r/CasualConversation • u/BonquishaLatifa • 1d ago
Questions Where has Rocky Road gone?
I’m a big fan of Rocky Road ice cream, which is pretty unfortunate given it’s almost entirely absent from ice cream stores. I feel like I can remember it being a pretty core flavor in most rotations, but nowadays I feel like I don’t see it anywhere. Is the flavor just aging out? I wouldn’t think so it’s a pretty good combo but curious what other people think.. I live in the Midwestern United States
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u/wildflower_valley 1d ago
My question is where has the rocky road with actual marshmallows gone? All I find are the kind with marshmallow “cream” and I don’t like it
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u/Gullible_Mistake_448 1d ago
Yeah the cream version is a total cop out, you need those little chewy marshmallow bits to make it actually rocky road. You ever tried asking an ice cream shop if they can fold in real marshmallows for you?
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u/wildflower_valley 17h ago
I went to a cold stone and had them mix in marshmallows that turned out to be really stale. I have a baskin robbins half an hour away from me that I’m willing to drive to since a lot of people say they have the good stuff lol
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u/UncreativeKiki 1d ago
I recently discovered Tillamook has a fantastic rocky road with actual marshmallows! Hopefully you can find it in your area.
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u/MotherofJackals 23h ago
None of the stores here that do carry Tillamook ever have Rocky Road, it's weird
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u/Kkimp1955 22h ago
Ask the manager to order it ?
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u/Lanky-Proposal-3417 18h ago
Is there a kiosk or must I engage a true human
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u/47687236 18h ago
Sorry, you'll have to ask a real human. Depending on the store you'll either talk to someone at customer service to fill out a request for an item, or if it's an old fashioned place they might page a manager to come talk to you. Either way, you'll get the satisfaction of seeing it in the store and getting to say "hell yeah, I did that"
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u/Sa7aSa7a 15h ago
You can probably fill out a form online but you're most likely to get an actual response in person.
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u/UncreativeKiki 23h ago
I’ve only found it recently and I’m sure will only be temporary. They cycle a lot of their flavors pretty regularly in the stores here. I’ve been buying it as often as I can, it’ll be a sad day when it’s gone again. Hopefully there will be some near you soon!!
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u/seaword9 1d ago
Tillamook is the best
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u/mysticalchurro 8h ago
it's not rocky road, but my local store just brought back the Tillamook Caramel Swirl ice cream after not having it for several months. i'm both excited and scared because I don't need ice cream.
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u/reamkore 1d ago
The baskin Robbin’s RR has real marshmallow
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u/Turbulent-Bee6921 23h ago
When I was little, the local Baskin-Robbin had the literal best rocky road ice cream I remember in my life. The chocolate ice cream in it was dark and dense. These days whenever I get rocky road, the chocolate ice cream seems too light, airy, flavorless, and not containing any real chocolate.
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u/gettingfiscal 23h ago
This is one of my favorite RRs and I think I was the only person buying them at my grocery store since they stopped selling it :(
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u/General-Heart4787 1d ago
If they have Edy’s brand where you are, it has the real marshmallows. I don’t like the ones with “marshmallow swirl” either!
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u/anonymouscog 22h ago
Ugh, I hate the marshmallow ribbon. Sometimes our store is out of the good rocky road & I'll go without before I'll buy that crap
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u/LittleMissRawr78 23h ago
This is the only kind in my opinion. The marshmallow cream just isn't as good.
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u/Stacy3536 1d ago
I live in south Carolina and see it in all the stores here.
I miss heavenly hash ice cream.
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u/Billazilla 1d ago
I work at an ice cream warehouse house in South Carolina. We deliver Rocky Road, for sure. Dollar stores, mostly.
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u/themigraineur 1d ago
Ask Weird Al to sing about it again, maybe that'll help
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u/bionicjoey [limited supply (read: rare meme)] 23h ago
Sorry, I don't listen to Al-generated content
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u/_coffee_ 23h ago
Weird AL, not weird AI
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u/feanturi 23h ago
That's what they said actually, take a really close look at that 'I'. Some people have been suggesting that Al-Generated Content should be the title or byline of his next album because it would be funny.
