Are you salivating yet? Have you raided the freezer section of your nearest convenience store? Are you weeping because neither your wallet nor your cholesterol level can accommodate your need to eat ALL THE ICE CREAMS? Okay, that last one, that’s 14K projecting. My sincerest apologies.
However, Persephoneers, I have to admit that I’m disappointed by the lack of engagement. There were some *very* interesting and unforeseen results yesterday, but the comments showed no sign of significant opinion-holding! I want to see you arguing for your favorites! I want to hear odes to your beloved flavors and cutting take-downs of the competition! I WANT TO SEE BLOOD! Do not disappoint me, y’all, or I will be pushed to drastic measures…
Today features four match-ups wherein beloved 20th-century standards face off against popular niche flavors old and new:
Coffee v. Banana Well before I could tolerate coffee – actually, let’s face it, I could never tolerate just coffee, even when I was addicted, it had to be a latte or au lait – anyway, long beforehand, I loved coffee ice cream. When I was first driven into coffee’s arms (thanks, American Constitutional Law!), I doctored my coffee with coffee ice cream and M&Ms. Yum. Banana is one of those flavors that people may really love, or really hate, or just feel meh about… but the love and hatred is sirius bizness.
Butter Pecan/Praline v. Orange Cream Most commonly pecan, but occasionally the praline will be made with almonds, a delightful change. As for orange cream… where do you think the idea for the Creamsicle came from?
Cookie Dough v. Cinnamon Whoever first had the idea of sticking globs of cookie dough into ice cream is a genius, and quite possibly a billionaire. Cinnamon, sadly, has not made it to my neck of the woods; while I jerry-rigged a version at home, I’m looking forward to someday having the real thing!
Cookies & Cream v. Green Tea I always felt this was a bit of a misnomer, as the cookie should always be the oxford wafer of Oreo fame. Whatever, I’m a stickler for details. Green tea ice cream is like coffee ice cream in that I had the frozen dessert prior to drinking the hot beverage; they also share yumminess.
IMPORTANT REMINDER: Vote for only ONE contestant in each match-up! Voting for both options, or multiple votes, messes up my count, and you don’t want me to insert my own opinions into the matter of who wins, do you?
Voting open until 5:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday. Have at it!
31 replies on “I SCREAM YOU SCREAM WE ALL SCREAM FOR ROUND 1, DAY 2!”
Butter Pecan for ever and ever!!!
Did I ever tell you guys we had an ice cream sundae bar at our wedding? The options were vanilla, chocolate, or butter pecan ice cream with hot fudge or caramel sauce, plus rainbow sprinkles, nuts, m&ms, and/or bits of heath bar, with whipped cream on top. It was the best. We then spent the next two weeks eating leftover sundaes. OM NOM NOM NOM NOM.
Cookies & Cream v Green Tea! How unfair!! I lurve them both SO MUCH!!! But coffee v banana…. I’m one of the people who are very anti-banana flavor. Coffee ALL THE WAY!!
I will admit I care for neither butter pecan nor orange cream. I like my citrus fruits in sorbet form and for some reason I decided as a child that I hated pecans. But cinnamon v. cookie dough was HAARD! I loves them both!
Cookie dough is overrated. There, I said it. I haven’t met a cookie dough ice cream yet in which the ice cream is worth you mouth as well.
While I agree with the overrated aspect, I can’t say I’ve ever had to take issue with the ice creams that I have them in–B&J, Haagen-Dazs, Breyers.
I had green tea ice cream for the first time a few weeks ago at a sushi place. Â It was fried green tea ice cream. Â It was………..an experience. Â I was so mad at my boyfriend. Â Usually he’s good with a couple bites of dessert, so I get it all. Â He ate way more than half while I wasn’t looking because a friend walked into the restaurant! Â (BTW, Chicago persephs, Ukai right off the Belmont redline stop is AHMAZING. Â Pink Lady maki roll is a must have.)
All these comments are amazing to me. Coffee vs. Banana was a total wrench for me, I love them both so so much. I can’t believe there is so much coffee and banana hate out there.
Isn’t it fantastic?? Like, in the fascinating sense. I can understand it with banana, as I know lots of people really have a thing against the fruit–not even the flavor, the fruit (and whatever, MOAR 4 ME). I *am* surprised by coffee though! But that may just be my natural bias towards the stuff. Banana I actually feel meh about; I love it *in* ice cream, banana splits, it’s one of my favorite foods, etc., but I’m not into banana-flavored anything.
