Ship of Fools: Ice cream

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

What's your fancy?

Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :

Am I the first? [Smile]

Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :

^ I think so, because I just voted, and when I checked the results, every category was at either 100% of equally divided between 50% and 50%.

Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :

In Brazil they have these really good ice creams with local Amazon fruits that aren't on the list.

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

Wot? No Tutti Frutti?

Posted by ThunderBunk (# 15579) on :

Just returned from Paris, home of Berthillon ice cream.

Their sorbets are almost good enough to stop me missing ice cream.

Almost.

(cue the tears of a broken, lactose-intolerant heart/stomach)

Posted by Uncle Pete (# 10422) on :

Me too - lactose intolerant that is. Indian ice cream is the bestest in the world, and I blame the weasel for introducing me to the Scotsman. Before that, I obsessed on pistachio (pista)

When I mention flavours I do not mean the chemically-laden flavour so prevalent in the West, but pure flavours made with real cream. Western ice cream has these flavours too, but they are but pale imitations of Indiann ice cream.

When we go out for ice cream, I always take a handful of lactase pills and don't take my blood sugar with any seriousness for at least two days.

I am never tempted in North America. Thank goodness!

That being said, I love sorbets.

Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :

Waffle cones made on site. Ubiquitous on the Cdn prairies. Ice cream made on site, though some will not be icecream, it will frozen from other things. Typically two flavours is what I get. I had curry and saskatoon berry last time.

Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :

I ticked the "yes" box for extras, although I wasn't quite sure what was meant. What I was thinking was a Cadbury's Flake, or maybe some chocolate sprinkles.

I'm really a bit of a bore when it comes to ice-cream: given the choice (and one usually is given bazillions of choices) I nearly always go for boring old vanilla, in a tub, because I'm the messiest piglet on the planet. [Hot and Hormonal]

Posted by Mamacita (# 3659) on :

There's a local family business called Homer's which makes the most amazing ice cream (even better than Berthillion, imho). This time of year they make a Fresh Peach ice cream which is to die for. The rest of the year, I'll get their Cappuccino Chip, a coffee ice cream with chocolate flakes in it.

When it comes to toppings, nothing beats hot fudge sauce on vanilla. With a dab of whipped cream. (Bit hold the nasty maraschino cherry.)

Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :

Vanilla with raspberry hot fudge, and crushed macadamia nuts over the top. Called a Fox Treat here.

[ 30. August 2015, 04:29: Message edited by: Lamb Chopped ]

Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :

I've not tried Blue Cheese ice cream but, provided it is not Danish Blue [yukky stuff] it sounds fab!

My current favourite is what is called, in The Plazza Ice Cream Parlour in town, a Plazza Special which is a scoop each of Vanilla, Butterscotch and Pista plus various syrups, nuts and cornflakes and a glace cherry and costs about 75 pence [UK] or $1.25 - it is fab and is enough to keep me going several days.

Yes, Keralites can spell plaza but the ice cream make is Lazza, hence the odd name.

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

I had a sample of Stilton ice cream once - it tasted like cold sweet cheese. Quite disconcerting, and not something I wanted to try again. It doesn't fit the scoop-in-a-cone on a hot summer's day image, but there might be a place for it in an upmarket restaurant as a course at the end of a meal.

Piglet - I was going to list extras as a choice but there were so many that I decided to simplify it to yes or no. It includes but isn't limited to sprinkles, flakes, chocolate, chopped nuts, raisins, caramel sauce, mint syrup, other fruit syrups, hundreds and thousands, berries, biscuit pieces, fudge sauce, honeycomb crunch, chocolate sauce, M&Ms, marshmallows...

I'd rather have my ice cream unembellished, personally.

Posted by Smudgie (# 2716) on :

I once tried garlic icecream... well, when you're at a garlic festival it's just one of those things you do.

The boy (currently reading over my shoulder - cheeky brat! ) suggested that cream cheese icecream might be worth a try. Thinking about it, he may be onto something there. He had orange and mascarpone the other day, which is obviously along the same lines, and he liked it, although I didn't try it as I'm not fond of orange icecream.

