It’s summer, and that usually means – among other things – hot weather, swimming, being outside, and most importantly, eating ice cream!
Truth is, you can eat ice cream any old time of the year, but for some reason it just seems to go better with the summer season.
As you would expect, different parts of the country enjoy different flavors of ice cream.
WorkWise Software compiled a list (see WorkWise graphics below) using Google Trends to determine which popular ice cream flavors are searched through the United States. While vanilla and chocolate are two of the most-searched ice cream varieties, the most searched variety is actually cookies and cream, which was the top search result in 14 states.
The most popular ice cream flavors list also includes some unique flavors:
- Connecticut: Beer ice cream
- Michigan: Superman ice cream, which is a swirl of blue, red, and yellow
- Ohio: Pumpkin
- Oregon and Utah: Coconut milk
- Pennsylvania: Teaberry ice cream, which is pink and tastes like a wintergreen mint
- Virginia: Tiger Tail, which is orange-flavored ice cream with black licorice swirl
- Washington D.C.: Stracciatella, which is vanilla with chocolate strips
As for us New Yorkers, we seem to love a good scoop of chocolate chip (which is my personal favorite!)
What is your favorite type of ice cream? Let us know in the comments section.
And let’s not forget chocolate and vanilla!
Note: Thanks to WorkWise Software for all the cool graphics!
Thanks, and have a great weekend – and have some ice cream, too!
Best Regards,
Taylor
Black cherry is my favorite .Blairsville Georgia
it’s a toss up between chocolate/cherry [chocolate ice cream with big black bing cherries folded in] and mocha chip. Coffee ice cream with chocolate chips is the best of both worlds. Either or both are thrilling for this New Yorker.
to Traci – If you have access to any of the Kroger chain stores (they come under many different names across the US) they have a very good dark cherry with large chunks (& smaller pieces of dark chocolate too) under their brand name “Private Selection”
My favorite was Ben & Jerry’s White Russian but alas, they have not made it in years.
I must be different! To me there is nothing better then black “licorice ice cream” or “Cherry ice cream “with big chunks of dark black bing cherries! ???Unfortunately I only no of two places to get it. one at the beach and one in Gresham Oregon. So I usually add licorice flavor to vanilla ice cream! LOL Traci Turner
My favorite ice cream hands down is good old vanilla which I love added different things to it like peanut butter and making a good peanut butter cup milk shake my 2nd favorite would be birthday cake
I love vanilla bean also with added Walnuts or blueberries.
I love Graeters Black Raspberry chocolate chip.
If the study was attempting to show the most popular ice cream flavors, as headlined in your blog, I believe the methodology used in this study is flawed. What we are are seeing is the most searched for flavors. There is no evidence that there is any correlation between searching for a flavor and it being your favorite. (I do note though that the info graphics are correctly labeled as search result, not popularity.) There are many reasons you might search for a flavor other than it being your favorite..
For instance, when I read in the comments that there was a churro ice cream, I immediately started searching for it. I never had Churro ice cream before, never even heard of it, so it’s definitely not my favorite, but I love Churros and and I love ice cream so I think the combo would be great and I’d like to try it. (Unfortunately my search found that it was not available in my area.)
Another example is a restaurant in Western NY that used to make strange flavors for April fools day like Chicken Wing ice cream and roast beef ice cream. These creations I’m sure drew a lot of hits but I doubt if they became many peoples favorites.
In order to actually get a list of favorites, you would be to either do a direct survey of end users (as you often do at NCP), or an indirect measure such as sales at the retail or wholesale level with a secondary study showing that there is a correlation between sales and favorites.
Bluffton, SC Southern Peach Pie distributed by PET. At first I thought no way! Now I find myself searching for the limited edition during the summer months.
I was unaware of how flavorful blackraspberries are until a RN that I worked with made blackraspberry jam and gave everyone she worked with a pint jar of her homemade jam. I have learned how to make the jam and there is nothing else that tastes as good as seedless blackraspberry jam.
