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Threads like this should start with "dairy bar" and end with "any flavor."
 
But on a serious note. Shady glen, coconut. They got real coconut flakes in there, I don't eat any other ice cream besides dairy bar.
 
I'll eat pretty much any ice cream but these already mentioned above are old favorites of mine:

Edy's French Silk
Moose Tracks
Turkey Hill Chocolate Peanut Butter
B&J Chunky Monkey

To which I will add my all-time go-to favorite:

Häagen-Dazs Belgian Chocolate

If it's in the freezer I can't stop thinking about it until it's in my belly...then I'm sad,
 
I have a dangerous love of ice cream and when my wife was pregnant her "needs" essentially allow me to gain like 15 pounds due to the proximity of Dairy Queen. That being said, my absolute fave ice cream is any sort of Oreo variation. I used to work at Hallmarks in Old Lyme and helped make some of the ice cream there. That Oreo was amazing. I haven't been back since it was bought out. A close second would be Ben and Jerry's "Everything But The..." and then all the varieties of Edy's Slow Churned. The Orange Creamicle thing is pretty awesome.
 
Stewart's Espresso Therapy or the gelato from Via Quadronno either Pistschio or Rum Raisin.
 
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superjohn said:
I'm usually a purist when it comes to ice cream and Haagen-Dazs vanilla has been my go to. Not a big ice cream guy but now that the summer months are here I'm willing to branch out if there are some good suggestions. By the way Ben and Jerry's is insane for discontinuing Heath Bar crunch.
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UConn Dairy Bar - Chocolate .... it tastes as great now as it did 35 years ago mmmmhh
Store bought Breyers Mint Chocolate Chip ... no green dye and it tastes great
Friendly's Butter Crunch with Chocolate Shots .... awesome
 
Deepster said:
Haagen Daaz Vanila? That's like saying your favorite sandwich is Wonder bread and skippy peanut butter.

B&J's coffee toffee bar crunch, milk and cookies, cherry Garcia, holy cannoli. I mean, start there and let me know if you need more help.
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Nice try, but take a look at the ingredients and you'll have data to back up how poor an analogy that was: simple & natural vs. bland & hyper-processed.

Mix-ins can be fun, but so can smooth. Good coffee ice cream is rarely improved by chunks of anything, and Cherry Garcia still satisfies after many years, to give a couple of examples.

And because nobody has yet mentioned it, we're partial at home to the frequent enough $2.88/pint sales on many flavors of Talenti available at ShopRite. They also rotate similar sales on HD and B&J if you're cost-conscious and favor the so-called "super premium" brands.
 
My favorite from Haag-Daz is their Pineapple Coconut. Ben & Jerry's is very smooth (it's the way they make it) and I like best the Cherry Garcia. For supermarket brands, I used to like Breyer's and especially their Butter Almond, but I can't find it ever, and the quality & ingredients have gone downhill.

But prices are insane for the "good" ice creams- Breyers by the 1/2 gallon (or whatever it is now, 1.75 quart) is never more than $4 in my rea. If you can get Ben & Jerry's on sale for $3.50 a pint, that comes out to $14 for 1/2 gallon!
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
Nice try, but take a look at the ingredients and you'll have data to back up how poor an analogy that was: simple & natural vs. bland & hyper-processed.

Mix-ins can be fun, but so can smooth. Good coffee ice cream is rarely improved by chunks of anything, and Cherry Garcia still satisfies after many years, to give a couple of examples.

And because nobody has yet mentioned it, we're partial at home to the frequent enough $2.88/pint sales on many flavors of Talenti available at ShopRite. They also rotate similar sales on HD and B&J if you're cost-conscious and favor the so-called "super premium" brands.
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Nonsense. For mass produced products, vanilla ice cream is vanilla ice cream. You can get that crappy yellow French Vanilla, Vanilla Bean or Friendly, Breyers, B&J. At the end of the day, it's just vanilla ice cream, man.
 
Deepster said:
Nonsense. For mass produced products, vanilla ice cream is vanilla ice cream. You can get that crappy yellow French Vanilla, Vanilla Bean or Friendly, Breyers, B&J. At the end of the day, it's just vanilla ice cream, man.
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Couldn't be further from the truth.
 
Deepster said:
Nonsense. For mass produced products, vanilla ice cream is vanilla ice cream. You can get that crappy yellow French Vanilla, Vanilla Bean or Friendly, Breyers, B&J. At the end of the day, it's just vanilla ice cream, man.
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Very silly statement, sounds like your not a Vanilla fan, which is fine, but the statement is silly.
 
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Deepster said:
Nonsense. For mass produced products, vanilla ice cream is vanilla ice cream. You can get that crappy yellow French Vanilla, Vanilla Bean or Friendly, Breyers, B&J. At the end of the day, it's just vanilla ice cream, man.
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Persionally, I prefer a good sweet cream to vanilla, but what I'd really like to hear is your complaint about clear blue skies, meditation, minimalist art and/or water.
 
