I recently had the pleasure of visiting a well-stocked ice cream vendor in St. Davids, West Wales.
You know the sort. There's a large glass cabinet with tubs of different ice-creams and a display of cornets on top.
Getting my double scoop cornet reminded me just how many more flavours there are these days. Literally dozens and dozens at the vendor I was at.
When I was a kid in the Sixties the range of flavours was tiny in comparison. The main one was what all soft ice cream tasted of, the Mister Softee taste. Its hard to describe. Cold, white, milkyness. I suppose it was vanilla maybe.
Other hues included chocolate, mint choc chip, butterscotch [or was it toffee?], the ultra exotic tuti-frutti and my personal favourite, raspberry ripple.
There was another one in the supermarket freezer aisles, Neopolitan, but this only came in blocks so your parents could look swish at the dinner table! I think it was coloured like the Italian flag.
My Missus's current favourite when in Europe is Sahne Gries, that's creamed semolina! It is quite delicious I must say.
If they can make semolina work then maybe the two bete noirs of my schoolday dinners might make it. Can you imagine, sago and tapioca flavoured ice-cream! Yuk, all those little balls!
What's your best ice cream flavour readers and is it the same as when you were a kid?
Chocolate or mint, certainly. But the best memory is the green plastic footballs from the 73 world cup, filled with ice cream from Askeys!
ReplyDeleteYes those ice cream plastic footballs were great Bill. There was a flap for getting at the good stuff. Or was it a screw off lid?
DeleteIm sure it was a simple clip on lid, I remember chipping my fingernails trying to prise it off, they stayed on so tightly.
DeleteI used to clamor for a maple sugar flavored ice cream at a place called Malone's.The place closed when the owner passed away and I never found this flavor anywhere else.Nowadays the big thing here in America is bacon flavored ice cream.Bacon flavored EVERYTHING in fact.Im not a fan of this trend,although I love bacon as part of Sunday breakfast.My current favorite supermarket ice cream is a caramel flavor called Dulce de Leche.
ReplyDeleteMmmm, maple sugar. Sounds dee-lishious Brian! Dulce de Leche? Sweet of Milk? caramel is a favourite. Britain is in the grip of a salted caramel craze, especially in cream cakes. I remember seeing it called taffee in Cape Cod when I was there. As for bacon ice cream. Nope. I can't mix savoury and sweet [except pancakes and bacon!], it's just not right! My Missus's favourite ice cream flavour as a kid in Europe was Waldmeister made from the herb of the same name. It coloured the stuff light green. In English the herb is Woodruff but I've never seen it used as flavouring here.
DeleteNeopolitan is vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry - white, brown, and pink. It usually comes in a two litre plastic tub. My top ice cream flavours are caramel, lime, orange, orange with chocolate chips, strawberry, and banana. Alas, many favourites of old are no longer available.
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