What's The Best Flavor and Brand of Ice Cream?

$13 is too much for a pint. The most I’m willing to spend is $2.85 and ONLY for Haagen Daiz and Ben and Jerry. The others are inedible trash.

Turkey Hill's Belgian Chocolate but i have rediscovered recently BR's Lemon Custard and Gold Medal Ribbon!

Salt and Straw is overrated for $12 a pint. They use tapioca and xathum gum in their ice creams which is all filler and creates a bad texture. Nothing pure like Haagen Daz.

Häagen-Dazs rum raisin does it for me.

Baskin-Robbins jamoca almond fudge (although I haven't seen a Baskin Robbins in quite some time).

Runner up would be Georgia Peach Ice Cream from Kilwin's in the Jax Brewery in New Orleans.

That's a web markup R1

Whole Foods sells Jeni's for $9/pint and other stores for $7 or $8

Jeni's is kind of gross talk about dairy overload

Ben & Jerry's Coffee Toffee Crunch

Ben & Jerry's new Topped flavors. I love the Tiramisu flavor. I want to try Salted Caramel Brownie next.

Talenti Southern Butter Pecan.

Jeni's occasionally has a seasonal watermelon flavor. Not sorbet, but ice cream. When I first heard about it, I thought it sounded kinda weird, but oh my god, is it good. Really intense.

Gifford's Moose Tracks

Just about all brands of ice cream have tapioca, xathum gum, fructose etc. Things that have no place in ice cream.

Some of the of the Häagen-Dazs flavors are pure. Their classic vanilla is still cream, milk, sugar, egg yolks and vanilla extract. It's the best.

Talenti is inedible garbage. It is a joke that they call it "gelato". It has none of the characteristics of gelato.

Jeni’s Frozê

My honey makes a lovely dark chocolate with melt-in-your mouth chocolate chips.

(Think Graeter’s raspberry Chocolate chip french Pot method) Which, btw is my second runner up.

[quote] Just about all brands of ice cream have tapioca, xathum gum, fructose etc. Things that have no place in ice cream.

I think Ben and Jerry’s and Haagen Dazs are the only two that don’t. That’s why they’re more expensive. Magnum also comes in a pint and is the same price but their ice cream tastes like Cool Whip. They have no business charging that much. Same with Museum of Ice Cream. Their pints are expensive and taste like foam.

Best? Not sure. My FAVORITE, however, is Ben & Jerry’s Mint Chocolate Cookie.

B&J's Cherry Garcia

Have you guys ever been Topped by Ben and Jerry? Is it a gimmick? Is it better than the Cores series?

This is Datalounge R19

I'm sure most posters would enjoy being Topped.

Even if it was by Ben and Jerry

Lochmead Farms from Oregon is the best I've ever had.

Almost any flavor from McConnell’s. You can now get it shipped to your door!

Baskin Robbins mint chocolate chip. Period.

Do you judge people who buy gallons or half-gallons? That shit is nasty and not even real ice cream. I only buy PINTS!

Haagen-Dazs used to make a Crème Brûlée flavor that was the best. Smooth and creamy, it was hard to keep from eating the whole pint in one go.

Haagen Dazs vanilla Swiss almond. I also like HD dulce de leche, but it's kind of sweet (yes, I know ice cream is sweet).

At some point, HD made a cherry ice cream that was better than Cherry Garcia (Ben & Jerry). I did a side-by-side comparison. Yes, I was chubby in those days and had a mom who would buy all that stuff if / when it went on sale (discounted).

Well?

Trader Joes, coffee bean blast, so good and also pretty inexpensive.

Van Leeuwen’s vegan Chocolate.

Haagen Dazs Cookies & Cream is my current fave

Me too R23!

Speaking of Haagen Daz, years ago they had a line called “five ingredients” or something and the Honey Vanilla was amazing. I don’t eat dairy anymore but that stuff was great!

Now they have a fantastic vegan Peanut Butter Fudge flavor.

As for flavor, I like Cookies 'n' Cream.

agree with everyone about the quality of Haagen Dazs, Pralines and Cream is my favourite. The 'synthetic' kinds of ice cream (someone mentioned gum?) are nothing compared to the real thing, I remember hearing someone talk about buying a tub of vanilla Carte D'Or ice cream one evening and, having refined taste buds, knew something wasn't right straight away, so she dumped the whole lot in the sink, came back the following morning only to find it had retained it's shape, any ice cream that doesn't melt overnight is not ice cream!

