What the hell happened to good ol' ice cream flavours?

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Murloc

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"Favourites like roasted marshmallow, lemon meringue, coffee toffee, and banana chocolate chip are what keep the customers coming back. Greg's also offers flavours like star anise, cardamom, sweet cream, stout, and strawberry yogurt. All the varieties are creamy and bursting with rich taste. When you sample the roasted marshmallow flavour, you spend most of your time wondering, “How does it taste so much like roasted marshmallows?”"
I've never seen this stuff in my life, sounds like shit.

My favourites are: coconut, chocolate, raspberry, honey. Vanilla only if it tastes real good. Stracciatella or pure fior di latte are good too (basically pure icecream, there's nothing else in it apart from the basic ingredients, no vanilla).
I also like all kinds of sorbetto but those are not really ice creams since there's no cream in those. Lemon sorbetto is really refreshing.

I don't eat a lot of ice cream because I feel even more thirsty after, it's too fatty to eat with the heat, sorbetto is much better for that imho.
 

CountZero

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eh? Did you read the whole post? I was saying that these are far from any good ol' flavours and that it seems that they are pushing out all the more conventional flavours.

Guys sorry to say this, but most of these new flavours have "murrica" written all over them with no good taste (I would love to know an exception), but I guess it's mostly because of bad artificial sweeteners and colourings. You know, some ice creams are actually made out of real fruit, instead of added colour and artificial flavouring,

I can't speak for the place you linked but most places offering more off the wall flavors are going to be small time and not use artificial flavors, will use real fruit, will locally sourced cream, etc. They are places that attract foodies that pay attention to that stuff.

If your complaint is you don't like odd flavors and just want basic that's fine but don't conflate basic flavors with being natural and more complex/odd flavors with not being natural.

If you want hazelnut or lemon you should be looking for gelato not ice cream in my experience those are far more classic as gelato flavors.
 

Markbnj

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Lemon, to me, is more of a sorbet or sherbet flavor. Don't think I have had lemon ice cream. When I think of "old fashioned" ice cream flavors it's stuff like vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, pistachio, mint chocolate chip, and of course, the flavor everyone has somewhere in a corner of their freezer, neopolitan. Nobody ever finishes the strawberry part.
 

JM Aggie08

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Has anyone heard someone reference mint chocolate chip as 'mint chip' before? It's easily one of my pet peeves.
 

lxskllr

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Has anyone heard someone reference mint chocolate chip as 'mint chip' before? It's easily one of my pet peeves.

Nope, but on the subject of mint chip... I like crushing candy cane, and putting it on vanilla ice cream. It's cold, but it burns; delicious...
 

KeithTalent

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Nope, but on the subject of mint chip... I like crushing candy cane, and putting it on vanilla ice cream. It's cold, but it burns; delicious...

Mmm, yes, I too too enjoy such things. :thumbsup:

KT
 

linuxboy

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Boy, that didn't take long.
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I would never eat ice cream from a home machine. I was going to buy an industrial one, but I tried it and the ice crystals were just too big no matter how much I adjusted the air incorporation. I only eat ice cream made by using liquid nitrogen now. Everything else is disgusting.
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