GTKY: National Ice Cream Day

NYTino24

What's your favorite flavor / brand? Do you prefer hard or soft serve? If you don't like ice cream, do you eat gelato or frozen yogurt? What do you prefer for toppings? If you don't like any of the above, what is your favorite dessert? Bonus for gifs / pics!

lancomechica2

I love ice cream!! In Ohio we have Jeni's and they have a lot of unique flavors that I love. For regular flavors I like cookie dough and moose tracks. 

cwalker042

I'm eating ice cream as I type! I have a few favorites based on my current mood. Chocolate chip cookie dough, black cherry and maple walnut. When at an ice cream shop I always get the same. A medium twist (chocolate and vanilla) in a cone. Ice cream is my weakness! I try not to buy it because I will seriously eat a half of the half gallon in one sitting. 

lancomechica2

@cwalker042 holy cow black cherry sounds really good!! Yummy!! 

ineedsixeggs

Give me all the gelato. 

If I'm eating it at home I prefer the Talenti brand because I reuse the empty containers as tupperware to justify the cost

NYTino24

I love all kinds! Chocolate chip cookie dough, Oreo, strawberry, and cherry vanilla top my list of generics. I don't typically get toppings, but brownie bites are great and I like boba on froyo. Turkey Hill makes a great birthday cake flavored ice cream and I love B&J's Chubby Hubby with the chocolate covered pretzels. A local place near me makes Holy Cannoli and it's pretty awesome!

hillaryo14

Blue Bell, all the way! I love mint chocolate chip. I almost bought some at Target just now, but I made myself walk away.

angbaby83

Love all the ice cream.  @cwalker042 It is my weakness too and can't keep it at home.  My stand bys are strawberry and cookies and cream but we have so many places to get ice cream and they have so many different flavors I usually like to try new stuff.  I had apple pie ice cream last time I went.  It was delicious.  
@NYTino24 I can't stop watching that gif you posted.   That is totally me lol 

littlemissc17

I LOVE ICE CREAM!!! Cookie dough is my favorite and I love just plain old vanilla bean. Target has a store brand of ice cream that is monster cookie flavored and I love that as well. I enjoy cookie dough and brownies together so my go to at cold stone is sweet cream ice cream with cookie dough and brownie. Soo good. 

mymulligan

I love sweets and desserts but ice cream is not typically my favorite although I crave it constantly with this pregnancy. @NYTino24 Ben and Jerrys used to have a cannoli ice cream that was so good. My favorite flavor which I don't find often around here is coffee with chocolate jimmies. 
One thing I've been craving a lot lately is slush (not slush puppies or Italian ice or icees)! I think that might just be a Massachusetts thing. There's nothing like it here in MN. I would give anything for one right now!

AmberG34

I love ice cream! Prefer hard over soft serve. Chocolate with colorful sprinkles is my jam! In drink form I love a good ol Orange cow! Orange sherbert with sprite. Yummmmmmmmm. 

kaitlinliz

Mmmmm ice cream! I love both hard and soft. We have an amazing soft serve place that's only open for the summer here and my god I would go every day if I could! My favorite is cookie dough but I've been eating chocolate flavors (fudge, choc chip, etc) lately and cheese cake flavored ....mmmmm

MaximumEffort

We have two local ice cream stores. One is very popular and ahas unique flavors the other is an Icy rolls which is a Thai ice cream made on a super cold surface where it's mixed then rolled.  The local place changes flavors all day as they rub out. My favorite is Blood orange and chocolate chip or Lime with chocolate chip, I had a yummy one last time but can't think of the flavor. In the fall they do maple bacon with local sourced  bacon and it is SO good. 

amber0529

Love ice cream! I prefer soft serve but will eat both. I just had a mint sundae from Culver's which is custard. My favorite ice cream is Blue Moon which aparently you can only get in Wisconsin so I only get it when I visit home. 

lancomechica2

Looks like we have a lot of cookie dough lovers!! 

baby3forme

#1 is definitely Culver's chocolate covered strawberry sundae with chocolate custard (although not technically ice cream).
#2 is Dairy Queen's strawberry cheesequake blizzard.
#3 Kemps chocolate moose tracks.

mymulligan

I've also been loving coconut ice cream lately!! I'm probably in the minority for that one!

baby3forme

mymulligan said:

I've also been loving coconut ice cream lately!! I'm probably in the minority for that one!

I had coconut ice cream once with cookie dough in it. It was delicious! And healthy. Like $7 for a tiny pint though. 

JDW0325

Yes to coconut ice cream! 

My all time fav is hard green pistachio. HAS to be the green- the white is just not the same!

lancomechica2

I have tried the coconut ice cream but couldn't get into it.  @mymulligan what brand is good? 

cwalker042

I tried water ice for the first time last weekend. I guess that's a thing where I am. It's delicious! Had black cherry. 

lancomechica2

@MaximumEffort I want to go there!!!

