What flavors come to mind when you think of classic ice cream flavors?

[JM Aggie08]

Good ol' fashioned flavors - go!

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Saffron and lavender, clearly.

 

[IronWing]

I tried both and IMHO saffron is very good, lavender not so much.

 

[dullard]

I tried both and IMHO saffron is very good, lavender not so much.

I agree entirely with this. Lavender should only be used very sparingly in dishes as an accent. Using it as the main flavor is just wrong in any type of dish. For example, the American version of Herbs de Provence, the lavender works quite well on chevre cheese toasts.

 

[dullard]

I voted chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry because that was what I grew up on. But, I'm knowledgeable enough to know that this answer varies significantly with age and location. And it varied even more over the centuries.

 

[dank69]

I voted chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry because that was what I grew up on. But, I'm knowledgeable enough to know that this answer varies significantly with age and location. And it varied even more over the centuries.

How do you believe your parents would answer? How about your grandparents? How about their parents? Got any kids? How would they answer. Of all of these, the only ones I'd suspect might vary would be your kids.

 

[vi edit]

Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry. Or if you were super fancy, Neapolitan and get them all in one tub!

 

[Paladin3]

Hand scooped hard ice cream is 90% of our business at the concessions I manage. Classic, old-timey ice cream flavors to me are chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, butter pecan, pecan praline, maple nut, rocky road, mint chocolate chip, cookies and cream and such. Since we're in North Idaho and huckleberries grow wild here we absolutely must always have huckleberry ice cream on hand or folks throw their dirty taster spoons at me. We carry a lot of kid flavors since we serve a ton of kids. Flavors we almost always carry, in rough order of popularity:

Huckleberry
Birthday Cake
Cookies and Cream or Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough*
Maui Waui Sherbet
Mint Chocolate Chip
Cotton Candy
Bubble gum
Moose Tracks
Death by Chocolate or Rocky Road*
Salted Caramel
Fruity Pop 'N' Rocks
Espresso Explosion or Espresso Almond Fudge*
Lemon Meringue Pie or Key Lime Cheesecake*
Chocolate
Strawberry or Strawberry Cheesecake*
Butter Pecan or Pecan Praline or (sometimes) Maple Nut*
Vanilla
Black Licorice (customers either love it or hate it, but I have a small crowd or regulars who ask for it
religiously)

*ice creams flavors that are pretty much interchangeable.

 

[dank69]

Hand scooped hard ice cream is 90% of our business at the concessions I manage. Classic, old-timey ice cream flavors to me are chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, butter pecan, pecan praline, maple nut, rocky road, mint chocolate chip, cookies and cream and such. Since we're in North Idaho and huckleberries grow wild here we absolutely must always have huckleberry ice cream on hand or folks throw their dirty taster spoons at me. We carry a lot of kid flavors since we serve a ton of kids. Flavors we almost always carry, in rough order of popularity:

Huckleberry
Birthday Cake
Cookies and Cream or Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough*
Maui Waui Sherbet
Mint Chocolate Chip
Cotton Candy
Bubble gum
Moose Tracks
Death by Chocolate or Rocky Road*
Salted Caramel
Fruity Pop 'N' Rocks
Espresso Explosion or Espresso Almond Fudge*
Lemon Meringue Pie or Key Lime Cheesecake*
Chocolate
Strawberry or Strawberry Cheesecake*
Butter Pecan or Pecan Praline or (sometimes) Maple Nut*
Vanilla
Black Licorice (customers either love it or hate it, but I have a small crowd or regulars who ask for it
religiously)

*ice creams flavors that are pretty much interchangeable.

Dafuq? No lemon? You must get dirty looks daily from old people for not carrying one of the classics.

 

[FeuerFrei]

He said Lemon Meringue, dammit

Speaking of PopRocks, it sounds like Oreo has some in their new Cherry Coke cookies.

 

[Paladin3]

Dafuq? No lemon? You must get dirty looks daily from old people for not carrying one of the classics.

Our lemon meringue pie rocks with little pieces of pie crust in it. Very refreshing on a hot day. If I was going to carry a second sherbet it would probably be a rotation of raspberry and lemon, but right now we keep lemon meringue pie out 90% of the time.

 

[dank69]

He said Lemon Meringue, dammit

Speaking of PopRocks, it sounds like Oreo has some in their new Cherry Coke cookies.

I didn't ask about fancy shmancy newfangled flavors like meringue. I asked about classic lemon.

 

[FeuerFrei]

I didn't ask about fancy shmancy newfangled flavors like meringue. I asked about classic lemon.

Come on, you have to elevate it somehow. Lemon is the flavor of various soaps, and dusting sprays.

 

[JM Aggie08]

I voted chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry because that was what I grew up on. But, I'm knowledgeable enough to know that this answer varies significantly with age and location. And it varied even more over the centuries.

Thanks for being a good sport -- this has been fun to watch throughout the morning/afternoon.

 

[dank69]

Come on, you have to elevate it somehow. Lemon is the flavor of various soaps, and dusting sprays.

I agree but I miss it because it reminds me of my childhood in seventeen hundred something.

 

[Paladin3]

I didn't ask about fancy shmancy newfangled flavors like meringue. I asked about classic lemon.

Hehe, I just checked my supplier Oregon Ice Cream/Cascade Glacier and they don't even make a straight lemon ice cream. So you'll have to suffer with lemon meringue pie the next time you visit Lake Pend Oreille in North Idaho. Or we make a damn good huckleberry frozen lemonade.

 

[vi edit]

If you want lemon, you should be looking at gelato. Which I guess technically is another name for ice cream.

 

[aigomorla]

coffee? no Neapolitan? I guess rocky road is also a thing of people born in the 70;s...

 

[dank69]

If you want lemon, you should be looking at gelato. Which I guess technically is another name for ice cream.

Haha I been trolling the shit out of that other thread knowing all along that the OP must have been referring to gelato. Shhh, don't tell anyone.

 

[lxskllr]

Butter brickle is an old classic you don't really see anymore. Peach is a homemade classic, but you never really see it as a commercial choice.

 

[Mayne]

Is butterscotch ripple considered a classic? It's my favourite, can't find it anymore though.

 

[zinfamous]

probably some form of anise or castor flavor

 

[zinfamous]

If you want lemon, you should be looking at gelato. Which I guess technically is another name for ice cream.

yes, lemon is common in gelato, but gelato is not exactly the same as ice cream

 

[Carson Dyle]

rocky road
butter pecan
mint chocolate chip
black walnut

 

[vi edit]

yes, lemon is common in gelato, but gelato is not exactly the same as ice cream

This is like the "Is a tomato a fruit?" argument.