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I just got back from Italy: that stuff if wicked good. Over here I like the one with the chunks of cookie dough, grocery store brand being preferred for social (i.e. fuck Ben and Jerry) and financial reasons.

― Kris, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I must add to the B&J worship, especially since I was one of the semi-original fans from the early eighties -- it was big news when they opened a franchise in Saratoga Springs, and lemme tell ya, I think that place was always packed.

A Slice of Heaven -- in 1993 or so, I came into about 100 free pints of Ben and Jerry's via coupons via a friend. About fifteen went to my dad as a birthday gift, thirty to my class at the time. The rest I hoarded, then devoured. Num.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Favorite as a kid was Peppermint Stick from Friendly's in New England. It's gone way downhill, though. Now I'd go with the Haagen Daz Dulce con Leche. Never had the Starbucks version Ally mentioned, but I have been to Cold Stone Creamery and yup, it's incredible. So sweet and creamy and they beat it up just right. The staff is hard to take, though. Did they do that whooping and hollering routine when you tipped them, Ally? Really discourages gratuities, I think.

I sometimes mix peanut butter with vanilla, since Haagen Daz no longer makes that flavor.

― Arthur, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ben and Jerry is good. But here in canada they have reese penut butter cup icecream . Choclate fudge with PB swirls and then these little cups .

― anthony, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I love Ned claiming he's an original B&J fan. Soon he'll be cutting 4REAL into his arm and spitting on us new B&J fans.

― Ally, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

FUCK YES. But I was not in Vermont in the late seventies or so, so clearly I'm "Stay Beautiful" era instead of "New Art Riot."

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I knew I'd catch you on a technicality, you cult of Jerryiest.

― Ally, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

*weeps bitter tears of reproof*

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ben and Jerry are motherfuckers, I met them once and they talked about corporate mergers like they were Satan. WTF? This was before they were bought out. Their plant in VT is alright, though, you get free ice cream. Add homemade chocolate sauce, freshly picked raspberries, local maple syrup, and marshmellow sauce, and B&J is pretty great. But only Bart's has french toast flavor.

― Otis Wheeler, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I have been spoiled after working at an ice cream maker's shop for a year during college:

Toscanini's Ice Cream (located in Cambridge, Mass, in Central Square, Harvard Square, and at MIT) makes the best vanilla i have ever tasted. Other flavors of mention: Guiness, Cardamom, Cappicino, Grape Nut, Orange Creamsicle, Belgian Chocolate, Mexican Chocolate, Mango, and hundreds of others.

Definately worth a visit the next time you are in Boston.

― marianna, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ed, I did exactly the same thing, slacking off lectures and spending Erasmus money. If I could spend another year of my life over again, that would be it. Italian ice cream knocks socks off everything as far as I'm concerned. A scoop of cinammon and a scoop of hazlenut, from Frulli in Bergamo is tops, but a scoop of really sour lemon and a scoop of raspberry from pretty much anywhere is nearly as good.

If we're talking posh supermarket ice cream, it's got to be cookie dough, straight from the tub, don't stop until it's finished. If we're reaching into the freezer at the newsagents, it's a Tangle Twister for me. And I *have* to lick it round in a spiral.

― Madchen, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

You know, I used to go to the same B&J shop in Saratoga as Ned, back in the early 80s (it was walking distance of Cafe Lena where my dad used to do sound and reminice about Bob Dylan with the hippies). But you don't see MEEEEEE claiming original fan status, do you? No, cause real Old Skool fans don't have to advertise how long they've been into X, they just are.

― masonic boom, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

For those of us who've ever been to or lived in Oxford, George and Davis beats Ben and Jerry's anyday. They have a petition whereby you can request new flavours. Get enough signatures and they'll make it. Hence Turkish Delight ice cream and so on...

Fave flavour from a tub, though, is B&J Caramel Chew Chew.

― Paul Strange, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I had tiramisu and pannacotta gelati in (sigh) Venice, it (d)rools.

Mourning the loss of: Haagen-Dazs swiss almond vanilla. The bastards make green tea 'scream for the Japanese market and I WANT SOME.

Horrible stuff: Maple Nut from Kemps, my mother's very effective form of keeping her children out of her freezer stash.

Apparently B&J market-tested KitKat chunk in vanilla but didn't launch it. Idiots. They're also turning into a very un-PC company, as they're Starbucking someone's nice wee chain so they can take over in Texas.

Kate: we'll try to work out an ice cream cocktail for you. I think the White Russian Milkshake is a very good idea and a very useful application of my drugstore diner skills.

― suzy, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

White Russian Milkshake... uuuuuuuhhhhhhhh...

No! No! What are you people trying to do to me? I have to stick to my diet! I have to leave on tour two weeks after that party! It's OK if all of London thinks I'm a fat slob, but not the rest of the UK!