I'm quite a vanilla fan, though. Two scoops, one of them vanilla, and I'm a happy penguin.

[ 30. August 2015, 10:15: Message edited by: Smudgie ]

Posted by Jack o' the Green (# 11091) on :

Banana Split or Knickerbocker Glory. I always forget how much I enjoy ice cream until I have one.

Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :

A properly done Banana Split is indeed a thing of wonder!

Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :

A cone with two scoops, one of coconut ice cream and one of lime sorbet. Pure heaven. [Yipee]

Posted by bib (# 13074) on :

My favourite icecream is coffee, ginger and walnut. I'm also quite fond of licorice flavour.

Posted by Tree Bee (# 4033) on :

Macadamia ice cream in the Dandenongs was a real delicious treat.

Posted by basso (# 4228) on :

Smudgie beat me to the mention of garlic ice cream. I've had that at the Gilroy garlic festival. Not really savory - just sweet and garlicky. I'm glad I tried it, but I'm in no hurry to try again.

The same day I had a glass of garlic white wine. No, thanks.

Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :

I love a good homemade vanilla ice cream, but in order to be a little more healthy [Hot and Hormonal]

I usually buy frozen yogurt. Black Jack Cherry. Oh, my! Dark chocolate with dark cherries. Good stuff!

Posted by leo (# 1458) on :

The majority go for vanilla - how boring!

Posted by Jack o' the Green (# 11091) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
A properly done Banana Split is indeed a thing of wonder!

It certainly is. I think a banana has the perfect flavour and consistency to go with ice cream (except garlic of course).

Posted by Jack o' the Green (# 11091) on :

quote:
Originally posted by leo:
The majority go for vanilla - how boring!

Well, this is a Christian website!
"Vanilla, the missionary position of ice cream."

There is an ice cream called 'Purity and Danger' which you can get in Oxford named after a book by the anthropologist Mary Douglas. The book examines the possibe reasons behind the Israelites dietary laws. The ice cream was created by two of her former students.

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

quote:
Originally posted by leo:
The majority go for vanilla - how boring!

What did you vote for? I think I voted for about half the flavours listed and then forgot to include Neopolitan in my responses.

Posted by mousethief (# 953) on :

quote:
Originally posted by leo:
The majority go for vanilla - how boring!

If you think vanilla ice cream is boring, you've never had good vanilla ice cream.

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

quote:
Originally posted by mousethief:

quote:
Originally posted by leo:
The majority go for vanilla - how boring!
If you think vanilla ice cream is boring, you've never had good vanilla ice cream.

Very, very true. It's also the only base for hot sauces, like chocolate.

Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :

We're blessed with a number of outlets for very good ice cream around here. I've not long been to one for a freshly made waffle topped with pistachio and liquorice flavours, with plans to go back and try their Jaffa cake or malted milk.

I voted yes for extras, but prefer to do at home in the shape of fresh fruit, or home made crumble topping.

Posted by marzipan (# 9442) on :

There used to be a really good ice cream shop in cork which did lovely flavours, one of my favourites was blood orange sorbet. Salted caramel is also yummy! Or cherry. Or just any tasty flavour. Mango sorbet is also good.

Posted by mousethief (# 953) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:

quote:
Originally posted by mousethief:

quote:
Originally posted by leo:
The majority go for vanilla - how boring!
If you think vanilla ice cream is boring, you've never had good vanilla ice cream.
Very, very true. It's also the only base for hot sauces, like chocolate.

You don't need really good vanilla ice cream if you're going to put a strongly-flavored sauce on it, and of course most grocery-store vanilla ice creams (let alone that soft-serve stuff that some people so laughingly call "ice cream") aren't really good vanilla ice creams.

(Similarly it would be a waste of $50 champagne to use it in mimosas.)

Posted by mousethief (# 953) on :

quote:
Originally posted by marzipan:
There used to be a really good ice cream shop in cork which did lovely flavours, one of my favourites was blood orange sorbet. Salted caramel is also yummy! Or cherry. Or just any tasty flavour. Mango sorbet is also good.

