Robert writes:
I once read that men tend to like smooth ice cream, while women prefer ice cream with lumps and such in it (marshmallows, chocolate chunks, veins of caramel, etc.). That’s definitely true of me: except for mint chocolate chip (with very small chips), I like my ice cream smooth. How about you? The blog must know!
Feel free to broaden the discussion to peanut butter, if you like.
First Post?!?
*Does first post dance*
Yes, yes. Smooth or chunky?
*Sigh* I hate to give in to what’s scientiffically proven about the diffrences between Male and Female, But yes, alas, I do like mine chunky. For some very odd reason. I never really thought about Male and Female having diffrent tastes in Ice cream, but now come to think of it, my dad and little brother BOTH like to eat the smooth kind, and my mom and I preffer the chunky! Huh! Wierd how that works.
And now to add Peanut butter into this conversation!!! I LOVE PEANUT BUTTER!!! It’s my favorite food EVER!!!
I love it on crackers, and Ice cream, sandwiches, tortillas, Pita bread, Rice cakes and especially ICE CREAM!!!
We went to the store recentally, and we got Ice Cream for my brother and I, he got this vanilla fudge goop, (it tasted pretty god acually!) and I got this clocolate with PEANUT BUTTER!!!! (Also these little chhocolate chunks, yes chunks, that where full of peanut butter.)
Yum, Yum.
We have a thread for this?
I like both kinds of ice cream. I really couldn’t care less, except that I hate soft-serve with a bloody passion. I suppose that could count as smooth. And if you haven’t figured out my gender by now, you’re clueless and I don’t love you any more. (Hint: It’s not male.)
Peanut buter, however, is another matter entirely. Chunky peanut butter must be brutally burned at the stake. Grer.
NO! SAVE THE PEANUT BUTTER!! *Clomps Kaui Zi Angel*
I like soft serve. What’s wrong with it?
i hate soft serve! its so…..ew! it should be melted and exploded and all else brutal punishment.
i love peanut butter!! we get this all natural fresh buttered whatever peanut butter…can that be considered chunky? i dont know…hm.
well i hate the kind of peanut butter with the actual nuts floating around in it…so yeas.
I dont care really. if its ice cream ill eat it. but i DO like the choklit kind with choklit icing and brownie chunks and…MMMMMMMMmmmmm
True enough that my favorite flavors are chunky — with mint chocolate chip at the top of the list, except not the stuff Robert likes, which doesn’t have the proper chocolate:ice cream ratio and tastes like grit.
On the other hand, I love sherbet, sorbets, ices, and soft serve (or frozen custard, as my dad still calls it), though I think of them as completely different food categories.
Peanut butter: absurdly crunchy or no point eating it. To get it right I have to make it myself (in practice this means I never eat it).
I have to wonder, though, if smooth vs. chunky is the whole question or part of the larger issue of texture in general. The texture fanatics I know — and I count myself among them — are all female. The people I know who could care less are all male. Coincidence, perhaps, but I’ve often wondered.
i like it slightly mushy. not quite crunchy but not quite smooth.
i like chunky ice cream. with like marshmellows. i love marshmellows. my brother eats marshmellow ice cream with me, and so does my dad and my grandpa and my boyfriend….
so ha!
I love chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream!! I like both kinds of PB though.
the only ice cream is smooth ice cream! if it was supposed to be chunky they’d call it ice chunk!
Women eat, on the average, 80% more sorbet than men and 45% more soft serve. They also display a more marked preference toward hot fudge sundaes, while males tend to eat more malts. Women seem to dislike malts and prefer smooth shakes to chunky ones.
I prefer any kind of ice cream I can get over any kind I can’t. I also prefer chunky peanut butter over smooth because chunky has more flavor. And I adore malts, especially chocolate, though I had a green tea malt once and it was pretty good, I must say.
I’ve heard that men tend to favor having desserts a la mode (with ice cream) than not, but I’m not sure. Even with smooth ice cream.
I find baked alaska extremely difficult to manage. And I remember that all the males in the
[Oops. Let’s keep surnames top secret. Name snipped. — Rosanne]
family (who were at the Frankfurt event, anyway) didn’t go for pickled ginger nearly as much as the females. Even though the rosettes were beautiful. Because I made them.
