Thiebear Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Ice Cream: Where We're Still Pretty Much Stuck in 1983 Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2008287,00.html#ixzz0vaYGlb8H http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2008287,00.html The great ice cream apocalypse never happened. I really thought it would. With the rise of lower-fat alternatives such as gelato and fro-yo (frozen yogurt) and the ever increasing popularity of high-end brands like Ben & Jerry's, I figured that traditional, nonorganic, non–Belgian chocolate, standard-issue ice cream would have become by now a vast if profitable backwater, like margarine — or talking-animal movies. But no! As recently reported here, old-school ice cream is bigger than ever. How is this possible? Are Americans really still happy eating plain-vanilla ice cream? (See pictures of ice cream that will make you scream.) It seems hard to believe on the surface of it. Our tastes in pizza have changed, our tastes in chicken and hamburgers, soda and milk — nearly everything we consume at least looks or sounds a little different from what it did five or 10 years ago. But Baskin-Robbins, to take one example, looks and tastes pretty much the same as it did 20 or 30 years ago. When the chain pulled five unpopular flavors last month, fans reeled and started a Facebook campaign to keep French Vanilla. Even the upscale ice creams, like Ben & Jerry's and Häagen-Dazs, haven't seen a major rival emerge in a generation. The last one was probably Frusen Glädjé, a brand so dead that apparently even its owners don't seem to know what happened to it. Fark.com: Food writer fails to understand that ice cream is delicious They summed it up rather nicely: What MORON doesn't understand why people like 'regular' ole icecream... I like the occasional chunky monkey, etc.. but hitting the vanilla... or the chocolate.. I have girls. We get the board game, we put on the movie we get the ice cream scoop and make "game night" happen... popcorn is good, but icecream is better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinfan2k Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 I still have ice cream almost every day in the summer. But random question, how many people eat ice cream in the winter? Its one of those things I never understood why people did it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 I eat it in the winter,or in what passes for winter here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellis Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 I eat ice cream all the time at the docks of downtown Annapolis. My fiance and I take our dog who also gets a cup of vanilla ice cream. Her sister and partner bring their 3 dogs who also get their own cups. All of us live in downtown Annapolis so this is just our thing. Black Raspberry is my favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissU28 Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 I'm not a big ice cream fan. Don't get me wrong, I like it, but I'll never choose it as my first choice for dessert. Unless it's a sundae with lots of mixings put in it. I prefer cookies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream. And I've read that America eats more ice cream in the winter than in the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostofSparta Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Why old fashioned ice cream will never die: Root Beer Floats. There is no comparing how great it tastes with regular old vanilla as opposed to with frozen yogurt or whatever. Still: old fashioned ice cream flavored in Green Mint Chip FTW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckus Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Blue Bell Ice Cream. Best in the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjah Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 One thing I really miss about the Boston area is the great ice cream shops you can find in every town, and seemingly on every corner in Boston/Cambridge. Folks will go to the Ben and Jerry's factory in Vermont during a blizzard, get ice cream, and sit out front to eat it. I've seen it myself. It's a way of life up there. Philly has a couple of good ice cream places, but Philly folks are more hung up on soft pretzels. And I love those too, despite the oddly squished shape of Philly half-pretzels - but they just aren't the same as top notch New England ice cream. It's pilgrimage-worthy. And I'd say our tastes in ice cream have changed since the early 80s. There's far more variety and excitement in the creative flavors available today. It's a bit akin to the micro-brew legacy that has worked its way into the beer world. Sure, the worthless watery piss beers are still the best sellers and still dominate football ads. But today there's this gigantic universe of variety in the medium and small breweries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sisko Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Back when the high butterfat ice creams were relatively new I saw a taste test conducted with kids on a local newscast. They pitted a couple of the premium brands against Safeway ice cream. Of course the kids ended up picking the Safeway pulp over the good stuff. I prefer the good stuff but I could just as easily eat the Safeway pulp. After all, ice cream is like sex. Good sex is great and bad sex is still pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 As I mentioned earlier in the California thread I read an article in the NY Times about that San Francisco shop that sells unconventional ice cream flavors...Proscuttio flavored ice cream :| That guy running that shop is one of the few innovating the world of Ice Cream And I can't really eat ice cream due to lactose intolerance or else I would be more approving of ice cream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD_washingtonredskins Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Basic ice cream flavors will always have a niche. We have two young kids and general get them vanilla in a cup (cones can be a disaster) with rainbow sprinkles. You can't really beat that with small children. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinfan133 Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Why old fashioned ice cream will never die: Root Beer Floats. There is no comparing how great it tastes with regular old vanilla as opposed to with frozen yogurt or whatever.Still: old fashioned ice cream flavored in Green Mint Chip FTW! The green color is actually artificial. Breyers makes a wonderfully delicious mint chocolate chip thats all-natural. No green and it tastes amazing, highly recommended for the mint chocolate chip lovers out there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pick6 Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Blue Bell Ice Cream.Best in the country. In college I bartended at Outback Steakhouse and they carry Blue Bell Ice Cream. It was amazing, but sadly you can't buy it around the DC area. If anyone hasn't had a taste you must before you die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 :evilg: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue collar Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 I eat it in the winter,or in what passes for winter here. Because it taste so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyfar Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 I normally rock a simply, Vanilla or Chocolate but every now and then I break out some Baskin Robbins' Peanut Butter Chocolate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostofSparta Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 The green color is actually artificial. Breyers makes a wonderfully delicious mint chocolate chip thats all-natural. No green and it tastes amazing, highly recommended for the mint chocolate chip lovers out there Had it and love it. Makes a fantastic homemade Mudslide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#98QBKiller Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Plain chocolate ice cream...or mint chocolate chip ice cream (but only the green kind). :cloud9: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedskinFeathers Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 I still have ice cream almost every day in the summer. But random question, how many people eat ice cream in the winter? Its one of those things I never understood why people did it Cause it's delicious. Chocolate vanilla swirl in a waffle cone with chocolate jimmies...perfect. If Jimmie Cone was open all year round I'd still go in the winter. I really want ice cream now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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