Cuisinart Ice Cream, Frozen Yoghurt & Sorbet Maker giveaway!

25 March 2011, 03:24

How fabulous is Sydney’s weather right now?! With beautiful 28 degree weather, it’s the perfect time to make some delicious ice cream and thanks to the awesome people at Kitchenware Direct one lucky Chocolate Suze reader will win a Cuisinart Ice Cream, Frozen Yoghurt & Sorbet Maker so keep on reading for your chance to win!

I was super excited to fill my freezer with delicious treats and couldn’t wait to get started. A recipe booklet comes along with the machine so I went and did a mini tasting platter with an old school Malaysian style taro ice cream sandwich, green tea frozen yoghurt and a Coke slushie. Before beginning an ice cream recipe, the 2L double insulated bowl must be frozen for a minimum of 24 hours. There’s also recipes for custard type of ice cream using eggs, gelato recipes and sorbet recipes.

Ingredients for a basic ice cream:
1 ½ cups whole milk
1 ⅛ cups granulated sugar
3 cups thickened cream
Flavourings

Using a mixer, beat the milk and sugar together on low speed until the sugar has dissolved. Stir in the thickened cream and any flavourings eg fruit and pour mixture into freezer bowl. Turn the machine on and let it mix until thickened, approx 20-25mins. The machine is a tad on the noisy side but hey it’s cos it’s hard at work churning!

Ooh purple! Helen had given me a couple of packets of bubble tea drink powder flavours so I randomly added a packet of taro flavoured powder to my ice cream which turned out pretty tasty! And because I knew I wanted to do an ice cream sandwich I had frozen my ice cream mixture in a loaf tin lined with cling wrap.

I scored this crazy swirly bread from Bread Story which had awesome taro swirled within

TADAH! Taro ice cream sandwich deliciousness! Next time I am totally making sweet corn ice cream sandwich mmm

Frozen yoghurt ingredients:
1 ⅔ cups whole milk
¾ cup caster sugar
1L of yoghurt
¼ cup heavy cream
Flavourings

Using a mixer, beat the milk and sugar together on low speed until the sugar has dissolved. Stir in the yoghurt and thickened cream and any flavourings eg fruit (I used green tea powder) and pour mixture into freezer bowl. Turn the machine on and let it mix until thickened, approx 20-25mins.

Transfer the frozen yoghurt to an airtight container and place in freezer for 2 hours. Remove from freezer about 15 mins before serving.

Nawwww ain’t he a cutie??

Last but not least- a Coke slushie!

Pour 6 cups of soft drink into freezer bowl, turn the machine on and let mix until thick and slushie-like, about 15-20mins. Serve immediately.

It was just so freaking easy to make my own slushies! Thinking about all the drinks I can turn into a slushie now- ginger beer, energy drinks, champers!

With the Ice Cream Maker, it’s as simple as adding your favourite ice cream base and flipping the switch. Featuring a double insulated freezer bowl which can hold up to 2 litres of frozen dessert, the fully automatic heavy-duty motor makes frozen desserts or drinks in as little as 25 minutes and has a large ingredient spout for adding mix-ins.

So now thanks to Kitchenware Direct, who wants to win the very awesome Cuisinart Ice Cream-Frozen Yoghurt & Sorbet Maker? All you have to do is leave a comment in this blog post answering:

What is your favourite ice cream memory?

The most creative entry will win this awesome prize! You can enter as many times as you like, but you must be an Australian resident. Please enter a valid email address. Competition closes Friday 8th April 2011, 10am aest.

Thanks to everyone who entered the comp! Kitchenware Direct has chosen our winner: Christine Boland and runners up Tee and Raff. Congrats guys!

When i was about 7 i had rocky road icecream, bit into something that i thought was a peanut, couldn’t work out why i couldn’t bite/eat through it and why it was extra hard. Turns out my loose front tooth finally fell out! Covered in icecream goodness i thought it was a nut!
— Marj Mar 25, 08:43 AM #
Oooh icecream :D
My favourite icecream memory is when, as a child, there used to be a dippin dots icecream counter on the top level of Parra Westfields. We used to always pass by it on the way back to the car and have a free sample (of a flavour we didn’t have the guts to buy a whole container of). Inevitably, we would go back to our favourites, using our tongues to hoover up the frozen bits. No one else seems to remember this store, so was this a figment of my imagination??
— Chris Mar 25, 08:48 AM #
Hmmmm ice cream memories, I have to say my favourite ice cream memory was of my birthdays when I was really young, my parents would buy me an ice cream cake and after I got to blow out the candles and everyone had a slice of the cake, I would be allowed to play patty cake with the leftovers…that’s probably my best ice cream memory and I’m sure I have some pictures in my photo albums so antique! somewhere!
And to Chris, I remember dippin dots! my cousins and I used to love that place! :D
— Jess Mar 25, 09:26 AM #
I have 2 fav memories of ice cream. First one was at boarding school. For our birthdays they would give us ice cream cakes. So me and 2 friends ate the candles (yes we literally ate the candles – we were young teenagers ok!) and then used spoons to eat the entire ice cream cake between us. Soooo GOOOOD!
The second memory I have was in Japan 09, while riding bicycles around the temples in Kyoto, we stopped off at an ice cream shop that sold soy ice cream. You could turn the cone up-side-down and the ice cream wouldn’t fall off! AMAZING!
— Winnie Mar 25, 10:06 AM #
My favourite ice cream memory is of eating a path through Italy’s gelato in 2009. I spent five weeks making my way from north to south of the country, and I pretty much ate nothing else!

In particular, I had an amazing grape-flavoured gelato in Rome, from a tiny place hidden in a laneway near the Pantheon. I want to go back to Italy just to visit that gelateria again!

—xo.
— R. Mar 25, 10:16 AM #
As a kid I was known to be completely indecicive. The one thing that I found MOST difficult was ice cream flavour selection. There were just so many flavours, and I always worried I would regret my choice. Food envy started early.
To combat this my parents would often inform me well in advance that ice cream selection was pending and to start thinking about flavours early. They would then send me in a bit earlier than my siblings so I could agonise over it further!
I eventually worked out that chocolate & caramel flavours were my most preferred, which helped me narrow it down a little!
— Janna Mar 25, 10:22 AM #
My favourite ice cream memory would be having Haagen Dazs in HK. It was travelling with one of my best friends. We were fresh out of high school and taking our first trip without our parents [overseas as well!] One night, we met up with one of my family friends for dinner. After a deliciously filling Thai meal at Lan Kwai Fong, we decided we had a stomach for dessert and my family friend took us to Haagen Dazs. Although we were ever so tempted by the ice cream fondue, we were VERY full from dinner. This, however, didn’t stop us from order $40AUD worth of ice cream XD We ordered three drinks and a dessert plate to share. I remember taking the MTR back to my aunt’s house [where we were staying] feeling extremely sick, but extremely happy at the same time! The things we get up to when our parents aren’t around…
— Lil Mar 25, 10:31 AM #
That green tea ice cream looks gorgeous!
— Lau @ Corridorkitchen Mar 25, 10:33 AM #
Your 2 freezers are full my 3 are empty, churn out more please of your delicious taro ice cream.Great machine, sounds easy and quick, no time for a short nap…unlike the time when you were a few months old and you dozed off on the sofa while waiting for your dad to get some ice cream out from the freezer!
— iT Mar 25, 10:34 AM #
My favourite icecream as a kid was called a Skona – No one seems to remember them but me! They had vanilla icecream with apricot pieces and sesame seeds and nuts and yummy things like that. Delicious! I’m sure I didn’t imagine it :)
— Shann Mar 25, 10:34 AM #
My favorite memory of ice cream is of when I used to ride my bike to our nearby ice cream shop. They would put little candy eyes on their ice cream cones, it was adorable!
— Caroline Mar 25, 10:38 AM #
My best memory was from when I was really young and my dad was a ice cream peddler, we would wait anxiously every evening for him to come home with dry ice and an assortment of what he had left over from his day’s sale! Pouring water over the dry ice to watch it melt was part of our ritual and as fun as eating the ice cream!How I wish I can win this awesome machine to create flavours from my childhood for my 3 children so that they will have such beautiful memories too!
— Rachel C Mar 25, 10:59 AM #
My favourite ice cream memory was those wonderful Haagen Daaz craze days. My brother for many of his younger years would ask for a tub of Macadamia Nut for his birthday. After the celebration, everyone gets to taste a tiny scoop out of his deliciously coveted prize. But my brother was such a good saver, only leaving the ice cream for special occasions. The best part for me was being able to sneakily grab a spoonful each day without him noticing. Til today he doesn’t know why his ice cream tub always seems less than he remembers. Ahhh Ignorance is bliss!
— Erin Mar 25, 11:03 AM #
Discovering Gelato Messina’s pandan and coconut ice cream. It’s changed my life…
— Zina @ tasted by two Mar 25, 11:45 AM #
My favourite icecream memory is finding $20 in change at the local playground and then hearing the icecream truck music. He just knew I had money. The soft serve was on me that day :D
— Tamz Mar 25, 11:49 AM #
Yum! When I was in year 4 so about 8 years old. I entered a colouring competion at Wendy’s and I won! The prize was a years worth of free ice cream!! I could go every day and get something, I obviously let others have something too but it was fun trying something different every day, rather than the plain ice cream my parents would let me get for a rare treat!
— Camilla Mar 25, 11:49 AM #
When I was young in Italy and spending my summer holidays in a little seaside village in Sicily… my friends and I would have dinner with a “caldo freddo” (Hot and Cold). Wonder what it is??? It is ice cream (usually choc or nut or vanilla or coffee flavoured) served in a bowl with brioche, whipped cream and hot melted thick chocolate (the real thing, no chocolate sauce)!!! And crunchy roasted hazelnuts on the top! I still dream about it!
— Manu Mar 25, 11:57 AM #
Love the ice cream sandwich, a true sandwich LOL!!
— sara @ Belly Rumbles Mar 25, 12:00 PM #
i remember when i tried frozen yogurt. it really made my loins smile. it’s a shame it costs so much or i’d be eating it every day.

i’d die if i actually won this, i’d die from eating too much fro-yo.
— Laura Mar 25, 12:07 PM #
OMG OMG OMG – taro ice cream! I ate taro ice cream about 10 times in Penang Malaysia cos it was so hot and it was just so darn good to keep me happy and cool! Street stalls, shopping centre – more taro please!
— Tina@foodboozeshoes Mar 25, 12:12 PM #
I actually don’t remember my favourite ice cream memory but apparently when I was little I would share my ice cream cone with the dog. One lick for him, one lick for me…
Can’t believe I did that considering what a germ freak I am now, but I love that I used to be so carefree. lol!
— Jen Mar 25, 12:28 PM #
omg Suuuuuuuze!!! I was just reminiscing with Mr BBB last night about our late night meanders through the streets of Italy, chowing down on bowl after bowl of gelati. I honestly thought we would have gelati insides by the end!!!
— Lisa Mar 25, 12:46 PM #
That taro ice-cream sandwich looks ah-mazing and I’m a sucker for anything green tea flavoured – yaaaaaaaarm!

My favourite ice cream memory is when my (now) husband took me on a surprise excursion in New York City soon after I moved there. He wouldn’t tell me where we were going but, as we walked down Orchard St on the Lower East Side, he suddenly yelled “there it is” and ushered me in to the tiniest ice cream shop I’ve ever been to – Il Laboratorio del Gelato.

As we sat side by side on the steps to one of the Tenement Museum buildings a few doors down, he watched intently as I sampled basil, black sesame seed and earl grey gelatos and pronounce each one more delicious than the next. A huge grin appeared on his face and he said “oh good, I thought you’d like it” and that’s when I really knew it was love :)
— Lizzie (El Moorish) Mar 25, 01:02 PM #
haha epic meal, green and purple and psychedelic
if this was on the maccas menu big macs would go bust
— grace Mar 25, 01:06 PM #
I love how so many of the memories are from people’s childhoods! Mine is too :)

I’m not sure that it’s my favourite memory, but it’s definitely my most vivid and funniest. I was young, 6 years old I think, and ate a huge cone of that vivid green bubblegum-flavoured ice-cream. I loved it, but several hours later I was in tears and called my mum to the bathroom. I was really upset because – there’s no delicate way to put this – my number twos were the same colour as the bubblegum ice-cream! Mum was in tears too, but from laughing at me, heh.
— bri Mar 25, 01:58 PM #
My favorite ice cream memory is not such an event, location or even a flavour! Up to about a year ago I finally discovered the meaning of Neapolitan ice cream. Growing up mum would get this to satisfy her 6 little kids varied flavour choices. Though somehow strawberry would go first and we’d be forced to eat chocolate. So I had a massive craving for ice cream & harrassed the boy: “can you get me some napoleon ice cream!” his like what??? I’m like napoleon ice cream! U know it, choc, vanilla & strawberry! He pissed himself laughing!!! Confused by his hysterics, when we got the tub he made me read it! I always wondered why it was named after napoleon, maybe his creation? I was sooo embarrassed! Did I mention I’m 28 years old??? So this tri flavoured tub has been renamed; Napolean!
— Pocahontas Mar 25, 03:23 PM #
I have wanted an ice cream maker for the longest time!