An Italian restaurant in our little town makes a salted caramel gelato that is to die for. I was completely blown away when I first tasted it. Wow to the nth.

Posted by Brenda Clough (# 18061) on :

I am in Oregon, and yesterday we had a local ice cream maker, Salt 'n' Straw's olive oil vanilla ice cream, with drinking chocolate poured over. It is clear that I should moe to Portland and live over this shop.

Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
provided it is not Danish Blue [yukky stuff]

Too close to Norwegian Blue?

Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :

Well yes, I suppose it would be okay if served in a bowl on the bottom of a birdcage.

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

So, the average shipmate prefers to eat their ice cream as part of a meal (i.e. in a dish, which assumes you're probably sitting down to consume it). It should be vanilla, with maybe a scoop of chocolate or butterscotch, and have some kind of sprinkles or other topping on it. On no account should it be savoury.

I know someone who hates cones, but for ice cream on the move - and it always seems to taste better in the open air - you can't beat a cone while you're wandering around enjoying the scene, funfair, seaside, city, holiday, etc etc.

Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:

I know someone who hates cones, but for ice cream on the move - and it always seems to taste better in the open air - you can't beat a cone while you're wandering around enjoying the scene, funfair, seaside, city, holiday, etc etc.

Except the flavour profile of ice cream opens up as it warms. And this is the most dangerous time to use a cone.

Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :

I'm not especially fond of blackcurrants in other things, but intense blackcurrant ice cream is a thing most wonderful.

Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :

...but sadly it repeats on me for hours!

Posted by mousethief (# 953) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
So, the average shipmate prefers to eat their ice cream as part of a meal (i.e. in a dish, which assumes you're probably sitting down to consume it).

I don't think "sitting down to eat it" necessarily implies "part of a meal." I often sit down to enjoy nothing but a dish of ice cream, any meals having long since past and a good while into the future.

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
So, the average shipmate prefers to eat their ice cream as part of a meal (i.e. in a dish, which assumes you're probably sitting down to consume it). It should be vanilla, with maybe a scoop of chocolate or butterscotch, and have some kind of sprinkles or other topping on it. On no account should it be savoury.

I know someone who hates cones, but for ice cream on the move - and it always seems to taste better in the open air - you can't beat a cone while you're wandering around enjoying the scene, funfair, seaside, city, holiday, etc etc.

Cones are very convenient outdoors but the ice cream is often precariously perched on the cone, especially if one has two (or three!) scoops. The better ice cream sellers in South Wales, and we have some very good ones, thanks mostly to Italian migrants since the 1920's, use card tubs too, which is a safer compromise.

Posted by Brenda Clough (# 18061) on :

And there is nothing more entertaining that giving a very young child an ice cream cone. When she was three my daughter contrived to get ice cream all the way down to her toes.

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Cones are very convenient outdoors but the ice cream is often precariously perched on the cone, especially if one has two (or three!) scoops.

Depends on the size of the cone [Biased]

though I admit I've never attempted three scoops outside a restaurant. It is possible to get "twin" cones in some places.

I had an "oyster" earlier this summer, which is basically two large shell-shaped wafers filled with vanilla ice cream and at the base, white marshmallow. The "oyster" is sometimes partly dipped in chocolate and desiccated coconut. Not sure I'd have one again but it was interesting.

Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :

In breaking ice cream news: Slow-melting ice cream ingredient discovered by scientists

quote:
The development could also allow products to be made with lower levels of saturated fat and fewer calories.

It would be three miracles in one: slower melting, lower fat, fewer calories. [Angel]

Posted by Stercus Tauri (# 16668) on :

quote:
Originally posted by leo:
The majority go for vanilla - how boring!

Why go for vanilla at all? I don't like vanilla anything, and can't understand its appeal. I hardly ever eat ice cream in north America, as it is usually much too sweet and somehow seems chemically tainted.