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u/bionicjoey [limited supply (read: rare meme)] 23h ago
Also he made the joke himself at some point on bluesky. Said everything he's done is actually Al-generated
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u/_coffee_ 23h ago
Not on my end.
My comment used the capitalized version of AL and AI in the first part, with the use of a lowercase L (l) in the link portion. Lowercase l looks identical to an automatically capitalized i in the app, but not on my laptop (I)
Perhaps the serifs need to be standardized between platforms and apps.
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u/bionicjoey [limited supply (read: rare meme)] 22h ago
I don't think any major mobile OS's or web browsers use serif fonts by default. They are generally considered less readable on screens. But you can often still tell lowercase L and uppercase I apart based on height: lIlIIlllII
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u/owmybotheyes 1d ago
There are so many experimental flavors nowadays I think it’s just knocked too far down the line for stores to shelf it. I live in the south and the brand Mayfield dominates the ice cream market here. They always seem to have a few new flavors that every time I look.
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u/llamamama81 1d ago
Where in the South do you live??? Not in Alabama because we are a bluebell state 🤣
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u/rabies_peppermint nuclear medicine student 1d ago
weird suggestion but check walgreens. they usually have rocky road in their freezer at least at all of the ones I've been to always have
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u/Twisty12223 23h ago
I second Walgreens. They actually have a good variety. Why i don't know. It's where I can still find chunky monkey.
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u/rabies_peppermint nuclear medicine student 22h ago
I worked for walgreens I still got no clue why we stocked half of the stuff we did lol
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u/tvieno 1d ago
Check the store brands for the flavor. I love moose tracks blend and I can't find it anywhere under the major brands but Kroger's brand "Premier Select" had it.
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u/DailyUpsAndDowns 1d ago
A few years ago Breyers stopped coating the nuts in chocolate. What a disaster. Then they started covering them again. One of my favorites.
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u/TopBuy404 1d ago
Rocky road is my favorite and it's basically the only ice cream flavor I buy. I'll mix it up here and there but it's def still around
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u/teebonejay 1d ago
Infrastructure and paving technology has improved.
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u/greina23 23h ago edited 23h ago
You don't live in Tucson and it shows. Lol
Edit: JFC, I really to proofread before posting
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u/steal-yur-face 1d ago edited 18h ago
It’s morphed into a marshmallow flavored swirl and most of the nuts are gone.
There’s still a couple of the OG Rocky roads out there,
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u/DemonSlyr007 1d ago
Man, I wish I could like rocky road. Its got most of my favorite things, and one i absolutely despise in the Marshmallows.
I usually get a version that basically swaps the marshmallows for peanut butter cups/swirls.
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u/Poultrygeist74 23h ago
Rocky Road is pretty much my favorite. Does anyone remember Tin Roof Sundae? It was my mom’s favorite and I really liked it too but I haven’t seen it in years
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u/LaylaMoonUnit 1d ago
I see it in the grocery store all the time, especially Baskin’ Robbin’s brand. If you’re in Jewel land, they frequently have it. I also see it in the cheap half-gallon house brands a lot, too.
More than mint chocolate chip, which should be considered criminal. MCC supremacy.
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u/Independent_Donut246 1d ago
It’s with plain chocolate chip. Sighhhhhh. Sometimes I just want a simple cone with a scoop of chocolate chip, not mint, not cookie dough, not some other flavor. Just a solid vanilla ice cream with decent chocolate chips. I do like rocky road too. Def not as prevalent now.
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u/Starkville 23h ago
It’s been replaced by other flavors that have add-ins. Nuts, chocolate (or “chocolatey”) bits, marshmallow “swirl”.
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u/MotherofJackals 23h ago
And the "ribbon of marshmallow " bullshit they do have is NOT it. Actual marshmallows, nuts not fricken dust mixed in, and chocolate ice-cream that tastes like chocolate not just flavor neutral brown ice-cream. I haven't had real Rocky road ice-cream in probably 10 years or more.
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u/Candid-Session-124 23h ago
It was a favorite at Baskin-Robbins when I worked there 100 years ago very hard to scoop though so it wasn’t my favorite. The worst flavor was licorice.
