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Any flavor (exept cherry garcia) and pretty much any brand. Homemade from my icecream maker is preferable, but I love icecream waaaay too much to be picky.

For fun flavors, I am a fan of pumpkin and canolli. For classics, chocolate is a winner. For freshing, anything lemony.

Haagen Daaz "Reserve Flavors" are becoming my new favorites. Generally I love sorbets more. Anything I can get from Fenton's in Oakland is a winner!

i love ronnybrook farm's chocolate. they can be found at some nyc farmer's markets as well as through fresh direct.

I love mint chocolate chip, and also m&m ice cream, which I've had a few times in the United States and appears to be seasonal.

Haagen Daaz coffee; Ben & Jerry's Coconut Almond Fudge Chip (only available as a flavor flashback, unfortunately); Bertillon, though I really do prefer American ice cream because it is creamier; orange creamsicles; 31 Flavors' pistachio; and generally, I like green tea ice cream

If I could afford it, I would have some Graeter's pints sent to me - any flavor that includes chocolate chips! But especially the chocolate chocolate chip and the coffee chocolate chip.

Otherwise, I'd go with Ben & Jerry's coffee Heath bar crunch or that NY chocolate fudge chunk. And if I'm at a store that carries it - Sheer Bliss ice cream, in the coffee flavor. Sheer Bliss is as close as I've come to Graeter's ice cream, here on the Left Coast.

K, does Brown's carry ice cream from Smiling Hill in Westbrook? The best!
Oh, and I meant to mention earlier that this strange concept of a "season" for ice cream puzzles me deeply...

I like gelato in real italian flavors. Pistachio, stratchetelli, almond, chocolate, banana. I also love spumoni.
I make a version of banana pudding by using the custard base in my ice cream maker with banana chunks and ground up Nilla wafers.
Also water ice in lemon. When I was a kid we made that every summer. We hardly ever made ice cream.
When I get a lot of fresh fruit I do a vanilla bean custard and strawberries or peaches or whatever I have.
I NEVER buy ice cream. The commercial stuff is full of additives and never seems to satisfty my need for deep flavor.
Ice cream snob too. You knew that.

I miss ice cream. Now, it's Rice Dream for me. Mint carob chip or orange vanilla swirl work for me. If you've never tried them, don't expect them to taste like ice cream, and you'll be alright. Also, let them sit before digging in. They're creamier that way.

Butterfinger flavor Tasti-d-Lite

And as a kid, vanilla peanut butter swirl Haagen Dass or Turkey Hill.

Peanut butter & chocolate

Growing up in Cincinnati, there is only one commericial ice cream--Graeter's. My prefrence is for the chip flavors. They are awesome.

As for my favorites, I make quite a bit of ice cream. My best and most requested by family and guests is pistachio ice cream. But we are going to introduce a few new recipes in the next couple weeks too--Blackberry and Uneven Pavement. So I love ice cream!

I love ice cream, especially Blue Bell homemade vanilla (yes, I am in Texas, less than an hour away from the source of all Blue Bell goodness, Brenham, but most of you New Yorkers probably don't understand). We recently discovered the very special treat of gelatto.... too sinful. But I wouldn't trade my good old fashioned ice cream for it -- very often.

I bought Haagen Daz's light candied cone ice cream today. (It took half an hour because the people at Gristede's are so slow!) Delicious! The caramel swirl is really smoky.

My favorite national brand, though is Ben & Jerry's because they have gobs of stuff in there. Haagen Daz is too smooth for me.

I also am just about to buy an ice cream maker and try the recipes from The Perfect Scoop, David Lebovitz's new book. I eat so much ice cream in the summer that the machine is probably a good investment.

Hersheys makes one called 'Peanut Butter Cup" Its chocolate ice cream with a thick peanut butter ribbon. Delicious!! Or their crazy vanilla.

Since those are hard to find, I'll take anything with cookie or brownie chunks!

HD's white chocolate raspberry truffle makes me scream my jeans.

Given the season, I'm an absolute sucker for the Mr. Softee trucks that can be found every 3 - 4 feet throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. When I'm feeling fancy, green tea ice cream or gelato can't be beat. I've also recently discovered Hershey's "Birthday Cake" ice cream, which reminds me of a limited edition flavor that was once so popular amongst my friends and family we were positively rabid when we came in contact with it. That was Turkey Hill's "Y2Kake," which unsurprisingly was released at the end of 1999 and discontinued mid-2000. Swirls of frosting and colorful bits of cake in vanilla ice cream... oh, divine.

K--I know The Goldenrod very well indeed. Just about the perfect place for lunch--old-fashioned, honest food of excellent quality! I can't tell you how many times I've taken pictures of that white facade with the old-school neon sign. Oh, and peanut butter kisses my fave (or maybe molasses)!

Anything fruity...I tend to like sorbet better than ice cream.

Godiva, any of the chocolate flavors. I only eat a teaspoon at a time though - not!!!!.

HD's strawberry sorbets. When it's so sunny and hot outside, a spoonful is just.. bliss. It's been raining a lot in here, so haven't craved for those lately

Blue Bell vanilla from Texas is spectacular, though it's also hard to beat Ronnybrook Farms here in New York. For Manhattan treats, most definitely Otto's olive oil gelato.