I love, love, love ice cream of just about any flavor, although I'm not all that crazy about mint. And because chocolate covered cherries are my weakness, any ice cream that emulates them is fine by me. But my all time go-to flavor, especially when my brain is short circuiting from all of the creative choices these days, is a great old-fashioned vanilla. I've sort of grown out of my chocaholism that emerged in college (when I fell in love with a chocoholic). And I do not eat ice cream that is any color not found naturally in food (bubble gum is not a food). But there is something cosmic about the flavor that is derived from an orchid. Or maybe it's because when my sisters and I were kids, we would split a pint of Neapolitan ice cream by flavor: Laura the redhead got strawberry, Cheryl the youngest got chocolate, and I went for the vanilla. Some habits do last a lifetime. I think I need to raid the freezer now.

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