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P: 5/10/2006 4:30:50 AM
Dancing Fire Ideal Rock Total Posts: 10,218 Last Post: 11/21/2009 Member Since: 4/3/2004	what is your flavor? what brand? or maybe a locally owned parlor in your town? it is always harder to find a "mind clean" stone than a eye clean stone.
Posted: 5/10/2006 4:30:50 AM

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P: 5/10/2006 4:41:43 AM
Lorelei Ideal Rock Total Posts: 34,212 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 4/30/2005	My American BF, I can get to a Baskin Robbins and I have a banana split with Rocky Road, Pistachio Almond and Caramel Ribbon with hot fudge, caramel and marshmallow sauce, cream, nuts and cherries and I eat it ALL, actually I could eat TWO oink oink! This is why I am always dieting What is your flavour and brand? Nothing is more sacred as the bond between horse and rider...no other creature can ever become so emotionally close to a human as a horse. When a horse dies, the memory lives on because an enormous part of his owner's heart, soul, very existence dies also...but that can never be laid to rest, it is not meant to be... - Stephanie M Thorn
Posted: 5/10/2006 4:41:43 AM

P: 5/10/2006 9:09:55 AM
*DIAMONDQUEST** Cut Rock Total Posts: 243 Last Post: 10/14/2009 Member Since: 10/13/2005	My favorite place is in Austin, Texas. Called Amy's Ice Cream. This parlor beats any ice cream I've ever eaten anywhere and my favorite flavor is their Pecan Pie. I believe they have a store also in San Antonio.
Posted: 5/10/2006 9:09:55 AM

P: 5/10/2006 9:22:29 AM
*DeeJay** Ideal Rock Total Posts: 6,491 Last Post: 9/23/2009 Member Since: 3/26/2006	Chocolate ice cream with peanut butter swirl! Baskin Robbins was my favorite until just recently (they use cheap peanut butter and it's a little grainy and salty -- perfect to offset the sweet smoothness of the chocolate ice cream), but a few weeks ago I discovered that Ben and Jerry's is doing a chocolate/peanut butter swirl too, which was quite good. I'll have to do some more extensive testing to decide which one is the best!!!
Posted: 5/10/2006 9:22:29 AM

P: 5/10/2006 9:38:50 AM
monarch64 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 9,544 Last Post: 11/20/2009 Member Since: 8/12/2005	My favorite brand to eat at home is Breyer's. I love the natural vanilla "with real vanilla bean specks." I used to eat it with my dad when I was a kid...we went through a whole phase of putting Magic Shell topping on it for a while (the chocolate syrup that hardens after it sits on the ice cream for a minute). Fortunately for my figure, I am not a huge ice cream fan anymore. When I visit my parents we sometimes stop for a double scoop on a sugar cone at Jiffy Treet in southern IN. Strawberry or mint chocolate chip are my favorites there. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." Henry David Thoreau
Posted: 5/10/2006 9:38:50 AM

P: 5/10/2006 9:47:39 AM
scarlet16 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 917 Last Post: 1/27/2009 Member Since: 3/14/2006	OHH, I love Breyer's natural vanilla and french vanilla for home. If anyone is in NYC, the BEST BEST BEST place for ice cream is Chinatown Ice Cream Factory. They make their ice creams in house using fresh fruits and have some awesome flavors. I highly suggest a half scoop of lychee and half scoop of mango! They sometimes do specials on crazy flavors as well...I think the oddest I've seen is wasabi ice cream!
Posted: 5/10/2006 9:47:39 AM

P: 5/10/2006 9:59:10 AM
portoar Ideal Rock Total Posts: 562 Last Post: 2/14/2007 Member Since: 10/16/2005	When I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, Double Rainbow was my favorite. Here in San Diego, where it's warm enough for ice cream every day a Caravel/Cinnabon shop just opened a few blocks from my home, and I stopped in there with my girls. I had Chocolate Peanut Butter swirl, and I was surprised how good it was . . . but usually, in deference to our diets, we go to Golden Spoon Frozen Yogurt. If I'm in the area, there is a specialty ice cream shop on the coast highway in Encinitas that sells gelato-style ice cream in boutique flavors, such as cinnamon, amaretto, etc and it is absolutely yummy. If I'm at the grocery store Haagen-Das (vanilla with chocolate covered almonds) or Ben & Jerry's (anything will do with chocolate in it).
Posted: 5/10/2006 9:59:10 AM

