flavour is apple pie?
Apple + cinnamon
And brown sugar.
Gotta get those cinnamons-syrup-swirls, amirite?
And cheddar, ya philistines.
+ butter
So pie. And baked apple doesn't taste like raw apple.
Cinnamon apple jelly should be more common too! (Not apple butter… fuck Apple butter).
Apple cinnamon all the things!
Glazed apple cinnamon doughnuts are the best
I've never tried one, but now it seems I have to.
While you’re there try the Apple Fritter! It’s like monkey bread* made with apple cinnamon bits, then deep fried and dipped in glaze.
*=Monkey Bread is just pull-apart bread made from large chunks of dough.