Chunky for both ice cream+peanut butter. Big chunky choklit chips…*drools*
I AM female, if you didn’t guess by the name, and right now, I just want orange juice….
But if you consider the pulpless smooth and the pulp-filled chunky, I like chunky orange juice…..
Boy, that sounds like a weird kind of orange juice. Can you imagine them trying to sell it on the shelves of the supermarket? 0.o
Most Ice cream I eat is smooth, but I think Mint-Chocolate-Chip is groovy.
(‘m a girl)Fer Ice Cream I like smooth, mostly, but I do enjoy carmel veins too…
For penut butter I like smooth too. I eat it off the spoon… yumness…
Ice cream is better chunky, because the chunks taste good. Soft serve is OK. On peanut butter, my opinion varies(usually the opposite of what’s in the house), but locally made is better. Pulpy orange juice is good. (I’m a girl)
YESS!!! I am loving this thread already!!
Ahem.
#12: A green tea malt? That does sound good!
#3: \m/!!!!!!!!!!! Peanut butter lovers unite! PB is def my favourit “food,” even though it’s relly a condiment.
Coldstone ice cream, ppl. The best ice cream on the face of the earth. I’d recommend the Peanut Butter Perfection…or my special creation – cake batter ice cream w/ white choc chunks, reeses chunks, and PB.
I guess I don’t relly like reg ice cream. Just soft-serve or Coldstone. And I have this little obsession w/ blizzards / flurries / wvr you call them. And malts. But I had a coffee malt the other day, and it just tasted like vanilla…
Has anyone tried gelato? I had tiramisu gelato once, and it tasted like caramel – It was pretty good!
gelato’s are good but they are basically normal ice cream…
I personally like Chcolate fudge brownie or chcolate marshmallow I like smooth and chunky so HA! and once again HA!
Has anyone had Vermonty Python Ice Cream from Ben & Jerry’s?
Weird. I think I prefer chunky. I wonder if there’s really a correspondence… strange…
I love most kinds of ice cream. But which kind do I love most, smooth or chunky? Smooooth. Unless it’s Cherry Garcia. The extreme tastiness of those chocolate and cherry chunks compensates for the loss of pure creaminess.
Here’s why I generally like smooth best:
1) The texture is fab.
2) The chunks usually don’t have much taste because they’re frozen — and unlike the cream part, they don’t melt much in your mouth. They tend to stay frozen. Unless they are chocolate.
Ever had Phish Food? That’s almost enough to convert me to chunky. As for peanut butter, I go back and forth.
I love mint chocolate chip ice cream, but I don’t like the chocolate chip part. I wish they just made a “mint” ice cream. So in that sense, I like smooth better.
My favorite kind of ice cream, though, is moose tracks, and that has mini peanut-butter cups in it. So in that sense, I like chunky better.
As for peanut butter, I can’t have nuts that aren’t ground up, etc…so I can’t have chunky. In that sense, I like smooth.
I deffinatley prefer chunky peanutbutter.
As for ice cream, I like smooth, but the reason I think I prefer it chunky is the crunchyness. As Rosanne said, you can’t taste it to much, but I like having something to chew on.
Robert, I haven’t tried Phish Food. Chocolate ice cream with marshmallow, caramel swirls and fudge fish… It certainly sounds tolerable.
27. Where do you get Phish Food? sounds yummy
i like chunky!! chocolate chips, nuts, gummi bears
whatever ya got
28 – It’s in supermarkets around here (San Francisco Bay Area). Ben & Jerry’s makes it.
24, 27, 28 and 29- Oh I ADORE the Food of the Phish ice cream! It’s Divine! Not as divine as others I’ve tasted though.
We took a vacation to the grand canyon recently, and they had ice cream there, now THAT was divine!
i luv phish food ice cream! yay! it is the bestest ever….right after coffee flavored ice cream, of coarse.
The texture of peanut butter? Oh gosh, I don’t even care – as long as it’s peanut butter!
#21: LOL. What’s in it?
I’m a boy and i can’t stand smooth. Me Love Chunkey!
It seems like a sort of “rule of thumb” than an actual rule.
