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My local supermarket only sells the basic flavors vanilla, strawberry and chocolate. But then they sell dozens of variants of Ben and Jerry's and similar brands. I wish this was the other way around. Just give me boxes of single flavors like in the Italian gelaterias.

I guess supermarkets get higher margins on B&J's :(

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I completely agree. It's difficult to get quality vanilla ice cream except at a gelataria or fancy market shop. Reading this thread however makes me brave enough to try making my own once summer appears.

I'll probably go for something inconvenient so I need to pre-freeze the bowl and thus avoid an unhealthy constant flow of ice cream, but tech these days seems pretty good to make homemade gelato:

https://www.seriouseats.com/the-best-ice-cream-makers

Costco’s “super premium vanilla” is quite nice—-better than any other mass market vanilla.

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