My local grocery store has started stocking a “limited edition” apple pie ice cream (message me for the details, don’t want to be shilling). It’s one of my favorites – not only does it have chunks of real apple and graham cracker crust, but the ice cream itself has a delicious apple flavor. The whole thing tastes like you took a slice of apple pie with vanilla ice cream and blended it chunky style.
I always figured there was some boring food-science reason you couldn’t make a decent apple ice cream, but this shows it’s perfectly possible. So why isn’t it more common? Apple pie is one of the most popular deserts, and you find apple flavoring in plenty of drinks and candies. What gives?
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Why isn’t orange (the fruit) ice cream more popular? I don’t mean sherbet, I mean ice cream. It can be bought in Florida, but I’ve never heard of it anywhere else.
Artificial apple flavor is awful and that is what most companies would use.
Caramelized apple ice cream is amazing !
Wait… do you mean caramel apple ice cream, or caramelized apple ice cream? They’re not the same…
Making ice cream with actual apples involved is a nightmare due to acidity influencing other ingredients. But making it apple-scented is trivial.
But you raised a very good question…
I feel like dehydrated apples might work.
The cream would rehydrate them.
This is why you dry the ice cream first.
TIL
Are we talking Apple or apple pie? Because from your post I can’t really tell.
What flavour is apple pie?
Apple + cinnamon
I’ve wondered about the same but with kiwi fruit it’s delicious and refreshing yet you don’t see any flavored drinks or ice cream with that flavor.
Kiwi and pineapples have enzyme to break proteins down, causing it taste better if they have contact to diary products long enough. Canned pineapples don’t have this issue but I haven’t seen canned kiwi, maybe that explains no kiwi ice cream
I suspect it’s related to the difficulty in processing. Kiwi fruit are quite small and non-trivial to extract the flesh from. This would make it more expensive to extract.
This is less of an issue now that a few decades back. However, most people are quite conservative on their juice choices. Low sales still mean higher cost, which reduces sales.
Corporate studies show that the most popular ice cream flavors are the flavors we’ve always made and new flavors are risky because we don’t know how popular they will be and so we only do the same flavors so we’re always right.
Same reason why you only get reboots and remakes, it’s a safer bet for investment.
Because CaPiTaLiSm BrEeDs InNoVaTiOn~!
Lemmiers Trying Not To Be Communist For 2 Seconds Challenge(Impossible)
Is that what we are?
Lemmiers and not lemmies? Or even better lemmings.
Sounds like a Babylon 5 character. I vote for Lemmier!
But I want to be a lemming, that way my suicide ideation is just normal.
I say lemmiers because we are partaking in the act of lemmying
Because it’s too expensive to crunch up a whole iPhone just for one cone.