NYTino24

@MaximumEffort That's like a couple of the places by me!
@baby3forme Love the strawberry cheesequake Blizzard!
@mymulligan I like these:

mymulligan

@NYTino24 - yum!

@lancomechica and @baby3forme - I should clarify that I've been eating coconut flavored "regular" ice cream and not ice cream made from coconut milk. 

Haagen-Dazs makes a bar with coconut ice cream dipped in chocolate that's ok. 

I just picked up a carton of this the other day and it's pretty good.

MississippiCatfish

@mymulligan Cedarcrest is so good. That's what they serve at a favorite local ice cream spot. Everyone insists that it's homemade, but you can see the cedarcrest symbol on each vat of ice cream as they scoop it for you. Like, why deny it?? Just admit that it's amazing!

We ended up just going to Target and getting our kids' favorite - mint chocolate chip. Almost went to Culver's for $1 sundaes, which they do every Sunday here, but that sounded more difficult. 

peacedancelove

I am ice cream obsessed! I really like cookie dough, Smores, peanut butter cup, and a local ice cream shop has a soft serve vanilla and black raspberry twist that I absolutely love! I've also been into raspberry sorbet lately. 

laura3+2

Peanut butter anything is my FAVORITE! I go to menchies a lot because they tend to have pb all the time, plus I can add extra pb topping. Being pregnant doesn't help my cravings at all! Lol

lancomechica2

Y'all are killing me!! I need to go get ice cream tomorrow!! 

ElizabethSchuyler

All ice cream.

amber0529

@MississippiCatfish
I wish the Culver's here did that! I work across the street from Culver's every Sunday and I would definitely take advantage of that!

angty1111

Most recently it's black raspberry cheesecake or chewy chocolate (chocolate with brownies) from a local place called Katie's korner

av2323

I am an equal opportunity dessert person.  I love almost all flavors of ice cream and practically any dessert.  My obsession lately has been the oatmeal cookie halo top.

mymulligan

@av2323 I went to target yesterday to try halo top. I had a coupon for $2 off so I was pumped to finally try it but they were completely out. I was so bummed!

ETA: for anyone who will be breastfeeding, I've heard that the Ben and Jerrys oatmeal cookie flavor supposedly boosts supply. I'll be glad to test that theory in a few months!

MississippiCatfish

@amber0529 it's pretty amazing! They didn't have it my Wisconsin hometown either. Tuesday $1 cone, Thursday $1 cheese curd, Friday (or maybe Saturday) $1 shake, Sunday $1 cone!

bannaners

Currently been obsessed with chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, or moose tracks, or mint chip, really anything with a bit of chocolate and I love caramel in it right now too. My favorite brand is Bluebell but sadly they don't have that here really, so I go for Tillamook or Ben and Jerry's most of the time, my in-laws have a good selection of talenti and haagen daz on hand at all times as well. I also love frozen yogurt. 

lancomechica2

bannaners said:

Currently been obsessed with chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, or moose tracks, or mint chip, really anything with a bit of chocolate and I love caramel in it right now too. My favorite brand is Bluebell but sadly they don't have that here really, so I go for Tillamook or Ben and Jerry's most of the time, my in-laws have a good selection of talenti and haagen daz on hand at all times as well. I also love frozen yogurt. 

You have great taste!!! 

amber0529

@MississippiCatfish
Now I want cheese curds. Why is WI the only place you can get cheese curds?!?! I can't even make my mom ship me some because they are just not the same if they're not fresh, warm and squeaky. 

baby3forme

MississippiCatfish said:

@amber0529 it's pretty amazing! They didn't have it my Wisconsin hometown either. Tuesday $1 cone, Thursday $1 cheese curd, Friday (or maybe Saturday) $1 shake, Sunday $1 cone!

They do that around me! And $1 mini concrete days. I always go for the concretes and cheese curds!!

MississippiCatfish

baby3forme said:

MississippiCatfish said:

@amber0529 it's pretty amazing! They didn't have it my Wisconsin hometown either. Tuesday $1 cone, Thursday $1 cheese curd, Friday (or maybe Saturday) $1 shake, Sunday $1 cone!

They do that around me! And $1 mini concrete days. I always go for the concretes and cheese curds!!

I wonder if we have a concrete mixer day!!!

cmarie28

Blue Bell is the best hands down! Mint chocolate chip is my favorite but I love pretty much all the flavors. Soo good! 

mymulligan

I cannot stop eating ice cream. So cliche. I just picked up some Halo Top for the first time and I'm excited to try it! I figured the PB cup version of that has got to be better for me than the DQ blizzards I've been getting.