THE Best Ice Cream

Ok, go on, spin yourselves into a tizz. When you're done, land on:

http://abbottscustard.com/

Simple. No mocha-scotch-praline-sprinkle flavor.  Just the frigging Best Ice Cream Out There. 

Period. For more than 100 years. 

Yay for Jeni's!!!!  My guilty pleasure now is the chocolate hazelnut macaroon.  Oh. My.

So fortunate to live less than a mile away from a shop!!!!

*drool*

i feel like doing a best ice cream road trip now.  yum. 

i am biased, but dave&andy's in pittsburgh has really fantastic ice cream, and homemade waffle cones.  you could smell them from my apartment in college  

also, as much as penn state sucks, peachy paterno (wonder if they got rid of that flavor?) at the penn state creamery is TO DIE FOR.

oooh.  Honey Hut.  But where are they now?  The one at Huntington was replaced by Mitchell's!

The original store is still right around the corner from my house, on State Rd

They now have locations in Solon, Strongsvile, Brecksville, and down at Edgewater Beach: http://honeyhut.com/locations.asp

Dude, we used to get home made from U of MD AG dept.

I don't even normally like ice cream (lactose intolerant, don't like sweets much) but if anybody ever comes to Saigon, check out Fanny Ice Cream. Several branches, one near Saigon Center, in an old French colonial house. Best flavors include dark chocolate, raspberry sorbet, banana sorbet, pistachio, coconut, young rice (really, it's good), cinnamon, and ginger, or any combo thereof. Plus they have excellent (unsweetened, strong enough to revive you after an IM) hot and iced Vietnamese coffee to wash it down with.  Oink! Worth getting an upset stomach for! First Friday of each month is all-you-can-eat night--I've never done it as I can't eat my money's worth; have tried to take visitors and lines are a block long.

I don't think I've ever picked a favorite ice cream.

Any ice cream just puts my brain in a happy-mode...

I ended up buying one of those counter top versions you only make a quart or so at a time.  I can make some versions that are better than anything from the stores.  But it just takes work and may even be more expensive than just buying it.

Yeah, it may be, but fresh ice cream with not a lot of sugar is just so good. 

As an aside, my BIL is allergic to nuts and can only eat a few brands of ice cream that wrap their cardboard container inside plastic, so the ice cream maker is perfect when he comes over for dinner as well.

Sometimes I'm lazy and just buy yogurt and dump it in there and don't do anything else. Half an hour later, it's pretty good frozen yogurt.