My favourite ice cream memory is when Pete & I mixed wasabi into the green tea icecream at a Japanese restaurant – Hot & Cold all in one! :)
— Erin@TheFoodMentalist Mar 25, 04:21 PM #
Going to europe and at corner there was gelato!!!!! YUMMMM and i couldn’t stop eating eat. At one of the corner shops they had this 50 scoop ice cream/ gelato tower. I was 6 the tower was like 1m tall. IT WAS HEAVEN. Also trying to make green tea icecream with ice in a bucket, which i then mistook the wasabi as green tea powder. And when i fed it to my brother he gave me a spaz :(
— snifflebunnys Mar 25, 05:38 PM #
I have this same ice cream maker.It does a great job. I keep the bowl in my freezer so it’s ready to go. Just the other night I made some Baileys Ice cream. 5 minutes to pull the cream, milk and sugar together. Let the machine work it’s magic for 20 minutes and then I added shots of Baileys at the end (to taste). It was super easy and you can make small batches. My batch made 2 cups of ice cream. Half was eaten as Baileys ice cream and the other half I added Cadbury chocolate powder and let the machine mix it and had a second version of the ice cream to put in the freezer. This is a great machine to experiment with ice creams you want to create but can’t buy.
— Jimbo Jim Mar 25, 06:31 PM #
my favourite icecream memory was back when i was small, new zealand natural had those awesome 4 scoop cones. i bought one and ate and ate and ate till the last one but it rolled off the cone :( i was so sad and told the staff at new zealand natural what happened. they gave me another four scoops for FREE! i was like @-@ AWESOME! so i had around 7.5 scoops of icecream ^_________
— sugarpuffi Mar 25, 06:53 PM #
O.M.G. cusinart ice cream maker? this is so bloody awesome!! I have so many favourite ice cream memories! so hard to choose la!
My favourite ice cream memory would have to be in osaka japan, @ Furano Cheese Factory where they had so much cheese and ice cream for us to sample! yes 50! and i love queer and quirky, so while it was winter with a temperature of -2degrees, i went ahead with my ice cream eating adventure! my favourite was the Cheese & Grape Hokkaido Ice Cream, it was very artificial grape ( which i love) and a slight salty taste. so nice!
— milkteaxx Mar 25, 07:05 PM #
My fav. ice cream moment would have to be at French Riviera…Just at the tender age of five, my parents decided to take my family on an ice-cream journey…at first all i could remember was passing King’s Cross and peering at window to see that luminous HUGE COCA-COLA billboard. As we descended upon Double Bay all I could remember was asking my parents ‘Where Are We Going?’ As our parents were leading us to strange alleyways, we were brought to an ice-cream place, it was then that i saw family’s of people eating a big bowl of ice-cream amongst themselves. Although our family just ordered small cones, my mum told me that this place was legend for its ice-cream in Sydney as there were rules to eating their ice cream eg. only 2 people could eat a certain ice cream. As i was devouring my hazelnut flavoured ice cream, My mum told us that this place used to be the place that she had dates with my father.
— reylene galloway Mar 25, 07:24 PM #
we couldnt always afford ice cream when I was younger so when the ice cream van came around I would ask for the broken cones. When I was 6, it was quite exciting to go to hospital and get my tonsils out because everyone told me that I would get ice cream after and I did – definitely makes you feel better when you are feeling down.
— valerie hare Mar 25, 08:50 PM #
everyone has such amusing memories :P this is one that my mum likes to pull out every now and again. when we were really poor and lived in darlington near the city, my mum would always take me down to paddy’s market where i’d go gaga over the tiny chicks and rabbits and whatever else was fluffy and moving. she told me that she always bought me one of those vanilla ice cream cones, dipped in hot chocolate from the pink ice cream van with the picture menus on the side. i don’t remember this ice cream event(s) ever happening (i think i was an adhd child) but apparently i had a really bad habit of walking along, grasping at my mum’s clothes with one hand and my ice cream in the other; completely oblivious to the fact that i was smearing it all over peoples’ clothes. LOL
— cathy x. Mar 25, 09:46 PM #
My favourite memory was when my parents weren’t at home and because of that there wasn’t any dinner for me and my sister. We thought about cooking something but felt really lazy. I told my sister I was craving gelato so we drove all the way to our favourite gelato place and got the “group hug” (15 scoops of gelato in a plate shaped like a boat). Me and my sister shared 15 scoops and managed to eat it in 15 minutes. It was the most awesome dinner ever :)
— HungryPenguin Mar 25, 09:58 PM #
when i was a kid my grandma use to walk us to the local deli after school everyday. i would always choose the bubble o bill because which kid didn’t want icecream AND bubblegum all rolled into one?!
— julie Mar 25, 10:18 PM #
I remember being eight, and having a cat with very fussy taste in food. However, whenever I had a Magnum, he would always lick it to bits. Once, at a party with my mother’s friends, I shouted “EVERYONE!! MY CAT EATS ICE CREAM!!!!” I apparently thought this was a sign of the apocalypse. Everyone apparently laughed.
— Ophelia Mar 25, 10:45 PM #
Whenever ken and i are in newtown we can never say no to gelato massai even if we are bloated. When ken and i get to the last bite we always eye each other and see how will take it. I would love to try and recreate the pistacho flavour. yum.
— Dolly Le Mar 25, 11:05 PM #
Hi! I just wanted to know where you can buy the bubble tea drink powder flavours from?
— Michelle Mar 25, 11:20 PM #
I’ve always been a huge ice cream eater (despite being declared lactose intolerant from a young age oops) but there’s one memory that stands out most, from when I was five. I was outside playing with my sister and our friend on one of those bright, hot summer days when we heard the familar tune of the ice cream van. After running inside to collect money, we all sprinted outside to the ice cream van – only to find it had started to drive away. We chased it for a number of blocks, all the way from our houses to the local park, where we finally got a reward for our hard work.
— Kelly Newton Mar 26, 12:18 AM #
My favourite ice cream memory would be when my pop and nana would pick me up from school and reward me with my pick of ice cream from our local ice creamery. As a kid, my choice was always the tricoloured rainbow ice cream, which had always perplexed me with it’s perfect psychedelic swirls, clashing into one another to form a brand new dimension of delight and mystique. Even though I have since moved on to more ‘mature’ flavours, the 3 coloured rainbow will never fail to bring back memories of that moment.
— Bee Z. Mar 26, 02:32 AM #
Favourite Ice cream moment: 1 year ago when we had a blackout in Malaysia. My hubby and I were sweating profusely in the dark. He took out two tubs of melting ice cream, we went to our garden and ate it in the dark, gazing at stars:)
— Liya Mar 26, 04:37 AM #
My ice cream moment is from back when I was a little kid and my siblings and I would get so excited when we heard the mr. whippy music. We would chase him down all the streets till we finally caught up and bought one of those awesome soft serves with chocolate. Seeing them now always reminds me of how carefree childhood is, and how really it was always all about the icecream!
— Rebecca Mar 26, 11:33 AM #
my favourite ice cream memory was when my sisters and i would have these ice cream cravings at night and pop down to the super market and buy a tub of the 3 flavoured ice cream and create our own ice cream fantasy…adding sprinkles, chocolates, cookies and so on.. those days we’re awesome =)
— joanne nguyen Mar 26, 12:04 PM #
hi choc suze! another favourite memory would be sitting outside french riviera with 2 friends in the middle of winter with scarves and coats (+ a guitar xD) and eating the super sized ice creams… ( i think there was ~28-30 scoops) and yes we finish what wasnt melted.

p.s. mixing ice cream flavours and trying to guess them is awesome.
— milkteaxx Mar 26, 12:45 PM #
When I was young my parents ran an ice cream parlour. I remember them cracking open durians, peeling bananas and splitting avacados to create very creamy exotic delights. My favourite combination was espresso coffee and pandan. The strong bitter sweet coffee flavoured ice cream laced with condensed milk against the green, musky pandan flavoured ice cream was bliss. My mum would always get angry and shake her head at the fact that her 5 year old son was addicted to the taste of coffee.
— Leroy Mar 26, 02:05 PM #
Being a diabetic i don’t have ice cream all that much, but going to the beach with my Dad and getting an ice cream was always a big treat :)
p.s I now know where i can get diet slurpies!!!!! make my own :D
— newo Mar 26, 03:58 PM #
I love taking photos, and one day I was at the shopping center and I found a turned over rainbow icecream in the parking lot – it was all melted and the colours were swirling everywhere – it turned out to be an amazing photo.
— Alice Mar 26, 06:01 PM #
My favourite memory is when I was in primary school and my mum would give me 50c on special occasions for me to buy an ice cream during lunch. I can still remember the feeling of unwrapping the ice cream and taking in that first icey cold bite.
— Sally C Mar 26, 10:11 PM #
My favourite ice cream memory belongs to my childhood weekends where the ice cream man would ride his ice cream bicycle around our neighbourhood broadcasting “Paddle pop~ Paddle pop~ Super Duper Yummy!” and that would be my cue to run out of the house to get a rainbow coloured Paddle Pop :)

they were really one of the most super duper yummiest ice creams :D
— Judy Mar 26, 10:24 PM #
Can it be an ice block? I got one of those ‘Scribblers’ once when I was a kid – they were an iceblock in the shape of a pencil and a candy covered chocolate ball on top (it was the ‘colour’ of the pencil).. once I got TWO of the chocolate balls, I was like a dog with two tails!!! hehehe
— Lulu Mar 26, 10:32 PM #
My favourite ice cream memory would have to be hearing the ice cream man outside and then going straight to my parents for coins to buy paddle pop or those push pops. :)
— Yi Lin Mar 27, 12:23 AM #
Eating a Bubble-O-Bill w/ a wobbly tooth, digging straight in to the bubblegum, having my tooth fall out and sticking the fallen tooth into the spot in the ice-cream where Bubble-O-Bill’s nose should have been. Scared the hell out of my friends and grandma when they saw it!
— Iris Mar 27, 12:42 AM #
I wasn’t a huge fan of ice cream back then, but my favourite ice cream memory would be when I went to Passionflower on the first date with my current boyfriend. We tried some of the exotic flavours (taro, black sesame, green tea, durian) and it really did lighten up the atmosphere! My boyfriend (and I coughs) loves frozen treats so if I won this machine I could make more memorable memories for us :)
— fluffy Mar 27, 10:45 AM #
my favourite ice cream memory would have to be when I was about 5, ( shhh .. 39 yrs ago ) and would go to my great grandmothers house for tea on a Sunday night. She was a cook in a hotel- not a chef back then, and she would make the most wonderful vanilla ice cream by hand.no machines. She would give it to me in a special bowl that was just mine. she has now passed and I still have the bowl but not the ice cream :-(
Lee-Ann
— Lee-Ann Mar 27, 01:34 PM #
simple,
the moment i discovered how well mcdonald’s french fries go with their soft serve.
pure genius
— cait Mar 27, 02:50 PM #
I was on a school excursion to Canberra. We stopped off at Maccas on our way back. One of my friends bought a soft serve. Another took out his spring- loaded fly-swatter. You can only imagine how the ice cream ended up on my other friend’s new jeans…
— Matt Mar 27, 03:21 PM #
i always remember eating bubblegum o’bills!!! they were my favourite, always starting with his hat then slowy eating aroung his nose so the gum wouldnt fall off!
— Maddie Mar 27, 05:14 PM #
Eating Cookies & Cream Ice Cream on the beach at Point Lonsdale…
— Ben Dillon Mar 27, 05:24 PM #
My favourite icecream memory is from a family holiday to Italy when I was a young kid. The Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Trevi Fountain didn’t mean much to me at the time…I was just totally obsessed with seeing the plastic gelato cones statue things that were placed outside gelato stores. Let’s just say I had A LOT of gelato during the trip!
— Ellen Mar 27, 05:41 PM #
My favourite icecream memory is when i was a kid at a park and i was running around with an icecream in my hand. A dog started to chase me and I ran for deal life with the icecream still in my hand. I was crying like no tomorrow but still ended up finishing my icecream which was pretty much melted all over my hand.
— Sarah Mar 27, 07:40 PM #
Favourite icecream memory was just two years ago when I was in year 12 and still went tutoring (typical asian), and my two friends and I were craving icecream real bad so we bought a tub to class and sat there with plastic spoons just eating it straight from the tub until the hot weather turned it into liquid but we did try and save every last blob that looked like icecream.
— Katrina Mar 27, 07:49 PM #
I was five, had just come to Australia and did not yet speak English. My parents always bought me ice cream when we were out and I always picked good ol’ vanilla which I had memorised as the “white one”. So one day I again picked the “white one” which turned out to be..lemon sorbet! Tastebuds which I never knew existed were aroused that day.
— Renae Mar 27, 09:24 PM #
My favourite ice cream memory is getting Bubble-o-bills from the local corner store after school! Must always eat around the nose, saving it until last!
— Megan Mar 27, 09:51 PM #
WHEN BROWNIE MEETS ICE CREAM WITH A DOLLOP OF KAYA. enough said.
— Amy Mar 27, 10:15 PM #
My favourite memory involves my hilariously funny and dearly loved Uncle Michael. He was always a bit of a trickster and at the tender age of 4 he had me convinced that when the ice cream van drove around playing the music, it meant they had run out of ice cream. To this day the sound of greensleeves playing makes me feel a little sad, as I can’t help feeling as if I’ve missed out on a choc top!
— Josephine Phipps Mar 27, 10:53 PM #
My favorite memory of ice cream is facepalming my sister with ice cream cause according to our parents at the time, wasting a bucket of ice cream was cheaper than turning on the air con.
— ImmaIceCream Mar 27, 11:22 PM #
My favourite icecream memory was the Bubble-O-Bill or the Agro icecream… both had bubblegum noses! I remember sitting in the back of the car on long summer family holidays trying to blow bubbles so big that they’d pop and go all over my face
— Leanne Mar 28, 12:45 AM #
oh gosh ice cream :D I’ve two favorite memories – both of which involve me pigging out on ice cream. My friends and I made a bet to go for an ice cream buffet, and we egged each other on to eat more and more scoops of ice cream (NZ Natural ice cream). In the end, I won because I finished 15 scoops of icecream/sorbet but I was having brain freeze and my mouth felt like it was freezing! But the fun of eating the first few scoops of ice cream were heavenly! My other memory was walking in Florence, and finishing scoop after scoop of gelato, all costing me just 1 euro each! That was pure heaven! :)
— Janine Mar 28, 01:24 AM #
My favourite ice-cream memory was actually eating copious amounts of Italian gelato at the cafe under No Names in East Sydney. I asked my dad to buy me one each time we went, which was at least once a month. There was no skimping or overcharging, back in those days, they’d pile it on! I loved hazelnut, lemon & mango mmmmm yummylicious! Ohhh I miss those days!
— Katie Mar 28, 05:21 PM #
My favourite icecream memory was when my father would take us kids down to Coogee Beach after school for a swim. He’d pick is up & we’d be at the beach in 10 minutes (there was no traffic back then!!)Afterwards, as a treat, he’d buy us a 20 cent Paddlepop. Banana was my favourite, but sometimes I’d have chocolate.
— Jim Mar 28, 05:25 PM #
My favourite icecream memory was watching my family (Mum, Dad, Hubby, Nan, Pa, Aunt, Uncle) line up for the icecream van like a bunch of children. I was pregnant at the time and couldn’t have the self serve but the memory itself was all I needed.
— Brooke Mar 28, 06:11 PM #
My fav ice-cream memory is making the most decadent ice cream cake ever know to women with my girlfriends at a holiday house. We all picked our favourite choc bar and added them crushed up to 2 litres of coles vanilla ice cream then topped it off with a mixture of timtams and mint slice as the cake base. This was then topped with rich caramel sauce. Decadent does not even start to describe it!
— Dani Mar 28, 06:21 PM #
Ice Cream Memories! Ah, so many good times #wistful sigh# Where to begin. Ok, the latest:

Scene: Me and hubs on couch watching random Sunday arvo telly…

Hubby: ‘Member Monaco Bars? They were so good.
Me: Yeah, they are totally back! I saw them the other day.
Hubby: No you didn’t.
Me: Er, yes I did.
Hubby: No, they don’t make them anymore.
Me: Well, why did I see them in the shop, like, 3 days ago?
Hubby: You couldn’t have, Sweetie, they don’t make them anymore.
Me: Actually, SWEETIE, I did and they obviously do.
Hubby: Sure… but I really doubt it, Honey.
Me: #Silent fuming#

Fast forward a couple of weeks and my darling pumpkin was subjected to the most horrifyingly embarrassing victory dance given by moi whilst exiting the local servo with Monaco Bar circa 2011 in my little triumphant hand! Ah, the sweeeeeet taste of success and, NO, he did not get a bite of that choc vanilla sandwich goodness!
— BonniesCouncel Mar 28, 10:47 PM #
Easy. The fact that we all still feel a little awkward when we ask to buy a Golden Gaytime.
— diti Mar 28, 11:15 PM #
My fave ice cream memory would be during a trip to Canada (my first trip overseas) where my aunt made ice cream sandwhiches using graham crackers and honeycomb pieces. Not only was it delicious but it’s a wonderful memory of being with family.
— Jessica Mar 28, 11:39 PM #
freshly deep fried taro icecream on a freezing day by the ice cream van at a theme park just because we thought they were so freakingly cheap. turns out that we’ve misunderstood the price and they were overpriced…but twas the company that matters. i was giggling like a giggling puff thereafter XD
— steph Mar 29, 12:05 AM #
gonna add that when sis and i were young we used to buy traffic light ice creams and using the red to apply on lips as we weren’t allowed to apply lipsticks we always end up with really red bee-stung-like lips. also ice-creams with jelly inside that wobbles and not fall off just like your wobbly pannacotta =)
— steph Mar 29, 12:15 AM #
This happened before I was born – it was my mum’s first time in Australia, and the day before she was to hop on the plane back to NZ, she decided to use her last dollar (cos that’s all it cost back then) to buy herself one of the most glorious, creamiest ice-creams imaginable at Circular Quay. And just as she was about to take her first delectable bite…

A seagull flew overhead and shat in it!

God I love telling that story. ROFLLOLZOMGLMAAAAAAO.
— JasmyneTea Mar 29, 01:18 AM #
Hahahaha – I love that my favourite ice cream memory is one of my favourite-ever memories.

So, when I was a kid, my family would go out to eat once a month or so. It was a really big deal – my mum would get all dressed up, I’d be allowed to wear lipgloss and a bit of her perfume, and we’d all go out somewhere WAY above my brother’s and my heads. Chicken nuggets all the way, yo!
Once we’d finished we’d always go to this tiny little ice cream parlour in Maitland and get scoops of something the eat in the car on the way home. I’d always get a “grown-up” flavour like rum and raisin or old english toffee so I could show how mature I was (I hate rum and raisin).

Then, on the drive back, my dad would crank up the stereo, roll down the windows, open up the sunroof and HOWL along to “My heros have always been cowboys” by Willie Nelson.

How my mother didn’t kill him I will never know, but this is still one of those memories that just flat out makes me smile. Thanks for reminding me.
— Kate Lloyd-Jones Mar 29, 02:51 AM #
Once when group of friends and I were on our way back from camping we stopped off at a little ice creamery.

When we got back it the car my friend would swerve whenever my other friend went to take a bite. In return my friend turned his icecream on the other guys head when we got out.
— Jarrod Martin Mar 29, 08:25 AM #
When we were kids, we always went to Italy for summer holidays. At the beach there were this little ice cream shops and after building sand castles all morning we went up there and chose another flavour every day!
— Isabell Brutscher Mar 29, 09:08 AM #
I was on a family holiday in Cyprus for two weeks. We had discovered this awesome ice cream shop near our place in no time at all and it had loads of flavours to choose from. Unfortunately, I came down with a fever and sore throat in the second week and nothing I took would cool me down or soothe my throat. So we went to this ice cream shop and the woman working there could see I wasn’t very well and she let me have 5 enormous scoops of ice cream in a tub for free! That was the best ice cream (and holiday) I ever had!
— Rachel Crowle Mar 29, 09:11 AM #
My favourite icecream memory is of the icecream cakes they used to give you when you had your birthday party at McDonalds. They would take your party of kids into the freezer to get the cake and lock you in there for a few minutes, which we all though was really cool, just like Antarctica!!!
— Alyse Mar 29, 09:50 AM #
I remember holidaying in Spain and being obsessed with PINK PANTHER ice lollies! They were hot pink and in the shape of a 3D Pink Panther standing up. The taste is still so vivid. I’ve never had anything else like it since and am desperately trying to recreate the experience!
— Hayley Mar 29, 11:32 AM #
I am a big lover of liquorice – always have been. One of my earliest icecream memories is the icecream van coming up my street when I was about 5 and selling the most amazing liquorice icecream. It’s so grey and unattractive – yet so delicious. I’m still amazed that as a 5yo that I actually liked it. It’s been my quest to find that perfect liquorice icecream flavour – I found tastes that are close – but never the same as my first encounter. Hmmm…maybe one day…
— Adele Mar 29, 11:49 AM #
My best memory is our visits to the Okitu General Store at Wainui Beach just outside of my home town of Gisborne in New Zealand. Ice creams in NZ have to be seen to be believed – talk about value for money and the taste is so much creamier than what you get here. One scoop is really about three and all for the sum of about $1.50 (and that’s Kiwi money). Okitu was the place to go and had the best range and the biggest icecreams, a wonderful summertime treat either on the way to or heading home from the beach. Ahhh, blue skies, salty air and delicious ice cream! Best of all, my best friend from primary school now owns the store and when we were last over we visited her and she gave my daughter her VERY FIRST ice cream cone from Okitu General Store. She loved it of course!
— Megan Ficarra Mar 29, 12:07 PM #
I would have to say my favourite icecream memory would have to be when my mum use too put me in my best clothes to go out and my aunty would go and get me the biggest icecream she could find. Well my good clothes would end up ruined, my mum would go crazy and my aunty and I would just sit there and laugh. This memory is so important to me because it is one of the only memories I have with my aunty because she passed away when I was little.
— Kylie Mar 29, 12:09 PM #
Making a whopping big banana sundae with nuts, topping, fresh fruit. Yum. Unfortunately not made with homemade ice-cream but still delicious!
— Jody Pepperell Mar 29, 12:13 PM #
My fave icecream memories are with my kids getting store baught icecream and then choosing from an assortment of treats to mix in
— Marie Mar 29, 12:26 PM #
Ice cream for me at the age of nine,
running to the ice cream van,
I’ll have the biggest chocolate coated vanilla cone,
So bring your money, Dad!
— Antonietta Mar 29, 12:26 PM #
best memory: dad buying a 1kg tub of ice-cream to bring home for us to eat it in a cone or he’ll make us ice-cream float when we were kids. he’ll also bring us out for ice-cream birthday treats instead of dinner coz we love ice-cream SO MUCH. because of that,i’m dreaming to own my own ice-cream shop one day.
— onalia Mar 29, 01:06 PM #
I loved watching my kids when they were younger eating icecream – they enjoyed it so much. Long licks around the dome with me reminding them every now and again to ‘lick the other side otherwise its going to fall off’. Great streaks of melting icecream on their cheeks and chin with the inevitable dot on the end of their nose – after all, icecream is an experience, not just a dessert.
— Dianne Mar 29, 01:25 PM #
My best memory was when I was a child and my parents owned a fish and chips shop and me and my brother would sit behind the ice cream freezer eating Strawberry Patches – (which they don’t make anymore sad really)
— Deb Mar 29, 01:38 PM #
that beautiful vanilla flavour of the first lick of an icecream cone made by my grandma. unfortunately, it is rare to get that same awesome vanilla hit from plain vanilla icecream (though i think a home brand did once).
I also used to love St Kilda Festival weekend when i worked at an Italian restaurant when i was younger – i would be standing out the front of the shop behind the gelati freezer, trying to get the really hard gelati out with customers lined up waiting! (my arm was killing me by the end of the day but i loved it)
— Tiggy Mar 29, 01:44 PM #
My icecream memory was 3 days ago when I age icecream with chocolate mud cake…yum yum
— Lisa Mar 29, 02:15 PM #
When I had my first ice-cream sandwich and it was so delicous that I begged my mum for more! I love Ice-Cream
— Luke Callaghan Mar 29, 02:18 PM #
My favourite memory with ice-cream was last year when I got to visit Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream factory in Vermont in the US, the best part of the tour was the taste test!!!! I want an ice-cream maker so I can experiment and eat as much ice-cream as I want! I need to share the love!
— Frances Mar 29, 03:58 PM #
I love your ice creams, very funny! I’ve been dreaming of these online for months….
On my wedding day we had our photos at the beach and there just happened to be a mr whippy van so the bridal party all lined up and bought soft serves!!! We got some great photos…..my very wise husband wouldn’t let me have a choc top!
— muppy Mar 29, 04:09 PM #
in the seventies when i was aged about 8 there was a small ice cream shop in manly that sold sundays in a huge plastic cocktail glass my brother and i would buy one each and get sooooooooo sick it was awesome
— kylea granger Mar 29, 04:51 PM #
I will never forget going to our local Chinese restaurant as a little girl with my family. It was a very special treat and I got so excited because it meant I could have deep fried ice cream for dessert! Mmmm… so good, especially when it’s covered in caramel sauce! I haven’t had fried ice cream in years… uh oh! Craving alert! I’ve been eyeing off these Cuisinart ice cream makers for a while now – would love to make my own ice creams and gelatos! And the slushie is a great idea… I didn’t even think of using it for that! Perfect in Summer! xx
— Mel Mar 29, 04:57 PM #
My favourite memory is when my little brother, who was about 5 at the time, tried to get his own soft serve icecream from the machine at an all you can eat Pizza hut. the machine handle on the icecream machine got stuck, and the icecream kept coming out..and out… and out! not knowing what to do, and being too scared too walk away, he kept filling up bowl after bowl, after bowl until a staff member saw him and helped’unstick’ the machine handle. he then brought back about 10 of the fullest, overflowing bowls of icecream, which we tried to eat it all… after all, the icecream machine was surely giving us a sign to eat nothing but icecream!!
— tee Mar 29, 08:15 PM #
My favourite icecream memory is from when I was in prep. The teacher decided that the children should write ‘icecream stories’ for our book. Most children wrote ‘i like icecream’ or ‘icecreamy is yummy’. But being the bright little spark I was, I wrote a story with an icecream as a character!
— Carrissa McNamara Mar 29, 08:40 PM #
When very young, dad would take us to Cottesloe beach for a swim. As we approached the top of the hill dad would say, ‘whoever sees the water first, gets first choice of ice-cream’. I would sit like an emu in the back seat, eyes peeled, always hoping to be the first. As I grew older I realised my brother was in the front, always saw the ocean first and always got first choice of icecream. One day dad let me sit in the front. I saw the ocean first and I got first choice of icecream! It meant so much more to me then than all the other times. It was special and it was smooth, creamy and chocolate. I miss my dad and the beach but still love my icecreams.
— deb Mar 29, 09:32 PM #
When Dad brought out his girlfriend on a date into dixon st, Sydney, one time with my brothers, their wifes, my girlfriend and myself. We all had a drink, but none more than my father who decided it would be a romantic idea to buy his date an ice cream from a passing vendor to the pub we were in. Upon returning he handed it to his date were she reclined the offer. Probably feeling rather upset so he then proceded to ask any of us if we wanted it, which to this the reply was no. He then proceded in the middle of the pub to throw the ice cream right over his shoulder! Luckily landing where no one was standing. I will never think of icecream the same again! :)
— Simon Robert McHale Mar 29, 09:44 PM #
After every swimming session when I was little, my dad would take to the Magnolia Ice cream house in Manila, Philippines. He would treat me to an Ernie and Bert (yes, the brothers from Sesame Street) ice cream. It’s a signature Magnolia ice cream dessert which had a scoop of strawberry ice cream, a scoop of banana ice cream, cones worn by both ice creams like hats (one drizzled with a strawberry syrup topping and the other a chocolate syrup topping), slices of banana, marshmallows, and slices of peach. It was amazing and very original. Not only was it my favourite ice cream memory, it is generally also one of my favourite memories overall. It was our bonding session as father and son sharing the same passion for food.
— Rafael De Leon Mar 29, 09:54 PM #
When I was about 7 I was eating a Mr Whippy ice cream at my friends house. I recall having a really big bite of the soft serve icecream when a boy I knew, Jed, planted a kiss on my lips. I was so shocked that I choked on the icecream and accidetally spat it into Jeds face. I was so embarrassed I got up to run into the house and as I did the whole icecream fell off the cone. I was devastated and never liked Jed again for making me loose my icecream.
— Delayna Cowmeadow Mar 29, 10:01 PM #
Last summer my family and I went to Malaysia. In the hot and sweaty city, we found a market and they were selling icecream sandwiches! We each had one of these walking along the street without it even melting~ amazing.
— Karen Mar 29, 11:30 PM #
I’ve always loved icecream and as a child I would play the icecream connoisseur game where no matter where I was I would, without fail, always get chocolate and chocolate mint chip icecream wherever we went. I sampled these flavours in all kinds of places during holidays around the state or interstate. I would do this because I liked to compare them to decide which was the best icecream and got so much pleasure from the comparisons even though my family thought I was a bit of a strange child. I loved not only judging the icecream but it took the uncertainty of having to pick a flavour every time we got icecream. I guess looking back on it fondly now I liked to develop my sense of taste even back then :)
— Alicia Mar 30, 12:50 AM #
I was raised by my grandparents on their mixed farm, and as a child I loved the homemade icecream. Everyday we would milk the cow and then strain the milk into a billy and leave the billy in the fridge until next day, when we would skim the cream off the milk into a seperate bowl. At the end of the week, we would beat the cream with a little sugar until it was thickened but not turning to butter (yes we made that too), and then we would put the thickended cream into aluminium freeeer trays in the General Motors Fridgedaire freexer unit. Even today the taste of good icecream takes me back to my childhood days.
— Terry broadbent Mar 30, 10:34 AM #
my favorite ice cream memory was when I was 5 years old eating a soft serve from maccas. it was a family day and my mum wanted to take a photo of me and my older brother. so I decided to do a pose with my hands in the air. inevitably just when the photo was being taken the ice cream fell onto the ground due to gravity and I started to cry.As if the camera knew it was the perfect moment to tease me the photo came out with me crying staring at the ice cream on the floor and my brother having the biggest smile enjoying his soft serve. of course in the end i got another one. heheh
— dennis Mar 30, 10:35 AM #
It was probably over twenty years ago now, but my cousins and I didn’t have enough money to each buy a choc-dipped cone from the ice cream truck, so all we had were plain soft serves on a cone. Everyone was silently disappointed. One of my cousins offers her cone to my grandma to lick, and instead she stuffs the whole cone in my grandma’s face – just to get rid of it! My poor granny!
— katie Mar 30, 10:48 AM #
my favorite ice cream memory would have to be when I went to camp for the first time they told us we could have as much as we wanted mum only let us have two scoops at home i remember eating so much that i was sick the next morning im lactose intolerant by the way hehe but it was soooo worth it :).
— michael sampson Mar 30, 11:24 AM #
I love ice cream and have wanted to buy an ice cream maker for yeeeears!