― masonic boom, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

There's a tacky American diner on the corner of Old Compton St where we once took my homesick American friend to play Gene Pitney records at her. We found it to be the home of the Kit Kat sundae! Yeah! Chocolate sauce everywhere!!! Would this count as an "indie" ice cream? Or PUNK?? YEAHPUNKROCK with extra drizzle.

There was also this specialist ice cream shop in Gisburn which made their own. It was beautiful. Quite sad it's in one of the remotest places ever... even from Barnoldswick it's not that easy to get to. Dough!

― sarah, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tacky American Diner? What kind? What kind? The Old Skool made out of a train's diner car and serving anything you like so long as it's fried in lard kind of diner with shiny chrome and red leather? Or the more interesting NYC Greek diner with the weird "it is our pleasure to serve you!" coffeecups with pictures of the Parthenon on them? Oh, I miss diners! I could kill for an "Athenian Omelette". And a kit-kat sundae... that doesn't sound very American, but it sounds delicious, anyway. Must investigate. Is it 24 hours? All good diners are 24 hours.

― masonic boom, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Urgh, Ed's Easy Diner. I'm REALLY anal about diner food that purports to be American. My first job was in one of the last drugstore diners, we had to wear the uncomfy white pinnies and everything. My mum, aunt and sister all did their stints there as teens so you can imagine I come from stock with (ahem) very definite ideas about what's a hamburger, what's a sundae, what's a milkshake, etc.

Look out: extremely skilled gastropornographer in the area.

― suzy, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Greasy Spoons are the work of G-d. I will die of a heart attack because all i eat is ethnic and deep fried .

― anthony, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ed's Easy Diner? Oh, thanks for getting my hopes up for nothing. Poo. Ed's Easy Diner is about as American as Arthur Treacher's English Style Fish & Chips is British. Sigh.

I keep hoping for a REAL diner in the UK, but I fear there's no such thing. I mean, even I can find a proper pub in NYC. Why is there no diner in London? Waaaahhhhhh!!!

― masonic boom, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I dunno, we have your McDonalds, your Burger King, your KFC, your Pizza Hut, your Starbucks and 5 billion other US food emporia and now you are moaning that we don't have your diners! Give us a break!

But Italian icecream rules even above Ben and Jerry's and George and Davis.

― Emma, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My New York diner experience: On the second vist to a diner, the gruff burly newyorker Waiter/Server came over and said very disdainfully, 'IN NEW YORK WE TIP'. Now we thought we had done so quite hansomely on the previous visit. we were far too scared to eat there again. But proper diner food/ambience is an absolute classic but surely cannot be transplated as sure as you can't transplant a fish and chip shop or a pub or a proper pizza restaurant.

You can however get a half decent chocolate malted (to my english tastebuds).

Suzy can you make us milkshakes in your blender at the party?

― Ed, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That meant to say

You can at least get a half decent chocolate malted (to my english tatsebuds) at Ed's Diner, which must count for something

but I got diverted.

― Ed, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm pathetic, I have no blender. Bring one, and it's White Russian milkshake time.

― suzy, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'll see if I can borrow my dad's, shouldn't be too difficult seeing it has no actual function in his kitchen, it is meerly another chrome doodad.

― Ed, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think we have one, but we're bringing the boombox.

Sigh... Emma, the problem is, Diners are the one GOOD purely American food, while they've only imported the crap Burger Kings and McDonalds and stuff. And where the heck are the Dairy Queens? I mean, honestly... why can't Britain bring over the good stuff?

― masonic boom, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Cooool. You're also prosecco boy, therefore you rule. I'm off to the bank now, freelance cheques ahoy. Wait a while before you drop this info on the picnic thread, as I've just posted No Blender = No Milkshakes type bribe and want a glut of blenders to make us all very happy.

I am so going to have to get a bottle of special Mexican K using the Sin Fund.

― suzy, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Kate, you're excused because ja, I am thanking you for the music. Tak somykket.

And SNAP, SNAP, SNAP on the diner/soda fountain opinion. It's like my other chief London annoyance: Chinese food does not come in the little white box. I have been saying for 10 years that the first quality C- food takeaway to open up and USE the white boxes in Central London will make a fucking fortune, the public will love it and the style mag set will totally wet themselves. But I digress. Green tea ice cream, anyone? I haven't figured out how to make it alcoh...uhhhh, yes I have. Saké.

― suzy, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

You can buy Chinese ready meals in US styley cardboard boxes all ready to go in the microwave, not sure which particular purveyor of ready meals make them but they exist. I'm sure it is just the same as your American Chinese boxes.

Also - if there are any quality Chinese takeaways I have yet to find them. In my experience London Chinese takeaway is always utterly disgusting.

