Do you like 'chunks' in your ice cream?
While I was writing my response to ThatGirl, I realized it would be a good question. I'm particularly finicky about my ice cream....I like it smooth & full of flavor. I can tolerate fruit in my ice cream, but I'm not fond of nuts or chocolate...cake, pie crust or brownies in my ice cream. What about you? What's your favorite flavor...and do you like the chunks?
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18 Comments:
Wow that is a strange questions and it got my attention so i just have to respond. I am opposite of you- I cannot tolerate any type of fruit in my ice cream. Why? I have no idea but I love candy in my ice cream, like chocolate, nerds and bubble gum. Nuts are a no go.
Sarah P. at 4:50PM on 03/19/07
Hello, can you say Ben and Jerry's Phish Food? Cherry Garcia? Delightful texture against the smoothness of the ice cream.
hatlady at 4:57PM on 03/19/07
Yes indeed! I guess I tend to like soft chunks - swirls, even - like dough or caramel; I don't especially like hard nuggets. Except, of course, in the case of Heath Bar. And that's just habit, really.
The worst: gum in any form in ice cream, even a gumball nose on an anthropomorphic popsicle.
sadie at 5:55PM on 03/19/07
Yes--and lots of them. I feel the same way about my soup.
Lucia at 6:01PM on 03/19/07
I like smooth or chunky (but no gum) as long as it is premium ice cream or frozen custard
JEP at 6:23PM on 03/19/07
I agree with Sarah P. I like nuts and brownie bits and chocolate chips, but the texture of frozen fruit just turns me.
monica at 7:06PM on 03/19/07
I LOOOOVE stuff in my ice cream, but not fruit. Cake peices, brownies, peanut butter, chips of any flavor, PIE crust for god sake, just not fruit.
lashes457 at 8:55PM on 03/19/07
Chunks are great! Smooth is nice! Ice cream in general for me is such a rarity that I'll eat it any way it's served; I'm not that picky! If buying it at the grocery store, I guess I generally buy the smoother kinds since those have more intense flavors. My current favorites are Haagen Dasz's dulce e leche and Godiva's Belgian chocolate mint.
AdamH at 9:52PM on 03/19/07
I like chunks, including chunks of fruit, chocolate, and nuts, but there shouldn't be too many and I really, really dislike swirls of anything, especially caramel. I don't like caramel and I really hate it in ice cream.
I also don't like cookie or cake or brownie chunks in ice cream.
Ellie P. at 10:22PM on 03/19/07
I love chunks. Eating something with completely smooth texture is torture. It drives me CRAZY when I don't have peas or corn or something to mix in mashed potatoes or mac and cheese even. I maybe am OCD about this. :-)
Now, the slimy elastic film that develps after you open a container of ice cream - that is something I cannot tolerate.
mel at 10:28PM on 03/19/07
Ummm, chunks are delicious! Brownies, cookie dough, pieces of waffle cone, and swirls (caramel, fudge, etc) are pretty darn good too.
CocoStrange at 11:05PM on 03/19/07
I love chunks, too. And I like smooth ice creams. I am not very picky about ice creams - all I require is that they taste good. :) Lately I've been craving ColdStone's, which is a mishmash of stuff, and it is oh-so-yummy.
toastykitten at 11:08PM on 03/19/07
Ice cream is another one of those foods that I just can't have on hand. Well, let me clarify...there are 3 containers of Vanilla in the freezer, barely touched by me, going to waste. If they were chocolate with chocolatey chocolate chunks o'chocolate and caramel swirls I would not be sitting here typing. I love "stuff" in my ice cream. Not crazy about fruit cause somehow it seems colder and hurts my teeth. I am also not crazy about standard candy bars in ice cream either. I like decadent chocolate swirls and chunks of brownie or cake.....and an occassional nut doesn't bother me.
ThatGirl153 at 11:24PM on 03/19/07
Rocky Road is still my favorite flavor of ice cream. Generally I like Breyer's because I can find all the ingredients at the grocery store, not from a chemical company. However, Breyer's "rocky road" isn't. I also like mocha almond fudge ice cream, and French vanilla, to which I always add toppings. Peanut butter is a favorite, as is honey (but not together) also strawberry preserves with a chocolate sauce drizzle. Hot fudge is always good. Oh, and I like fruit in ice cream, too. Just gimme ice cream!
I scream, you scream, we all scream, for ice cream! >winces
Calichef at 7:26AM on 03/20/07
I like some weird combinations in my ice cream. I love mint pieces and chocolate chips, not fond of nuts, but I love apple pie, or brownies or anything you would normally put over ice cream, I love to freeze it together and have it frozen. Strawberries, blueberries and baked apples are good in ice cream too, you should really try it. Some time when you have a hot brownie with ice cream on it and you cannot finish it (I know, doesn't sound possible) put the rest of it, in the freezer all smashed together and have it later. It is yummier than you would think. I am not really sure if they are weird combinations but I like them.
Carole at 6:16PM on 03/20/07
I have to agree with the no fruit in my ice cream, but it is acceptable ON my ice cream. My favorite thing in my ice cream - chocolate covered almonds in Swiss chocolate ice cream and real butter brickle. No chunks of brownies or cookies, caramel, marshmallow cream (ack), please. This makes me want to get in the car, drive back to the Quad Cities and fill the dry ice container with Whitey's ice cream.
jeanne at 7:44PM on 03/20/07
I LOVE chunks of cake/cookie in my ice cream, I love to make ice cream desserts filled with bits of cookies, pie crust (any crust!), pie, brownies, hello dollies or cakes, I even mix cheesecake with ice cream. I don't mind chocolate chunks but not too many and I do like nuts but not too many either. No fruit. Love sauces also, caramel and hot fudge, but no fruit, except for fruit that is part of a pie like apple pie. NO GUM or candy, except toffee-like candy.
cristi at 3:40PM on 03/22/07
The only chunks I like in my ice cream are brownies which are my favorite...Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie, Haagen Daz's Brownie ala Mode, Edy's Double Fudge Brownie, Cold Stone's cake batter ice cream with brownie mix in....i could go on and on...but yeah, otherwise I prefer smoother ice creams and i do not like nuts of big chunky chocolate pieces in my ice cream..
rothchild at 8:47PM on 03/22/07