My Top 3 in order:
1. Mocha Almond Fudge hand packed at Baskin Robbins
2. Coffee Bean..Trader Joes
3. Coffee - Haagen-Dazs
 
EBonz30 said:
Very silly statement, sounds like your not a Vanilla fan, which is fine, but the statement is silly.
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I have nothing against vanilla ice cream. It's just like saying your favorite food is iceberg lettuce. It's the base for other GOOD ice creams. Alone? Meh. You can have it.
 
Deepster said:
I have nothing against vanilla ice cream. It's just like saying your favorite food is iceberg lettuce. It's the base for other GOOD ice creams. Alone? Meh. You can have it.
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Don't think many people will agree with you. You don't order a pizza with bacon, salami, onions, olives and peppers to judge a pizza, you order a cheese pizza. Same goes for ice cream, if your ice cream is really good you get a vanilla or chocolate and it will be awesome and stand on it's own, you shouldn't need candy fillers to make it taste good. I'm not saying cookies n cream, fudge ripple etc. aren't good but if you make good ice cream your vanilla and chocolate are going to be good. There is a huge difference between good and bad vanilla.
 
superjohn said:
Don't think many people will agree with you. You don't order a pizza with bacon, salami, onions, olives and peppers to judge a pizza, you order a cheese pizza. Same goes for ice cream, if your ice cream is really good you get a vanilla or chocolate and it will be awesome and stand on it's own, you shouldn't need candy fillers to make it taste good. I'm not saying cookies n cream, fudge ripple etc. aren't good but if you make good ice cream your vanilla and chocolate are going to be good. There is a huge difference between good and bad vanilla.
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Great. You enjoy your plain vanilla ice cream. Have at it, champ.
 
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it's got to be from that creamery in Brenham, Texas that makes Blue Bell Ice Cream. The best of the best though is the Rocky Road!
 
There was only one ice cream that I ever craved consistently and it's been gone for 25 years: Ben and Jerrys rainforest crunch.
So great.

I'm not an ice cream fanatic. My wife and daughter are, I just ask that they keep a couple Italian ices in hand for me. I like those better.
 
UC313 said:
Turkey Hill Chocolate Peanut Butter. PB so thick you gotta hammer it into chunks with the spoon. Leave your tongue pasted to the roof of your mouth PB. Om nom nom.
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Not a fan of that flavor but Turkey Hill kills on flavors. A couple of years ago they came out with a Chocolate Malted Chocolate Ice Cream. Bought about 5 half gallons. What is funny, Hershey right down the street and it is not one of the favorites. OVERRATED. Turkey Hills Natural is great.
 
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Is Carvel (sp) Ice Cream still around? They had 2 in Waterbury when I was a kid.
 
Is there a worse name for an ice cream company than "Turkey Hill?" Turkey & Ketchup Hill is possibly the only worse name for an ice cream company.
 
I don't really like ice cream, but I had the coconut ice cream at the Dairy Bar last year and it was pretty good.

So that will be my favorite.

Went to a very expensive restaurant last year and one of the courses was a crab ice cream.

Still not ready to talk about that one.
 
My IC purchasing has really dropped. I go for sherbet occasionally. And the Breyer's Mint Chocolate Chip in a pinch.

When it comes to ice cream impaled on a stick...loved those crunch-coated bar thingys.
 
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superjohn said:
Is there a worse name for an ice cream company than "Turkey Hill?" Turkey & Ketchup Hill is possibly the only worse name for an ice cream company.
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Turkey Hill Dairy began in 1931 during the Great Depression, when farmer Armor Frey began selling bottled milk to neighbors from his sedan.[4] Frey's family obtained the farm directly from Thomas and Richard Penn, sons of William Penn, and the sheepskin deed to the farm refers to "turkeyhill".[4] Turkey Hill Ridge had been given its name by the Conestoga Indians for the wild turkeys found there, so the family decided to name their dairy after the name on the deed and the nearby geographical feature.[5][6]


Armor sold the dairy to sons Glen, Emerson and Charles Frey in 1947. Milking the cows and delivering milk to customers provided these three families with a satisfactory income.[4]


In 1954,[7] the dairy began making ice cream, which sold well in Lancaster County, and in 1981, they started selling the ice cream through a few independent stores in Philadelphia.[4] Turkey Hill quickly began to expand into New Jersey and up the East Coast. In the early 2000s (decade) Turkey Hill's products were distributed in places further west, such as Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. Over the next few years, Turkey Hill rapidly expanded its distribution area, and its teas are now sold in 45 states and the ice cream is now sold in 43 states.
 
Fishy said:
I don't really like ice cream, but I had the coconut ice cream at the Dairy Bar last year and it was pretty good.

So that will be my favorite.

Went to a very expensive restaurant last year and one of the courses was a crab ice cream.

Still not ready to talk about that one.
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You seem to be one of those guys who doesn't enjoy food and or has the palate of a 5 year old.
 
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