P: 5/10/2006 10:21:32 AM
FireGoddess Ideal Rock Total Posts: 12,145 Last Post: 3/23/2009 Member Since: 1/25/2005	We have a gelato place nearby and nothing, absolutely nothing beats the Gianduja flavor (chocolate hazelnut). But I got an ice cream/frozen yogurt maker for the wedding and 2.5 years later still haven't used it, so I think this is the year to start making our own.
Posted: 5/10/2006 10:21:32 AM

P: 5/10/2006 10:51:00 AM
wallermama Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,030 Last Post: 4/25/2009 Member Since: 2/1/2006	Date: 5/10/2006 10:21:32 AM Author: FireGoddess But I got an ice cream/frozen yogurt maker for the wedding and 2.5 years later still haven't used it, so I think this is the year to start making our own. We've always had one of those Krups makers that you have to freeze the core--I've never really enjoyed using it. But THIS year we went way overboard and bought a Lussino ice cream maker (they are about a billion dollars) but they are the hands' down best. It makes the best ice cream I have ever ever eaten. The reason it is expensive is that it has its own refridgerator mechanism, so you literally plug it in, put the cream mixture in, turn it on, and it's done in thirty minutes. It's gorgeous too, made of stainless steel, but weighs about 40 lbs.Even our ice cream obsessed brother-in-law concurs that it is the best. And one day we had a totally impromtpu dinner for ten people, and I threw a honey and lemon mixture into it and 30 minutes later we were eating honey lemon sorbet.... Anyway, if you can't wait to get to the parlor, I'd recommend a splurge of your own *********************************** Nothing is worth more than this day. -Goethe
Posted: 5/10/2006 10:51:00 AM

P: 5/10/2006 11:02:40 AM
FireGoddess Ideal Rock Total Posts: 12,145 Last Post: 3/23/2009 Member Since: 1/25/2005	Wallermama, it sounds like the ones they have in kitchen stadium on Iron Chef (Food Network show). Is it like those? Have you seen those? I have the kind where you have to freeze the core. I think the problem is that I don't just freeze the core all the time in case I want to make some. Usually when I want it I'm like dammit - the whole ice cream maker is under the counter and the core isn't frozen!
Posted: 5/10/2006 11:02:40 AM

P: 5/10/2006 12:13:23 PM
wallermama Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,030 Last Post: 4/25/2009 Member Since: 2/1/2006	I haven't seen that show for awhile, but it looks like this... *********************************** Nothing is worth more than this day. -Goethe
Posted: 5/10/2006 12:13:23 PM

P: 5/10/2006 12:41:46 PM
aphisiglovessae Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,140 Last Post: 6/26/2007 Member Since: 4/15/2005	Blue Bell's Moolenium Chocolate is pretty good.
Posted: 5/10/2006 12:41:46 PM

P: 5/10/2006 12:55:24 PM
KittenKat Cut Rock Total Posts: 454 Last Post: 7/11/2009 Member Since: 3/22/2004	My favorites: Baskin Robbins, Mississippi Mud! wallermama - your ice cream maker sounds wonderful! Now here's an important question - is it messy? Or tough to clean up?
Posted: 5/10/2006 12:55:24 PM

P: 5/10/2006 1:04:37 PM
Kaleigh Ideal Rock Total Posts: 25,899 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 11/18/2004	Baskin Robbin's Gold medal ribbon, yummmmm ____________________________ Piece of cake and a candle. ng gift
Posted: 5/10/2006 1:04:37 PM

