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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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[โ€“] Kernal64 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] Kernal64 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Ooo, That's super cool!

It's like, all the berries combined.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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.

[โ€“] MrsDoyle 2 points 1 month ago

Same! Passionfruit also. Mmmm.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Chocolate chip, without mint, in baskin robbins.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whisky & Ginger, from the front at Whitby Harbour.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Ooo, that sounds like a smacker.

How does it melt?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Did it involve honeycombs?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Hoodsie cups in the northeast.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nobody said Cookie Dough...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Can you ask your parents?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Lilly with nuts." Italian ices

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

soft serve or soft ice. back in the country (GDR) where I grew up there was no other ice cream than that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Crappy 4L bucket tiger ice cream

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