Stroh’s, that company that used to make beer, makes really good ice cream! When I was a kid I was addicted to their banana ice cream. Now I love their bumpy cake ice cream!

Humphrey Slocomb Secret Breakfast

Graeter's Black Raspberry Chocolate Chunk.

(Jenni's is so over-rated and over-priced)

G.D. Ritzy's Swiss Chocolate Almond - haven't had it in 36 years!

Amaretto Cherry Cordial Ice-Cream. This is the absolute best:

What about that Ben and Jerry’s secret illicit flavor, Jerry’s Jizz.

Coffee Ice Cream is my favorite flavor, and Häagen-Dazs makes the best version of it.

[quote]agree with everyone about the quality of Haagen Dazs, Pralines and Cream is my favourite.

Where do you live? Pralines & Cream is no longer available in the US (except maybe in scoop shops).

Yikes, the shit in that Sanders ice cream at R35.

[quote] Ingredients: Milkfat And Nonfat Milk, Chocolate Fudge [Powdered Sugar (Sugar, Cornstarch), Peanut Oil, Cocoa (Pressed With Alkali), Dextrose, Nonfat Milk, Cocoa, Salt, Soy Lecithin (Emulsifier)], Sugar, Corn Syrup, Truffle Cake Pieces {Sugar, Sweetened Condensed Milk (Condensed Milk, Sugar), Chocolate Cookies [Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Sugar, Vegetable Shortening (Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil And/Or Cottonseed Oil), Cocoa (Processed With Alkali), Degerminated Yellow Corn Flour, Invert Sugar, Contains 2% Or Less of Chocolate, Leavening (Sodium Bicarbonate, Monocalcium Phosphate), Salt, Artificial Flavor, Soy Lecithin, Nonfat Milk], Coconut Oil, Natural Cocoa, Water, Butterfat, Cocoa (Processed With Alkali), Natural Flavor}, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sweetcream Buttermilk, Whey, Food Starch-Modified (Corn), Contains Less Than 2% of Natural And Artificial Flavors, Guar Gum, Mono & Diglycerides, Xanthan Gum, Polysorbate 80, Cellulose Gum, Carrageenan, Titanium Dioxide (Color), Salt, Glucono Delta Lactone, Yellow #5, Yellow #6. Contains Milk, Peanut, Soy, Coconut, And Wheat.

England, r42 - now I really ought to stock up before they discontinue it here as well

So DL's ice cream connoisseurs seem to feel that Haagen-Dazs is the best brand and, despite corporate takeovers, was still made with the best ingredients.

Before it was bought out decades ago, Sanders, based in Detroit, was the best. Under new ownership, and only featuring very limited flavors, it’s an inferior brand I now ignore. But lo these many years later, I’ve never tasted better ice cream than the original Sanders.

I support and occasionally buy Ben & Jerry's because it's real, high quality & the company is liberal and ecological.

Thanks, posters, for bringing to our attention all of these producers of which we might not have been aware.

Anyone have B&J's Schweddy Balls before it was discontinued?

Any ice cream suggestions for those of us who are lactose intolerant? It's one of the cruelties of getting older - suddenly you cannot digest dairy. Breyers has a decent lactose-free version but in a very limited range of flavors.

I don't buy any mass-produced ice cream; we have a local place that makes everything fresh on site, and they either hand-pack it for you, or serve it in a cone or cup. Haven't bought ice cream in a grocery store in years.

wow you're amazing r51. Oh, and how is this contributing to this thread?

PS you don't even say where you are or give the name of the place to spread a little local-business love.

PPS Fuck you

[quote] I don't buy any mass-produced ice cream; we have a local place that makes everything fresh on site, and they either hand-pack it for you, or serve it in a cone or cup. Haven't bought ice cream in a grocery store in years.

I have a Swiss woman who comes to my house with her own cow.

She milks the cow on premises and then picks the ingredients from the hothouse where she grows heirloom varieties of vanilla beans and cacao (all organic of course), mint and brambleberries.

Using an antique ice cream maker, she hand churns the ingredients into the most delectable ice cream imaginable.

You need to sign an NDA to engage her services, so that's all I can tell you.

R50, do you like coconut? I've eaten homemade, coconut ice cream, dairy-free. Didn't even miss the dairy. I'm not saying to make your own ice cream, but maybe look for ice creams that use coconut instead of dairy.

Blue Bell Pralines N' Cream