The main memory that comes to mind about ice cream is when I was 5 or 6 years old my family and I went to the St. Louis Zoo (in the US). My parents were running out of spending money and I was such a spoiled brat that they spent their last cents on an ice cream cone for me!
— Jamieanne Mar 30, 12:14 PM #
Getting busted at 5 years old, i got the ice cream out of the freezer and ate 1.5 liters to my self, boy was i sick the next day.
— Bec Mar 30, 12:39 PM #
Eating a gelato in San Remo Italy while on holiday when my cousin who lives there casually said oh there’s Ringo Starr. Needless to say I dropped the gelato and went for my camera and asked Ringo if I could take a photo and he said yes ! True Story.
— Cristina Arganese Mar 30, 03:46 PM #
My little brother VS 21 different flavours of ice cream in a giant bowl….half an hour later and he was licking the bottom
— Louise Mar 30, 05:15 PM #
My favourite ice-cream memory is when I was about five and hearing the Mr Whippy van pulling into out street. I ran inside to gather up what change I could find and flew out the front gate, and chased Mr Whippy down the street. Sadly, Mr Whippy sped off and I was without my chocolte dipped soft serve with peanuts and a flake. I ran back inside in tears – a sight that would break any father’s heart. He packed me in the car and traveresed the streets until the sound of Greensleeves became stronger. After we fianlly tracked down the rogue truck and I was blissfully licking my ice cream, I realised that Mr Whippy was not longer my hero, it had be my dad all along.
— Louise L Mar 30, 05:48 PM #
Hmmm.. Ice cream..
my funnyist memory is from when i was like 13.. i got dared to walk into a Baskins & Robins ice cream shop full of hillium from the balloons we had,and ask for a double scoop of choc chip cookie dough ice cream…. they looked at me strange gave me the ice cream and told me to get out….
I got the ice cream for free…
Hehe.. think it gave everyone a good laugh though….
— Melanie Mar 30, 06:47 PM #
My favourite ice-cream memory would have to be, as a child, hearing the jingle of the ice-cream van that came around to peoples houses in summer. I lived in a quiet community, so would always hear the van long before I saw it. My parents then had to endure me waiting impatiently until the van arrived so we could all enjoy ice-cream.
— Lauren Martin Mar 30, 08:03 PM #
it was only last year when we went to italy as a whole family. My brother in-law who is a marathon runner couldn’t stop eating the icecream because it was so good. Every time we looked around he was eating another ice cream with his daughters.
— steve borg Mar 31, 12:58 AM #
One of my fondest memories was only a few years ago. We were staying in a suite at a 5 star hotel but we weren’t enjoying our stay as everything was going wrong and on top of that I wasn’t feeling well. One afternoon we decided on some room service & I ordered the Creme Brûlée & ice-cream. My expectations weren’t high because everything had gone wrong during our stay. Well when the dessert arrived, it was the best & tastiest I think I have ever had. The hand made vanilla bean ice-cream was to die for & put a smile on my face.
— Kim Livingston Mar 31, 01:27 AM #
As a little girl i remember trying my first ever flavoured ice cream! I picked popping candy, apparently my parents were very surprised and amused at the faces i was making while trying to cunsume it. I must admit it was delicious and quite ‘surprising’!
— Hannah Cooke Mar 31, 08:16 AM #
oh from when I was 8 yrs old. Made home made ice cream but we didnt have an electric mixer so i mixed it with an egg beater. My hands were so sore and I was extremely tired, my dad felt so sorry for me he made sure I got the mixer for my birthday! Love you dad!
— Cheyenne Lambert Mar 31, 10:42 AM #
When i was young my father used to feed me plain yougurt and tell me it was icecream. We loved it and wanted it all the time but was only allowed as a special treat. Imagine the taste explosion i had when i first tried real icecream. Since then i have not looked back, i am an icecream junkie!
— Jock Duncan Mar 31, 01:15 PM #
…I was 5 and experienced my first ever BRAIN FREEZE from icecream overload, My Dad has a photo of me in tears from the freeze but still spooning the icecream in my mouth, Love love love ICECREAM :o)
— Tamara Nichols Mar 31, 01:33 PM #
When I was young it was my dream to eat a ‘kitchen sink’ at the local ice-creamery. This was literally a kitchen sink on a stand filled with every type of ice cream you could imagine. I finally realised my dream for my 12th birthday. About 5 years later, I started working in that very same icecreamery on the beachfront. I spent my days scooping up the 32 flavours, having ice fights with my colleagues, encountering blender malfunctions where I was covered in icecream and milk, throwing metal scoops at would-be robbers, leaving the store with rainbow covered arms and smelling like bubblegum on the bus ride home. I also learnt the well-kept secret that rainbow flavour is actually just vanilla with colouring! Great memories, thanks Suze for prompting me to reminisce!
— Jo Mar 31, 02:40 PM #
Visiting my Nans We always had Ice-cream with Hundred and Thousands sprinkled on, its a fond memory now because now I am older my teeth wouldn’t be able to handle it.
— Lisa Mar 31, 03:37 PM #
Eating a bubble “O” bill walking over to Granite Island, near Victor Harbour with my cousin. We never was allowed to have bubblegum, and thought this was a wonderful experience all round
— Karin Williams Mar 31, 03:54 PM #
there once was a little icecream shop in the main street of foster and when we were younger they ran a competition for whoever could get the record for eating the most icecream scoops on a cone in one hit got it for free and there photo up on the wall so my brother inlaw gave it a shot and so we all watched and watched whilst he devoured a 12 scoop ice-cream and gained a place on the wall: ) we were all very excitied! his photo stayed on the wall until that little shop shut down!
— amy Mar 31, 04:14 PM #
Me and Peter sittin’ in a tree,
K.I.S.S.I.N.G.
Vanilla for Peter, Chocolate for me.
“Look out Peter” your gonna fall from the tree!!!
— Michelle Reed Mar 31, 06:05 PM #
My favourite ice-cream memory is a happy memory, yet it is a sad one as my granny is no longer here with me to share this special moment.

My granny took care of me when I was young. My mum is a strict working mum and she never allowed me to eat any sweets or ice-cream. I recalled granny was pretty poor at that time but granny knew I love to eat ice-cream.

Once a week, granny would treat me to an ice-cream cone from the ice-cream man. We would sit down by the road sharing an ice-cream cone and talking about my classes and my friends. As I was a young girl, I did not think about where granny would get the money to buy the ice-cream for me. Only later, when I am older, I realised where the ice-cream money come from.

Every Wednesday, granny would go around the neighbourhood collecting soft-drink cans and bottles. She would then sell these cans and bottles to the recycling man. Whilst it is not much, the money is enough to buy ice-cream for me every week.

Looking back, I realise how unselfish my granny was, using her hard-earned money on making me happy instead of on herself. She passed away 3 years ago and I never really have the opportunity to repay her for all her kindness as I have been studying abroad for almost 10 years. I hope she knew how much I really love her and appreciate her kindness.

Every time I eat an ice-cream cone, I will always think of my kind and unselfish granny.
— Ming Mar 31, 08:01 PM #
I actually have a few fave icecream memories! Once i think it was after a big test, me and my friend vicky went to the train station after our test and we went to maccas to get a soft serve as an after test treat and the soft-serve machine was broken and because we had the biggest craving for icecream we went to woolies to get some gelato or frozen yoghurt cups but we were 5 CENTS short of two cups so we had to either share a small cup or buy a ridiculously large 12 pack of chocolate covered coles icecreams and share it between us and finish it before our strict no junk mum’s saw us, which would give us the 15-20 minute train trip. We skilfully bought the pack of 12 without hassle and ninja-ly jumped onto the train with our forbidden treats and gleefully tore away at our large pile of icecreams, having contests like, ‘who can take the largest bite’, in a big effort to finish our 2 dollars 70 worth of cheap icecreams :) later that night after stumbling home i got a text from viki telling me that for dinner her sister had force fed her icecream and i laughed so hard, and having still not recovered from the mass load of icecream in my tummy i turned a delicate shade of green when mum then informed us we were going to go to the limited time special icecream deserts event and starcity buffet :D
— Polly Chan Mar 31, 08:43 PM #
My fave ice cream memory is way up there in my best foodie moments, the day I was introduced to choc/hazelnut gelato. To this day I cannot resist a taste and the memory of my maiden gelato voyage comes flooding back, Yum!
— Alarna Apr 1, 01:41 AM #
This is a sweet love story. My girlfriend loves green tea cake and for my marriage proposal, I borrowed my friend’s ice-cream maker and tried to prepare home-made green tea ice-cream for her as part of my dessert course. Unfortunately I was pretty nervous and totally confused green tea powder with wasabi powder (don’t ask me how!). The ice-cream turned out to be nice (in appearance) but one bite of the ice-cream practically put tears in my girlfriend’s eyes!. Fortunately she is able to look past my silly mistake and she is now my dear wife of 3 days :)
— Alex Apr 1, 02:22 AM #
i never liked chocolate as a child unless it was ice cream, well, i liked anything if it was ice cream. the only cakes i liked were ice cream cakes. my father used to comfort my sad days with a rainbow paddle pop. he died suddenly a few months ago, i have a tattoo of the word ‘ice cream’ to remind myself of what will cheer me up if nothing else.
— lena Apr 1, 12:08 PM #
Another goodie…

In our Uni days my brother was going out with a total gym junkie, sugar nazi, beige food hating health freak and he was tooooootally whipped. A former slacker with a major penchant for Maccas chips and soft serve he now followed this gung-ho exercise/diet regimen she had designed for him on their third date. Ha! Anyway, during the hols she’d gone home to see her family and not having heard from my bro in a few I called around to find him in what I can only describe as a complete and utterly dedicated sugar coma. He was paralytic on the couch and surrounded by fast food junk and more Gaytime wrappers than I could count! It was hilarious. Well, it would have been had he not proceeded to projectile vomit all over my faux Fendi… Don’t hate on the faux Fendi – it matched my faux J’ADORE DIOR tee, faux ‘H’ pleather belt and tri-hoop goddess earrings. I rocked 2002.

Peace.
— BonniesCouncel Apr 1, 06:41 PM #
My fondest memory was in Milan, Italy. I so hapenned to have befriended an Italian lad and thought nothing of it. Few days later I found myself eyeing the most amazing gelato/icecream I had ever seen, displayed in mountains and mountains of various flavours and beautiful italian names that sounded so exotic. When I was just about to order, to my horror (and to my excitement later) it was the befriended italian guy! Little did I know he was the nephew of the icecream shop! He eventually let me loose in the back end factory as I told him I just loved icecream. I have never eaten so much icecream in my life, sample here, taste there… Icrecream heaven I tell you. Must confess: this italian dude soon became my next best friend for obvious reasons. In this instance, icecream MOST DEFINITELY ruled over romance!
— Zoe Apr 1, 09:30 PM #
When my dear Grandpa asked my fiance for a lick of his ice-cream. My fiance agreed, watched him lick it all over and then still ate it so as not to offend him!
— Christina Apr 1, 09:41 PM #
Every summer I think back to when I was much younger. Every summer until I was 10, my family holidayed in Inverloch Victoria. There they used to have the best ice cream palour, they used to have 60+ flavours. Always creamy and full of flavour. I tried many of them over the years and would love to re-create my favourites, Strawberry, Licorice and White Chocolate & Raspberry ice creams….. yummo…..
— Tanyia Apr 2, 02:45 PM #
My girlfriends trying to cheer me up after a break up with a boyfreind. Its not the happiest of times but such a memorable one and just shows what fantastci friends I have!
— Kat Apr 2, 06:01 PM #
My parents had a Chinese restaurant many many years ago. Dad reckons he invented ‘fried icecream’. The first time we tried it, we were quite impressed. For those who don’t know, it’s a scoop of icecream rolled in a sponge cake, rolled in a light batter and quickly deep fried. The icecream remains cold in the centre. However, my best memory was when our neighbour who was a bully and who constantly terrorised me, ran out for the ice cream van and got run over breaking his leg. You might say that ‘revenge was sweet’.
— Wins Apr 3, 12:14 AM #
My best icecream memory was savouring (trying to share) a gelato cup in Rome, Italy with my beautiful boyfriend!
— Kristy s Apr 3, 01:42 AM #
Icecream and lovemaking. It was hot !
— Tori Apr 3, 10:12 AM #
my dad tells me the story of when I was 3 and he was trying to encourage me to be honest.. I had ice cream all over my face and he asked me’ becki have you been eating icecream you would think even at 3 I would realise hey I am done here. But NO.. My response was No dad.. i been a goodgirl.. that story comes up a lot haha
— Rebecca Egan Apr 3, 03:33 PM #
My favourite ice cream memory would have to be of my friend’s aunt’s soft serve shop in a seaside town in Poland. We used to holiday there each year and even though we were only 5 or 6, we were left minding the shop over lunch. The soft serve was so cold and all natural, real milk, cream, cocoa, vanilla, blueberries! Blueberry softserve, from berries only hours old, can you imagine?? It was the best! Even my Mum liked it because it wasn’t made out of some powdered gunk.