― Emma, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Good Chinese takeaways are few and far between in London. But we seem to have fortunately found a not too revolting one. They fry good tofu. Unfortunately, for most of you, it's in Wimbledon. Laughing at us Sarf of the River type folks now, are you? Unfortunately, it still doesn't use those cool little box things.

Oh, wait, I was going to make coffee and you distracted me with thoughts of Chinese takeaway.

― masonic boom, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Emma, they're the M&S ones...and are shit. More to the point, they are WRONG because they have a colour scheme. Only acceptable design for the white box is little red bit of Chinoiserie on the side. And must have metal wire handle. Otherwise, some fuckwit in some marketing department somewhere has been madcap and zany with madcap, zany focus groupies from C1C2 households in Hertfordshire who holiday in the Kissimmie/ Orlando area and vote Tory.

Mmmm, DIM SUM. Could eat that all day.

― suzy, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I can't get a proper soft serve lateyl. WHat's up with that? Soft ice cream rips of hard's cock any day.

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Snigger...... poor ole M and S, they can't get it right anywhere can they? Soon their No. 1 retail position will be OURS, surely?

Maybe you should start a dim sum thread, I luv it. I like those funny turnip cake things.

― Emma, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I just want to say, virtually with no reason at this point in the thread, that that bullshit Otis posted about putting homemade maple syrup and fresh raspberries on his ice cream (?!?!) gives me the most hilarious image of Otis in overalls out in the fields, tapping trees and picking berries now. This whole drinking/puking/waking up in hot tubs rubbish is a front - he is a farmer.

― Ally, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

WHat about people puttin g fr uit on the breakfast cereal? Classic or dud?

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Fruit? On cereal? Just plain WIERD!!!

― masonic boom, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It has always seemed the enterprise of the rich to do it. In my book. We poor cannot aford blueburries.

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ooh, bananas in cornflakes, fucking a.

― Ally, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My girlfreind does it. I am always envious. Do I deserve it? I always just use sugar. Hey guys, ever have OJ in your cheerios!? It ssucks!

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dried fruit is so fucking cheap that it seems a crime not to sprinkle a few raisins over your bran flakes. Though I like Special K with the Diet Marshmellows in the shape of supermodels..

― Pete, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Bananas don't count as fruit for the purposes of breakfast cereal eating.

What always bugged me, was when they'd show in the adverts... "Part of this nutricionally complete breakfast" where the whole breakfast - including toast, fruit, milk, orange juice - would have been nutricionally complete *without* the Sugarbombz.

― masonic boom, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I eat, on average, 4 bowls of Golden Crisp a day in the summer, with raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries. I also drink sap from the bucket and a couple weeks ago I helped someone make ice cream. If this makes me a farmer, so be it.

― Otis Wheeler, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

And I grew up on Oatios in orange juice. I love it.

― Otis Wheeler, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Coffee ice cream: sinning twice.

...and Toufutti is not the same as ice cream. It never will be. Figgered I'd just throw that out there.

― JM, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

And Oatscream sucks, aside from its freakish ability to never melt.

― Otis Wheeler, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Bananas are actually an herb. Odd.

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

*still laughing* Best goddamn thread of the week, I think.

To put it plainly -- the UK *FAILS MISERABLY* at these key factors to ensure culinary survival:

1) Good Mexican food. Scratch that, even *mediocre* Mexican food.

2) Fast food -- as has been said, you've been colonized by The Shit and not The Good. Such are the natures of multinationals, I realize.

I will allow for the fact that we don't have as many Indian places out here as we should. This however will hopefully be changing (and happily we've got a good slew around where I live, so there is further hope).

And Kate, I have pose and preen about B&J, for I am a Mere Male and measure myself accordingly against societal standards. Now if you excuse me, I have to go down to Hooters in my red Ferrari dick car and shout loudly about tits while pounding down Coors Light. That is what people do there, right?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Culinary Survival? Is that gonna be a new reality TV show starring Jamie Oliver, Lovely Nigella and Anthony Worrall Thompson on a desert island with only a jar of capers and some evaporated milk?

Getting patriotically irritated by US 'our junk is better than your junk' nonsense. This is patently a fact that does not need to be debated since about 75% of Seppos are obese (though we are catching up, even without Taco Bell or Dairy Queen or whatever).

― Emma, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Bread is where the US fails miserably. Last time I was in the America I couldn't find a single loaf of bread that did not contain sugar. Bread + sugar = BUN, not bread! My French friend, living there at the time, actually took to making her own bread in order to have a proper loaf on the table.

― Madchen, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I agree that most bread here is a disaster. Specialty shops are useful things, though, so there's hope.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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LIght red meaning. Thank you.