I’m also not into banana-flavored things. I will eat an actual banana or have it in a smoothie. That’s about it. Coffee4Lyfe?
Agreed. Bananas are good; fake banana flavoring is disgusting.
Same here! They are both dear to my taste buds. All I could think was Chunky Monkey vs. Coffee Heath Bar Crunch and how could anyone expect me to choose between those two?!? O.o
This was a relatively easy one for me. Green tea is readily available here and I like it but cookies and cream has been my go to staple for as long as I can remember. Also, anything connected with coffee will always be a favorite.
COOKIE DOUGH/COOKIES AND CREAM ALL THE FUCKING WAY. Â That is all.
(That combo never gets old, I am telling you.)
Also, I can’t really tolerate coffee, so banana it is.
I was torn between cookie dough and cinnamon, but I had to go with cinnamon ultimately. It makes apple pie so much better, and apple pie is already pretty damn good
With  Mint Chocolate chip yesterday and Cookie dough / cookies & cream today I’ve noticed  I love my ice cream with chunks of stuff in it apparently
I don’t like coffee or banana, but I picked coffee because it’s not as bad as banana. I am so happy to see Orange Cream on here! There was a small fair when I was younger that used to have the best Orange Creamsicle ice cream. Â Also cookie and cream against Green Tea is very hard! I like both of them, but green tea is a hard flavor to find, which makes it that much better when I can actually find it (reasonably priced).
I picked coffee for the same reason!
But I will fight you on behalf of Butter Pecan. I really like the orange creamsicle style pops, but the only thing that can compete with pecans in my book is chocolate.
If anyone lives in the Bay Area, there is a place called Falafal Drive-in in San Jose that has the BEST banana milk shakes on EARTH. I’m drooling at my desk just thinking about it. That place is the shit. Their Falafal, onion rings, and a banana shake would be my last meal. Seriously.
Been there and they are amazing. Stopped on the way home from a trip to San Francisco.
I’m moving there in two weeks… I may just have to make this a mandatory stop.
You are?!?! Let’s do lunch! Have your people call my people! Good luck on a hopefully stress-free (or stress-moderate) move. Let me know if you need any help; I am an awesome organizer.
And yes, mandatory falafal.
I don’t actually like coffee ice cream but my utter hatred of bananas compels me to vote against them. I don’t know that I’ve ever had butter pecan or praline, but I’m Texan so I feel like I have to pick it on principle. Cinnamon gets a sympathy vote because I know my beloved cookie dough will knock it out and I feel bad. And cookies and cream is just straight-up delish.
Anything cookie dough is good! Especially a cookie dough blizzard….oh man I have to go to DQ again…..
I have no opinion on Banana/coffee, as they’re both wastes of ice creamy goodness to me. Â But MMMM BUTTER PECAN!
I’m not that crazy about coffee ice cream, but banana flavored anything is right out. :)
Coffee and all coffee-flavoured things are an abomination unto me, saith I.
Coffee ice cream is amazing (and like you, I love it without loving the beverage.) Even more amazing? Coffee heath bar crunch. TO DIE FOR. But seriously folks, coffee ice cream is awesome. And the smell of bananas, especially sweet banana-y things like banana bread and ice cream, makes me queasy. Protect my stomach. Vote coffee.
And cookie dough + ice cream is flat out one of the best ideas this world has ever had. That one shouldn’t even be a competition.
I would add that while I am willing to engage more, nothing, but NOTHING, gets me more fired up than my favorite literary characters. As much as I love ice cream, I just don’t have it in me to invest the same passion in this as I do in Middlemarch Madness. But I promise I’ll try to do better!
COFFEE HEATH BAR CRUNCH IS MY FAVORITE FAVORITE THAT IS NOT MY ACTUAL ALL-TIME FAVORITE. Seriously, that shit is BAD for me because I love it too much.
Coffee Heath Bar Crunch is my kryptonite. Especially how the toffee gets kinda gooey where it touches the coffee ice cream, oh dear god. It’s not right I tell you. Just.Not.Right.
I’m glad I’m not the only one with this weakness. I don’t even have a sweet tooth normally, but ice cream (and especially THIS ice cream or any variation on peanut butter cookie dough) more than make up for my apathy towards most sweet things.