Also, we should pause for a moment to think about some of the stupidest, wrongest flavors. The ice creams that should have you cast out of the tribe to wander the wilderness alone in perpetuity:

1. Dippin Dots. WHY? Is there food in this food?

2. Rum Raisin, the flavor of crabby, cardigan-wearing men who drink Ovaltine for fun.

3. Neapolitan. Hardly even a flavor. And get this: this muddled, stripey non-flavor makes up 4.8 percent of overall ice cream sales (vanilla is 26 percent, chocolate 12.9, strawberry 4.3 and cookies ‘n’ cream 4)

4. Baskin Robbins Orange Sherbet on a Plain Cone. The children who reflexively order this grow up to suffer from borderline personality disorder.

5. Bubblegum, the kind with the full-sized bubblegum balls. It’s a logistical problem. Eat the ice cream and cone, spitting the balls one by one onto a napkin for future use? Ew. Or tuck all the balls in one cheek and masticate all the rest of the stuff on the other side? Very difficult. Chew it all up and swallow it, gum and all? That’s seven years in your stomach, I hear.

6. Polly Ann’s Durian (San Francisco). You know, that fruit that smells like there’s something unfortunate on the bottom of your shoe?

7. Mario Batalli’s olive oil and sea salt ice cream. Puleeeze.

8-10 are all of the savory Japanese ice cream flavors that strike terror into this Western heart: soy sauce, octopus, sushi sorbet, etc.

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