The Explore-Exploit Tradeoff

[rooty@lemmy.world]

Vanilla is unironically the best flavor, chocolate based ones are not refreshing an fruit based ones taste like food dye no. 6.

[wizard_pope@lemmy.world]

Guess you never had good fruit flavoured ice cream then

[wizard_pope@lemmy.world]

Nah even just milk is a good flavour.

[hammocks4all@lemmy.ml]

The place is also hard to get to, must not get great ingredients often

[elephantium@lemmy.world]

You can order your eggs any way you want. No matter what, you're getting them scrambled!

[excessshiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Sounds like you just buy shitty ice cream

[rooty@lemmy.world]

Guess not, I don't feel like playing flavour roulette every time I feel like having ice cream.

[zementid@feddit.nl]

If I want to see what craftsmanship went into the ice cream: Vanilla

If I don't care (like I do usually):

Apple, Tempura, Black Thai Tea = Heavens

[iavicenna@lemmy.world]

yea try fruit sorbets made from good fruits. you can even do it home. cut up some banana, freeze it, take it out and wait a couple minutes so it can be blended, blend it with some tahini and cinnamon. can repeat similar stuff with strawberries, grapes etc.

[noodle07@lemmy.world]

That's when you take the rose flavour... And vanilla

[fibojoly@sh.itjust.works]

Yes! That's what I usually do as well. Unless there is some house specialty I've been recommended and I came for, I will try a "reference dish" to get a baseline.

[krudler@lemmy.world]

People are being kind of snotty but there's a difference between the stuff in stores that is portrayed as ice cream but it's actually not.

There are all kinds of "frozen desserts" and "iced treats" etc that use vegetable oils, emulsifiers and such to simulate the ice cream experience, and those tend to also use lower-grade flavorings.

Real ice cream is pretty expensive because it uses mostly real cream and tends to use much higher quality ingredients overall. In a real ice cream product, you're more likely to get actual cocoa vs chocolate-y flavor. Red from actual fruit vs a food dye mixed into corn syrup.

[krudler@lemmy.world]

Ice cream boneheads, the lot of you!

Ice cream is three basic ingredients: cream, sugar, salt.

Anything other than that cannot be considered "plain" ice cream!

Also, I make my own ice cream and I agree that cardamom is top-tier. Shockingly good with a few drops of brewed espresso as well!

[sorghum@sh.itjust.works]

Gotta see the show cause the you'll know the vertigo is gonna grow cause it's dangerous you'll have to sign a waiver

[empricorn@feddit.nl]

Vanilla (flavor) may be ubiquitous, but it's not "plain" or boring. Certainly not if made right! That's the false equivalency...

[hakunawazo@lemmy.world]

To Dubai with you

[valmond@lemmy.world]

Quattro fromagi for me, see how well they do it and if they try to cheap out on the cheese.

[bigbrainbrett2517@lemmy.world]

Oh dayum that sounds flippin' awesome

[stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

it's not that vanilla is a bad flavour, it's that you can get it anywhere

[canadiancarl@sh.itjust.works]

I hate pepperoni, it is just too greasy.