P: 5/10/2006 1:10:00 PM
Scintillating Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,128 Last Post: 7/24/2009 Member Since: 8/10/2005	Love love love love Edy's Light ice cream! (slow churned) It's great, I don't miss the fat at all. It doesn't taste light at all, or have light mouthfeel. It doesn't make me feel guilty eating it. Edy's Light Caramel Delight ice cream has 3.5 g of fat per serving - whereas Haagen Dazs' Dulce De Leche has 17g, even the HD light Dulce has 7g. DF - what do you mean finally the weather is hot enough for ice cream? In New England we eat ice cream all year round, even in the dead of winter - more than any other part of the country (if memory serves.) Scintillating...
Posted: 5/10/2006 1:10:00 PM

P: 5/10/2006 1:18:17 PM
VegasAngel Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,449 Last Post: 11/10/2009 Member Since: 10/12/2005	I really like Coldstone Creamery & Leatherby's for going out. From the store I dont care what brand or flavor it is I will eat it. "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly." GK Chesterton
Posted: 5/10/2006 1:18:17 PM

P: 5/10/2006 1:45:26 PM
njc Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,997 Last Post: 4/10/2009 Member Since: 9/10/2004	I love Cold Stone, but recently we discovered Kaleidascoops... flavors like Cold Stone, but half the price! Its way too close to our house too... My hometown has a frozen custard place called Carl's. Tiny little ice cream stand with 3 flavors, so simple and so tasty!!! LOVE their pineapple milkshakes and maple nut sundaes! At home... Ill eat anything! We really enjoy the Edy's Slow-churn flavors... Somoa Cookie ice cream totally rocks!
Posted: 5/10/2006 1:45:26 PM

P: 5/10/2006 1:48:46 PM
wallermama Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,030 Last Post: 4/25/2009 Member Since: 2/1/2006	When I'm not churnin' my own, I love Bud's ice cream, but I think it is local to the Bay Area. Double Rainbow too. *********************************** Nothing is worth more than this day. -Goethe
Posted: 5/10/2006 1:48:46 PM

P: 5/10/2006 1:52:10 PM
Mara Ideal Rock Total Posts: 27,906 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 10/30/2002	we got an ice cream maker for our engagement and i have so never used it. i'm an ice cream loser i know. i love the IDEA of it but i just never get around to it. i love ice cream as does greg, but we don't eat it much. we only keep vanilla in the house for putting on things like apple pie or making root beer floats (yum!) but we don't eat it very often at all. i am always throwing out a 1/2 full one after it grows ice. in terms of going out to get ice cream, i adore cold stone creamery, i get the sweet cream and the coffee ice creams mixed and put one brownie in, absolutely divine. we also love baskin robbins, in the summer when they have their 2 quarts for $6 special, i typically get rocky road and another one like coffee or jamoca almond fudge, we love all of those and mint chocolate chip. but again, try not to keep it in the house or else i would be vacuuming it down daily!! i grew up eating ice cream at baskin robbins, my mom has a huge sweet tooth so we were always eating ice cream in the house and always making trips to get it. good thing we played outside alot and were super active or i'm sure we'd have been chunky little children! oh and did anyone ever used to go to Swensens when they were little? we used to go to the one over in los gatos and i think there was one somewhere else too, pruneyard? and get their lemon custard, OMG that was to die for. sometimes baskin robbins brings it back for a summer and i am all about lemon custard all summer long. gotta love it. ________________________________ "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." -Albert Einstein
Posted: 5/10/2006 1:52:10 PM

P: 5/10/2006 2:04:03 PM
Dancing Fire Ideal Rock Total Posts: 10,218 Last Post: 11/21/2009 Member Since: 4/3/2004	Date: 5/10/2006 4:41:43 AM Author: Lorelei My American BF, I can get to a Baskin Robbins and I have a banana split with Rocky Road, Pistachio Almond and Caramel Ribbon with hot fudge, caramel and marshmallow sauce, cream, nuts and cherries and I eat it ALL, actually I could eat TWO oink oink! This is why I am always dieting What is your flavour and brand? pistachio almond fudge. there's this little family owned parlor in town thats been in business since the 50's. been going there since first grade when it was 15 cents a scoop. the last time i went there it was $1.85 for a very small scoop. inflation? it is always harder to find a "mind clean" stone than a eye clean stone.
Posted: 5/10/2006 2:04:03 PM