Two words: Caramel Sutra. And Haagen-Dazs English Toffee is delicious and wonderful.
my second-fav flavor is the lemon ice stuff at graeter’s.
my first is…wait, you can’t guess? CHOKLIT!!!
I like smooth. My sister likes chuncky.
34- Wait… That’s four words…
Goat milk ice cream Pwns.
I like Chocolate, and Mint Chocoalte Chip…so I guess I like both.
19 – I love gelato.
25 – About mint ice cream – same with my friend the Taiwan Hippo!
35 – I love Graeters! I never tried their lemon ice, but my friends at camp love it.
I’m female. I like whatever kind of ice cream is put in front of me. Phish sounds great! I love chunky, because I like the taste of the things in the chunks. Rosanne is right though: sometimes they really do lose their flavor. I like the texture of smooth, but other than the taste, that’s the only reason I like it.
Smoooooth! I hate chunks. Same thing for PB, the best food EVER. Aside from choklit. And cookie dough ice cream. But yeah, that’s basically it. And NO pulp in orange juice. Eew, it’s grainy. And also, I hate any sorts of fruity bits in yogurt. Actually, I don’t like yogurt all that much. Just every so often I feel like consuming it. I do the same thing with lemonade.
your right i love somth
19 and 10 ahhhhh! blasphemy!!or however you spell, and pronounce it…
gelato is much more strong tasting than ice cream, and is made somehow differently.
i like ice cream with tons of stuff in it. (thats chunky)
yayyyyyyy im a rebel…
cold stone:the idea is good, but their actual ice cream is meh.
as for ben and jerry, i like dublin mudslide.
its itish liquor icecream with caramel, coffe, and fudge swirls and brownies. i dont like chöklit.(ice cream, dont worry)
as for hagen daaz, i like caramel cone. i have other flavours i like, but wateva
Has anyone ever tried Michell’s ice cream? They have REAL chocolate chips (enormous chunks) in anything chippy. Can’t stand peanut butter.
Oh yeah, I’m a girl.
41-I agree with you on all accounts…except the cookie dough ice cream. I don’t like that.
I can’t STAND chunky ice cream. All that crap gets in the way of the wonderful ice cream!
And I like malts way better- fudge is too rich.
I’m a girl and I’d never given it much thought before, but in fact most of my favorite ice cream flavors are indeed chunky (cookie dough, various kinds of candy pieces in vanilla ice cream, chocolate ice cream with brownie chunks in it, etc.). Can’t say the same for peanut butter, though – I’ve always preferred smooth. However, as far as ice cream is concerned, I don’t usually stop to consider whether it’s smooth or chunky. My favorite flavors are chunky, but if you give me ice cream, I’ll eat it no matter what flavor or texture it is. Yum!
#41: Cookie dough…mmm.
Orange juice? Bleh. I’ve nvr liked orange juice. No matter what type it is. Bleh.
OK, there’s this one type of ice cream called Blue Moon, and I heard it was ginger-flavoured. It’s relly good. Has anyone else had it? Is it relly ginger flavoured?
Has anyone ever tried making ice cream?
…Just don’t use milk. You’ll just end up w/ a hunk of frozen milk. Bleh.
49 – I’ve heard of Blue Moon, but I’ve never had it.
50 – It’s fun to make ice cream! I don’t think you use milk. I think it’s that condensed/evaporated whatever-it is. If you make it with the machine, it tastes fine. Really good, actually.
i think ttopic has changed like 5 times since the original post, but im to lazy to read it through. just thought i’d comment that both me and my brother like chunky.
and at my science center i’ve made ice cream usiong liquid nitrogen. it tasted pretty good.
smooth i.c.
chunkee p.b.
Is “peanut butter” referring to PB ice cream or PB in general? I like crunchy/chunky peanut butter a bit more than smooth. As for ice cream, I only like the peanut butter cups inside, not an entire PB-flavored ice cream.
When I asked the question, I was thinking of ice cream as ice cream and peanut butter as peanut butter, not a blend. I’ve never experienced a really successful combination of ice cream and peanut butter.
ewww! i hate peanut butter. its gross! but i totally LOVE ice cream! its like my favrit food in the whooooooooooole world! chunky is best. but sort of smooth. u kno a blend of both tastes best!!
