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Here in New England, we judge a town by how easy it is to get good ice cream (not from the market). We eat it year-round, even when it's snowing. In NH, we pou
by wrycoder 4y ago
Here in New England, we judge a town by how easy it is to get good ice cream (not from the market). We eat it year-round, even when it's snowing. In NH, we pour maple syrup on snow and eat that, also.
Most ice cream is too sweet - vanilla and pistachio are good choices.
- irrational 4y agoI truly don't understand pistachio ice cream. Is it an acquired taste? Do you have to eat it as a small child to grow up liking it?
- jmyeet 4y agoThe problem with pistachio is that there are a lot of bad pistachio ice creams and gelatos (IMHO). There's really an art to getting it to where it both isn't bitter and isn't too sweet. Ben & Jerry's for example is typically way, way too sweet (in any flavour). There are a couple of exceptions but I can't eat B&J's Pistachio. YMMV. My particular poison is pistachio of hazelnut gelato. In both cases with correct balance you get something with a nutty, creamy flavour. It's not something I had until I was an adult so it's not a childhood thing either.
- 1123581321 4y agoDo you have favorite pistachio brands? I’ve never really liked it, aside from one of the decent mass market brands, Breyer’s, perhaps.
- bluedino 4y agoFind an Indian grocery store and grab some from their freezer
- thematrixturtle 4y agoIndian kulfi is also good, but it's not the same as Western ice cream, since the milk is intentionally caramelized during the preparation.
- mc32 4y agoLike rum-raisin. It depends how they make it. I've heard laboratorio del gelato in NYC is good. Never been to it --one day I may go pay a visit.
- jmyeet 4y agoSo years ago there used to be a gelato shop in the West Village called L'Arte del Gelato on the corner of Barrow St and 7th Ave if memory serves. It was right next to the Christopher St subway station and the place would actually shake when the trains went through. They had an amazing pistachio gelato. Years ago now the owners had some kind of split. I never knew the details but it resulted in that store changing its name. I honestly forget what to now. It's gone. But the other owner (I guess?) opened a store under the original name in Chelsea Market, which is still there today. I haven't been there in some years but I believe the pistachio gelato is the same. I would definitely recommend trying that.
- wrycoder 4y agoHm, to me, B&J's Pistachio Pistachio is one of their less sweet offerings. I used to like Cherries Garcia, but it's way too sweet for me these days.
- bsder 4y agoAt this point, everything Ben & Jerry's has way to much sugar/corn syrup/whatever. The point of old school Ben & Jerry's was way too much cream. Apparently, that has gotten too expensive or too perishable for an industrial cold chain.
- normac2 4y agoThis might be a case where people genetically taste things differently, because pistachio ice cream wasn't an acquired taste for me at all. Just seems delicious, though maybe a hair off the map of the kind of taste you usually get in ice cream.
- irrational 4y agoHmm, that is an interesting thought that it might be like Cilantro where there is a genetic component.
- dominotw 4y agoi tried it as an adult and liked it the very first time. Its my go to flavor when i can't make up my mind.
- RC_ITR 4y agoThe benefit of pistachio is supposed to be that it uses pistachio butter, which makes the ice cream creamier Now a days, a lot of people just use pistachio extract, which mean the flavor has to stand on its own.
- selimthegrim 4y agoIt’s a big thing in the Indian subcontinent.
- ankaAr 4y agoMy girlfriend judges icecream shops by their pistaccio. I really don't understand.. .
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y agoLot of garbage places. It should taste closer to raw pistachios, but somewhat sweet. Color is closer to brown, it can be green but not bright green. If it tastes like almond, it's terrible.
- bergenty 4y agoIt’s the most delicious ice cream flavor. Pistachios in general, along with cashews, are god tier nuts
- hprotagonist 4y agogrape nut ice cream, kid. or go north (or in your case, west) and get you a maple creemee
- Tagbert 4y agoWe often had home-made grape-nut and banana ice cream at my grandparents’.
- s0rce 4y agoMaple syrup on snow is amazing, I had that as a kid in Canada (Ontario and Quebec).
- rightbyte 4y agoFor real? When thinking about it it is quite strange there are no snow dishes to my knowledge.
- s0rce 4y agoYah, you get some fresh snow, lay out popsicle sticks on it and then pour maple syrup over it and pick it up https://happyhooligans.ca/make-maple-syrup-snow-candy-3-simple-steps/ https://happyhooligans.ca/make-maple-syrup-snow-candy-3-simp... Its amazing. There are a range of shaved ice deserts which are quite similar, sno-cones, hawaiian shaved ice, and some are popular in Asia as well.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y agoPistachio is the easy way for me to test an icecream store (I'm Italian). It tells immediately if they are cheap (powder tastes like almond), or they used actual pistachio. The flavor gets better (and more expensive) the more pistachios are used.
- wonderbore 4y agoGreat point. You can also tell by the color: The brighter the green the worse the quality.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y agoSo, the only reason why I don't focus on the color is because in Rome there was a special icecream place (only store in a residential area) where they had TWO pistachios flavor and one was quite bright green, it was made of raw pistachios, while the other used roasted pistachios. Both AMAZING. Since then, I give the benefit of the doubt even with the green color, even though 99% of the time it's disappointing.
- bergenty 4y agoIndian ice cream called kulfi is fantastic in pistachio and saffron flavors. Its much denser ice cream since air is not usually folded into it.