The writing prompts invite postcrossers to write about a different topic on their postcards’ messages every month. These are just suggestions though — if you already know what you want to write about, or the recipient gives you some pointers, that’s great too!
July is here and temperatures in most of Europe lately have been sizzling… (45°C/113°F in France! 😰) It’s way too hot to think about complicated writing topics, so this month we’re keeping it simple and suggesting a refreshing escape with an icy treat.
Though super popular in the summer, ice-creams are a hit in all seasons, so whether it’s summer or winter where you are, it’s always a good time to consume one.
Among the team, our taste choices go to carob and orange for Paulo, coconut milk and corn for me, and Ben and Jerry’s fairy floss for Vicki in Australia. That Unicornetto on the right was a thing of beauty though… have you ever tasted an ice-cream made of unicorns? 🦄
So what about you, do you have a favorite ice-cream flavor? And are there perhaps some flavors that are specific to your country? We invite you to write about them on the postcards you send out this month!
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My favorite is avocado! I love to eat this fruit fresh — with milk and sugar; and so as an ice cream flavor, it really works for me. So yummy!
Vanilla never let's you down 😁🍦
Mixture of coconut ice cream with thin fresh coconut inside and some dried coconut outside is my favorite!
In Vietnam, we have coconut ice cream inside a coconut, so after you finish your ice cream you can eat fresh coconut, sometimes you can be served a glass of fresh coconut water! So fresh and yummy! <3
@susandg Oh, avocado is a very interesting proposition, but I've never seen it around here. It's strange, because we even grow avocados in our region, so it makes total sense that they would have it as an ice-cream flavor. I think I'll propose it to the local ice-cream shop! 🤔
Praline or bitter almond ice creams for me!
What a fun idea for a writing prompt. ;-)
My favourite is banana ice cream
My favourite flavours are:
cream, chocolate and pistachio.
Better if with whipped cream (panna montata) on it.
Unfortunately, with age, I become lactose intolerant, so I can't eat as much ice-cream as I wanted. :(
P.s. in the green field you wrote June instead of July. ;)
I'v never had a gelato flavor I didn't like, especially in bella Italia! I've not seen avocado or corn (Ana) flavors, however. I'll be visiting Portugal In September for my birthday so will try your flavor then:-)
My new favourite is ..... " Strawberries and Cream " .... by Häagen Dazs !!!! .... just try it ♥ !!
Gelatelli Crunchy Almond is delicious also Oreo Ice on a stick :-)
@jezergirl Thank you for pointing that out! I try to write the prompts in advance, so sometimes these things happen 😳
@hobbymail Sadly, coconut milk + corn is not a Portuguese flavour... but if you're ever in Asia, give it a try!
I love the combination of pumpkinseedoil, goatcreamcheese and dark chocolate <3
My favorite is something we tasted in Itali "Cafe Affogato". Put a little ball of vanilla ice into a glass and then a cup of cafe (espresso) dash over. So there is the bitter cafe and the sweet vanilla ice and it is cold and hot at the same time. I love it!!!
I love any ice cream and eat it both in winter and summer. We, in St. Petersburg, have a very large selection, but I have no particular preferences. The main thing - Ice cream !!!!!
MY FAVORITE IS PINAPPLE.THIS ICE CREAM IS THE BEST.THAT`S HOW THE SUMMER TASTES.GREETINGS FROM GERMANY.
Im a mint chocolate chip girl. You can also never go wrong with a good coffee ice cream :)
My favorite is crème brûlée or cream. But necessarily with chocolate! I love this. Mostly a straw or popsicle....but not a cup or a fruit!
Vegetables - taste? No, thank you!
But Vanilla, Coco,Chocolate, Pistachio, Strawberry !
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
My favourite flavour is Carob + Stracciatella :) It's delicious!
I came across an "obscene" (which means very good) flavor offered seasonally by a popular grocery store chain in our area called Raspberry Chocolate Truffle. Other popular flavors reflect seasons when peaches, strawberries, and pecans are widely available. However, one can never go wrong with good ol' chocolate or vanilla.
My friend owns an ice cram/chocolate shop. He makes an ice cream flavor that he calls "Hippie Magic." It is vanilla bean ice cream with sunflower seeds, dark chocolate, hemp granola, dried fruits and nuts. It's amazing!
