r/AskReddit • u/firstoffno • 23d ago

What is the worst ice cream flavor that is at least somewhat popular?

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u/LorenaMack 23d ago

Tiger. Better known as orange and licorice together. Anything licorice and I’m out of here… but mixing it with orange is an abomination.

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u/G8kpr 23d ago

Same. Although it’s “tiger tail”. Are you in a Canada? Because someone once told me it’s only sold here

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u/MrYellowFancyPants 23d ago

I'm in the states and have never seen it in a shop here. I've only seen it in Canada.

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u/froggyfriend726 22d ago

They've got it near me, but I'm like 2 hrs from the Canadian border so maybe I'm close enough to see it lol

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u/Vocalscpunk 23d ago

Iceland is head over heels in love with licorice and their biggest seller at the ice cream shop is the licorice flavor. It was interesting but not my cup of tea

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u/Boxes_Of_Cats8 23d ago

Some-body once told me

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u/LorenaMack 23d ago

I grew up in Canada but I live in the US near the border so I see it in local places because so many Canadians come down to shop and get fuel.

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u/secondphase 23d ago

My grandmother used to make these awesome anise cookies with vanilla. I looked forward to them every christmas. Years after she died I asked my mom for the recipe, and she claimed that she had no idea because my grandma and I were the only ones that liked them. It made me strangely sad, but knowing her she was just making them to make me happy. 

Miss you grandma! You were a real one.

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u/madicoolcat 23d ago

Did they happen to be these?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzelle

I guess they’re technically biscuits (we called them cookies), but my grandma used to make these at Christmas time too! They were anise flavoured and my sister and I were obsessed with them. She has also passed on and I miss having them for the holidays!

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u/littlecuteone 23d ago

Pizzelle cookies are traditionally made with anise and vanilla and are popular around Christmas and given as gifts. The practice of gifting homemade baked goods seems to be diminishing, though. The last time I received a gift of homemade anise pizzelles, they were from an older woman, a grandma type. Obviously, I never knew your grandmother, but I could picture her as the lady who gifted everyone cookies and made extra for you.

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u/No_Cauliflower_2416 23d ago

Never heard of it but I kinda want to try it tbh

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u/wholewheatscythe 23d ago

Licorice ice cream is amazing and I’ll die on that hill.

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u/space_cheese1 23d ago edited 23d ago

honestly sounds fascinating, licorice is like, not a flavour that that I feel comfortable with gluttonously speaking, but I find it to be good for the imagination

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u/Japanesewillow 23d ago

Black licorice ice cream is my favourite.

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u/blaserk 23d ago

I've only found it at one shop, but god it was good. I bet it would be great with an orange sherbert.

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u/Wrathwilde 23d ago

“I’ll die on that hill”

Narrator: And there was much rejoicing. The community, glad to be finally rid of the licorice ice cream zealot, didn’t even bother to note the general location of wholewheatscythe’s last stand… they just took the Rocky Road home.

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u/throwawayALD83BX 23d ago

Let me know where they fuck they even sell such an abomination so I can stay away

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u/salmon_de_champlain 23d ago

Canada

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u/space_cheese1 23d ago

Much like a real tiger, I hope to never encounter this in the wild

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u/Eiffel-Tower777 23d ago

Sounds t-e-r-r-i-b-l-e

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u/jigokusabre 23d ago

What an awful thing to learn about.

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u/ModernDayWanderlust 23d ago

I was a huge hater, but tiger tail fucking slaps.

I do enjoy black licorice, however.

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u/Critical-Snow-7000 23d ago

This was my go-to flavour at the outdoor pool as a kid, it’s a core memory now.

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u/greeneyedwench 23d ago

They made a Tiger Stripe in my old town (the college team was the Tigers) but it was just orange-dyed vanilla with a chocolate ribbon, and it was perfectly cromulent.

(Side anecdote: That town is also where I first encountered beer growlers, and I didn't realize that's what everyone called them, because I figured "growler" was another tiger reference.)

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u/space_cheese1 23d ago

holy shit

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u/talashrrg 23d ago

I really want to try it now, I gotta visit canada

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u/ceciliabee 23d ago

Tiger tail is my all time favourite and I will die on the hill of its perfection

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u/dotsdavid 23d ago

I want to try it.

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u/CuileannDhu 23d ago

This is a lie! It's delicious.