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Peppermint stick ice cream. Can't get it where I am!

I am still a fanatic for 31 Flavors' chocolate and peanut butter. Big chunks of peanut butter. Yum. Like a frozen Reeses cup. Fortunately there isn't a 31 Flavors near me or I would weigh 50 pounds more.

I really like vanilla ice cream with caramel and hot fudge on top of a belgian waffle. I like how the cold ice cream makes the caramel kind of stiff too. And whipped cream.

A good coffee-flavored gelato in a waffle cone - with whipped cream.

THe Espresso Shake at Spiritus Pizza in Provincetown, MA: 2 scoops of Haagen Dazs Coffee Ice Cream, a double shot, and milk for a brain and taste bud blast off. Good thing I live 120 mi away and they charge $6 a pop, or I'd be indulging far too often than one should. But once or twice a year, just what the doctor ordered.

some hazlenut gelato I had this weekend now puts it above the other flavor favorites (pistachio, mascarpone, rum raisin, and tiramisu)

gelato & canolli

Vanilla bean ice cream over a warm brownie or chocolate chip cookie. That's just home comfort in a bowl!

Sticky Toffee Pudding Ice Cream. Or anything chocolate.

Strawberry shortcake ice cream bars. Preferably sold to me from the back of an ice cream truck playing that totally obnoxious melody.

My favorite is French style vanilla ice cream, with lots of eggs and a real vanilla bean. I make my own using the recipe in Chez Panisse Fruit. Heaven.

Ben and Jerry's Coffee Heath Bar Ice Cream. Its so so good.

Though I haven't had one in years, nothing will ever beat the old style TCBY Parfaits.

Once I was eating at my favorite Thai restaurant and the matriarch of the family brought out two kinds of homemade ice cream for us to try: avocado and ginger. It was the best frozen treat - a little rustic, but lots of love.

Vanilla ice cream over a warm brownie or waffle with hot fudge and some fresh fruit.

chocolate ice cream, in a bowl (or a carton) - straight up deliciousness...

I loved shaved ice with condensed milk and little jellies all around. Also love black sesame ice cream - sort of rare to find, which makes it all the more delicious!

Malted chocolate milkshake! Yum!

Homemade Banana -Chocolate chip from Baumgart's in Englewood, NJ or gelato from Cones in NYC

The elusive Ben & Jerry's Oatmeal Cookie Ice Cream

Peach Ice cream from Snowflake in Riverhead.

green tea ice cream

Cherries Jubilee with homemade vanilla ice cream.

Irish Bliss ice cream Private Selection brand from Krogers. A year ago it was March flavor of the month, then it was gone. They didn't have it this year. IT was like Irish cream liqueur turned into ice cream heaven. I also like Black Walnut ice cream. Also a homade brownie just out of the oven with French Vanilla ice cream, hot fudge sauce,wet walnuts,real whipped cream,and several maraschino cherries...I also enjoy fruit sorbet. Godiva's Dark Chocolate is very good. My childhood favorite was a light Chocolate with Marshmallow cream through it. I always got it for my birthday.

Chocolate ice cream with bergamot - out of this world.

Call me old school, but a Mister Softee vanilla cone with rainbow sprinkles still makes me openly weep. Oh and if they change that jingle I'm going on a hunger strike....or maybe just a protest.

Oh boy...so hard to pick...vanilla bean ice cream over a warm brownie with walnuts and caramel but NO whip cream is up there...but I think two of my absolute summer favorite's are Ralph's Ices in Snickers Fudge and Mint Chip. The Snickers Fudge for the days when I need that peanut butter/fudge kick...Mint Chip for the days when it's 95, 100% humidity and I need something that's cold, refreshing, but won't leave me thirsty like a lot of ice cream does.

A cup of half chocolate, half strawberry gelato from Giolitti in Rome.

I worked at a Ben and Jerry's for a year and spent that year perfecting my ice cream combo of choice: one scoop of mint chocolate chunk and on top of that, one scoop of coffee coffee buzz buzz buzz (coffee ice cream with espresso fudge chunks). yum. just yum.

My favorite is an ice cream pie my mother makes. It's a Rice Krispie and peanut butter crust with the ice cream layered with chocolate and caramel ice cream topping. It was always the dessert choice for my birthday over plain old cake.

Sort of silly, but you can't beat a Friendly's Conehead sundae to make you feel like a kid again. The proper conehead is made with Reese's, and they should be placed at the bottom of the dish so that you "discover" them as you eat the sundae.

