Vanilla. I’m dull. Soft-serve vanilla if I can get it. Or in a pretty bowl with some heated kahlua poured over. Might as well top with some whipped cream too. Yum!

Vanilla. You can do anything with it. Top pie and cake, slice between two cookies, with sauce, in a glass with root beer, or in any kind of shake. My favorite is with a drizzle of a simple hot fudge sauce.

Are you asking about fave flavors or brands? My favorite grocery store carried brands are Tillamook & Umpqua. For flavors it’s most coffee inspired flavors - espresso etc & also caramel flavors - especially salted caramel. Yumm! I agree with bpath about vanilla for serving with cakes & pies but for me it must be vanilla bean.

Homemade Vanilla with a dash of nutmeg mixed in before churning.

I’m not the biggest ice cream lover but do enjoy Haagen-Dazs Vanilla Bean. Also like Baskin Robbins’ Pralines and Cream.

Either favorite brands or flavors or both…

Pistachio is my go-to.

I am not a big ice cream fan for the most part. We have a very popular local ice cream maker that is in many high end restaurants in western Wa and maybe beyond called Olympic Mountain. You can sometimes find pints in local groceries and many hand dipped cone places. Every flavor is divine. I’m not a fan of fruit flavored ice cream, but their lemon cream pie is one of the best ice creams I’ve ever had https://olympicmountainicecream.com/ice-cream/ 

My very favorite ice cream flavor

is black licorice!

I enjoy ice cream in summer mostly. Fav is mango ice cream that I make from fresh Champagne mangoes.

If I’m just eating ice cream, I like Moose Tracks from Blue Bell or Mayfield dairies. With warm apple desserts I like vanilla bean from the same brands. I also like the frozen yogurt Cherry Garcia from B&J. And love the real pistachio and strawberry gelato.

Current favorite is Rebel Triple Chocolate.

I currently have a carton of HEB Creamy Creations Dulce de Leche dating to 11/11/2025. Prior purchases were a Deluce de Leche and a Raspberry Truffle. It's typically a few to several months between instances of buying ice cream. I stash it in the garage refrigerator/freezer so it's substantially out-of-view ... until I remember it's there and bring it in.

Favorite flavor: Mint Chocolate Chip.

Favorite brand: Haagen-Dazs

rocky road

@OutsidePlaying Gelato! I forgot to mention that kind - Italian ice cream - really, really good!

Butter Brickle, but Vanilla goes best with cake or pie.

French Vanilla

I like homemade lemon or peach best. A rich custard is made first before the fruit and flavorings are added. The lemon goes with everything, it seems.

Ice cream is my most favorite food and I could probably write essay after essay about it.

I am another coffee flavor lover along with chocolate and peanut butter.

Tillamook is very good, I agree. My real preferred way to eat it is in a cone from an ice cream shop. My 2 favorites are:

Coffee Chip (it's strong coffee, with big dark chocolate chips) from Halo Farm which is in Princeton and Hamilton NJ.. We moved from there 7 years ago ...sigh

PeanutButter Overload from September Farm, Honey Brook Pa. This is to die for ice cream and fortunately it's about 40 minutes from my house so I only get there a few times a year.

This is actually what it looks like. Whoever I've brought there agrees that it is the best ever.

When I was a child, if someone said their favorite ice cream was vanilla I told them, "That's not a flavor, that"s what it is before they the flavor in!".

Now my favorite ice cream is ColdStone's Sweet Cream.

I agree about vanilla. Never liked it because it's so bland. I like Salted Caramel and chocolate marshmallow.

Seems like a familiar topic recently discussed here. That's okay. Who doesn't like thinking about and talking about ice cream?

For me, it's Cherry Vanilla. Cherry Garcia ice cream version is similar and quite good. Both have a vanilla ice cream base, which for me is as others describe - a good vehicle to add other things to. Whether chocolate chips, cookie dough, brownie, fudge swirls, all good.

I prefer the brands that are creamier. With higher butterfat content, like Ben & Jerry's and other premium brands.

I don't eat ice cream very often so when I do, it's a special treat and I want really good ice cream.

We have a local small manufacturer with stores but also available in my grocery store. Mitchell’s Caramel Sea Salt . Tastes like almost burnt sugar, not vanilla with a caramel swirl.

ricotta choclate chip and candied orange peel

Swoon!

Cherry Garcia (Ben and Jerry)

Back in the day, Hood used to make reverse chocolate chip, but alas no more. It was chocolate ice cream with white chocolate chips. Now my favorites come from the local creamery which is smoother than smooth ice cream. Their dark chocolate chunks have just the right touch of sweetness and is very melty. Too many flavors to name a favorite, but one of them is their raspberry swirl in vanilla ice cream with dark chocolate chunks.

Bunny Tracks for me.

Four years ago, the Bengals played (and lost) in the Super Bowl. One of our whippy dips (The Cone) made an orange and black ice cream called Who Dey. It was.........interesting. We have pretty good ice cream from various places around here. It's hard to pick just one as a favorite.

Publix organic vanilla and also coffee.

Peach would be next, but I haven't had that in a very long time.

Straus dutch chocolate

@lucillle And the chocolate chips are little pieces of good dark chocolate 😋

I like a quality vanilla because you can add flavors to it like caramel sauce and Kahlua.

I do not understand putting salt on sweet things. And to be further divisive all salt is sea salt because that is where all salt comes from originally. Salt water. Even when it comes from way underground there was a sea there at some point. Just saying.

Caramel and Sea salt.

Cuz that's the way uh huh uh huh I like it uh huh uh huh!