I'm getting bad at living in the past, but memories of Italian ice cream sellers in the Glasgow area and down the Clyde in the early 50s seem to get better all the time. I enjoy annoying our daughters by telling them that the last really good ice cream I bought was at a shop in Comely Bank in Edinburgh in May 1969. I'm thinking about developing into a genuine curmudgeon when I get older.

Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :

quote:
Originally posted by no prophet's flag is set so...:
In breaking ice cream news: Slow-melting ice cream ingredient discovered by scientists

quote:
The development could also allow products to be made with lower levels of saturated fat and fewer calories.
It would be three miracles in one: slower melting, lower fat, fewer calories.

Yeah, because every other calorie reduction method hasn't also been a taste reduction. [Roll Eyes]

I've a simple method to reduce caloric intake of any food: Reduce intake.
Ice cream doesn't need to be low-cal. Just do not eat it all the time.
Never understood diet drinks and low cal rubbish. Just don't eat as much. I'd rather have the full fat everything less often than reduced pleasure more often.

Posted by Banner Lady (# 10505) on :

Black Sapote ice cream at Frosty Mango in North Queensland.
They grow their own tropical fruits in an orchard behind the shop. You can get jack fruit ice cream, star fruit ice cream, dragon fruit ice cream, lychee ice cream - but my fave was the black sapote (chocolate pudding fruit) ice cream. Google it and drool.

Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :

I believe all the ice cream and biscuits and cakes and so on here are calorie and cholesterol free - it may not be scientifically proven, indeed it may not have the slightest teensiest bit of scientific verification, but it makes me feel better!

eta: but only when eaten by me! [Razz]

[ 01. September 2015, 01:47: Message edited by: Welease Woderwick ]

Posted by Palimpsest (# 16772) on :

It's been ten or fifteen years since I last had it, but there's a store in Cambridge, Mass which makes a burnt sugar ice cream; ingredients sugar, salt, milk and cream. It's wonderfully intense.

There's a lot of bad ice cream in the U.S. but there are a number of shops that make very good stuff. This time of year there's fresh fruit ice cream like peach or raspberry.

There's also more than ice cream; I haven't seen a good old-fashioned non industrial italian water ice in a long while; lemon, cherry, chocolate or watermelon. And rarely does semi-freddo appear.

Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :

Himself [occasionally] makes a staggeringly good pineapple sorbet - and a bit of lemon juice sweetens it for some reason only a chemist would understand.

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

Sadly, I had nothing to say when I took the poll a few weeks ago. I do like caramel though. I think I'll get up and go get an ice cream bar out of the fridge...

Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :

New Zealand and excellence in ice-cream are synonymous. Hokey Pokey is the iconic one, but boysenberry ripple is my favourite of the non-designer arty farty versions. Oh, there are some good arty farty versions. Umm nom nom nom slurp.*

Neil Diamond (yeah, okay: [Hot and Hormonal]

) sang about chicken ripple ice-cream. If he could get that savoury is just BAD (it was satire, see) then normal human beings can too. *shudder*

*sadly, due to a crazy idea that I should lose weight, I rarely have any. [Waterworks]

Posted by Brenda Clough (# 18061) on :

The title of the thread reminds me of this:
Barbara Cook sings about vanilla ice cream

Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :

I currently have 2 favorites: one is Ben & Jerry's Americone Dream (vanilla with chocolate-covered waffle cone pieces and a caramel swirl...but the vanilla is amazing on its own, and I normally don't care for vanilla ice cream) and Mint Moose Tracks (which I've only seen in a local store brand - it's mint ice cream with that wonderful "moose tracks" fudge and little mint-filled chocolate cups).

Posted by Rosa Gallica officinalis (# 3886) on :

This gelateria makes the most amazing ice creams. Raspberry & rosemary is to die for! [Yipee]

Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Rosa Gallica officinalis:
This gelateria makes the most amazing ice creams. Raspberry & rosemary is to die for!

I've had that same ice cream at that same shop. You're not wrong, it's blimmin' lovely.

Posted by pjl (# 16929) on :

Dom Pedro

vanilla ice cream
whiskey
cream (amarula)

Brilliant

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