I'm not gaga over ice cream. I love it in a root beer float. But I have never been one to seek out ice cream otherwise. Were I choosing a food splurge it would never occur to me to go for ice cream. Don't know I have ever purchased it for myself. I had extreme teeth sensitivity to cold food as a child so maybe that is why.

I went to Sicily last year and did fall in love with almond granita.

I tried purple ube vegan ice cream last month (at an ice cream shop in NYC lower east side.) It was freaking fantastic. I wouldn't mind eating it again.

Well….I’m in the minority. I eat ice cream almost every night. Coffee is my flavor.

I know people who don't like frozen desserts.

I'm just not much of a dessert eater, for taste-preference reasons, not weight or other. But - I do like an ice-cream every now and then, but then have to go brush my teeth right afterward t get the sugar taste out!

Almond granita!?!

Thank you Kendrah. I am already looking for recipes, never heard if it before.

To answer the question. I can only think of one brother who didn’t care much for food in general, other than for sustenance. He didn’t care fror sweets at all. I can’t find a single image in my brain of him with a frozen treat. The closest thing to sweet he would consume was an Irish coffee on a holiday. That was hot and sweet though, plus alcohol.

I could probably live without it, but I do have a couple favorites posted in the other thread. It’s probably been 3-4 months since I’ve had any ice cream. OTOH, DH loves it so we always have some on hand. Almost daily for him.

" I'm just not much of a dessert eater "

suzieque's comment is interesting.

We rarely if ever have anything more to eat following a dinner meal. Not in a restaurant and also not at home. Other than on an "occasion", or if we're entertaining company for a meal. We rarely, mostly never ever, make or buy anything resembling pie, cake, or anything similar. We both like all that stuff, and ice cream too. We just don't normally have dessert.

I know from comments over time that many of you do. We all have different eating habits.

To be clear, I have a strong sweet tooth! I love to bake. I even got into making ice cream for other people. I just never cared that much about eating it myself.

I do love a good water ice. Or as they say in Philly wooder ice. I don't know that anywhere else in the country has it. It is slushier than Italian ice but it is not a slushie.

I can get really in to gourmet popsicles too. Lime mint. Yum.

I have never met an ice cream that I did not like. There's a place in NYC called Laboratorio de Gelato, and they make gelato out of things that you would never imagine could be. Cucumber, Rosemary, Allspice, Butternut Squash, to name a few of my favorites. DH is a vanilla person. His loss.

I like most flavors of ice cream, although I prefer for it not to be too sweet, which is why I like to make it myself, and I have an ice cream machine with a compressor, so that I can freeze one batch right after another, which was handy when I gave parties, especially if people brought children.

One flavor I cannot stand is butter pecan - I do not think that butter belongs in ice cream, although I love it in toffee, and I like toffee ice cream. I also like pecans, but not in ice cream, although I do like hazelnuts and almonds in ice cream, but not walnuts, peanuts, or pecans. I like caramel in ice cream but hate salted caramel, whether by itself or with anything else, including ice cream. One reason I make ice cream is to make sure that it contains NO salt - it tastes much sweeter to me that way, and therefore I can use less sugar. To me, salt cancels the flavor of sugar, and so I do not like salt in anything that is supposed to taste sweet. Desserts made with flour are an exception because flour needs salt to counteract its bitter flavor, but only a little.

I don't eat ice cream every day, but I do like to have French vanilla ice cream with a bit of Frangelico, Amaretto, Kahlua, or chocolate liqueur.

I've never had anyone refuse ice cream at any of my parties, so far.

Ice cream is my favorite food. I don't eat it that often because well, I would eat ridiculous quantities if I could. I can have ok icecream but I really seek out exceptional ice cream. Fortunately the exceptional is not that nearby so that helps me not eat it too often, and really enjoy it when I do.

Not liking ice cream is like not liking chocolate. I cannot understand that.

Hah! I knew someone who didn't like ice cream or chocolate!!

I'm not a huge chocolate fan either. I will often skip dessert if it is chocolate. Though I do like a good chocolate sorbet.

@faftris - I went down a rabbit hole on your gelato recommendation and then a sorbet rabbit hole. Can't wait to try some sorbet at the store you recommended in the lower east side when I'm back in NYC in a few weeks. It sounds refreshing in this hot snap. I love how fruity it all sounds. And their website is beautiful. The colors are alluring.

It's on the corner of East Houston and Ludlow. And while you are there, you can see the long line at Katz's Deli, of "I'll have what she's having" fame.

If you want to do the full ice cream experience, there's Morgenstern's on West Houston and LaGuardia Place. Highly recommend the Cardamom Lemon Jam. And then Bananas, on Rivington street, right off the Bowery. They do all non-dairy soft serve. Very delicious.

The Lower East Side used to have even more ice cream places, but, sadly several have closed. But I am not obsessed, right?

" I knew someone who didn't like ice cream or chocolate!! "

I've never understood why some people seem to eat chocolate compulsively. Some even daily. Almost to the point of it seeming to be for them an addictive behavior akin to drugs or alcohol.

I can take it or leave it. We rarely buy it and rarely eat it. On the rare occasions I'm in an ice cream store, a chocolate flavor would not be a likely immediate choice.

I don't like ice cream. I use to like it and eat it (chocolate chip mint) but with my second pregnancy it made me nauseous just to be around it and I never recovered from that feeling. My second pregnancy is now 36 years old and the thought of ice cream still makes me queasy.

All non-dairy? YES! I try to refrain from dairy as much as possible so I'm quite enticed by that. I'll surely check it out.

I know it is blasphemous but I'm not a huge Katz' fan. I much prefer the Pastrami Queen. But the best pastrami sandwich I ever had was in LA at Langer's. The LES is becoming so hip so fast. I was there last month and my heart sank to see one of the last three remaining upholstery fabric stores - Joe's across the street from the Tenement Museum, is now a marijuana store and stoner bootcamp - whatever that means.

My great grandma live on Rivington in the early 1900s.

Second night in a row of diving down a frozen dessert rabbit hole - instigated by @faftris. Thanks!

Check out these collaborations with Morgenstern's and Russ and Daughters. Halvah ice cream! Rugelah ice cream sandwich with cream cheese ice cream. Yes. Please. While I'm not a huge ice cream fan, these just sound delicious.

Sure, blame me!