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Kawartha has this salted caramel truffle flavour I fucking miss so bad from when I lived in Ontario, or that PC Black label bourbon vanilla is soo good if I actually go to (local Loblaw's variant, not doxxing myself) but usually I go to Sobeys cause it's closer so I get stuck with regular Chapman's or Haagen-Dasz which is fine but it's just not really the same but I don't wanna go all the way to (city redacted) just to get an ice cream because why would i do that. Anyways, what's your guyses's favourite ice cream. Gimme some suggestions available in canuckistan or stuff to try when I visit the US.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I want to go to there, but truly I'm afraid to meet my ice cream heroes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Marble slab creamery if there's any still around here in canada. They do the whole song and dance mixing the ice cream on a cold slab with the flavours using these metal scraper things. Pretty sure they still exist. Otherwise i just fuck with the radioactive ice cream sandwiches I have the taste of a raccoon

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh shit! Looks like they have one in Halifax so I will have to try this out next time I'm there!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was this ice cream cone that had a slightly sour citrusy outer layer, delicious pear ice cream that was not overly sweet, and a core of salty toffee ice cream. It was the perfect ice cream cone, and those bastards stopped selling it. All the others taste so much worse in comparison now that they don't even seem worth buying.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You might like the PC Black Label Yuzu Citrus flavour. That whole combo sounds pretty baller, but you'd get a similar sourish citrusy ice cream vibe, maybe!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

"A revolution without ice-cream is a revolution not worth having" — OP

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cornish cream or Scottish tablet. That's all you need

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think I've ever seen either of these flavours in north america. Will have to try sometime if I ever visit the Cracker Peninsula.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Lol, the cracker Peninsular. Love it. Probably the only reason to visit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

malted milk & coffee are the best flavors imo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I just recently learned you can buy malt powder at the grocery store and have been switching up my occcasional evening bowl of chocolate ice cream.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tillamook icecream is pretty good. They make this pecan-caramel thats fucking amazing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Seconding this

I also like their White Chocolate Raspberry

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the early 2010s Blue Bell did a limited edition Red Velvet Cake ice cream that was my favorite thing ever. I didn't know it was limited edition and was heartbroken when it disappeared. Blue Bell hasn't indicated they're ever gonna bring it back.😔

Last year Walmart released a hilariously tonedeaf Juneteenth ice cream that was absolutely torn apart on social media to the point Walmart was just flat out throwing the ice cream out. It wasn't till after i learned it was Red Velvet flavor.

rage-cry

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm like 99% sure I've seen a red velvet flavour from halo top. Not sure if this helps.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh shit! Thanks! Gotta check that out!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Idk how to post emojis from Sync, but (I'm vegan.) Vegan ice cream is a little trickier since you're relying heavily on whatever the base is made of for taste. YMMV but for me, Oat milk base is best, Almond is fine, Coconut is meh because its very overpowering and all flavors taste like coconut, anything with pea protein in it is gross, and so is that weirdo Avocado ice cream that was probably created to harm the reputation of vegan food.

All that said, try the So Delicious brand that you can get at Walmart or probably other supermarkets. They have Oat, Almond, and Cashew bases that are all pretty good no matter what flavor you get. I like the double chocolate chunk, I think its called, because I used to be a huge chocolate head whenever birthdays and stuff came around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't like Avocado? The concept weirded me out at first, but I've had Avocado shakes with chocolate and I loooove it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Someone I know informed me there are a lot of recipes online for making your own vegan ice cream with avocado, so I'm wondering if it's a Tofurky situation where old-school vegans were eating avocado ice cream before we had access to all the fancy brands we do now. That was before my time, but it would make sense. I'm not an avocado hater in other contexts, I just don't think it makes a very good dairy replacement. I pile them onto my burritos though. It'd definitely be my last choice if I were trying to convince someone to go vegan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Haha dang you bringing up Tofurkey in that context is real. I remember eating tofurkey like 14 years ago and it was soooo gross but years later the Italian Sausagr they make became a staple in my house and still is, and I'm an omnivore.

