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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] TheGiantKorean 4 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week 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)

[–] kiwifoxtrot 3 points 1 week 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.

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

Same! Passionfruit also. Mmmm.

[–] jumbonipples 3 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Same. I didn't care for it much. My dad always got the good stuff, vanilla.

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

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

[–] kaklerbitmap 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

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

Nobody said Cookie Dough...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] MTK 2 points 1 week ago

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

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

Chocolate chip, without mint, in baskin robbins.

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

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

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

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.

[–] Fandangalo 2 points 1 week ago

Hoodsie cups in the northeast.

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

Strawberry.

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

Whisky & Ginger, from the front at Whitby Harbour.

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

Ooo, that sounds like a smacker.

How does it melt?

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

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

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

"Lilly with nuts." Italian ices

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

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

[–] Jarix 1 points 1 week ago

Crappy 4L bucket tiger ice cream

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week 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.

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

Can you ask your parents?

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

Two come to mind.

  1. Classic cookies n’ cream
  2. 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

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

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.

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

Neapolitan. We always seemed to have it around when I was very young.

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

Young coconut ice cream. It's one of those flavors we can easily get from those ice cream carts that stop by the neighborhood usually in the middle of the afternoon. There's also mango and avocado completing the usual three flavors the cart would have, and I would always buy all three flavors available (unless I really hate the flavor).

Some of the adults would opt to have the ice cream served in a bread bun (usually just repurposed hamburger buns, without the sesame seeds), but I always opted for the sugar cones.

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

Pumpkin or peach ice cream has the strongest childhood association for meβ€”a place by the highway sold it fresh & seasonally. These aren’t common flavors either.

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

What was your first memory of eating it?

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

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

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