<p>Your comments please.</p>
<p>Stop</p>
<p>making</p>
<p>these stupid threads</p>
<p>holy crap</p>
<p>“hardest” is very relative, y’know!</p>
<p>Are engineers insecure or something…</p>
<p>This has nothing to do with this thread but ya know whats funny…engineering students that tear around in sweaters/jackets with Engineering on the back and their names on the side.</p>
<p>There are a lot of different kinds of engineering majors, and a lot of them aren’t remotely similar, so I’d suggest you revise your question. In general, Engineering is quite a bit of Math and Physics.</p>
<p>If you have to ask…</p>
<p>We have too many of these threads. I’m going to blatantly and unabashedly hijack this one. In this thread, let’s talk about our favorite ice cream flavors.</p>
<p>Does anybody have any recommendations for ice cream flavors I should try? I’m a big fan of gelato lately, and my favorite flavors so far have been pepe nero, which is black pepper and olive oil (sounds bizarre but it’s really quite delicious), and something called viola, which is actually flavored with violets. Like, the flower. It tastes like… purple.</p>
<p>I like subtlety, I don’t like ice cream that’s incredibly dense or overly sweet, I don’t like anything with so high of a fat content that I end up with a waxy film on my tongue, and I like ice creams with interesting flavor combinations. Any recommendations? Ice cream recipes are also acceptable, since I’ve got an ice cream maker. What’s the best ice cream you’ve had?</p>
<p>My brother brought home an icecream that looked like Play-do yesterday. It was really weird. Dark blue, red, yellow, and green. It looked disgusting. I like ice creams based on other foods like blue berry cheese cake. Butter Pecan is also a favourite.</p>
<p>Also has anyone ever been to Ben & Jerry’s? They name icecreams after famous bands and musicians. They have Cherry Garcia, Phish Phood, Goodbye yellow brick road and a bunch of other awesome music themed flavours. I didn’t get any though because they’re very expensive.</p>
<p>They actually have Cherry Garcia in frozen yogurt form. It’s one of my favorites, though I prefer something less chocolaty.</p>
<p>I have always been a fan of mint chocolate chip. I have no idea why, but I am like obsessed with it.</p>
<p>Also, aibarr, that is strange that you say you aren’t into rich ice creams since gelato is typically richer, albeit less creamy than ice cream is. My favorite mix of gelato was always chocolate and banana. Nothing was better for me than walking up to a gelati stand in Italy and getting one scoop of chocolate and one scoop of banana. Mmmmmmmmm…</p>
<p>Well, gelato’s made with whole milk instead of cream… maybe that’s what I’m tasting.</p>
<p>Mint chocolate chip is to die for. I’m a fan of Blue Bell.</p>
<p>HECK YES BLUE BELL!!!</p>
<p>I just visited the factory in Brenham a couple weeks ago. I think the girl at the end was flirting with me because she gave me literally twice as much ice cream as everyone else there. That happened despite the fact that I was there with my girlfriend… how odd. It was either that or she just wasn’t paying attention.</p>
<p>I wish we had Blue Bell up at UIUC when I was there. Of course if we had, I would have come out of it weighing probably 10 lbs more than I do, haha.</p>
<p>You’re buying that super-expensive boutique ice cream that costs like four dollars for two small scoops of it. I would only go to such a place for the flavors you can’t get anywhere else. There’s a place near me called Jenni’s Ice Cream (or maybe it’s Jeni’s) and they are really really good and really expensive. I had some violet-flavored ice cream and it was awesome (actual French imported violets in the ice cream, tastes way better than it sounds). Beats the pants off the extremely, absurdly, laughably, over-rated Cold Stone Creamery or Graeters. But again, I wouldn’t go there for chocolate or vanilla (yes, I’ve sampled their “normal” flavors and they aren’t anything special, in spite of the expensive ingredients).</p>
<p>For store-bought, I recommend Private Selection, you find it at Kroger, or Blue Bunny for the best plain vanilla you can get at a store (vanilla is such a wonderful, complex flavor, I don’t know why it’s considered ordinary). Private Selection has the best fried ice cream I’ve ever had, except for what you can get at some Mexican restaurants (i.e. genuine fried ice cream).</p>
<p>Oh, forgot to mention Homemade Ice Cream, you can get it at Kroger or UDF (so mayhap it’s only available within a 300-mile radius of Cincinnati), they have a great cotton candy ice cream. The right blend of cotton candy flavor and ice cream. And anything from Trauth Dairy is really good, but you have to be in the Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati area to have easy access to it.</p>
<p>Can’t beat good ol’ chocolate chip.</p>
<p>French vanilla = win</p>
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Isn’t gelato water based and regular ice cream milk based? That’s why it’s liquefy (is that even a word)…</p>
<p>Anyway? Has anyone ever had a mochi ice cream or mochi-lato? It’s the f-in bomb…</p>
<p>Sorbet is water (fruit) based, non-dairy. I don’t know about gelato. But my vote for favorite flavor is peach sorbet.</p>
<p>The main difference between ice cream and gelato is actually that it contains more egg, which are used in most ice creams as an emulsifier, more whole milk vs cream, and are churned slower so that they have less air, making them denser.</p>
<p>Wow, I miss Blue Bell!! They THINK they have good ice cream in Maine, but they have no idea.</p>