I tried the Avocado smoothie at an Asian restaurant I was eating at a while ago. I feel like I've seen them on Vietnamese and Thai menus a lot, so I think sweet Avocado preparations have been around for a long time. I know I've definitely gotten weird looks when I've told people about them though so I agree I don't think it would be the first thing to have a someone skeptical to Veganism try for sure

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't wanna go all the way to (city redacted) just to get an ice cream because why would i do that.

Comrades get long-distance Ice Cream, as a treat. meow-bernie

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

can't imagine going 20 minutes each way across a car bridge on a bicycle to go to a grocery store when I could just not do that and go to the other more different grocery store that's like 3 blocks from my house

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

geordi-no Local Ice Cream Desert

geordi-yes Local Ice Cream Dessert

Under socialism every street corner shall have an incredibly convenient little store where planning and feedback tailors its inventory to the neighborhood! I'm both being funny and serious! allende-rhetoric

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

My favorite growing up was simple but harder to get as I got older: chipper bars, basically an ice cream sandwich with chocolate chips in the ice cream. Found some recently under the name "cookies and cream flavour" so that's been pretty swell.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is heresy, and I know it. But I fucking love Talenti’s Roman Raspberry sorbet. Almost as good as when I visited Italy years ago. Not ice cream, per se, but it makes me very happy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorbet fucking rules. Raspberry sorbet with either shaved chocolate or m&m's in it 🤌

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

oh my god, bless that sounds amazin

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mmm, ice cream so good mmm 🤤 gang gang

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Pop pop pop!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Don't we need a warning on non-vegan posts?

Anyway, I'm a mint chocolate chip fan. I like it aggressively minty. Miss me with the fancy matcha mint stuff that tastes like grass. The best Mint Chocolate Chip I've had so far is Blue Bunny.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

vegan ice cream exists btw. i've seen it made from like almond milk, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

it's also pretty good in my experience
one drawback is it doesn't tend to last as long in the freezer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huuuuuge fan of mint chocolate chip. Have you any recommendations for a super minty one?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Blue Bunny is my favorite so far but I haven't had a lot of the super fancy ones so idk if they're any good

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Step 1: Get pistachio ice cream Step 2: Get chocolate ice cream Step 3: Mix Step 4: Nom nom

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As a big practitioner of steps 1 and 2, I might just try that step 3 now you've mentioned it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Trader Joes has a coffee ice cream, it’s the only ice cream I eat. So good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really prefer gelato or frozen custard over ice cream, with the custard at the burger chain Culver's taking the cake. That said, Wisconsin does have a decidedly right-wing custard joint called Kopp's that has some amazing pumpkin ice cream in the fall. There's also a company called Purple Door that makes a whisky ice cream that I will sing praises of.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've actually been to Kopps as I have family in Milwaukee, is it fash? Is Oscar's the proletarian option?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've only ever seen it at two ice creams shops, but black sesame ice cream is one of my favorite flavors in the world. Fancy shops might make it as a seasonal flavor or something, if you ever happen to see it anywhere doooo get it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i love my choccy mint chip but halo top had(?) this green tea mochi flavor that was rly good

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I hated that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

the best ice cream i had is the mexican garrafa ice cream which is like a sorbet, in the city i live there is this big shop that makes like 50 different flavors, and from all of them my favorites are the chocoflan and kahlua ones

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, if you get the opportunity, try Blue Moon ice cream

It's a flavor that defies all expectations, mainly because no one can tell what exactly it's supposed to be

Every place that makes it does their own little variation on it, some are kind of marshmallowy vanilla with fruit notes, some are kinda sweet almond and light lemony

Either way, very very good and very, very much a Midwestern thing (though I have found it in the Northeast a few times, mainly from grocery stores)

Also, most places that sell Blue Moon also sell Superman, which is Blue Moon, cherry and yellow vanilla mixed together, which is also very good

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't it like fruity pebbles flavor?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Some of them get like that, but others it's more complex

It's one of those things where nobody makes it same way and so you have to try them all to find which manufacturer does it in the exact way you like

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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