P: 5/10/2006 2:09:13 PM
codex57 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,492 Last Post: 1/21/2008 Member Since: 12/18/2004	I hate being lactose intolerant. But, I eat ice cream anyways and just suffer the consequences. I guess I like Baskin Robbins the best, even tho it's pretty artificial tasting. However, my favorite thing in the world is that Good Humor ice cream bar usually sold in the ice cream trucks. It's like a strawberry shortcake popsicle. Strawberry ice cream in the middle (sometimes surrounded by vanilla), coated with a layer of sweet bread crumbs in pink and white. I can never find them in stores. Very frustrating. I've found the chocolate version, but never the strawberry. I just found a reasonable copy at Walmart from another brand, but it's not as good.
Posted: 5/10/2006 2:09:13 PM

P: 5/10/2006 2:16:56 PM
portoar Ideal Rock Total Posts: 562 Last Post: 2/14/2007 Member Since: 10/16/2005	Date: 5/10/2006 1:48:46 PM Author: wallermama When I'm not churnin' my own, I love Bud's ice cream, but I think it is local to the Bay Area. Double Rainbow too. It's been YEARS since I had Bud's, I'd forgotten all about it, but I agree, it's the best!
Posted: 5/10/2006 2:16:56 PM

P: 5/10/2006 2:16:59 PM
flopkins Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,025 Last Post: 1/20/2009 Member Since: 11/15/2004	mmm.... I love ice cream. DH and I have a local favorite in SF, Joe's Ice Cream. Family owned place... they have the best toasted almond... and I love rainbow sherbert. We love Joe's so much we served it at our wedding instead of cake - 4 huge tubs of ice cream were devoured!! OMG!! I thought it would be too much, they told us each tub serves 50-75 scoops, and we only had around 150 ppl... we didn't count on everyone getting like 3 or 4 scoops each!!
Posted: 5/10/2006 2:16:59 PM

P: 5/10/2006 2:29:58 PM
Mara Ideal Rock Total Posts: 27,906 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 10/30/2002	haha flopkins you said something that cracked me up re 3-4 scoops each. because i grew up in an ice cream household...we always had it for after dinner or whatever. a normal serving of ice cream for us was like 3-4 scoops. large ones. so anyway i always served myself ice cream like that. i remember when my ex and i started dating, i would serve him ice cream and he was always like wow that's alot. i just thought since he wasn't into sweets much he had a skewed perspective of a normal serving size. but then when greg and i started dating i was serving us ice cream and i gave him his bowl and he is like holy crap why did you give me so much! i was all uhh that's normal? and he said no 1-2 scoops is normal, this is like a supersize! so then i was like HMMMM and it got me to thinking. i was like okay at the store they give you 1 scoop or 2 scoops, a big serving is 3-4 scoops in a sundae or something. then i had the big realization...omg i eat alot of ice cream! it was pretty funny...how you are raised doing something and do it all your life and then you realize that it's kind of odd. but i still love my 3-4 scoops of ice cream!! and now if i give greg 1-2 he is like why do i have the small bowl? so now he is doing it too. ________________________________ "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." -Albert Einstein
Posted: 5/10/2006 2:29:58 PM

P: 5/10/2006 2:36:40 PM
Dancing Fire Ideal Rock Total Posts: 10,218 Last Post: 11/21/2009 Member Since: 4/3/2004	Date: 5/10/2006 9:47:39 AM Author: scarlet16 OHH, I love Breyer's natural vanilla and french vanilla for home. If anyone is in NYC, the BEST BEST BEST place for ice cream is Chinatown Ice Cream Factory. They make their ice creams in house using fresh fruits and have some awesome flavors. I highly suggest a half scoop of lychee and half scoop of mango! They sometimes do specials on crazy flavors as well...I think the oddest I've seen is wasabi ice cream! never been to NYC but if i ever go there i'll be sure to try their mango reminds me of H.K. it is always harder to find a "mind clean" stone than a eye clean stone.
Posted: 5/10/2006 2:36:40 PM

