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.
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Orange sherbet was also a thing my step dad gave me, he'd always be excited to bring it home.
Plain old vanilla. We used to get those big gallon buckets of ice cream cause they were cheap.
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.
Same! Passionfruit also. Mmmm.
I don't even remember who made them, but the little single serve cups of chocolate ice cream with the wooden spoon
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)
chip'n'mint
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.
SUPERMAN!
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.
None, the closest thing would be cheap chocolate spread with some medicine (we didn't have a lot of sweets at home)
Whisky & Ginger, from the front at Whitby Harbour.
Ooo, that sounds like a smacker.
How does it melt?
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.
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.
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.
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Hoodsie cups in the northeast.
After eight.
As a kid in Italy.
A grown up taste but I loved it.
Reminds me of that holiday.
Chocolate chip, without mint, in baskin robbins.
Nobody said Cookie Dough...
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?
Boysenberry. It's weirdly become very rare at least where I live. It used to be quite common
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.
Can you ask your parents?
soft serve or soft ice. back in the country (GDR) where I grew up there was no other ice cream than that.
Kay's Butter Pecan. I don't think you can get it anymore.
Peanut Buster Parfait from DQ. It was the highlight of my summers as a kid.
Spumoni. They even make that anymore. Probably only in the Mediterranean area.
"Lilly with nuts." Italian ices
What kind of nuts?
Crappy 4L bucket tiger ice cream
Two come to mind.
- Classic cookies nโ cream
- 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
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.
Neapolitan. We always seemed to have it around when I was very young.
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