Vanilla? Boring! I hate it when people like things I don’t like!
I’m gonna make the worker give me a sample of about 1700 of those. I’m allergic to the other 300.
I’d rather have a massively over poured cone that has been rolled in three different breakfast cereals and edible glitter that looks good for a selfie for 30 seconds before it starts melting onto my $200 manicure.
/s
Sarcasm: Sounds great, should go for the price of two kidneys and one foot!
I want fresh baked croissant with Lindt chocolate filling
I love that everybody in here actually knows what’s up. I’m among my people.
You know that you can order another flavor alongside your vanilla too right? it is beyond stupidity however when with 1000 flavor the customer can only order one item.
Vanilla is a deep and complex flavor and the quality of an ice cream shops vanilla flavor is a great indicator for the overall quality of the shop.
It’s like a cheese burger. I’m not interested in your super special quirky whatever burger if you can’t make a great cheese burger.
The reason that vanilla became… well, the poster child of blandness, is that it was one of the first and simplest flavours to be artificially created. So everyone threw the cheap flavouring into everything.
Synthetic vanilla is missing all the complexity, it’s just 1 chemical.
Real vanilla remains wonderful, and it’s sad how it’s been ill treated by industrial food companies.
Especially considering how much better the real stuff is to use now. You used to only have vanilla extract (which is alcohol after vanilla was steeped in it to draw out the soluble flavors) which pales in comparison to the fresh stuff (use it in baked goods where most of the volatiles would evaporate anyway), and whole vanilla pods, which required laborious splitting and scraping with a sharp knife to get the seeds and pulp. Nowadays you can buy jarred vanilla paste, which is 98% as good as a freshly scraped pod while requiring 0% of the effort.
Yeah. One podcaster said that a good indicator of the kitchen at the restaurant, which says how good the restaurant, is simply requesting Eggs Benedict. I see the argument.
I just… I find life too short to shackle myself with that game, unless I intend to repeat a visit, which the cartoon would indicate not.
That might be true for high class restaurants, but I would imagine most restaurants wouldn’t have a clue what eggs Benedict is. That doesn’t make it a bad restaurant.
A local chain near me used to have the best vanilla I’ve ever had (edit: the depth of flavor was off the charts. Part of the flavor was like a dark tea-like flavor or quality, with a bunch of other notes, it was unreal). I only had a scoop of it, maybe three or four times, then I think right before the pandemic they got rid of it because sourcing the vanilla was too expensive or some kind of environmental concern or something, I’m not sure.
I still patiently await its return…
I agree in general. But this isn’t a new store that opened on the corner of your street. You aren’t staying here. There’s no need to judge how good it is overall. It’s entire point of existing is to try unique things. Like if I’m on holiday in another country I’m not going to vet them on the safe choice. I may never come back.
All ice cream shops should have banana ice cream.
And Blackraspberry!
I freaking love the s’mores blizzard at DQ. My roommate is obsessed with s’mores ice cream. I talk up the blizzard and he says “man, I’ve got to try that”. Sounds good. let’s make a plan.
For a month I try to get him to DQ with me, until finally we’re there. But it’s seasonal, so we can’t get it anymore. Keep checking in for months until I see it available again. Another month of trying to convince him to go there. We literally spend the car ride there talking about how good s’mores ice cream is.
We get to the counter: “Can I get a chocolate sunday?”
This is the fifth time he’s done this in similar situations. I simply do not eat out with him any more.
Have you tried Ben & Jerry’s “Gimme S’More” flavor? It’s my favorite of their newer flavors. Marshmallow ice cream with chocolate covered bits of graham cracker. It’s so good.
ugh, that suckssss
Vanilla ice cream is divine, but I would certainly try something not available elsewhere. Perhaps something savory, I’ve never had a savory ice cream, wonder if that’s even possible or if the sugar is part of how it works.
99% of the appeal of ice cream is that it is very sweet and cold. The cold numbs our taste buds such that the sweetness doesn’t overwhelm them. Melted ice cream is disgusting because now you can tell just how much sugar you’re ingesting.
Ice cream soup fucks. Just barely melted
Warm it up in a microwave and mix in your favorite (hot) chocolate milk mix. It is the ultimate rich, frothy hot chocolate. Honestly it’s a bit too rich, you might want to cut it with some normal milk or something.
Just barely melted meaning most likely still quite cold. Wait until it’s room temp, then try it.
Oh no that’s sin.
But yeah the ice cream soup is like a little more runny than a shake, but not by much at all.
There’s a “crazy ice maker” in Munich. They have icecream flavored like beer (obviously), Brezn (obviously) but also things like roquefort or olive oil. The olive oil one is surprisingly nice.
but do they hàve garlic ice cream?
Honestly they might, they rotate them often.
This is a Codename: Kids Next Door episode
There’s a spice shop near us that has maybe a dozen flavors. But they are really good interesting ones like burnt sugar and Mexican chocolate, Khulfi and others.
I’ve never tried their vanilla but I suspect it’s pretty good.
Vanilla kinda is a billion flavours
A lot of massive flavor shops are slop slinging all kinds of candy and sugary bits in ice cream that’s mediocre. A place that’s good should be able to do that vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry so well they’re a delight to eat.
I’m gonna add pistachio to that list as well.
You’re pistaching me off
Those flavours are the standard for a reason!
Oh god, I was visiting in Seligenstadt and they have a really good ice-cream shop there and the stracciatella and strawberry were DIVINE!
