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[james_davis_nicoll]

The worst flavour of ice cream that is actually sold in stores. Note that "frozen dessert" is not ice cream. It is an abomination.

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[azurelunatic]

Black walnut.

Black walnut, to which I am somewhat sensitive (if not outright allergic), and which my father was sorely disappointed that I did not consider the great delicacy that he considered it.

[ratcreature]

Smurf. I have no idea what it tastes like, though I am told it is extremely extremely sweet and similar to the "bubblegum" flavors, and it is a horrible, artificial bright blue. I see it mostly in ice cream palors rather than stores (probably because they aren't actually allowed to use the trademark). It's a crime against ice cream, imo, but many children like it.

[brownbetty]

Tiger stripe. It is not a flavor, it is a cosplay. Which is great! But I bought it to eat.

[replyhazy]

"Bunny Tracks." Amongst other things, it has chocolate covered peanuts... why should fake rabbit poop be a "feature" of ice cream?

[redbird]

Does "I has this when a friend bought it from an ice cream shop" count, or do you mean something more widely distributed than "this is one of the weird things this one shop does"?

If things sold on a regular/ongoing basis by one ice cream shop count: lox.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

More widely distributed than "this is one of the weird things this one shop does"?

[kla10.livejournal.com]

Green Tea.

[solarbird]

Green tea ice cream is wonderful and you are broken.

[solarbird]

I'm glad you didn't say "in Canada" or "in North America" because that lets me bring my Japanese experience in here, because I gotta say, curry ice cream is not fucking tasty. Oh god. I mean, I could kinda see it, right? I thought it'd be okay. But NO. The word of the day is NO.

The crab ice cream was not something I'd try again but was also not as bad as you'd expect.

I couldn't work up the courage to try the ox tongue.

My favourite was black sesame. So good.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Black sesame is awesome. I wish it was easier to find around here.

[bedii.livejournal.com]

They used to sell "Ballard Broccoli" ice cream in the stores here for summer salads.

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's worse than raspberry.

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

Pranking those Vilyani traders with a load of a 'tasty local specialty' might not be a good idea. They could come back with a fleet.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Or worse, being Vilani, they might LIKE it. Which means the fleet they show up with next is a trading fleet, and you have to scramble to make 67,500 cubic meters of high-quality garlic-broccoli ice cream, and your dignitaries have to pretend to like it. All four the sake of some lousy air rafts and laser rifles.

[burger-eater.livejournal.com]

Mango.

I love mango. I had some for dessert tonight. Mango ice cream is gross.

[voidampersand.livejournal.com]

Artificial strawberry flavor.

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

This.

My husband loves it, though.

[drcuriosity]

Passionfruit ice cream is almost universally terrible.

[vass]

Do you like passionfruit? I ask because I quite like passionfruit gelati, and I don't like real passionfruit. So maybe I liked the gelati because it's such a travesty that it would revolt all the people who appreciate real passionfruit.

[mcbadger.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you can buy garlic ice-cream in stores, but I have had it in a restaurant out of idle curiosity to see whether it was as vile as it sounded. It was vile in a different way from what I expected (in that you get vanilla, then a garlic afterburn). Never again.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Garlic ice cream was weird in that it didn't taste like garlic- just vaguely sweet, and then a really nasty aftertaste. Blech.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Durian ice cream.

[sanskritabelt.livejournal.com]

I had that in Thailand, I ate it while walking and it would be *takes a bite* "hey that's pretty good" *two seconds later* "oh god what's that smell is there a sewer leak" *takes a bite* "hey that's pretty good" *two seconds later* "oh god what's that smell is there a sewer leak" repeat a couple times until I figured it out.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Fake pistachio.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I think that of the flavors you can actually get in your typical supermarket around here, there's nothing that really sinks below the level of "unobjectionably bland."

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

I dunno, Rum Raisin and Pecan Sandy and anything with chunks of bubble gum and/or cake starts to get into the "objectionably not bland enough."

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

I was going to engage in a rant about butter pecan, but I see from the other comments that I am quite clearly out of my league in the disgusting ice cream division.

[pperiwinkle.livejournal.com]

+ 1

I do not like butter pecan, but for some reason people seem to think I must and are forever giving it to me.

[elusis.livejournal.com]

Bubble gum.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

I used to think I didn't like ice cream.

As it turned out, I just didn't like ice milk, which was the only thing my mother would serve for dessert. (So for a long time I just assumed other ice cream would be like that.)

As for flavors: I don't like peach. Or creamsicle. (Very not creamsicle.)

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

My sister used to work for Baskin-Robbins, and frequently brought home Jamoca Almond Fudge, which was a great favorite with everyone in the house except my father, for whom she had to provide something else. At a dinner party, he explained this preference to a guest as "I hate wet nuts," which had us all in ecstasies of suppressed mirth.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

You don't know me, but that made me laugh till I couldn't catch my breath, so I thank you.

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

The least popular flavor I actually like is durian flavor. Sold in some stores.

[ice-hesitant.livejournal.com]

I think the more important difference in ice cream is brand, not flavour. The worst flavour of Haagen Dazs or Ben and Jerrys is a million times more edible than the best flavour of Breyers or Chapmans.

[catbear.livejournal.com]

Well, when I was a kid, we'd occasionally get little styro cups of a substance the cardstock container pull-top promised would be ice cream except that underneath the top and provided for the convenience of any canteen staff who would otherwise need to stock and wash actual silverware was a wafer-thin die-cut softwood "spoon" which was actually more of a spatula in the shape of a spoon that would to our greatest misfortune and regret would not only fail to make a significant dent in the nearly rock hard substance within before splintering but would would taint anything it contacted with what might most kindly be described as "wood flavour" and yet even then I might have soldiered on through 4oz of the blandest sort of fake vanilla/wood or dilute chocolate/wood flawoured sugar+vegetable oil+carageenan+just enough dairy to keep it on the knife edge of dairy board legality had it not been for the mind-blowingly revulsive textural effect of the rough and splintered edges of the utensil in my mouth.

Two of the best flavours I've ever had, though, were the Guinness, which would fairly easily give one a mild buzz, and Mexican Chocolate, which had so much chile in it that one was basically forced to _keep eating it_ in order to prevent one's mouth from dissolving in pain.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

In New England those things, or a similar product, are called "Hoodsie Cups" after the Hood dairy, which produces them in vast quantities. And little kids love them anyway. But I don't think they come with the wooden "spoon" any more.

At the other extreme, New England also has some of the world's best ice cream produced by local businesses. As lpetrazackis said, Haagen-Dazs and Ben and Jerry's are several steps up from Breyers (and I don't mind Breyers), but in my opinion, Mad Maggie's in North Andover, Mass. and Carter's in Haverhill are both about the same distance above Haagen-Dazs and Ben and Jerry's. And there are many other local stands like them.

Mad Maggie's has experimental flavors that rotate in and out. I recall trying blueberry cheesecake flavor and some sort of maple flavor, which were both all right, though not as good as my favorites, like cookie dough and vanilla caramel turtle. Occasionally one of the experiments is successful enough to become permanent; one such is a concoction called "candy store floor" that I am a bit reluctant to try.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Sold in stores where? Japanese flavors are not US flavors, for example.

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

Banana.

[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. With the caveat that I've never tasted ice cream with real banana. It's always been that artificial flavor chemical.

(Which for a while would be praised as tasting as better than the real thing, in articles that were clearly written by someone in the artificial flavors industry. Fake banana flavoring is easily detectable, it's really bad, and no, I am not a super taster.)

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

Cheddar.