Lavender ice cream is also pretty tasty. :D
My favorite flavours are dark chocolate & ginger; lemon & basil; and raspberry. :)
(A few years ago, I tried a beer sorbet - not bad, but still strange. :D)
Strawberry
I was in Italy for Easter and tried all sorts of unusual flavours... liquorice / pineapple and basil / cream pudding. You never can go wrong with lemon / passion fruit / mango / papaya / woodruff or any joghurt fruit ice cream though.
My fav?! - the one that sounds good to me and I feel peckish for in the moment :)
Nothing comparable to self made banana chocolate mix :-)
I love black sesame ice cream which I got in Japan. Here in Seattle we have a really delicious ice cream shop, Molly Moon's, with yummy flavors like honey lavender, salted caramel, Earl Gray, and Scout Mint (that is mint ice cream with chunks of Thin Mint girl scout cookies). In Denmark I ate Skee Is, the best ice cream I've ever tasted, I loved the elderflower flavor. 😍
I also make my own ice cream in summer. My most interesting flavor was vanilla rooibos. :)
Salty liquorice ice cream
I LOVE Gelato Fiasco's RIPE MANGO. SO sweet, ripe and delicious!
check it out:
https://www.gelatofiasco.com/flavors/ripe-mango/
Being Canadian, Maple Sugar Ice Cream of course :-)
Chocolate is always best, but I just discovered Red Bean (adzuki bean) flavor. So good!
Frozen custard is way better than ice cream! Pumpkin pecan in the fall, malted milk, raspberry are some of my favorites
А я люблю шоколадное мороженое.
Homemade vanilla! Also coconut. And maple walnut too. So hard to choose just one!
Magnum White… Always a Magnum White on a desert island! :-)))
Beautiful summer for all !
@ aerobear I too enjoy Red bean as it is a balanced blend of sweet and savory creaminess - not too heavy on the palette either! A really excellent refreshment in hot weather. For me, it not only tastes delicious but also brings back fond memories of my first AFS (American Field Service) foreign exchange student picnic!
I do also like pineapple, coconut, and vanilla though too!!! Vanilla in every part of the world has tasted wonderful to me!!
Durian flavour are the best
I like vanilla and chocolate ice cream
I love salty chocolate!
Vanilla Ice cream!
Passion fruit & maracuja - always & forever
ice cream cone with chocolate hat from ЮККИ
My favorite cream is chocolate with strawberries !!!
oh, I would add huckleberry ice cream made in summer in the Western states of Montana, Wyoming where I had it at Glacier national and Yellowstone national parks and in Cody and West Yellowstone, Montana. It is an amazing light red violet color,
Pour moi, c'est très basique : glace vanille et sorbet cassis. Miam miam ++++
chocolate
мороженое со страчателлой
mint chocolate is my favorite
I love coffee ice cream and Italian lemon ice cream.
Strawberry and chocolate.
Sea-Salt Caramel, is my Favorite....mmmmm....
Strawberry
vanilla, bitter chocolate, coffee, cinnamon, raspberry
I live in a mountain area of the Alpes, called La Charteuse, in Isère, France.
There is a fantastic alcohol called La Charteuse (green, yellow,..). And a fantastic ice-cream with Green Chartreuse. It's my favorite because it's very good and completly typisch of my area. If you have the opportunity, taste it !
Panapnetfuncky.
Black raspberry is my favorite. I also like soft serve strawberry and vanilla is always lovely. :)
mint and chocolate forever (*˘︶˘*)
Butter Crunch, or chocolate with a peanut butter ripple.
I'm still missing Mövenpick's 'Almond & amaretto' limited edition Winter flavor.
Watermelon flavored ice cream is my current fave!! The one I've discovered is dairy free, so I eat to my heart's content!
I'm on a cycle tour in West Ukraine, subject to the hottest continental Summer i've ever had, so my favorite ice cream flavor is the coldest one :p
malaga ! :p
Black Forest cherry ice cream and smurf ice cream
I love ice cream flavored with Cahors wine
Mango, raspberry in summer (although lemon is always a good choice, and less common tastes as melon)
In winter, pistacchio, or hazelnut, or chocolate.
I'm more talking about sorbets, I realize!
I love stracciatella and nut ice cream, especially the bits in the ice cream. I melt away at these ice creams.
Hard to pin down: Black Raspberry, "cookies & cream", maple walnut, and coffee with either jimmies or marshmallow on it.
I love the flavour of hazelnut, coconut, mango and goat cheese very much but I like almost all kind of ice cream - I don't like chocolate ice cream.
My favourite ice-cream flavours are strawberry, straciatella, banana, chocolate and maracuja curd-cheese.
