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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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[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours 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.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

Same! Passionfruit also. Mmmm.

[–] kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Nobody said Cookie Dough...

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 hours 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?

[–] jumbonipples@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day 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)

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] chillBurner@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Chocolate chip, without mint, in baskin robbins.

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

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

What was your first memory of eating it?

[–] nevermind@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] nevermind@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Orange sherbet in a cone. My grandfather used to get it for me after taking me to the park to play when I was around 4-6 or so. He passed away almost a decade ago and every time I have some, I think of him. He was the best.

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Orange sherbet was also a thing my step dad gave me, he'd always be excited to bring it home.

[–] megane_kun@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day 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.

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have you ever tried the bun?

[–] megane_kun@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

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

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

[–] Frenchys_prospecting@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Ooo, That's super cool!

It's like, all the berries combined.

[–] adonkeystomple@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

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

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

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

I learned to like it because of Johnny Test, it still is great.

Same. I didn't care for it much. My dad always got the good stuff, vanilla.

Strawberry.

[–] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Hoodsie cups in the northeast.

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Did it involve honeycombs?

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.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

None, the closest thing would be cheap chocolate spread with some medicine (we didn't have a lot of sweets at home)

Oh, and Snickers ice cream. It conjures up images of vacationing in Holland or Denmark and trying to fish for crabs with a cord and a cracked open clam. For some reason I feel like the clam tastes like the caramel from the Snickers.

Lemon in an absolutely tasteless cone. I don't have a specific image in my head except for the ice in one of those factory made cones.

Plus the song Gelato Al Limon by Paolo Conte. My parents had it on cassette and we would hear it in the car all the time.

[–] Gethund@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whisky & Ginger, from the front at Whitby Harbour.

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Ooo, that sounds like a smacker.

How does it melt?

[–] CLTCMNDR@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day 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

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