Butter Pecan
Ice Cream Is My #1 Most Favorite Food!
Here in South Gulf Coast Florida the grocery store freezers are always running out of Barnie’s Coffee flavor ice cream. We really
enjoy it!
Coffee is my favorite, Ben and Jerry’s Phish Food is a close runner up.
My favorite ice cream flavor is black walnut. Following that I enjoy rainbow sherbet.
I love Black Walnut too! I grew up eating black walnuts that we would harvest ourselves from our own tree and then run over them in our gravel driveway until the hulls were off of them we then had a bunch of black balck walnuts to eat or to cook with all winter long. The nuts in the black walnut ice cream bring those memories. of my father and I back to me.
Black Jack Cherry, It is delicious!!
I live in Houston, TX. I love the Dulce de Leche-flavored variety which I used to be able to purchase at the HEB grocery stores. It had one of the higher sugar content/serving ratios. Yes, I like sweet desserts. I even add sugar to all of my desserts, even ice cream.
However, HEB inexplicably stopped selling this flavor variety some years ago. I cannot seem to be able to find this flavor variety at other retailers.
Taylor, would you please use your sources/contacts to pass along this consumer’s desire for them to make this flavor variety available for purchase again? It would be very much appreciated. I do not think that I am alone in this desire. Also, I would also like to know if any other area retailers have this flavor variety available for purchase.
I also like the Moose Tracks and Coffee & Donuts flavor varieties. Both were purchased at Walmart under their Sam’s Choice label at a clearance price of $1 a pint. I have not seen the C & D anywhere else. I am aware that the Moose Tracks flavor is available at other retailers.
Since Blue Bell is such a popular brand here in TX, it would be great if they offered the dulce de leche-flavored and/or C & D flavored varieties available to its customers. If you would, you can pass this tidbit along to them as well.
This is my first time posting a comment on your blog. I have enjoyed reading other postings and comments on your blog. I look forward to your future postings.
Will do, and thanks!!!
I’m a vanilla ice cream person myself but chocolate is popular in Missouri.
Banana is my favorite?
I live in California and haven’t tried tutti frutti. I do however love rocky road ice cream….yum. now I want to go the store and buy some lol
I find teaberry to be gross I love galliker’s cinnamon churro
My favorite ice cream flavor is pistachio only certain ice cream shops have in ny and no stores carry it but darn good
As a kid I used to love ice cream and Neopolitan was always my favorite then. As an adult I really am not to crazy about ice cream anymore I’d rather have a frozen fruit/vegetable icee without any additives like sugar etc..; carrot and apple mixed is so yummy. Occasionally I might get a craving for Gelato and my favorite in that would be Tiramisu or Lemon. A lot of people here in TX love their ice cream especially Blue Bell but my stomach just has a difficult time dealing with it so I opt for healthier alternatives.
I love ice cream. I’m from Tennessee and the closest I get to strawberry is Neapolitan. I love swirl (chocolate and vanilla). Any ice cream with bits of nuts and or chocolate pieces. Yummy! But being diabetic I settle for frozen yogurt or low fat, no sugar added and low carb versions that are better than they sound.
Being a coffee drinker, I love many varieties of coffee flavored ice cream. My favorite is Hershey’s Cappuccino Crunch.
Chocolate is my favorite
I love Rocky Road when i get the ice cream from the shop or the store
I Love Rocky Rood when i get it
My all time favorite ice cream is Maple Nut with Butter Toffee and Butter Pecan running very close (neck to neck) as second place. But… on the flip side of ice cream comes Sherbert with Orange, Lime, and Lemon in same tote.
100% Hershey’s blackraspberry
Then Galliker’s moose tracks
Vanilla over chocolate
& This PENNSYLVANIA family hates TEA BERRY
New Orleans here and I love vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup! Then mix it up till it gets soft and enjoy!!
Southern Craft Creamery in MariannaFlorida
They use all natural ingredients. No artificial stuff. Bacon one of my fav’s. Their web addy posted below
Black raspberry is my favorite ice crem