So, for a while I wanted to have my own ice cream shop so that I could eat as much of it as I wanted. I obviously didn’t realise the financial pitfall of doing so, but gosh it tasted so good I don’t think I’d realise it now. Unfortunately, they don’t make ice cream like this anymore…
— Martyna@WholesomeCook Apr 3, 05:02 PM #
When I was young my family and I used to live in a little one street town. On my first trip in to the city my parents took me to an icecreamery and they had so many flavours I had never heard of- Rocky Road, Choc Mint, Bubblegum.. In the end I settled for ferrero rocher, it is still my favourite flavour today!
— Dannielle Jackson Apr 3, 07:15 PM #
When i was a little tacker i was at the zoo looking at the elephants, licking my bubblegum icecream cone. The elephant reached over the fence with his trunk and stole my icecream right out of my hand! I shed a few tears, but a very funny moment and i’ll never forget it :)
— Sarah McBroom Apr 3, 07:17 PM #
There are certain things that just make memories come flooding back, I find icecream to be one of those things.

When I was younger I wasn’t allowed to eat icecream often, but I was always able to share one with my Nanna when I went to stay with her.

She lived across the road from the beach, and we would spend the afternoons walking along the shore, splashing in the waves, collecting shells and building sandcastles.

Every afternoon on the way home we would go to the icecream truck that used to trawl the carpark and share a waffle cone with vanilla icecream and warm chocolate fudge.

My favourite bit was the end of the cone (that is usually where the fudge pooled!) and Nan always let me have that part, even though it was her favourite too.

Nan isn’t still here with me, but everytime I have icecream I think back to those wonderful times at the beach with my Nan, and it always makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside!
— Danni Apr 3, 07:31 PM #
We used to own a milkbar and we had scoop ice cream with abut 12 different flavours. Our biggest treat was to be around when one of the massive big tubs was empty, and we got to sit down with a spoon and eat the bits that the scoop couldn’t reach!! When we were that little, the tubs were bigger than we were!!
— Shahne Apr 3, 10:49 PM #
When we were in rome we had to try all the yummy gelato flavours over there. One store “swindled” us when we asked for a 3 scoop cone. It was served in a 30cm high cone and cost us 20 euros. It was delicious though but we were so sick from it we could not look at another gelato for the remainder of the trip!
— nomis Apr 4, 09:50 AM #
When I was young my mother took my sister and I to a small country town to meet her aunts and uncles. The only non relative memory I have was daily walks to the shop. Every day we would press our faces against the glass and look at the new flavours of ice cream the owner had made. The owner knew my mum, and would grab two teaspoons and let us try the different flavours for free. To this day I’ve yet to find a choc mint icecream anywhere near as good as hers was!
— Kat Apr 4, 10:15 AM #
we have made icecream at home on a few occasions….much loved by my kids…..would lots easier and quicker with and icecream maker….
— rebecca Apr 4, 11:00 AM #
While out with my boyfriend on a date I got to try a delicious blood orange for the first time.It was heaven.
— Jeanette Adams Apr 4, 12:19 PM #
Another one of my fave icecream moments would have to be when i was sitting at home and i was craving something sugary while doing my math homework, and i heard the icecream truck a couple of streets away so i self debated for a couple of minutes before rushing out side with my dollar fifty, wishing that it would be enough for a small vanilla cone but upon almost colliding with the back of the truck i looked at the sign and realised that i was 1 dollar short so i started walking home but i noticed that the truck was following me and the first thing that came to mind was ‘PEDO DRIVERRR’ but the truck stopped and the old man at wheel asked me what i wanted and i said a double choctop cone which was ridiculously out of my price range at that moment and he said ‘so how much do you have?’ and i replied, ‘only 1 fifty’ and so i gave him the small change that i had and he made me a double scoop choctop with sprinkles which bought tears of happiness to my eyes when he handed it to be with a sly comment of ‘i saw you running through those streets to my icecream truck and in all my years behind the wheel i have never seen someone run down the street in their jammies and flipflops with a math post it note stuck to there jammies running own the street so eagerly for icecream!’ i went and got icecream from him every 2 weeks afterwards and have ever since and occasionally he would let me inside the truck and let me use the softserve machine! (:
— Polly Chan Apr 4, 01:22 PM #
my favourite icecream memory is of my Nanna who taught me the best way to eat icecream. In a cone (pushed all the way to the bottom) dipped in custard and/or milo. I rememeber as a kid sitting around of an afternoon while she was alive. Sharing the dipping bowls and laughs.
— Lauren McLeod Apr 4, 02:00 PM #
When i was 9 my favorite memory is when i went to cold rock in the central coast with my aunty.
— Rhys Singler Apr 4, 02:22 PM #
My favorite ice cream memory is my first day with my now partner of 3 years. When we first met he was 25 and he told me his favorite food was icecream. So he organised the most memorable first date…we went to a small park in the middle of the city and sat there eating our icecream. Icecream is now seen as a special thing in our relationship. Every time we eat it, it reminds us of that day. Perfect!
— Chrysanthi Aroutzidis Apr 4, 02:44 PM #
My fondest memory of ice cream days, are childhood dreams on hot Summer days, When Mother would would say “Strawberry or Vanilla”, and we would say “bananna” ( :
— Tania Ring Apr 4, 03:25 PM #
MMM, icecream! My favourite memory was Baskin Robbins Orange Sherbert icecream when I was an ankle biter!
— Kim Apr 4, 03:26 PM #
My favourite ice cream memory was visiting my grandpa on his farm when I was little and we made icecream in his ancient icecream maker, with sunshine yellow egg yolks fresh from his chickens, the sweetest raspberries from his garden and drizzled with honey like liquid gold from the man who kept bees down the road. I have never in my life tasted anything so magnificent.
— Kate Apr 4, 05:29 PM #
my favorite and funniest moment was we were all only little and mum had taken us to buccan caves and a kageroo stole my sisters icecream cone she cried for hours and now 30 years later we still go there and laugh about the kangeroo and try and guess if he is still there
— kayleen Apr 4, 05:59 PM #
Hearing the faint, yet iconic sound of Mr Whippy’s bell in the late afternoons, after school and racing my brothers around the streets in search of his van !
— Carla Bruun Apr 4, 10:26 PM #
Deep fried ice cream from Thailand, they work magic with a crispy coconut casing that is thick and coconutty….and then you bite into the icecream and it just gets better, especially in the sticky tropical heat
— becr Apr 4, 11:16 PM #
I remember the first time I had gone to sydney & had my first Cold Rock Icecream, I was facinated with the way it was made on the marble. I have now made my own cold rock with a marble rolling board. We live in country QLD so at least we can enjoy it at home.
— Roxy Meaney Apr 5, 09:27 AM #
My special moment was trying a 3 litre tub of Golden North Mint Choc ice-cream after buying it from Woolworths.It is the best tasting ice-cream I have had in my life (I’m 53 now).
— Greg Bamber Apr 5, 10:46 AM #
the taste of a freshly made waffles with chocolate ice cream made with real Lindt chocolate toped with hot choc fudge can’t beat that.
— katy Apr 5, 11:00 AM #
My sons first ever choc ice cream and he had his whole face covered with chocolate. We took a photo and its still my favourite
— Paul Apr 5, 11:15 AM #
One of my favourite memories of my now deceased dad was dessert on Saturday nights – he’d buy vanilla icecream and then we’d hit the liquor cupboard and lay out all the extras – chopped nuts, wafers, shaved chocolate, fruit and we’d make the most amazing sundaes. My favourite was with with strawberries and chopped almonds with Bailey’s as a topping! He never drank but he loved his liquor toppings! I miss those days!
— Fiona Bottcher Apr 5, 11:17 AM #
When working at McDonalds I handed a customer a soft serve ice cream in a cone through the drive thru window and tripped as I did so sending the ice cream sliding down the side of their car! Fortunately the customer was fosicking in their purse for money and didn’t see it happen and I managed to clean it off and get another one sent down all without them knowing!
— Louise Firli Apr 5, 11:17 AM #
As a child I loved eskimo pies; their lovely compact size, melt-in-the-mouth creaminess and chocolate crackly covering. As a family we’d eat them as a special dessert treat. Even now when I have one it brings me back to my happy, funny childhood.
— Marjory Gardner Apr 5, 11:36 AM #
I used to love eating the infamous “bubble o bill”. I would eat an entire ice-cream, just so i could eat the bubble gum at the very end. Sad but true, it just goes to show how strange that is, now i think back (why didn’t i just buy a packet of chewing gum).
— Rachel Apr 5, 11:38 AM #
Sitting on the beach
Ice-cream dripping down my arm
The crunchy sandy pieces
Didn’t do me any harm!!
— Charmaine Agosta Apr 5, 11:40 AM #
Yummy childhood memories of “Mr Whippy” playing “GreenSleeves” in the street,
I’d look at mum, pleadingly for a treat,
Out the door, not much time to spare,
Before you knew it, he wasn’t there,
A chocolate dipped soft serve cone dripping down my chin and arm,
Bring back those vans, so many delicious memories, so much charm.
— Vicki Apr 5, 11:40 AM #
My favourite Ice cream memory is the first time my Grandma introduced me to Hokey Pokey Ice cream.. now I eat it every time I buy one, in memory of my beautiful grandma.
— Carla Heather Apr 5, 11:52 AM #
I always loved icecream cones as I kid but I hated getting sticky hands so as soon as my cone started to drip I would give it to my Dad and he’d lick up the drips for me while I got to try his icecream! Handy since I could never choose just one flavour either!
— Sarah Apr 5, 11:53 AM #
My favorite ice cream memory is the day when I discovered there were more flavors than just vanilla and Neapolitan.
— Susan Apr 5, 12:02 PM #
Being totally ADDICTED to MACADAMIA ICECREAM during one of my PREGNANCIES – Nothing else would do! I got to the stage where I had to hide it to stop the RAISED EYEBROWS in my household!
— Jeni Apr 5, 12:02 PM #
My favourite ice cream memory is just about the only interaction I ever got with my dad. Every weekend as kids he used to drag my sister and I out to look at cars, but we always had to stay in our car and it was so boring – no ds’s back then! The only reason we liked it though was because on the way home dad always took us to our favourite icecream shop and let us choose whatever flavour icecream we wanted – I always got a type of chocolate! Other than that, dad barely spoke to us :o(
— simone whittaker Apr 5, 12:16 PM #
My favourite ice-cream memory is my dolly varden ice-cream cake that I had for my eighth birthday. I thought it was gorgeous and kept the doll part for many years afterward.
— Tanya Apr 5, 12:21 PM #
My sister and I got ice creams one hot day as kids and I ate mine up fast and my sister still had hers so I pushed it in her face. It was very funny.
— Mandy Graham Apr 5, 12:21 PM #
My wife and I used to go to Sorrento, VIC just to enjoy the amazing ice cream there.
— Matt Graham Apr 5, 12:25 PM #
We could hear the ice-cream truck around the neighbourhood.
Yelling out to mum and dad for money …
running down the street chasing him, making sure we never missed out.
Hot weather and eating ice cream go together no matter how old you are….
— Peta Bauer Apr 5, 12:29 PM #
During the dark days of the war, my young cousin was treated to a penny ice cream from the ice cream man who drove around in an old van. He, however, threw a tantrum because he wanted a three penny ice cream instead and threw it on the ground!! Needless to say, he learnt a lesson that day and got nothing!!
Not long after, a very large, black-clad, sweating priest came to the door..Roddy took one look at him and ran through the house screaming, “Mum!! Mum!! Come quickly!! It’s Hitler!!”
— ros mayes Apr 5, 12:33 PM #
Camping at the beach when I was little and all the kids running for ‘Mr Whippy’when we heard the bell.
— Elyse Clarke Apr 5, 12:34 PM #
It only happened last week! My husband and I were out the front with our two small children when a ‘Mr Whippy’van playing his music stopped in our street. Master 3 asked “What’s that mum?” My children had never seen a ‘Mr Whippy’ van before! We all ordered an ice-cream each (Sprinkles for the boys, chocolate coating for mum and dad!) Master 6 then said (with a huge ice cream coated smile“Is that man going to bring ice cream to our house every Sunday from now on? I hope so! This is our families favourite ice cream memory
— Kelly Baker Apr 5, 12:54 PM #
It would have to be after my first pregnancy, I had been craving soft serve ice cream, which you aren’t allowed to have when you are pregnant, so my hubby stopped in at Macca’s on the way home from the hospital and bought me a double chocolate sundae, it was the best ice cream ever!!!
— Suzanne Ware Apr 5, 01:17 PM #
Well I’m not sure if its my favourite but it has sure stayed in my memory, my 21 year old self decided on a little chocolate heaven treat one lunch time, straight afterwards I had very important business meeting at the law firm I was working at, after the meeting I went to the bathroom only to find that I had been brown nosing the whole time…..
— sarah rowe Apr 5, 01:30 PM #
My favourite ice cream memory is sharing a 10-scoop bowl of heavenly goodness with my mum. I was coming out to her that day and was feeling a little nervous about the whole gay issue. As she could tell our chat was going to take a while, it was decided that we’d go for the Honeymoon Special – 10 delicious scoops of ice cream. We had a fantastic heart-to-heart, but ended up with frozen teeth by the end of our chat!
— Luke B Apr 5, 01:46 PM #
Whenever my parents would take us out to dinner they would never have to ask me what I wanted for dessert because it was always the same ICE CREAM AND CHOCOLATE TOPPING. At 43 my parents still order my dessert if we go out for dinner!!
— Kim Apr 5, 02:03 PM #
I love icre-cream, so I have many fond memories :). The most memorable though was watching my son try ice cream for the first time. He was about 7 months old, and just learning to eat with a spoon. His grandpa fed him a small spoonful of home made vanilla icecream, and instantly my sons eyes shot wide open. He grabbed hold of the spoon and began scooping in the bowl enthusiastically, as if he was digging for gold. He had no problems using a spoon after that :)
— Margaret L Apr 5, 02:12 PM #
Ceduna Area school. The only school in the small Nullarbor town of maybe 1500 people. At 8 years old I had been travelling around for a few years with my family, due to Dad’s work, and had covered probably about 10 schools. First week at Ceduna Area school, I discovered that the school canteen sold icecream in cones. So instead of using my lunch money to buy a cheese sandwich, I bought a ‘honey icecream cone’. Best school lunch I’ve ever had.
— Deidre Apr 5, 02:17 PM #
Just before my son was 2, we were lucky enough to travel to the USA. It was there he had his first ice-cream all to himself and was instantly in love. A couple of weeks (and a few icecreams later) a friend pointed out that he was swirling his hips as he ate his icecream – we called this his happy dance!! The photos of the icecream face and the little happy dance are gorgeous
— Paula Apr 5, 02:29 PM #
Going to Grandma’s to stay for the school holidays. She always had money in her apron for me to walk to the corner store for an ice cream – I loved the vanilla tubs, because they came with a cute little spoon
— coastalkaryn Apr 5, 02:40 PM #
Every moment eating ice cream, sorbet or frozen yogurt is a memory within itself that can’t be forgotten.