55 – I hoped so. I didn’t really see how PB ice cream in particular mattered much.
Wha…An ice cream machine? Liquid nitrogen? Jeesh, I just use two coffee cans and a lot of ice cubes!
Yeah. We use plastic bags and towels and a bunch of ice, too. I’m just saying that I have done it with the machine, and that tastes fine. Not as good as smooshing it in the plastic bags, though.
You guys are all crazy, I like any type of ice cream, as long as its not sugar, calorie, or cholestral (did I spell that right?) free.
60 – I totally agree. (except for the crazy part). I just like them differently.
Of course we’re crazy1 otherwise we wouldn’t be on museblog!
58- and whats wrong with liquid nitrogen? it only has to be stored at a couple hundred degrees below zero!
I used to HATE chunky ice cream, but then I started to like certain things in it, BUT NOT NUTS! Then I had the most wonderfulest awesomest sundae ever and it was LOADED with nuts so…
Now I’ll eat any kind of ice cream.
PS: I am male.
PPS: “cholesteral” not “cholestral”.
PPPS: I prefer caramel to peanut butter. And I like crunchy peanut butter best. (have you looked at my name?).
The Peanut Butter Bender flavor by Hagen (I think) is pretty good. Although, i’m biased because, i admit it, i’m a female and i like chunky ice cream. Although I absolutely loathe and despise those hideous marshmellow chunks. I like plain marshmellows, and frozen ones are even better, but not in ice cream. Never in ice cream. Things that go in ice cream MUST be either crunchy, or melt in your mouth Usually when i eat ‘cream with chuncks, I sift them out with my teeth, swallow the ‘cream, and then crunch the chunks. But marshmellows, they just sit there getting squashed, and since they’re in tiny bits, bounce back and don’t get properly chewed. I do really like coffee ice cream though. If anybody on here has never had it, go eat it now! Hmm… Cherry Garcia? Phish? Could it be that our admins are…hippies?!
choc&marshmallows,sushi&shrimp(!!!)
29. San Francisco!!
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60 and 63: It’s cholesterol.
66: I bet it’s in supermarkets in lots of other places too. Not just San Francisco.
62 – That too. But not in that way.
65 – yeah. Right. Exactly what I was thinking.
I don’t like marshmallows in ice cream, but I love them out of ice cream. Especially toasted. Yum.
You know, this started as an interesting discussion topic and now it’s more comparing likes and dislikes with ice cream and peanut butter. No problem, though.
49-Isn’t Blue Moon Belgian beer?
64-No! Of course, the signs all point.
My theory is that the smooth ice cream seems more simplistic and masculine, and that the chunky types are fru-fru and therefore feminine. However, maybe the mint chocolate chip is an exception? I dunno.
All ice cream is good, I don’t care what kind it is!
AND
Peanut butter is the best substance since….well, peanuts, I guess…
Smooth, preferably. Coldstone’s Cake Batter is the BEST ICE CREAM FLAVOR EVER! Vanilla is second.
hahaha!! I defy all steryotypes!!!! My favorite ice cream in soft serve!!
I like natural peanut butter better than regular peanut butter. Because most peaut butters have an unbeliveable amount of sugar!!! (for PEANUT BUTTER, that is…)
Not that I have anything against sugar, but I like sugar betterwhen it is in somthink that SHOULD have sugar in it, such as ice cream. I love Ice cream.
Anything that’s one of those “ultra chocolate” flavors is good. You know, the ones where they add the words “death” and “sin” into them because they have so much chocolate.
I never really thought about it before…But I prefer Ice Cream with bitg chunks in it, like Ben&Jerry’s Choklit Chip cookie dough. yumm… I usually eat Soy Ice cream, though. I like the green Tea kind. And you can’t put chunks in green tea soy cream. It’d be yukko.
Peanut butter?
My favorite kind is MaraNatha smooth&creamy no stir. It does’t hav e any hydrogenated junk or fillers in it, and it’s really yummy.