I love vanilla ice cream with raspberries whipped with orange liquore.....Definitely not a Sweet and "Low" ........

Sylvan Beach here in Baltimore makes honey graham ice cream that is incredible! Honey sweet with salty, buttery pieces of graham cracker…mmmmmmmm

oops, i forgot to add: Coconut Frozen Yogurt is my latest obsession

I love mint chocolate chip ice cream. Also, nothing feels as much like summer to me as eating m&m ice cream (for some reason I have only found it at rural American ice cream shops, and it always seems to be seasonal) or just buying an ice cream from a van (cornetto or magnum preferably).

A scoop of sweet cream flavor from the original Herrell's in Northampton, MA.

White Chocolate Lemon from the Chocolate Bar in Houston, TX. Yeehaw!

Coconut sorbet from Ciao Bella, coconut ice cream from Seduttos, Sticky Toffee pudding from Haagen Dazs, and chocoalte from Haagen Dazs. These are a few of my favorite things(to quote a song)!

Cookies and cream milkshake.

vanilla soft serve from McDonalds...classic

Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla, ideally with a side of warm cherry pie. Apple works, too.

Oh man, how do I choose? I recently tried the Breyer's Reeses Peanut Butter Cup ice cream which was delicious. Then again, it's hard to go wrong with peanut butter and chocolate. Otherwise, it's between mint chocolate chip, mango sorbet, or rocky road.

i'd have to say either chocolate ice cream with cookie dough or a blizzard/flurry (whatever you want to call it) with chocolate ice cream, bananas, caramel, and oreos.

My favourite flavour of gelato is for sure Nutellone: simple cream variagated with Nutella! Just heaven!
In the overall frozen compartment, my favourite is granita, made in the Sicilian way, very creamy...

A good sweet cream ice cream. Plain, or with anything in it--fruit, nuts, whatever.

I love ice cream - it is by far my dessert of choice. I love Haagen-Dazs Rocky Road. Even when I go to those places that let you create your own ice cream masterpiece, I always end up making a rocky road variation. I also love green tea mochi ice cream and Double Rainbow Coffee ice cream and Double Rainbow Mango and Vanilla Soy Cream.

Most absolute favorite? Probably my memories of eating gelato in the shade of a summer in Florence, Italy, while I was a student. Absolutely everything I tried was amazing, though I'm sure half that was due to the experience itself.

Locally, my very favorite is real, homemade strawberry ice cream with big chunks of strawberries and a touch of vanilla, topped with fresh, cut up strawberries (and blueberries, if I can get 'em). Yum!

I became lactose intolerant a few years ago and had to give all that up, I thought. But since I discovered quality fruity gelato, it's like a whole new world opened up. Lemon is my favourite, though the watermelon recipe that the Amateur Gourmet posted is good enough to fill the entire freezer with. Who needs real food?

I really like Ben & Jerry's Dublin Mudslide, but for something a little richer I love Ciao Bella's Pistachio or Dulce de Leche gelato .

It's gotta be crema gelato. Just pure cream flavor, no vanilla no nothing else. So rich, and milky.

This is a really really tough question, and Ben and Jerry's Dublin Mudslide is amazing, but I would have to say that the ice cream to end all ice cream is a flavor entitled KGB from Ben and Bill's Chocolate Emporium in Oak Bluffs, MA on the island of Martha's Vineyard. It's a mix of Kahlua, Grand Marnier and Baily's Irish Cream. It's so rich and creamy, the alcohol is still just a tad present and the mix of flavors is just perfect. It's incredibly decadent and with a few sprinkles/jimmies/whatever you call them, the contrast of textures makes for a truly transcendent ice cream experience.

Pink peppermint stick ice cream. Or a really good hot fudge sundae with whipping cream, pecans, and a side of salty french fries.

A frozen brownie! If it must be ice cream/sorbet, red bean (Azuki) ice cream is one of my favorites.

Pumpkin ice cream, sold in the fall by Oberweiss, a Chicagoland area dairy. Or coriander with a raspberry ribbon from Jeni's, a Columbus, OH, awesome ice cream maker.

Concretes from Ted Drewes Frozen Custard stand in St Louis are completely irresistible! Ditto profiteroles made with the richest homemade ice cream and hot fudge.

Coconut ice cream from the old Gifford's in Washington, DC. Shreddd fresh coconut held together with just a bit of sweet cream vanilla. None better and now a just a sweet nostalgic dream. A close second - chocolate frozen custard from the Polar Bear stands, also in Washington, DC, also long gone.

Cinnamon gelato with bits of dark chocolate!

Snickers ice cream