Huckleberry is delicious and reminds me of an ice cream shop named Huckleberry! I love all kinds if ice cream, but my very favorite is black cherry.
In Paris near the Eiffel Tower you can get Pistachio and Lemon ice cream. In Italy I couldn't find a flavour of gelato I didn't like. I Canada my favourite is Moose Tracks - Vanilla ice cream swirled with chocolate fudge and mini Reese's peanut butter cups.
What about good old "dulce de leche"? That's the one for me😋
Oh my very favourite is rocher ice-cream, in a cone to be precise:)
I make my own ice cream.
in ThermoMix and it only takes 2 minutes. with frozen fruits (strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, apple, kiwi, etc.)
great for cooling down, in this nice weather !! And done quickly!
Any "berry" ice cream flavors are welcome, as they are very refreshing (raspberry, blueberry, etc.)! I also think fruit sorbet is amazing, like water melon or mango sorbet!
from mid-winter South Africa, I can't believe the wild and wonderful combo of flavours available in the northern hemisphere! My mind is on coffee and hot tea and hot chocolate!
When I lived in Setúbal (PT), I always went to the Largo da Misericórdia. There was an ice cream parlor called Valenciana and they sold the most heavenly homemade lemon ice cream. Now that the Valanciana is out of my reach, I go for Ben & Jerry's strawberry cheesecake.
I guess plum is my favorite flavor. It's very common where I live to choose two balls of ice cream at a time, not only one, and for many years, when I was a teenager and in my twenties my choice in 95% of the times would be plum and something else. Then, someday I decided to stop this tradition of mine, just so I could try more different flavors, but I still pick plum flavored ice cream sometimes.
I love every ice cream. It's all so delicious.
Many years ago, in my town a ice cream shop invented "Nocciutella" (nocciola + Nutella = hazelnut + Nutella): it was a great success.
For my part, I love it!
My favourite ice cream flavour is dark chocolate, closely followed by hazelnut...vanilla...and many others. :D :D The dark chocolate and hazelnut ice cream of my fav bar-gelateria in Italy is the best on the world. <3
As a child my favorite was the milk nickel (chocolate covered vanilla ice cream bar that cost 5 cents), that I bought from the ice cream truck that passed through the neighborhood every summer day. As a young adult, one scoop vanilla and one scoop Swiss chocolate almond from Baskin-Robbin. Now a small hot fudge sundae with vanilla ice cream, hot fudge sauce, chopped almonds, and a cherry at Braum's Ice cream (nearest store 90 miles away:(. Favorite hand-cranked - my husband's Kahlua Coffee ice cream!
Lemon!
http://www.grunschnabel.nl/portfolio/brasil-basil-lime-3/
I love ice cream by Grunschnabel, basil lime is my favourite.
I love ice cream. My favorite flavors are chocolate ice cream and coffee ice cream.
my favourite ice-cream flavor is apricot! Otherwise I like Chocolate, Coconut or Cappuccino ... yummy ...
To me, vanilla or bubblegum never lets me down. We have a couple of Northern Irish-based icecream companies (which have both started exporting outside our Emerald Isle), which have some lovely flavours.
Morelli's has Parma Violet, and banana flavours, which are my favourites.
Maud's has Poor Bear (vanilla with honeycomb bits), and choc-mallow.
Glastry Farm has a flavour unique to a tourist attraction, Mount Stewart. This flavour has to be my hands-down favourite - lavender and raspberry. It's very fragrant, and lovely to have on a warm summer's day - the lavender is subtle, while the raspberry is sweet but not too sweet.
My favorite Is coffee-ice cream. Or fruit sorbets. 🍦
Malaga and Fleur d'Alsace
Vanilla. But has to be NON-DAIRY! Swedish Glaze do a great tasting one :)
Chocolate and Matcha are always my two favorite flavors. Never have enough.
My favourite is Vanilla, but when abroad Iike to try the different flavours ie passionfruit.
The very best for me is After Eight!
The strangest ice cream I've ever had was made with chilli
I love pistacia and black coconut ice cream
almendras!!!!!
Creamy ice cream with chocolate chip
PISTACHIO....i like ;) ....best wishes with icecream from Luxembourg / Europe ;)
My favourites are pistachio or Bonbon Sour Cherry (chocolate ice-cream with sour cherry in rum and nuts). And in our favourite ice-cream shop there are special ice-creams made of vegetables: green peas, pumpkin, beetroot, sorrel - they are great!!!