P: 5/10/2006 3:33:05 PM
**~Danielle~** Ideal Rock Total Posts: 558 Last Post: 10/21/2009 Member Since: 6/24/2005	Date: 5/10/2006 2:36:40 PM Author: Dancing Fire never been to NYC but if i ever go there i'll be sure to try their mango reminds me of H.K. DF - never been to NYC?!?!?!?!?!?!!!?! You must come for a visit - you know it's the most fabulous city in the world right?! . I used to be strictly a chocolate girl, but now I LOVE HD Strawberry. Yum, yum, yum!!!!!! There used to be a great ice cream place in my home town, but sadly it closed down . I loved their chocolate milk shakes the best!
Posted: 5/10/2006 3:33:05 PM

P: 5/10/2006 4:30:45 PM
moon river Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,806 Last Post: 6/26/2006 Member Since: 1/7/2006	Mayfields. An east tennessee treat. Made locally. The best I've ever had. And of course, old fashion homemade. _____________________________ "Oh, Golly gee damn!!" ---------------------------- "I'll tell you one thing Fred darling...I'd marry you for your money in a minute. Would you marry me for my money?" *Holly Golightly*
Posted: 5/10/2006 4:30:45 PM

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flopkins Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,025 Last Post: 1/20/2009 Member Since: 11/15/2004	mara - thats hilarious.. I think everyone wanted to try a bit of each flavor (there were 4) so I guess everyone got one scoop of each!! And I heard some got seconds... there was such a line that I didnt' even try to get any until the line died down... and then I realized why - there wasn't any left!! it's funny how whatever you grew up with just felt normal. when I was little, we usually ate chinese food and ate w/chopsticks. which was fine, until I realized that most people don't eat SPAGHETTI with chopsticks too!!! I mean, we ate chinese noodles all the time with chopsticks, and it just made sense to eat spaghetti w/them too - I think it's a lot easier than a fork... but still, a friend came over for dinner one day when we had spaghetti and it was one of those weird realizations...
Posted: 5/10/2006 5:29:43 PM

P: 5/10/2006 6:24:03 PM
Dancing Fire Ideal Rock Total Posts: 10,218 Last Post: 11/21/2009 Member Since: 4/3/2004	Date: 5/10/2006 5:29:43 PM Author: flopkins it's funny how whatever you grew up with just felt normal. when I was little, we usually ate chinese food and ate w/chopsticks. which was fine, until I realized that most people don't eat SPAGHETTI with chopsticks too!!! I mean, we ate chinese noodles all the time with chopsticks, and it just made sense to eat spaghetti w/them too - I think it's a lot easier than a fork... but still, a friend came over for dinner one day when we had spaghetti and it was one of those weird realizations... grandma flopkins the difference is...chinese noodles are serve in a bowl and spaghetti is serve on a plate. i always use chopsticks with bowl and use a fork with plates. btw; where is Joe's ice cream? what street? it is always harder to find a "mind clean" stone than a eye clean stone.
Posted: 5/10/2006 6:24:03 PM

P: 5/10/2006 6:38:20 PM
familystone Cut Rock Total Posts: 194 Last Post: 6/21/2006 Member Since: 3/21/2006	Well chocolate is definately my favorite and I am sorry to say Hobo's has gone out of business. It was a mom and pop ice cream shop in hoboken that had all home-made ice cream with all types of goodies in it (brownies cookie dough candy ext .. ) and the made theese twice dipped chocolate covered strawberries my girlfriend loved. Anyway, Hobos is gone and probably not coinceidently Ben and Jerry's came to town about a year ago and a cold stone opened up a few months back. -Dave
Posted: 5/10/2006 6:38:20 PM

P: 5/10/2006 11:44:03 PM
Sundial Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,590 Last Post: 7/14/2009 Member Since: 3/14/2005	OMG you guys are making me hungry! I LOVE ice cream. We have a local place that makes the best turtle sundae with vanilla soft serve topped with chocolate and caramel sauces and pecans! For store bought you can't beat Haagen Daz Dulce de Leche (caramel). It is to die for!!!
Posted: 5/10/2006 11:44:03 PM

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