I think people fall into 2 groups.

1). Don’t care - I buy in volume....

2). I REALLY LIKE BRAND X

I'm in both....

Platos Cave

I very seldom eat ice cream......maybe once every 2-3 years.....but from my limited experience Tillamok's pretty good.

Baskin Robbins

For a box ice cream my pick is Blue Bunny.

Out on the road there's a shack along Rt. 6 in the mountains of eastern Pa. with 43 flavors. Not a chain.

Hardly eat it but nice to be able to find a UFO sandwich on occasion.

On the way back from our camp in WV we'll stop by this place.

https://southmountaincreamery.com/visit-us/

Pretty darn good and about the only time I eat ice cream.

sumthing with a sealed lid........

Red Button from Utah is good...........

but I try to watch my fat intact..........

I don't really have a favorite brand, but I do have definite likes and dislikes when it comes to ice cream. Most importantly, I want it to be capable of being frozen HARD. It seems that many of the self-proclaimed "premium" brands never will actually harden in the freezer. It seems to me that it may have something to do with their "richness". When I was young and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, we were able to purchase "ice milk", which I really liked. I am not a fan of most exotic concoctions, preferring chocolate, strawberry, and sometimes plain old vanilla. I do like spumoni and neopolitan.

miine's intact now and for the foreseeable future. Probably much longer.

About the only flavor of Baskin Robbins I really like is pralines n cream.
Snickers ice cream bars are awesome.
Graeter's from Cincinnati is pretty good. They have a seasonal pumpkin flavor that is delicious.
Mayfield from Tennessee makes a really good orange sherbert.

Unless it has changed recently, Alaskans have the highest per capita ice cream consumption in the country.

Hot Licks in Fbks is wonderful.

Cold Stone is pretty good as far as chains go. If I'm buying a bucket I usually go store brand. For sandwiches I like the ones with the chocolate chip cookies.

Yep. Pralines & Cream Peanut Butter Fudge are my favorites there. You can buy it in the grocery stores here now.

LOVE those Snickers ice cream bars !!!

+1

Not picky about 1/2 gal size, whatever looks good or on sale, but I rarely eat ice cream

Though I very rarely eat it Tillamook.

Yes sir....hands down.


Their cheese is tops too.

Although I will say that the Food Club Dixie cups are pretty good.


They dont send the wooden spoons anymore though.

Yep on the cheese, extra sharp cheddar. Trying to drop pounds so not eating any cheese...

I am laying off the booze so I can have some cheese!

Tillamook

https://www.tillamook.com/ice-cream.html

I'm gonna go have a bowl of old fashioned vanilla with maple syrup on top.

Out here, Tillamook. Back east, Mayfield.

Lots of good stuff though.

Ironbender ain't schitting. On commercial fishing boats Im pretty sure ice cream is better than cash. The stuff was like gold.

I have some of that syrup from DannyL yet......never tried it on ice cream.


Vanilla ice cream and Amish Wedding peaches is good.....with a hot chocolate chip cookie on the bottom.

It’ll ruin you!

I’ve got to look up this Mayfield.

Uh I don't think beer is your problem little buddy..

For the Record the best Baskin Robbins Flavor is Baseballnut.

As a kid Crystal Creamery here in NorCal was the Tillmook of today.

Ed is most likely familiar with Crystal.

Blue Bell. Also, HEB's store brand 1906 Vanilla is darn hard to beat as well. When in the Tennessee area, Mayfield is also good stuff.Tillamook is good. I refuse to even think about eating Ben & Jerry's.

Really only a couple of the cheapest store brands I don't like.

But, in this area, it's Ritchies Dairy.
Local farms, small family run diary,
available in stores, and their store/ice cream stand,
It's an institution.


On a much bigger scale, Turkey Hill.
From Eastern Pa, they are the Ritchies that blew up.
In many stores, a bunch of branded C-stores.
Fantastic ice cream.

For soft serve, the Dairy Creme Corner in Fairmont, WV can't be beat. Tons of flavors, absolutely monster cones, and their funnel cake sundae is to die for. Totally worth the hour drive down I-79 from Morgantown, imo.