I rresistible Irish Cream
C reamy Caramel
E xquiste Expresso

C lassic Chocolate
R efreshing Raspberry
E xotic Egg Nog
A mbrosial Apple
M ellowing Macadamia
— Karen Zlatkovic Apr 5, 02:40 PM #
It was eating icecream kept cold outside an igloo I built in Canada . Minus 40 celcius keeps it mightly cool !
— ALEX Apr 5, 02:47 PM #
Mum used to buy a heap of viloet crumbles and we would sit at the kitchen table bashing them to pieces. She would mix them through a rich vanilla icecream and leave to set until after dinner. We would sit and stare at the freezer through the whole meal in anticipation of a delicious desert.
— Melissa Brown Apr 5, 03:09 PM #
My cousins and I spend a lot of time at my grandma’s house when we were younger…..On this particular day we weren’t allowed to have any ice cream, so we decided to grab a chair to stand on so that we could get the ice cream ourselves. I was nominated to stand on the chair and distribute the ice cream (i was the youngest and least likely to get in trouble). With a spoon I was scooping the ice cream straight from the container as fast as I could, passing it round to all my cousins. Until….I dropped a spoon of the ice cream in the freezer. Not wanting to get into trouble I was told by my eldest cousin to stick my tounge in the freezer to lick it off. Well, that was not such a great idea as my tounge got suck inside the freezer. There I was with my whole head in the freezer and my cousins pulling at my leags to get me out. I was in tears (and they were all laughing), until my grandma came to rescue me. Until this day my cousins and I have a little joke about it.
— Christine Boland Apr 5, 03:33 PM #
My favourite ice-cream memory was at the Beechworth Ice Creamery in Vic just last week on a family holiday with my three year old daughter. I desperately wanted to try a homemade ice-cream but toddler tantrums stopped us from going in. Later that day I walked back to the shop by myself and ordered a Choc Mint and Ferrero Rocher ice-cream in a waffle cone. The weather was gorgeous and for the next 15 minutes I was in heaven as I walked in the sunshine by myself and enjoyed my ice-cream to the very last drop without having to share it!
— Emma Apr 5, 03:35 PM #
My favourite ice-cream memory is from when I had to go get an x-ray one evening, and my father and brother were with me. We had been waiting for 30 minutes and when we asked what was happening, were told would have to wait at least another 30. we began to walk down the street and found a Baskin and Robbins. I had one of the best chocolate flavours I’d ever had. It was chocolate, chocolate fudge and white chocolate chips. It was amazing.
— Zoe Lorenzin Apr 5, 03:56 PM #
As an extremely pregnant student in 1971 I had part-time employment in a gelato shop. Those were mini-skirt days and some customers delighted in ordering gelato flavours that had me bending over far in to the cold refrigerated compartment those flavours were stored in. Overbalancing – or belly balancing – while trying to reach the coffee flavour to add to the lemon gelato already in the cone was unforgettable for me and highly entertaining for customers……. I don’t know if it is due to that experience but these days coffee gelato and lemon gelato are my favourite ice-cream flavours.
— Catherine Dengate Apr 5, 04:13 PM #
My most fond memory of ice-cream was when I was about four years of age on holiday in Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Qld. My father had taken me for my first visit to an ice-cream parlor. Walking in I thought it was the most amazing place I had ever been in. I was so small my father lifted me up to view the large variety of beautiful coloured ice-creams that were on offer and I wondered how I was going to choose a flavour. In the end I selected tutti frutti – YUM – still a favourite today.
— Jennifer Apr 5, 04:21 PM #
My funniest and favourite icecream memory is when I was a little kid and my parents took me to the movies. I ordered a choc-top icecream and as we were watching this thriller movie I was opening the choc-top, got a fright and accidentally flung the choc-top icecream across the whole cinema. I had to go back outside very embarrassed and buy a new icecream!
— Diana Shuter Apr 5, 04:39 PM #
Many glorious memories of that delightful treat, ice- cream. As a child the Amscol ice-cream in the cardboard packaging. What a family event it was to have that for dessert. The most recent going to “Wicked” ice-cream parlor at Port Douglas. Talk about varieties, there was at least 100 to choose from. The nightly ritual of walking to “Wicked” and chosing our ice-cream, sitting down in the glorious balmy evening. Simple, romantic and heavenly way to finish off the perfect day.
— Jan Greenwood Apr 5, 04:53 PM #
Every year at Christmas & new years, mum would make Smartie ice cream. Pretty simple, but swirling the smarties round in the softened ice cream swilrs the colours round, and in a kids eye’s it’s like a frozen rainbow of deliciousness! Even now, we had a family gathering last year and all my cousins introduced THEIR kids to Mum’s smartie ice cream. And it was as big a hit with them as it was with us!
— Elizabeth McGinnes Apr 5, 04:55 PM #
My Uncle was a country milkman in the old days.He used to come back every night with all the flavored milks he had left over for the day and we would freeze it and eat them on hot days.My favorite was eggnog even though I used to get a bad reaction to it I would still eat it because it was so tasty.That was the closest thing we had to ice-cream growing up so you could say we weren’t totally deprived!
— Donna Bartlett Apr 5, 05:03 PM #
My favorite memory of ice cream as a kid was watching my Grandfather dig in. He had a ritual before eating, he would stirring and stirring and stirring till he ended up with a soft serve like consistency. Then and only then would he tuck in. Being an impressionable kid I mimicked him, and its a habit that I have never been able to break. Love you pop and thanks for introducing me to such a culinary delight!
— Daniel Engsmyr Apr 5, 05:14 PM #
I got SO excited to find a shop which sold liquorice icecream so ate it until it came out my ears. Then I went out shopping not realizing my lips were blue! How embarrassing.
— Sharon Markwell Apr 5, 05:15 PM #
When I was a kid my Mum made some coffee ice cream for a dinner party. She used really strong perculated coffee and real cream – Yum. It was so strong that it had me bouncing off the walls for a while. :)Have never had coffee ice cream that compares to my Mum’s.
— Nicki Apr 5, 05:32 PM #
My triplets create triple the mess,
Their first ice-cream experience was a success!
Each sitting with excitement in their high chairs,
Resembling three very hungry little bears,
Their fingers dipped inside the ice-cream filled bowls,
When tasted it delighted their souls,
A splendid ice-cream affair!
— Annabelle Apr 5, 05:41 PM #
Going to an ice cream factory as a child and being allowed to make my own with 3 scoops! I chose chocolate fudge, caramel and strawberry and I wanted it to last forever! Still my favorite flavours!!
— Vicky Wollen Apr 5, 05:47 PM #
Everytime I tuck into a golden north cup of icecream I am reminded of my beloved grandmother who always had a cup in her freezer for her 2 granddaughters.
— Jeanette Adams Apr 5, 05:57 PM #
Thinking back I must say I have a lot of good memories that involve ice-cream… probably because it is ice-cream and it just seems to promote god and happy feelings. I think though the most creative one would be when I lived on residence at my University in first year. It was one of my close friends birthday (whom also lived on res) that night and me and another friend decided we would make an awesome birthday cake for her. Well considering it was the two of us, it didn’t really turn out looking much like a normal cake. We had wanted to try our hand at making an ice-cream cake… with absolute no experience or recipe (this would probably be a good time when an ice-cream making machine would come in handy? lol) Anyway so we went down to Safeway/Woolies and just began to pack our basket with all sorts of interesting things ranging from marshmallows to cookies, and of course we can’t forget the icecream. We got back to Res and decided to make this cake up in his room for more privacy (and cause he had a mini kitchen up there). we tried to semi-melt the ice cream and did all sorts of crazy things to try and mix it all together… I think we even tried to make some sort of crushed cookie base. We couldn’t find a bowl to help us keep it’s shape so I recall us grabbing a random saucepan to use. After sticking it in the fridge for half a day, our friend finally came back to Res for dinner – in which the two of us sprung our very interesting suprise upon the un suspecting victim. To say the final product ended up looking like a cake would be a complete and total utter lie – but we were still proud of the finished product. Of course our “cake” never really ended up setting properly so when it came to serving it, I’m pretty sure we all just grabbed spoons and tucked in. Yes, we still at the weird disturbing cousin to an ice-cream cake – I mean come on, it had ice-cream, marshmallows and cookies and all sorts of yummy things! who wouldn’t? It turned out suprisingly (and unsuprisingly) good, although I think we all agreed that after a bit all of the sugariness made us all feel just a little bit ill – lol, but it was definitely a fun occassion that I will always remember and think of whenever I see ice-cream cake!
— Karlee Apr 5, 05:57 PM #
My favourite memory is my dad teaching me about tax with ice cream! He’d buy us one, then take a big bite out of it and say it was tax! I’m now an accountant…
— Laura Apr 5, 06:00 PM #
My favourite Ice Cream Memory is when my 2 year old got her first Brain Freeze from eating a big spoon of vanilla icecream. I still laugh out loud when i think about the face she pulled.
— Claudia Fusca Apr 5, 06:17 PM #
Eating it off my partner’s naked body.. Naughty but N-Ice!
— Roberto Colombi Apr 5, 06:23 PM #
My favourite ice-cream memory is from when I was a child, whenever we had a family get-together – aunts, uncles, couisins, grandparents, etc. My grand-dad would take all of us grand-kids to the local shop (there were 7 of us!), and buy us all vanilla ice-cream in a cone. On the walk back home, we would all have a race to see who could eat theirs the fastest, before it melted all down our arms! To this day, I cannot have an ice-cream cone without thinking about my grand-dad. :)
— Julie Redmond Apr 5, 06:24 PM #
Dropping my ice cream and my brother sharing his with me – made me realise and appreciate the importance of family even at an early age!
— Marie Pohnetalova Apr 5, 06:24 PM #
I scream,
You scream,
My grandchildren scream,
for ice cream.
So let’s make it healthy !!!!!!!
— Elizabeth Gough Apr 5, 06:38 PM #
My fav ice cream memory is when I was a kid sitting on the front curb outside our married quarters house in SE NSW on a hot westerly day with ice cream dripping on the pavement as we raced to finish them before they melted.
— Susan Rowsell Apr 5, 06:45 PM #
My Mummy had 4 kids of which I was the oldest. Every weekend my Mum would take us up the Perth hills to visit our grandparents who had an orchard. We’d spend hours and hours running around the trees and we loved every minute. But, we were always looking forward to the treat on the way home! On the way home was the most magical place in the world, the Junction Ice-creamery, who long before we had Baskin Robbins, had hundreds (ok, maybe not hundreds!) of delicious flavours. My brother and sisters all liked to try a new flavour each time. Me, I had the same every day. Choc Marshmallow. Still have never seen that flavour again… I wanna make it!
— Victoria Apr 5, 07:00 PM #
When I was young we had an icecream man who used to come every Sunday evening. He drove a Combi van that had a built in freezer in the back and a hessian hamper with dry ice in it. We were allowed to purchase a dandy each which he produced from the hamper and my parents used to by a Rainbow brick, which is Neapolitan Ice cream but it used to come packaged in cardboard. Every Sunday we listened for his arrival which was heralded with the ringing of a hand held bell. This was our weekly treat which we looked forward to with anticipation. Simple but etched forever in my memory.
— Marina Apr 5, 07:42 PM #
My favourite ice cream memories are as a kid when my two older brothers would babysit me they would keep me happy by experimenting with icecream flavours melting vanilla ice cream then mixing in all sorts of unusual ingrediants from the fridge and pantry like nutella with peanut butter, vegemite, sultana bread and my favourite cocoa pops with gummie bears. The mix would get refrozen before tasting began. Oh the things my brothers would do to keep their little sis happy.
— Simone Apr 5, 07:50 PM #
O*.*O <—- Me
Ok, you might be wondering why I look like the “oh so handsome” chipmunk in the picture (click my name at the end of this post \/). Well like many other people before me, I had my wisdom teeth out. My favourite and most hilarious memory was when I was at the hospital straight after the operation. I got served vanilla ice-cream (YUMMY!) and was told to eat it. However as I ate the pure white ice-cream rapidly turned a pink/reddish colour of the blood oozing out of my mouth. It wasn’t painful or anything, just funny. I looked and felt disabled as I couldn’t feel blood oozing and someone else had to wipe it away. Despite all this amusement, the ice-cream tasted like no other and it helped the swelling a bit. So instead of looking as full cheeked as a chipmunk I just looked like I had a full mouth of delicious sweet vanilla ice-cream! o^_^o
— Jean Apr 5, 08:10 PM #
My mother made the best Ice Cream back in the 50s with Sunshine Powdered milk, it was the vanilla taste that I will never forget.
— Carol Rittner Apr 5, 08:55 PM #
i remember when my grandmother took me to germany on the ferry from england, she bought me a chocolate strawberry ice-cream when all of a sudden the ferry rock very hard and my ice cream ended up on my grandmothers head it was so funny
— hellen Apr 5, 09:05 PM #
I can remember the first time I ever tasted ice-cream. I grew up in the country and almost everything we ate was home grown. I remember my mother let me make ice cream one day, and I got to put all my favourite things in it (cinnamon, digestive biscuits, honey, sugar and turmeric (I loved the colour!)) … Lets just say it was not tasty at all, but very colourful! and it really cemented in me an absolute passion for cooking which I still harbour to this day… Thanks mum.
— Myra Apr 5, 09:12 PM #
My SWEETEST dream, I shared an ice-cream with my first boyfriend. We SAVOURED the nICE moment. It was a DISH come true!
— Becky Neary Apr 5, 09:22 PM #
As a kid I always have very fond memories of going to the old fashion style home made ice cream shop in town. They have the best ice cream by far and I know have passed in the tradition of going often to my kids as I want them to have the same fond memories of there ice cream. we have decided that we are going to concure the bowl of ice cream that is a scoop of every flavour in the shop an experience I hope my sons will always remember
— Lauren Woolbank Apr 5, 09:34 PM #
I will always remember we went shopping for Ice-cream. My sister was so excited and ran straight for the freezer. Once we got around there she had her tongue stuck in the freezer! My dad had unlatch her tongue from the freezer. Once we got home her tongue was so sore that she didn’t want any ice cream. I ended up with double the amount!
— Trent Smith Apr 5, 10:06 PM #
Parkgate Icecream the memory of a distant past with my long gone dad,cold icecream to match the cold weather in the north of england
— Lindsey Leehy Apr 5, 10:11 PM #
My Memory is when I went on my 5th date with now Hubby to Manly. We went and Had icecream and As I was tasting his icecream it fell off the cone and straight down my top and nestled itself in my Bra :)
— Shaz Apr 5, 10:37 PM #
Soft serve ice cream from the van playing “Greensleeves” all the kids wanted one, such a treat on hot day.
— Di Apr 5, 11:50 PM #
Making a very tall stack of neopolitan ice cream with my mum.
— Maybel Apr 6, 12:02 AM #
I was in hospital after getting my tonsils out when I was around five years old. After the operation the nurse gave me something in a bowl which was square and wrapped in thin paper. I remember unwrapping the square block of icecream, the vanilla scent hitting my nostrils, my spoon sinking into the softening block, and the refreshing, cool, sweet icecream hitting the back of my sore throat. It was heaven wrapped up in a small square.
— Priscilla Apr 6, 12:21 AM #
I remember eating my ice cream too fast and getting ice cream headaches all the time!
— karina wong Apr 6, 12:21 AM #
Hearing the music was the first thing to spark my excitement. I could hear it from miles away. Yes it was Mr Whippy and the wait was nearly over. I must have been eight or nine.
— Linda Courtney Apr 6, 02:32 AM #
Choc Mint ice cream on the beach when I was a kid – the cool, refreshing, delicious flavours of Choc Mint ice cream have stayed permanently within my emotions to this day
— Michael Rensford Apr 6, 08:29 AM #
As a child my Dad would pick us up from school on the back tray of his ute. We would stop off at our local corner store and get the biggest scooped ice cream ever, always in orange choc chip, Dads favourite and we would lick them all the way home with lots of drips and mess on the back of the ute.
— Alisa Watson Apr 6, 09:34 AM #
I grew up in Fiji, and we’d visit islands on long holidays. One island had an ice-cream eating contest where the kids had to tie their hands behind their backs and plunge their faces into a bowl of ice cream. The first to finish won. My brother and I tied for first, we were fierce ice cream lovers!
— Serena Apr 6, 09:58 AM #
When I was little Myer Melbourne by the front doors had a stand where they sold exciting AMERICAN ice cream, it was mint with chocolate chips, the most exotic thing to this little girl in her fancy dress with little white gloves on her yearly trip to Melbourne on the red rattler train. Feeling so exotic eating this wonder, it made me start to crave travel, something I never have gotten over
— Leanne Bree Apr 6, 10:32 AM #
we used to have a vanilla ice cream that had bits of cookie dough i would always spit out the dough make my ice cream slushy drink it and then i would eat the dough it was so yummy
— michele collins Apr 6, 11:09 AM #
When I was a kid living in Sicily, sitting at a cafe with a brioche full of Gelato. The Gelato was dripping all over me but it tasted sooo good, the drips didn’t bother me, my mother on the other hand …
— Mimma Carnabuci Apr 6, 11:12 AM #
For my 18th birthday, my friend’s and I made a home made ice cream cake without a machine and put it into a metal container. On the day, it was stuck and we couldn’t get it out, so in the photos I have this ugly metal tray with our super cake that was very tasty!
— Laura Jilka Apr 6, 12:34 PM #
My fav ice cream memory would have to be Sat nights with my dad. My mum worked so it was just dad & me, we always had leftovas for dinner, but after dinner we always went out to get our fav banana paddle pops…. still love em to this day :)
— Kim Parsons Apr 6, 12:50 PM #
My favourite icecream memory is my middle son sitting in the back seat of the car eating a very rare treat of a soft serve cone and saying “This is the life.”
— Michelle Apr 6, 12:51 PM #
When I was pregnant with my 3rd child one week my hubby and I decided to ‘just buy treats’ when we were out groccery shopping instead of doing our ‘normal’ shop (don’t worry there was still some consumption of healthy food in there). I remember sitting on the couch eating my delicious strawberry connoisseur ice cream thoroughly enjoying it and laughing about our impulsive shopping adventure!!
— Felicity Apr 6, 01:27 PM #
I have a picture of me when I was 5 on a really hot Queensland summer’s day, i had melted chocolate ice cream all around my mouth. My scoop of ice cream had just fallen onto the green grass and i was attempting to pick it all up and put it back on my cone to eat it. Needless to say, I didn’t get very far.
— Rebecca Apr 6, 01:36 PM #
who doesnt like icecream…my first icecream was at a party i had and it was an icecream cake…i have wanted an icecream cake every birthday since!
— penny Apr 6, 02:07 PM #
My favourite ice cream memory is as a child visiting my nanna’s house and whenever she gave us ice cream as a treat she always put cordial over the top. My favourite was always lime cordial and to this day I still think of that whenever I see lime cordial. So now when my wife makes her homemade vanilla ice cream (without the machine though) I always like to spoil my boys with a little cordial on top!
— Justin Apr 6, 02:14 PM #
Sitting in Pizza Hut in the 70s as a boy at birthday parties and experiencing an ice cream cake eating it till I was sick!
— Curt Apr 6, 02:22 PM #
Buying a great big tub of vanilla ice cream and creating a whole bunch of different concoctions. The best was maltesers, gummi bears and sherbet. The worst: tomato and bbq sauce. And cleaning up after…
— Nicola Apr 6, 03:34 PM #
My very first date with my very first boyfriend. We went to the local ice creamery and got The Kitchen Sink plus two spoons. The most enormous ice cream sundae you could ever imagine, served in a mini stainless steel kitchen sink. First love and ice cream Awwwww….
— Jenny Apr 6, 03:48 PM #
Werent allowed to have icecream as a kid – time I made up for it. YUM !
— Bonnie Gates Apr 6, 04:08 PM #
When we were kids the best treat in the world was when Mum would let us make peppermint choc chip icecream! It was so much fun mixing it all together, though waiting while it set in the freezer was hard!! Deliciously rewarding! It’s still my favourite flavour because it tastes good and reminds me of such fun times!!!
ps – good luck reading through ALL these answers!!
— Amy Apr 6, 05:07 PM #
When we were young my brother and I were rewarded with pocket money for doing chores around the house, mainly on the weekend eg helping in the garden, cleaning our rooms etc. It just so happened that Mr Whippy (the ice cream van) came around on a Saturday afternoon. I remember it was always our mission to do as many chores around the house as we could before lunch to earn enough money for a choc dipped soft serve ice cream cone from Mr Whippy…THEY WERE THE BEST!!!
— Louise Ash Apr 6, 05:17 PM #
the most delicious ice cream that I ever had was homemade icecream given to me by my friend on my 16th birthday. Melted and mixed into the icecream were lots of chocolate lollies all my favourite kinds. An iceceam maker allows us to be creative and invent our own flavours and add our own special touches!
— hayley Apr 6, 05:31 PM #
A long time ago, in the summer time,
I was swimming at the beach, my favourite past-time!

