I like Three Twins. I was eating a pint of mocha difference a day at times. I felt like it was almost addicting so I gave that flavor up.
I am pretty sure I can lose 5 pounds quickly if I gave up ice cream.
Who makes the best marble fudge ice cream? I don’t see that flavor much anymore. Haagen Dazs has a new flavor which is vanilla ice cream, chocolate fudge and fudge brownies. The flavor just doesn’t taste right. The brownies should be eliminated.
Funny you should ask that, Sabaray. I don’t make ice cream at home, but this thread is enough to prompt a little search for a home ice cream maker 
The small Cuisinart machine has good reviews and a decent price.
Meanwhile, this thread prompted a Haagen-Dazs purchase today. It’s on sale, BOGO. Toasted Sesame Brittle is tasty!
We have the Cuisinart machine but rarely use it. It works well but the quantity is small.
When the kids were younger, every summer we would make ice cream the old fashioned way with the wooden ice cream maker, the rock salt, and the manual crank. I was usually done at multi-generational gatherings. Everyone would take a turn cranking. That stuff is good. Given the kids and their cousins ages, we don’t have those gatherings much anymore, unfortunately.
I have a Cuisinart machine and love it - I also have an extra cylinder so I can make PLENTY of ice cream! I love toasted sesame brittle…and banana split (that I don’t think they make anymore)…and pineapple coconut…the list goes on!
Some of my very happiest memories of my childhood involve making ice cream in the wooden ice cream maker with the rock salt and the hand crank. Wow … Bringing back such memories of Fourth of July (my favorite holiday) at my parents’ friends’ rambling, ramshackle mansion in San Marino, with the pottery studio out back and the pie-making contests with ties between the sour cherry and ollalieberry pies, topped with the hand-cranked vanilla ice cream, with all the little kids’ arms about to fall off after having to take a turn at the crank. And someone with a guitar – Fourth of July in 1973!!! I wonder whatever happened to those lovely folks …
My wife and I used to make home made ice cream with some regularity. One of our favorite recipes was rum raisin. The only problem was that we put so much rum in it that the ice cream wouldn’t freeze and would stay a gloppy delicious mess. But after an adequate enough serving, we really didn’t care, lol.
If you’re in the Chicago area, the rainbow cone is amazing!!! It is a wonderful combination of flavors. (orange sherbet, pistachio, Palmer house, strawberry and chocolate ice creams)
They often have a stand at The Taste of Chicago. The link shows a picture.
www.rainbowcone.com
I had to look that ^ to figure out what the heck Palmer House is. It’s vanilla w/cherries and walnuts.
The regional differences are interesting.
I was born near San Francisco, and there used to be a place called Bud’s ice Cream, on the corner of 24th street and something. I don’t think it’s there any longer, but at some point I think they started selling Buds at grocery stores in CA. Do any of you Californians recognize that brand? When I was young, there would be lines around the corner to get ice cream from buds. It’s one of my fondest young childhood memories.
@dstark, I agree on that idea of losing 5 pounds if I gave up ice cream. If I gave up white wine I could lose 10.
I was born in SF.
Loved Bud’s ice cream.
I think there was one in the sunset district. Maybe on the corner of 27th Ave and Judah.
@dstark, I was born in Marin County (but my mom was very young and poor). My great grandmother lived on Jersey Street in SF, and what I believe was the original Bud’s (but I could be wrong - this is a childhood memory, and for many many years I thought the Santa Cruz roller coaster was very very big) was right around the corner from her house. Swenson’s is another favorite. Do they still exist in SF?
1214mom, and now I live in Marin County. My wife grew up in Mill Valley.
I think you are right about the original Bud’s. I may be wrong about the store on Judah st. I don’t think so but that is a chidlhood memory too. About 50 years ago. Shocking.
There is a Swenson’s in the Russian Hill area of SF. I think it is on Union St. I only go there once a year or so, It is still great!
There used to be a Swenson’s in San Anselmo. That’s gone. We used to go there in the early 80’s.
In the 80’s there was a Buds Ice Cream in Isla Vista, next to UC Santa Barbara. We had a Swenson’s near my house in Southern California. They had the best sundaes! It closed a long time ago.
I’m late to the discussion and was surprised to only see one previous mention of Jeni’s. Granted, they don’t have lots of locations, but I think it’s the best ice cream I’ve ever eaten, although I have had it less than twenty times in my life. My favorite little market in our town was carrying it, but there was a recall a year or so ago and they haven’t had the pints since then. I have had it in Nashville several times. Love the Brown Butter Almond Brittle.
All this ice cream talk is making me hungry! We have a bottom freezer - the drawer is always annoying me, having to dig to find the oldest meat to use first… So I moved all the meats to the upright freezer in the garage and turned the kitchen drawer freezer into the ice cream freezer. Best decision ever made! We have everything from pints, quarts, gallons, to stick and bars, sherbets, B&J, etc.
My ice cream story- when the kids were in school, we would go out for ice cream at the end of their first day of classes. Dairy Queen, then Maggie Moo’s, Cold stone, etc. We would enjoy our ice cream and talk about the day. Now that the kids are finished with school, D and I will go whenever she has something she wants to celebrate- new job, tickets to Hamilton, etc.
My kids have introduced me to those Ben & Jerry core ice creams. Clearly meant to be eaten straight from the carton.
At the TJ today, mango ice cream was one of the demo foods. Yummm… My niece shyly nodded when I asked if she liked it, and her eyes lit up when a carton ended up in our cart. It was good!..
I agree, @intparent, but I find those core pints dangerous because I keep digging into the core and wind up eating more than I should. Good strategy on someone’s part to sell more ice cream!
Yes, my kids say we each should have our own container for sanitary reasons, too. And I keep trying to level it out before putting it away, which results in eating a little more… and a little more…,
Just picked up 2 tubs of Edys…buy one get one free sale. Neopolitan and chocolate.