Ice Cream

Despite the cold temps and snow, one of the local ice cream shops opened for the season this week. They make some of the best ice cream I have ever had.

So let's talk ice cream. Do you like it? Do you prefer soft serve or the traditional hard ice cream? Favorite flavors? Dish or cone? Waffle or sugar? Toppings?

I prefer the traditional hard ice cream, with either a vanilla or a peanut butter base. I love peanut butter ice cream, but I also really like cookies and cream, etc. The last few times I went to this particular place, I got "Cranberry Bog" ice cream, which was a vanilla base with chocolate chips, nuts and cranberries. Definitely not my norm, but it was good. I really don't get fruit flavors usually.

I normally get a dish, but I do like a homemade waffle cone.

Yum!  I love ice cream.  I like the soft kind, in a dish, not a cone.  Last weekend we took five year old grandson miniature golfing and found a place nearby that was serving organic ice cream made there on site.  I got coffee flavored, and it was sooooooo good!  I tend to like vanilla based ones, too, with chocolate chips or nuts added.  I also love mint flavored ice cream.

It's only 8 a.m. here but this topic is making me hungry for ice cream!  

I love ice cream.  There is a dairy just outside Dayton that has ice cream, they have Jersey cows and it is the best ice cream.  I like chocolate chip if it's shaved chocolate, chocolate almond, or vanilla with sauce.  I like both the soft serve and hard ice cream, more flavors with the hard ice cream.  I have some vanilla in my freezer now along with chocolate salted caramel sauce.

I have an IC parlor next door that I visit from time to time.    I like both soft-serve and hard, but I normally get the hard scoops in a waffle cone dipped in chocolate. But homemade waffle cones are always better IMO. I normally stick to chocolate, vanilla, or rocky road, but I'll try something fruity once in a while.

BTW, @AbbysMom  I love your new avatar! 

My two vices are ice cream and watermelon. If they ever combine the flavors, I am in trouble. I love Moose Tracks ice cream.

Our local Freeze is open, too; they opened last weekend. Rick's favorite ice cream is peanut butter, soft serve in a cone and they make a good peanut butter. He tries to stop in whenever peanut is the third flavor there. From that place, I'm happy with a small plain vanilla soft serve in a cone. 

At the store, though? Rocky Road! The good stuff, too, not the half-the-fat stuff. And I usually slather on extra marshmallow creme, a large spoonful or so of peanuts, and drizzle chocolate syrup over top the whole thing. A little ice cream....lots of garnish. If I'm gonna eat it, I'm gonna eat it right.

AlainasMom said:

BTW, @AbbysMom
 I love your new avatar! :rub:

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Thank you! On SAturday morning Abby was on her perch, all sweet and I got the camera to take her picture. This is what she did. :lol3:

I'm not a huge ice cream fan.  I like it now and then; but I don't often seek it out. 

I like going to The Marble Slab when I see one for their cheesecake ice cream with raspberries mixed in; in a waffle bowl!  Very good! 

I guess I like a variety of flavors from fruity to chocolatey; it just depends on my mood.  The only place I look for soft serve ice cream is in a Blizzard from Dairy Queen! lol  I worked for them for a few weeks in high school and the smell of it still turns my stomach.  That greasy sweet smell inside the stores. 

I'm not a great lover of ice cream - I "like" it, but could live without it. My favorite flavor though would be strawberry.