The sun was hot, and high in the sky,
I felt like an ice-cream, I didn’t know why.

I ventured to the road, looking for the truck,
He was nowhere to be seen, just my luck!

As I was about to give up, I heard his song from a mile away,
I ran as fast as I could… like it was doomsday!!!

My little legs carried me to that big white van,
“I’ll have chocolate please” I asked the ice-cream man.

That first lick, heaven it was,
I enjoyed it all the way home, back to grandmas!
— Dannielle Jackson Apr 6, 05:42 PM #
My favourite ice cream memnory is teaching my oldest child how to make ice cream and then discovering him trying to make some by himself. He mixed it soooo long that everything nearly turned into something that resembled butter :) He tried so hard, and we all had to eat some just because of the effort that he had made :)
— Katie Bailey Apr 6, 05:50 PM #
I remember (very fondly) the first time I tasted Cassata, freshly made with glace fruit, nuts, the creamiest of hand-made icecream and Amaretto (an almond-flavoured liquor. Which reminds me that I should make some soon! Oh dear, I don’t have an ice-cream maker!
— Pam Bramley Apr 6, 06:23 PM #
I remember ice cream when it was a real treat to be savoured as long as possible. I remember my father nibbling a double cone vanilla ice cream while his five youngsters licked and licked and licked their single cone vanilla delights. I remember when I first tasted watermelon, passionfruit, chocolate, strawberry… ice cream.
— Lyndy Apr 6, 06:29 PM #
I had just had the most horrible day. I was hot, cranky and downright miserable. But after a shower and getting into some comfy pj’s, I was surprised to find a huge and much needed hot fudge sundae waiting for me. I spent that evening snuggled up with my sweetie pie, watching funny movies and relishing every creamy spoonful. Ice cream really does make the world much sweeter!
— Maria Apr 6, 06:42 PM #
Staying at my Grandparents house, always enjoying the luxury of not only huge serves but two:)
— Sue Apr 6, 07:02 PM #
I’ve admit I’ve been silly (along the lines of Minni Vanilli), my icecream memories are not of my making, I have to confess to faking!
— sam Apr 6, 07:10 PM #
My aunty used to make all us kids ice cream cakes for our birthdays, i looked forward to it every year! Now i make my kids ice cream cakes for their birthdays, a bit of a funny tradiition but definately a yummy one!
— Katie Young Apr 6, 07:23 PM #
Occasionally when i was younger my mom would let us stop on the way home from school at the local ice cream store and i would get 2 scoops of creamy vanilla with warm chocolate fudge sauce, nuts, wafers and cream. mmmmmm
— ron zylberberg Apr 6, 07:24 PM #
In grade 1, old Mrs Parsons took her beloved pupils to the staff room (that was exciting in itself) and spent the afternoon teaching us to make home-made vanilla icecream, which we all ate cross-legged on the floor. Best school day ever.
— Megan Apr 6, 08:30 PM #
Living in Kingston, Tasmania was a little cold in the winter time, but as an 11 year old ‘ice cream’ mad young kid, it was never a reason to hold back on a good ole’ fashion ice cream harvest :D

Matthew; my bestie was blessed with having parents that formerly owned the local ice cream parlour, and the large cosy garage at their house became home to a magnificint range of impossible to resist flavours in large inviting silver round tubs.

Mmmmmmmmmm! well at least 2 school days and 1 day on the weekend we’d indulge just about every flavour in a cone, or mixed with an icy cold Fanta :)

On my 12th birthday the McRobbies invited me over for an icecream party, and all of my friends from grade 5 were there.