74-ooh, about that, question for the GAPA-what exactly is hydrogenated oil?
i know its horrible for you and in tons of foods, but what is it and why is it bad for you etc.
my friend says it makes your veins explode, but that might be a little off.
I never thought about it either. My favorite is either mint chocolate chip or a plain chocalate (well ,with lots and lots of really really god chocolate…)type. I’m a girl, so what does that mean???
Cocolate chip cookie dough is good too. I’m impartial to softserve. So it’s not as frozen as normal ice cream. It better for shakes.
Peanut butter? It’s good, but I like my chocolate better ;{)
smooth as possible, for me….
Im completely impartial to ice cream, except to any thing with chocolate or peanut butter. I can’t *gasp* stand either one.
though i guess that does kind of make me favor smooth ice cream. nowthat I think about it. I guess I,m an exeption (im female) Oh well. Iguess Iwas lying wheni said that i was impartial.
72 – Natural PB is good.
Some boy exceptions:
My brother, 6 years of age. He would be upset if the ice cream we got didn’t have chunks in it. (That isn’t true, exactly. He likes chunks, but he likes any kind of ice cream he can get his tongue on.)
My friends’ 6 and 4 year-old brothers. They are proud when the get chunks bigger than their sisters’ and try to compete to eat them whole. They only get the flavor with chunks for that reason.
Hm. I do enjoy chunky more, now that I think it. Wow. Very interesting.
I like chunks.
Smooth ice cream gets boring.
Chunks make it more texture-ous.
71 – I DESPISE Coldstone. They came into town and took away all the business from the other ice cream shops that were better and less expensive. It’s shutting down though, thank god.
I hate chain stores as kind of a gut reaction.
I like ice cream. All of it. Exepte cookie dough and coffee and popcorn flavors. I really like coconut ice cream.
I like smooth ice cream better, unless the chunks are very very very small, like in mint chocolate chip, as Robert mentioned. I like chocolate and coffee.
On the other hand, I like chunky peanut butter better- it has more texture and flavor.
Mochi balls. Does anyone else like them?
And Haagen-Dazs’s English Toffee, which is analogous to Norwegian kraken…sooooooooooo good…
I like cookie dough chunks…… mmmmmmm…..
82-POPCORN-flavored Ice cream??? Wow! That’s…interesting.
85 – Yeah………………………………*drifts off into private world of bliss*
52- liquid nitrogen.
that’s rocket fuel!!!!! i read in a magazine that it’s safe, but…..
as for ice cream, mint chocolate chip pwns ALL!!!!! and penut butter has to be chunky, or elese it’s just wallpaper paste. yuck. (and yes, i’m a girl.
81 – A COLDSTONE HATER? COULD IT BE?!?!?! *Infinite number of coconut pies*
When we say Coldstone, do we mean Coldstone Creamery?
Because if we do, they are the best!
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I guess I prefer chunky – this makes sense, since my fave’s cookie dough. The bigger the pieces of cookie, the better!
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…
*drools*
There is this one Ice cream place in New York, where every april fools day, they send out a really wierd flavored Ice cream. Like, one year it was bacon and eggs in vanilla Ice cream, and one year it was fish. Tey make alot of money by doing this, people everywhere come to eat it. Cool huh?
I’ve never been to Coldstone Creamery. Some people I know love it and some hate it.
Coldestone rules! anyone who said they hate it is lying. really. But htere are other store sthat do pretty musch the same thing., the ones in my town are marble slab and maggie moos.
thats one thing i really like about my town. we have five (unless i’m forgetting a few0 ice cream places. three with in walking distance!
I honestly perfer the smooth. and yes, I am a guy. But I really don’t mind chinky that much. Except in pb. then it’s annoying.
I tried Coldstone for the first time this summer, and I got the small, and it turned out to be about twice as large as I was expecting it to be.. x_x
I like chunky peanut butter. Why? Because it’s often more healthy for you. And I find it sticks less to my mouth and braces.
I do not lie.
It’s not that their ice cream is bad, it’s decent; they just kicked all the better ice cream shops out of town.
I love chunky ice cream because my two favorite flavors are choclate chip cookie dough and moose tracks. With peanut butter, most of the time it’s chunky, but I tend to switch around.
I like chunky peanut butter and chunky ice cream. My fav flavor is Moose Traks!!
