Best ice cream ever

[osprey]

What is the best ice-cream you have ever tasted? Where was it; when and what flavour? In my opinion you would be very lucky indeed if you could better Joe's ice-cream parlours in Swansea, South Wales. They do several flavours but their original is far and away the best.

[Backdrifter]

My favourite London restaurant, St John, does some superb in-house ice creams occasionally on its dessert menu. So far I've tried honeycomb, lemon curd and praline flavours and they've all been top-notch. Of course, I can't compare with Joe's of Swansea but you've made me want to try it.

My friend Penny served up a gorgeous home-made orange and lemon ice cream when I had dinner at her house years ago. I always fondly remember that one.

A couple of years back we were driving back from a trip to Kent and stopped off at a farm shop in East Sussex, where I had a luscious blackberry ice cream. And I can't go without mentioning my Mum's home-made kulfi, especially the cardamom.

Those are the best ones I can remember. I'm sure others will nominate various Haagen Daaz and Ben & Jerry's etc, some of which are very good, but for me you can never beat a home-made one. Of the retail ones, Hill Station do some excellent ones.

[ugly_bob]

The ones from a little Ice Cream shop off the church square by where we stayed in Naples about 15 years ago. Any flavour.

[wonderwoman1]

best ice cream for me is in Italy....no-one makes it like that here. my favourite flavour is straccitella.(vanilla with little chocolate chips)

[Wee Kaz]

Equis Ice cream is far the best I have tasted. My fav is double cream vanilla. A close second is Soaves which yummy too.

I want ice cream now!!

[naz_nomad]

CHeck out these Japanese Ice Creams

http://bertc.com/japanese_ice_creams.htm

[boobesque]

when i was in malaysia i had a tropical fruit ice cream and it was sooooo yummy, never had anything like it since!

[osprey]

Thanks naz_nomad, you almost put me off my laverbread and caerphilly cheese sandwich!!!

[Clanad]

Gotta be Ben and Jerry's at the waterfall display in front of L.L. Bean's in Freeport, Maine... Cherry Garcia flavor of course...

[Wispy68]

Cornish ice cream, on holiday in Cornwall when I was little. Out of this world!!!!!!

[Wispy68]

...Oh, and lemon sorbet in a cornet, on a day trip to London, again when I was little. I had never tasted it before and I loved it. Does lemon sorbet count as 'ice cream'?

[angeldraws]

Has to be mango flavoured ice-cream - i don't generally like ice-cream but this was fantastic!!! Had this in Betwys Coed in Wales.......mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[johnizere]

have to agree with osprey, Joes' is pretty good....but don't laugh..i'm addicted to Macdonalds dairy milk flurry!

[Litchick]

Hazlenut gelato in Croatia.....but boy that honeycomb ice cream sounds lovely!

[$~Jeep~$]

Kellys Cornish Ice cream ~ Cornwall

[brachiopod]

Should have known with a name like osprey that you're a Jack!

And you're spot-on with Joe's ice-cream. Had one down in Mumbles about a fortnight ago!

[swansgal]

I agree Joe's ice-cream

[johnizere]

how many Jacks we got on here?....count me in.

[Catso]

Saffron & ginger. (Specially made) Out of this world!

[rhona_j]

Brown bread ice cream, yumm, so morish!

[harriman]

Green and Blacks Organic Vanilla does it for me, although I used to like Thayers vanilla when I lived in Cardiff (sorry Jack's!)