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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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[-] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] adonkeystomple@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

Same! Passionfruit also. Mmmm.

[-] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago
[-] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Ooo, That's super cool!

It's like, all the berries combined.

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[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year 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)

[-] kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago
[-] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] electronVolt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] jumbonipples@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year 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.

[-] chillBurner@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Chocolate chip, without mint, in baskin robbins.

[-] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Nobody said Cookie Dough...

[-] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year 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?

[-] Gethund@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Whisky & Ginger, from the front at Whitby Harbour.

[-] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Ooo, that sounds like a smacker.

How does it melt?

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] MTK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

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 year ago

Did it involve honeycombs?

[-] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hoodsie cups in the northeast.

[-] nevermind@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
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[-] megane_kun@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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 year ago

Have you ever tried the bun?

[-] megane_kun@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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

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

[-] jaxxed@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Peanut Buster Parfait from DQ. It was the highlight of my summers as a kid.

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Can you ask your parents?

[-] CLTCMNDR@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year 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

[-] Lily_Wyn@discuss.online 1 points 1 year 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.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Crappy 4L bucket tiger ice cream

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

"Lilly with nuts." Italian ices

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