I like chunky and smooth, and my favorite kind is smooth neopolitan with Oreo pieces all SMOTHERED in frozen peanut butter.
interesting. I’m a girl and I like my ice cream smooth. My mom & most of the women I know are the same way, although my sister likes her’s chunky. I always thought it was vice versa.
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I know how you feel. I couldn’t eat all of mine, and it was so overpoweringly sweet. It was delicious, but there was no water fountain around, so I was very thirsty for the next hour, because we were shopping.
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mmm, water. I wish you could do more than one space on this thing. It would be much easier to draw stuff.
i have to say i like my icecream/peanutbutter…watery. i mean, its less sticky that way,right?
WATERY PEANUT BUTTER!?!?!?!?
I’m a vegetarian, and I get a lot of protein from peanut butter. And I like A LOT OF PEANUT BUTTER!!! I have been known to use half the jar in one sandwich, whereupon I’m not hungry for the rest of the day. In fact, If the world blew up like in H2G2, I would probably go into peanut butter withdrawal and twitch in the corner of a spaceship for weeks.
From what I’ve read, Hydrogenated oils are oils that have hydrogen added to them. If left out, they will solidify at room teperature, which should give you some idea what they do to your heart. Crisco and most shortenings are basically pure hydrogenated oil. Of course, all pies throw on MuseBlog have expeller pressed oil instead, which is totally different and not half as bad.
Do I have that right, GAPAs?
In fact, you could put this in your Q&A column!
What are Hydrogenated Oils, and how do they affect your body?
And on a completely different subject—-
I went to a very small gelateria and got Green Tea and Chocolate Malt gelato mixed. It was DELICIOUS!!!
However, not something to do in Italy…..
Ötzi (104),
Yep, hydrogenated oils are made by adding extra hydrogen. The appeal is that hydrogenated oils are more solid than unhydrogenated oils. Solidity can be useful if you’re trying to create something that spreads on your bread like butter — instead of running all over it like oil. Partially hydrogenated oils are used a lot in processed foods, no doubt because they’re usually cheaper than real butter but have a similar texture. They also have a longer shelf life.
But the problem is it’s looking like partially hydrogenated oils increase the risks of getting heart disease and clogged arteries and probably some other disease too.
Hey, maybe I WILL use this for a Q&A.
Has anyone ever been to Japan?
It is VERY fun!
Like DnD
106: YES!!!!!!!!!!!! It rocks!!!!
I really stick out there…I’m very white-looking….And I TOWER over everyone else…
um, exsqueeze me, robert, i am a woman/girl/damsel/maiden in 2 more years, and i hate anything with pieces except mint chocolate chip. once mom accidentally bought crunchy peanut butter and i refused to eat it. but if its chocolate pieces its good.
CHUNKY ALL THE WAY!!!!! wo0T!wo0T!
I did a survey for math class, and these are the results (I don’t have my NB, so I can only put the ones that I remember)
1=I hate chunky 3=It’s okay/so-so 5=I love it!
x=1 person
*=no people
Female:
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* * * x x
x * x x x
1 2 3 4 5
The one #1 came from someone who doesn’t like any kind of ice cream. 0 preferred smooth.
Male:
******x **
****x x x
****x x x
x x x x x
1 2 3 4 5
3 of all don’t like any kind of ice cream very much. 5 preferred smooth.
So Robert’s explanation seems to be correct, for the most part.
108- of cource the chochlate ammednment applies to EVERYTHING
girl. Chunky. I have only had smooth peanut butter because my brother is allergic to peanuts (curses) and i have only had it at a friend’s house and they only like smooth. i would like chunky better though.
I like smooth peanut butter better than chunky, but I like chunky too. Chunky ice cream is only good if it’s chocolate chip cookie dough.
i like smooth ice cream. i guess i’m a man. haha.
chunky peanut butter is better though.
I like both. Preferably Soy. Yumms.
I definitely like chunky peanut butter to eat by itself, like if you’re snacking with your finger…it’s good just by itself, and better than smooth for such purposes – but sandwiches? Smooth peanut butter is much better for sandwiches because it’s just more pleasant to spread and eat between bread.