So. Hot. What’s the Best Ice Cream Flavor?
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It’s a flillion damn degrees in New York City and somehow the humidity level is 122%, which isn’t really physically possible, but it surely feels that way. So, naturally, my mind is turning to frozen treats, and like my potato chip conversation a few weeks ago that seemed to get everyone riled up, I’m going to go ahead and make another declarative statement about the best single-flavor (no coffee cookie dough berry crunch stuff) ice cream flavor: It’s ….
Pistachio. Yes, a good batch of pistachio or gelato ice cream is simply unbeatable if you ask me. Sure, a premium vanilla or even a good dulce de leche can make me convulse with pleasure, but if it were a “last ice cream ever” type of moment, I’m going green and getting a cup of pistachio (because only children should eat ice cream from a cone. There, I said it). So, fellow sweaty people, what’s your flavor. Comment it up and we shall discuss how you are RONG!
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I am not going to offer a favorite flavor. I am going to offer something better: an entirely new way of life.
Lula’s Sweet Apothecary is a non-dairy, old-school ice cream parlor on New York’s lower east side. All flavors are made using coconut or soy base, from scratch, with tender love and vegan care.
On Sunday, Lula’s debuted their Elvis Tribute: fried chunks of pb&j combined with fake bacon bits and chocolate fudge. Insanity.
If you go (and I suggest you do), tell ‘em Katie D. sent ya.
Pistachio gelato in the summer. Peppermint stick ice cream in the winter. Done.
Katie- that sounds like vomit-flavored ice cream.
Keep up that kind of slander and I’m going to walk in here with a bag of vomit-flavored jelly beans for you.
In response to another comment. See in context »When I worked overnights at a certain unnamed though mostly-right-wing-insane news organization years back, people used to constantly eat food off of my desk when i wasn’t there during the day. So, one day I bought an assorted bag of those jelly beans (vomit, sardine, puke, dirt, etc) and left them on a bowl on my desk. Surely, people helped themselves to them, and then sent me emails about how gross they were. My reply? “That’s whatyou get for eating things off of my desk”…. and then they stopped. Hess wins.
In response to another comment. See in context »Kashmir – Excuse me? First of all, hating on Elvis is practically anti-American. And second, don’t you want my arteries to dirty up a little? Come on, give a vegan a chance to get fat!
And third, it is like heaven in a cup. Not a cone. Cones taste like puke.
Katie, this is the potato chip thing all over again! Where’s my answer!
@kash — thank you. We should have a T/S Grom excursion one day soon.
I recently had some chocolate jalapeno gelato from Ciao Bello. It was De.Light.Ful.
Meanwhile, Hess, people who eat ice cream out of paper cups are old fuddy duddies who will soon be subsisting primarily on wheat germ, Metamucil, and decaf. You’ve been warned.
Very well. Mr. Hess, for the record – my favorite flavors are:
On a hot, sweltering day: strawberry cheesecake with extra fruit topping
For a cozy night in: maple walnut and/or peanut butter swirled with french vanilla, and topped with coconut-milk whipped cream
When I feel like eating the best thing ever created: Elvis Tribute at Lula’s
You might balk that I opt for complex flavors over simplicity. But I am nothing if not a complex person. Unlike Kash–I mean, unlike some other simpler people.
Mr. Roston: am I to assume from your Metamucil comment that you prefer cones to cups? My stomach reels at the thought…
My stomach reels at all of the wax shavings and toxin bleedings from plastic spoons you must get when you eat the ice cream.
In response to another comment. See in context »I wish simple tastes meant I were a less complicated person. Speaking of simple tastes, I shall be feasting on soup dumplings tonight at Joe’s Shanghai. I may just swing by the Chinese Ice Cream Factory for dessert. Mike, do you recommend a particular flavor there?
Ooooh! Black sesame and green tea! Also, sometimes they have ginger, which rules (if you like raw ginger)
In response to another comment. See in context »Cone-lover Roston… you are mightily misguided in your juvenile eating preferences. Food put inside of a container made out of food is simply unnatural in all states. Just like the Domino’s bread-bowl pasta: http://trueslant.com/mikehess/2009/04/21/dominos-is-trying-to-kill-us/
I second that.
In response to another comment. See in context »From here on in you will be known as Metamucil Hess. You were warned, now I shall feast on your shame.
Now be sure to let me know when the Pizza Cone comes to town, food guy.
In response to another comment. See in context »The best ice cream ever? The Bent Spoon in Princeton. They make an awesome pistachio, though the flavors are constantly changing. My favorite so far was Creme Fraiche. Oh my god.
Clearly the heat has fried your collective brains, excepting Mr. Roston.
Four words for all of you: Mint. Chocolate. Chip. Sugar-cone.
Ms. Katie D: It’s called ice CREAM, not ice soy or ice cardboard-after-taste-scream.
And fake bacon in ice cream? Vomitastic.
Puh-leeeze.
Ciao Bella Gelato…amazing flavors…mango, raspberry, passion fruit. Lower level at Grand Central Station in NYC and various other locations. No one like Ben and Jerry’s? One of my favorite assignments ever was touring their VT factory and, natch, having tastes.
“Ms. Katie D: It’s called ice CREAM, not ice soy or ice cardboard-after-taste-scream.”
…You’ve obviously only tried freezer-burned, low-calorie soy desserts. L.U.L.A.S.
That Elvis Tribute sounds like its worth a try, even if its only to be patriotic
My Old faithful is lemon ice (or blood orange gelato) with chocolate sprinkles.
My favorite flavors are for slightly odd reasons. Bubblegum. When you finish, you have some gum to chew. Everyone else is done, but you, you still are enjoying your ice cream.
Rainbow sherbet. Instead of one flavor, you get three, four, five.
If I had to choose one place, and one flavor. Old Spaghetti Factory, spumoni. 3 flavors (including pistachio), and a great conclusion to a meal.
Cones rule.
In regard to food inside other food. Hot dogs, tacos, and bread bowls for clam chowder. Right?
RIGHT!
The best Pistachio Gelato I ever had was a brand called ‘Al Gelato’, which I could get at Mario & Gino’s Ice Cream Shop in Roscoe Village. They called the flavor ‘Pistachio Pistachio’, probably because of it’s amazingly deep pistachio green color and huge chunks of pistachios. Sadly, it seems that M&G’s is no longer in business.
Lucky for us, Al Gelato is based out of Franklin Park, so if anyone wants to open an ice cream shop and carry this amazing gelato falvor, I’ll be happy to pick up a pint or 2.