Best soft serve I've ever had, and best roadside ice cream stand I've ever stopped at.

lately, I've been hooked on Kroger's Southern Butter Pecan ice cream. I need to quit buying it, because I can't quit eating it. Lot's of good store brands, and also lot's of cheap stuff too. I also buy Purity, Blue Bell, and even the Walmart brand.

There's a little ice cream shop down the road from me that has some very good stuff, also Chaney's Dairy Barn in Bowling Green KY is good too.

I have not bought icecream for the house in over years. Just no will power. I'll eat some from time to time if out and about, but not often. I love the stuff, can't control myself.

Blue bell, especially those packs of cups of the vanilla and dutch chocolate and the old time type square boxes of mayfield like fudge swirl are THE only ones that will stay hard in the freeze....all the others are too soft serve like from the freeze.

I've been into Klondike Bars lately, especially the Heath Bar version. And nobody's licking thru their wrappers.

The next step in addiction is gelato. Can't tell you how it is differenter from ice cream except that it is richer and Even more addictive.

This one here is the very best "ice cream" anywhere in the world, ever.



More flavors here:
https://www.talentigelato.com/product-category/talenti-gelato-flavors

Pounded these as a kid in the 70's when you could only get them in the San Francisco Bay Area before it went freakzoid.

Shaved ice off a cart in Atlantic City, Brooklyn or Philly.

Choice of flavors is endless.

For you pikers that have not experienced this neighborhood treat, get on a plane NOW !

Oh my !!! Love the darn things but they melt instantly. Wear a bib.

Right up the road from me but never been there However I've been to the Poky Dot nearby.

West Va has a very underrated food scene imo, especially for comfort food. Great chili dogs, killer ice cream joints, good Italian restaurants, pepperoni rolls...

I don't know how all of you don't weigh 500 pounds...

Chili dogs for sure but they aren't that great IMHO. Gotta go to Pa for them.

I live back in the hills and a 2 hour drive to get good eats just isn't my preference and just about all the other transplants feel the same.

Will venture to Morgantown soon to check out a couple of Asian & Mex Joints that have good reviews


Throw some recommendations at me, please !!!!

Tillamook Old Fashioned Vanilla and medium amber maple syrup is so good, I’ve actually contemplated just saying fugkit. I’ll dig my way to happiness with a spoon, get one of them Little Rascal scooters and surrender to the sweat pant life.

For Italian, Muriales in Fairmont, and Oliverios in Morgantown will get the job done. For hot dogs, we thought Hillbilly hot dogs was kinda gross, but the chili dog joints in Point Pleasant and across the river in Gallipolis OH are good. Gallipolis also has a very good Italian / steak joint, Tuscany. The Italian is good at Tuscany, but the steaks are better. Pepperoni rolls are all over Morgantown, if chili dogs aren't your jam.

We have taken vacations in WV several times, and I gain 10 pounds as soon as I cross the state line.

Already there.

Damn things can't make up their minds if they wanna stay up or head south

Bought me some red suspenders !!!

Italian heritage in WV for sure and both mentioned above are the best here but really aren't that good. Worth an honorable mention at best. Seems like they have slid downhill over the years. I can be at Muriales in 90 minutes.

Thinkin',........

Haha!

Its only every couple years I do that.

Culvers - its custard but fuggit, I like it

Down here close to Oklahoma, Braum’s is hard to beat. Particularly Chocolate Toffee, peppermint, mint chocolate chip, pecans pralines & cream. Oh hell. I like it all.

Blue Bell is good. Married to a Texan, so that’s her choice. Cookie dough two step or done such is my favorite of theirs.

Last night I had huckleberry ice cream on the campus of Utah State University, made in house from their dairy cows. I’ll be going back multiple times in the next 6 months when I’m there for work.

I basically like all ice cream.

Yep. Used to head to a place in Berkeley that made good stuff, Bott's?

Maybe but I never went there. We lived in Napa and Santa Rosa when I was a kid. Although spent lots of time in SF, Oakland, San Jose on the weekends and holidays. For me the big treat was going to Fentons Creamery in Oakland. I got to take my kids there during the 1990's before it burned down and was rebuilt.

Seemed like there was independent creameries everywhere back then making their own ice cream.

i am #1 when i have money and #2 when i am broke.

http://roselani.com/


Haupia (Coconut) is my favorite when we're in Hawaii

Braums Ice Cream is good.