― f_rankle, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 08:21 (fifteen years ago) link

five months pass...

i'm eating away my misery w/ this bacon and maple syrup ice cream (i drizzled aunt jemima on top)

― boys (Tape Store), Monday, 15 June 2009 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link

i have (most of a) pint of ben and jerry's mint chocolate chip ice cream and the remainder of the wire season 1 waiting for me at home :D

― susan fassbender (donna rouge), Monday, 15 June 2009 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link

also who is this that makes bacon/maple ice cream?

― susan fassbender (donna rouge), Monday, 15 June 2009 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

WTF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pq8TFptKR4

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 11 July 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f7/Golden_gaytime_box.jpg/450px-Golden_gaytime_box.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gaytime
Aussies have a gay old time with ice cream!

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 11 July 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link

Fat + sugar + cool + creamy = hard not to like

― Aimless, Saturday, 11 July 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link

There's a small ice-cream shop near my house called Whip & Dip; They make the best mint chocolate-chip ice cream I've ever had. There another ice-cream shop down the road called Wall's Ice Cream; they make the best coffee ice cream and Guinness-beer flavored ice cream I've ever had (sadly, I don't think they make the Guinness ice cream anymore).

― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 11 July 2009 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

My fave self-made icecream

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4777469585_4512540621.jpg

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link

aw!!

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link

nice

― is breads of india still tite (admrl), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link

for some reason my comment didn't go through yestreday. that looks delectable!

― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Thursday, 15 July 2010 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link

You can all LICK it. lol

My god, I'm 36 and I knit icecreams.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 15 July 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

Ew, my brother-in-law posted on Facebook that he had some bacon and maple syrup ice cream. That it exists makes me want to go into hiding.

My favorites - peppermint and bubble gum. I especially love mint syrup!

― Deremiah Was a Bullfrog (u s steel), Friday, 10 June 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I am going to eat ice cream tonight.

Madagascan Vanilla. Now, if only I could get some Devonshire clotted cream to go with that shit...

― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Monday, 4 July 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link

Sounds pretty good. Vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkles is a wonderful thing imo.

My favorites - peppermint and bubble gum. I especially love mint syrup!

― Deremiah Was a Bullfrog (u s steel), Friday, June 10, 2011 12:06 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Bubble gum ice cream is so revolting to me. Just the idea of it makes me want to vom.

Went out for ice cream last night. Wound up getting hard yogurt but it's so good you couldn't tell the diff. Oatmeal raisin cookie falvor with rainbow sprinkles. Always rainbow sprinkles. They're my fav.

― $^o$ (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 4 July 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link

raspberry frozen yoghurt can be very nice

― nakhchivan, Monday, 4 July 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.ilovemygrub.com/news/2011/heston-blumenthal-mustard-ice-cream-waitrose

hmmmn

― nakhchivan, Monday, 4 July 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link

Blue Bell half gallons, 3/$13.

Dessert Trio
Coffee
Homemade Vanilla

Happy 4th, y'all.

― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Monday, 4 July 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link

two weeks pass...

New Yorkers, any assents or demurrals?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/dining/reviews/new-yorks-new-frozen-treats-25-and-under.html

― you call it trollin' i call it steamrollin' (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 July 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

i would like to talk about jeni's salty caramel ice cream, which is the best ice cream i have ever had in my life.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, 7 March 2013 03:23 (eleven years ago) link

there is a mostly finished pint of ben & jerry's karamel sutra in my freezer. i don't want to finish it because THEN i would feel like a glutton -- never mind the 3/4 that my bf and i already ate.

― johnny hit and run paul lynde (get bent), Thursday, 7 March 2013 03:57 (eleven years ago) link

I would like to eat some salty caramel gourmet ice cream and then talk about it

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 03:58 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

Kroger's store-brand (Private Selection) ice creams are mind-blowingly good. They're not paying me to post this.

― hey, big dispender (WilliamC), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link

costco carries a generic vanilla icecream that is so FREAKING good.

also on the fancy end of things, Straus Family Creamery's vanilla is the bomb.

I recommend both of these as someone who doesn't even usually love vanilla icecream much at all, but these two are crazy good

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link

two years pass...

Bought the Breyers chocolate/vanilla split 7".

― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 27 June 2016 01:52 (seven years ago) link

Honestly it's really good. I don't understand why I ever pay for ultra-premium ice cream because I don't think it's all that much better than this.

― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 27 June 2016 01:52 (seven years ago) link

as far as supermarket brands

it has to be aldens

best so far

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 27 June 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link

Bums me out that half the Breyers flavors are labeled "Frozen Dairy Dessert"

― JoeStork, Monday, 27 June 2016 17:38 (seven years ago) link

Oh is that really still a thing? I thought they stopped doing that. This one was definitely ice cream.

― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 27 June 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link

depends on the flavour i believe

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 27 June 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link

i like breyers a lot, winco almost always has them for half the normal store-price

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 June 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link

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