There's a local creamery that makes ice cream and sells it to local stores. Their black cherry is amazing! I also like Hawaiian shaved ice.
I like classic vanilla ice-cream and sometimes Creme brûlée:) in Russia we have some extraordinary flavors of ice-cream for example ice-cream with caviar or fried ice-cream (I didn’t try it:)
Talenti Raspberry Chocolate Chip or Coffee Chocolate Chip. I also love our local soft serve place, Frosty Freeze... chocolate/vanilla twist with chocolate jimmies .. yum! Happy summer, postcrossers!
Vanilla served in a cone dipped in Lindt chocolate!
milk and mint chocolate are my favorite flavor!
Chocolate peanut butter ALL THE WAY!! Great writing prompt to cool us off for summer.
Mmm! Here's a DIY for making avocado ice cream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AiXO_C-0-I
I love the ice cream flavour named after the Countess of Cosel, which is made by a local ice cream shop. :) This type of ice cream basically is vanilla ice cream with chocolate chips and raspberry sauce.
I also like passion fruit -yoghurt ice cream. :)
Little pudding ice cream、Durian ice cream、Matcha ice cream
Very love fruit ice cream, with browned fruits. And also in a waffle Cup.mmmm.
Just plain vanilla bean for me. :) I like the purity.
I love raspberry ice crem
coffee or banana
Lemon :-)
Hi my favorite is Mango non-dairy ice cream I make myself using almond milk. :)
My favourite flavour is Pistacchio. Next to all those newly invented flavours like After eight, Broccoli, strawberry-mint and Sweet-Potato-Chia it's rarely sold nowadays ... :(
pistachio ))
We have chestnut ice cream here in Turkey and it is very deliciousss!!
Oreo or Pistachio (Oh God i want to eat ice cream so bad)
Mint chocolate chip, peppermint or mocha! :)
Coffee, mint chip, and vanilla are my favorites.
We have here"Strawberry Kisses" Which is my favorite
The ice cream shop Salt and Straw, which started in Portland Oregon, has a lot of unusual flavors like Olive Oil, Pear with Blue Cheese, and Honey Lavender, many of which change each month. My favorite unusual flavor was Peaches & Hops (yes the ones they use in beer), though the Roasted Strawberry was pretty good.
I have loved NEAPOLITAN ice-cream since I was a kid. It has 3 flavours layered alongside each other in the tub:- chocolate, vanilla & strawberry. You can enjoy a spoonful from each layer, or just concentrate on 1 flavour. Any time at all, ice-cream is a simple treat, especially with fruit. Does any PostCrosser know what is the connection with NAPLES?!!
Has anyone else heard of Neapolitan? And, am I the only Aussie who enjoys eating ice-cream? Surely not!
I love this topic for the month ideas-it can be considered relevant in both countries. I love my ice cream served in chilled glass bowls and consumed with long gold spoons. Ah that's a great memory.
I love black currant, melon, vanilla plus nuts, shcherbet (sharbat) ice cream. Yummy!)
Vanilla! We mostly buy from Swedish Glaze - it's creamy yet NON-DAIRY which is important to my family for ethical reasons.
Lemon sherbet is another favourite.
** Enjoy **
I like Salted egg yolk so much. It is a special and new taste. Hope you can try, maybe only in China~
In Malaysia we do have varieties of traditional recipe ice cream . The famous one known as the potong ice cream. 'Potong' is Malay word for cut . Ranging from red bean, black bean, grean bean, durian fruit flavour, cendol, taro and few other flavours. It tastes like you are having a bowl of dessert instead of an ice cream. Yummy😍
@esmefia That is a weird but also sounds awesome mix
Praline!
Well I can't say my 'favorite' flavour, but one of the more unusual from a recent trip to Sri Lanka was woodapple, which is a native fruit there. Very nice, but the woodapple nectar drink was awful, I think because it had too many additives including milk ... uggh.
Favorite would have to be vanilla. Vanilla matches with any other flavour.
I love dark chocolate icecream. Unfortunately it's hard to find where I live.
When it's as hot as it has been these last days, I prefer sorbets though, which are more refreshing. Mango is always great, but a few days ago I tasted a delicious ginger sorbet and I still remember a tasty lemon/peppermint sorbet which I ate a few years ago.
There was "Plugger" comic frame here in the USA that said my favorite ice cream is what ever is in the freezer!! I like many flavors but I usually purchase a half gallon of French Vanilla. Make great ice cream floats or just plain in a bowl.
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