Banana, rainbow, chocolate fudge and strawberry icecream were my favourites, and it was a huge highlight to actually enjoy the icecream slowly for a change, instead of having to sneak in and fill our bellies as we’d been doing for the year or so before that :D

A really memorable day, and I always had a sneaking suspicion that Matthew’s parents knew of our incognito ice cream adventures but they didn’t seem to mind :)
— Julian Cartledge Apr 6, 09:49 PM #
Has to Mr Whippy cup with strawberry syrup chopped nuts and half a wafer. I would cash in empty bottles to pay for my treat.
— Lynne m Lillington Apr 6, 10:11 PM #
When I was young mum used to give me plain icecream with exotic toppings, like creme de menthe, and curucao. Yummmm…Nothing else compares!
— Megan Meyers Apr 6, 10:44 PM #
Sharing my iceceamn with my dog every summer when I was a Toddler. Nobody told me this was disgusting until I was 8.
— Marlene Tham Apr 6, 10:47 PM #
When I was little my sister & I would walk to the shop to get milk & bread for mum. Sometimes, there would be 20c left-over for a few mixed lollies. On one particular Summer’s day I saw a green $2.00 note waving between the paving cracks. We were ecstatic! When we got to the shop, we bought 2 Peters Icecream Buckets & sat on an old log nearby. We peeled back the paper lids & ate the delicious vanilla icecream so slowly with tiny thumb size paddles, neither of us wanting to finish first! It took forever to get home…we kept our eyes glued to the ground, hoping to find more money…leaping on all things shiny! We were beaming with excitement!
— Annette Nardini Apr 6, 11:10 PM #
Tripping face first into an icecream cake at McDonalds and starting an icecream cake fight that all the kids joined into, then the parents as well. The Three Stooges had nothing on this one!
— Gail McQuillan Apr 7, 12:32 AM #
Big toff was my favorite. coffee ice cream coated in chocolate and rice bubbles with a wedge of toffee in the middle. was so upset when they took it off the market.
— sally rose Apr 7, 01:13 AM #
Its amazing what my kids will do for icecream! clean rooms, homework, eat all their dinner…. Oh what power it holds!
— cheryl Apr 7, 01:35 AM #
My grandmother used to made this amazing vanilla icecream with a homemade strawberry sauce. It was devine. But as it is, it was just her that could make it taste this heavenly. I tried & tried and my mum too … but with no luck!!!
— Hannah Apr 7, 01:43 AM #
Ice cream has always been present at the integral parts of my life i.e. ending relationships with utter losers! Mum would somehow magically appear with a 2 litre tub of whatever was on special that week and we’d watch soppy videos, crying our eyes out whilst scoffing spoonfuls of divine vanilla goodness. I eventually realised that I was never going to break this pattern, it was turning me into the side of a house so I had to give it up – men that is! I still love my vanilla ice cream but limit myself to a small bowl rather than a 2 litre tub!
— Jus Apr 7, 04:58 AM #
wasabi infused ice cream , very yum
— STEVE Apr 7, 07:15 AM #
Playing in my sandpit with mums old scoop being Mr Whippy, and when Peters ice-cream cakes had delicious cream roses on top.
— Tanya Apr 7, 08:55 AM #
Mum used to make an orange flavoured icecream as a birthday treat – I still request it now, some 20 years down the track!
— Belinda Noble Apr 7, 10:00 AM #
I grew up in Alabama, and we’d spend summer days at my Grand-dad place on the river. After a full of water skiing, we’d sit on the porch and take turns hand cranking the ice cream maker. He always made us Sprite ice cream whic was the best in the world!
— Tess Howard Apr 7, 11:06 AM #
my favourite memory was when i was a little kid and i wanted to help dad around the house so i painted my room with icecream. it was everywhere. luckily it was my facourite, choc mint
— tiana O'Dea Apr 7, 12:09 PM #
Wow…I love Ice Cream… best memory making spiders with my brother, ice cream and coke cola…we would see who could make the biggest. There was always a mess…poor mum.
— Becky Clark Apr 7, 12:35 PM #
Eskimo pies in that green crinkly paper!
— nicole Apr 7, 01:04 PM #
hmmm… walking around Circular Quay eating gelato with my hubby when I was 8 months pregnant with my first son… it was the last time we were able to just wander aimlessly and chat without having to worry about breastfeeding/crying/suicidal toddlers :)
— Sarah Apr 7, 01:17 PM #
I went to Vienna with my mum when I was a kid, and we were staying in an apartment above a gelato shop. We stopped for gelato each night before we went home, and on our final night we got the most AMAZING gelato sundae in a swan shaped glass dish……SO GOOD, mint, chocolate and strawberry gelato, whipped cream, nuts, wafers…..the works!! I loved sharing it with mum and cherish the memory of it!!
— Kat Apr 7, 01:23 PM #
mum’s homemade kaya infused ice cream sandwiches. enough said.
— milkteaxx Apr 7, 01:24 PM #
Yum…I was always dreaming to produce my own flavored ice creams. Think of so many different mixtures already…now I think I have to go for some ice cream!!! :)
— Patricia Apr 7, 01:37 PM #
Once time when my mother was babysitting my son who was about 3 at the time,the icecream van came around.Mum sent him out with some money.When he got back mum asked “what flavour did you get” His excited reply was “poison berry”!
— Jeanette Adams Apr 7, 01:43 PM #
Eating ‘rainbow’ ice cream cones from the corner shop when I was a kid and running around with a blue tongue afterward! I think it was this incredibly artificial bubblegum flavour but as a kid it was awesome.
— Cat Apr 7, 02:09 PM #
good food
— sam Apr 7, 02:24 PM #
We didn’t own a fridge when I was a child, so the first time I tasted ice cream from a shop I thought I was in heaven. Sometimes our rich Aunt visited and bought the five of us kids an ice cream cone from the corner shop.I can still remember the velvety taste.
— Rosina Owen Apr 7, 03:19 PM #
Icecream from the Mr. Whippy van. A moment shared with many young friends who gathered in the street to meet the Mr. Whippy van some 40 years ago.
— michelle Apr 7, 03:52 PM #
Easy in 2004 I went to visit my boyfriend in Oahu, Hawaii. We flew over to the Big Island to visit his God-parents and for dessert his God-mother had had made (as in home-made) Cookie dough and cream ice-cream. I have never ever tasted anything so delicious and have not since unfortunately. But every Valentine times day I think of that. Delicious.
— Emma Joyce Apr 7, 03:54 PM #
My favourite memory of eating ice-cream, well a sorbet, to precise, was in a little square in Orta San Giulio, in Italy, eating a Mexican chocolate gelato, which had a rich, dark chocolate flavour and was seriously spicy. The combination of cold from the gelato and spiciness from the chili was like an explosion in the mouth – it couldn’t figure out if it was hot or cold! The chocolate flavour was delicious, and the spice added another layer to the experience. That moment remains as a milestone, and no other measures up to that! Hadn’t thought of making my own, but you’ve got me thinking…
— Andrea Apr 7, 04:05 PM #
My favourite memory repeated over and over – ÉATING IT’ in all it’s freezing glory!!!!
— Suzanne Butler Apr 7, 04:17 PM #
On a very hot summer afternoon my cousin and I eating our first vanilla ice-cream sandwich…we thought it was heaven!
— Jenn Apr 7, 04:37 PM #
I remember chasing the icecream man down the street and waiting for my younger brothers to catch up!
— Jenni Apr 7, 04:39 PM #
On the stinking hot days waiting for the icecream man to come down our street, mum was always a sucker for buying us those!!
— sharona Apr 7, 05:09 PM #
My mum made icecream, 3 different flavours/ colours as dessert for her dinner party, and was hiding it in the far end of the freezer. Well, not good enough as we children found it, took out in our secret spot in the garden and ate it all without telling her…no icecream for her friends and neither for us for a while!!!
— Bettina Greive Apr 7, 05:22 PM #
On Christmas holidays we would spend a week at the beach. The big treat on a hot afternoon would be to go to the corner store and get an icecream. They always tasted better than at any other time of the year.
— Cathy Apr 7, 06:19 PM #
Sitting on the front fence as a child with 20c in my hand waiting for the Icecream Van.The driver would patiently tell me every icecream I could choose from,he did this every week.
— Jeannette Lockett Apr 7, 06:20 PM #
Miss 6 got a home icecream make set for a birthday gift, you pored in a sachet powder added milk and let it set it tasted absolultely revolting but she was so so proud and i enjoyed it for her!! this looks so much better.
— julie bennett Apr 7, 06:31 PM #
What a marvellous ice cream maker, how excited the family will be if I won.
— Barbara Fehmel Apr 7, 06:53 PM #
My husband tried to make homemade ice cream for me on the night he proposed. It was a failure, but I married him anyway :)
If I had one of these he might succeed in making the ice cream for our anniversary!
— Rachael Apr 7, 07:37 PM #
Myself and my Sister still laugh at this memory 30 years later. We where sitting waiting for a bus. My Mother has bought us both an icecream cone. This was really special. I ate mine really really fast and finished in no time at all. My cone was gone,
but my sister Donna was sitting on a little rock savouring EVERY lick and bite of her icecream cone. I stood behind her , Envy and badness coursing through me. As she dipped her head once again to have another leisurly lick I couldn’t resist! I smashed her head RIGHT INTO THE ICECREAM. To this day we laugh as we remember her tearful little face looking up and me, cone sticking out of her nose, icecream ALL over her face. She had NO idea what had just happened. I still get that urge when I see a stranger eating a cone near me :) so, beware people!! lol
— Tracey Kennard Apr 7, 07:38 PM #
When I was a child I spent a lot of time with my nana who got me involved in baking cakes and cookies but her special home made ice cream was devine
— Nicola Baker Smith Apr 7, 09:12 PM #
Teaching my 4 year old twins how to make icecream from scratch and ending up with sugar up their noses and cream in their ears!
— NICOLE GENTLE Apr 7, 10:03 PM #
Our family was very poor. When Mr Whippy’s music played all the kids in the street ran to the truck, except me. One day the neighbour was outside and saw me looking at all the kids getting an ice-cream. She called me over and gave me the money to buy an ice-cream. Best thing I have ever tasted.
— VL Apr 7, 10:39 PM #
all of the old men in my grand fathers nursing home (many who suffered from dementia) going to the homes cafe as a group. Sitting down, napkins on lap, and eating an icecream. they enjoyed those icecreams like they were the best tasting food on earth (which of course ice cream is). They only walked 50 meters, never left the premises, but to them it was a fancy outing, with best manners, and a icecream treat
— Elizabeth Davey Apr 7, 10:48 PM #
Every time, I went to the city with my mother, I would beg for an lime ice-cream, my favourite. But over the years, the lime flavour discontinued much to my dismay! Now with this fancy Cuisinart Ice Cream-Frozen Yoghurt & Sorbet Maker, I hope to be making every dessert recipe in lime flavours to my heart’s content!
— Kazzie Apr 7, 11:02 PM #
Watching the look on my daughter’s face the first time she tryed icecream, it was priceless and make’s me smile everytime I think about it.
— Karen Turner Apr 7, 11:44 PM #
Fondest icecream memory, easy as my first after school job was on the Mr Whippy fan. Stawberry Sundae was my favourite. On the plus side my friends at school where all jealous, on the downside I did get a bit tubby.
— Tracy Boulter Apr 8, 12:08 AM #
I begged my dad for bubblegum ice-cream when I was eight, I thought it tasted pretty average but the whole experience was redeemed when I noticed my poo was bubblegum green!
— Courtney Apr 8, 12:25 AM #
Who can forget the magic of Sunday afternoons when the Mr Whippy van would bring out all the kids in the street .
It was the highlight of our week , a very special treat for my little sister & myself .
We would try something different most weeks but my favourite had to be the icecream dipped in sherbet , my mouth is watering just remembering the delicious tingling sensation as I took that 1st lick !
Wish Mr Whippy was still about :(
— Debra Marr Apr 8, 12:45 AM #
Making rocky road ice cream in year 5; maraschino cherries, nuts, choc chips and mini marshmallows. It was the first time I tried ‘cooking’and I haven’t stopped since! From rocky road ice cream to ice cream filled macaron shells :)
— Kim Apr 8, 01:28 AM #
When I was in high school, mum started to make her own ice cream, this was before all these nifty new machine—back then you had to whip the cream and boil something do about a million things to it including pulling it out of the freezer to stir it every 2 hours.The ice cream ended up as hard as a rock but knowing that mum put all that time and work into it make it taste sooo good, and I’ve never had icecream that tasted that good since.
— Kezia Apr 8, 05:37 AM #
I come from a large family family and we all get together for Christmas lunch. I’m in charge of the ice cream and always make my special rocky road. A family tradition. Its a great day.
— Sue Apr 8, 08:30 AM #
My first holiday to stay with my grandparents when i was 7. My grandmother made her own icecream but she bought this ‘new’ topping to go on it which was lime and was bright green. She took the lid off to taste it first then thinking how delicious it was she proceeded to give it a shake to ready it to pour on the icecream. She had forgotten to do the lid up properly. The entire kitchen ended up in sticky delicious green lime streaks and slops. We laughed so hard we were actually rolling on the floor laughing. That was the last time I got to see my grandmother and that it was such a good fun memory warms my heart still! I cant see a bowl of icecream and NOT think of her.
— Kara Apr 8, 09:20 AM #
“I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream” repeat ad nausium until it appears.
— Elizabeth Ballinger Apr 8, 09:33 AM #
My favourite icecream memory was probably my first whilst not fresh in my mind the photos do paint a fair picture. All over my face & in my hair. Trying to get more in quicker!!
— Caroline Shanks Apr 8, 09:35 AM #
I met my fiance when she has just finished work at Wendys Supa Sundaes. I had just bought an icecream from the shop and she had just finished her shift, as i was walking past i accidently walked into her and the icecream squished into her shirt. She was nice enough to make me another icecream and we have been together ever since.
— Josh Apr 8, 09:54 AM #
We lived in Saudi Arabia when I was a child and you couldn’t get fresh milk that was safe. Ice cream was something we could only get when we went on hoidays overseas. Finally a Danish company began selling tubs of ice cream and it was the most fantastic taste (even though it was only vanilla) and biggest excitement we had for years!
— Kris Foreman Apr 8, 10:02 AM #
My favourite ice cream memory was when I made ice cream on a girl guide camp when I was younger, it was homemade and delicious. I was also rock hard, so I had some difficulty in scooping it out, so when I did manage it, the scoop also flew through the air and landed on my friend’s seat, I’m happy to say it didn’t land on her :) I don’t think she would have been very happy! >.<

P.S. I love green tea icecream!!! It would be cool if McDonalds sold it like the ones they make at Mizuya!! ^_ oh, daylights saving… :(:(
— Garman H Apr 8, 10:11 AM #
She was 18 months at the time, her eyes lit up at the sight of the chocolate ice cream in its cone. Her little tongue eased out of its cave to touch the heaven that awaited. It darted back inside in a flash. Her eyes grew even wider. A look of total shock. Cold brrr she exclaimed! And then a smile crossed her face as she took another lick. This time her tiny little tongue continued licking as her smile got bigger, and her face messier. Another precious first. She’s now 9, with siblings who equally LOVE ice-cream, frozen cokes and anything icey…. they take after their mother!
— Jo Harlow Apr 8, 11:00 AM #

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