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u/No_Salad_8766 23h ago
I live in the Midwest and I just looked at my local stores app (woodmans) and theres like 8 different rocky road ice creams I could buy now. And thats just 1 store.
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u/llbellenow 22h ago
It's also challenging to find regular chocolate chip ice cream. Not coffee chip or mint chocolate chip or fudge chip or cookie dough etc. I just want a good vanilla base with chocolate chips, and I'm surprised at how often it isn't available!
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u/Oh_No_Its_Dudder 21h ago
About a month ago I was wondering the same thing, only with Black Cherry Ice Cream.
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u/QuailComfortable2197 20h ago
Rocky Road walked so every “extreme brownie explosion” flavor could run.
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u/AcesAnd08s 1d ago
Check Haagen Dazs at your grocery store. They still have a Rocky Road that is the best I’ve ever had.
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u/V_mom 1d ago
I can still find it but it's usually only one or two options and most of the time it's the marshmallow swirl instead of the marshmallows and it's frozen dairy dessert instead of ice cream so it's not really good. But mint chocolate chip and rocky road are my favorite flavors, but finding good ones is hard.
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u/Fritzo2162 1d ago
It's gone due to marketing:
Rocky Road? Eh.
Marshmallow Snickers? OOOoooooooooooo......
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u/KMizzle98 1d ago
I agree. Rocky Road has been my favorite my entire adult life. Mix in a spoonful (or two) of peanut butter and it is HEAVEN!
I have found it harder and harder to find over the years.... same with my other favorite, Butter Pecan.
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u/Popular-Deal-1481 1d ago
It was my staple and I still get it every once in a while but mint chocolate chip is now my go to. Baskin Robins still carries it regularly. I’m in Los Angeles.
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u/FinalGirl78 1d ago
This is the kind of conversations I come to this subreddit for. I literally just had rocky road for the first time ever a few months back and was annoyed I hadn't tried it sooner. Justice for Rocky Road!!
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u/Existing-Face-6322 1d ago
I want to know where Nilla wafers went (in Canada, I know they exist in the US). I also want peach ice cream and that seems to not exist at all.
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u/throwingales 1d ago
Kroger sells Rocky Road ice cream from several companies including their own private label Kroger Rocky Road ice cream as well as Edy's/Dreyer's, Baskin Robbins, Breyer's and Haagen-Dazs.
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u/moneypenny88 1d ago
Blue Bell has my favorite Rocky Road. Got a brand new one in my freezer right now.
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u/phylbert57 1d ago
Probably the same place regular chocolate chip (without cookie dough) went. I’m so disappointed. I don’t want your fricken cookie dough!!
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u/T4ffetaFable 1d ago
Rocky Road is definitely still around, but it feels like one of those flavors you have to specifically hunt for now. Such a shame because chocolate, marshmallow, and nuts is a pretty unbeatable combo.
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u/nauticalfiesta 1d ago
Ben and Jerry’s sells a flavor. If you don’t see it ask the store to carry it.
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u/ShirtOne8537 1d ago
Its my favorite. And I can totally get it at ice cream parlors in my area plus grocery stores. Haagen daz is my current fave.
I think where you live is just a little lame for not providing your favorite as much lol
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u/_GOBLESS_ 1d ago
Now that you mention it, I haven't see Rocky Road for years. I'm still irked about that time I bought a gallon and it had peanuts instead of almonds. WTF.
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u/munkymama 1d ago
I miss beet eggs. Dunno why but I do. They used to be in all the gas stations and rest stops with convenience stores. No longer :(.
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u/Mortal_94 1d ago
It's not the ice cream kind, but my lady used to make a meeeeeeaaaannnn Rocky Road! Pretty sure that's what ruined my diet when we moved in together 😂!
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 1d ago
Do you have a Hyvee near you, a Walgreens, check there. Caseys has it stocked sometimes. I'd call around before driving all over the place for ice cream though. I am midwest as well.
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u/EpicallyOkay 1d ago
Locally it was part of a triple of flavours into my teen years now mostly disappeared by changing tastes and closed local ice cream dairies. We had Rocky Road, Heavenly Hash and the more local 'Tin Roof's. I miss them all, and sit down Italian restaurants having Spumoni ice cream for dessert.
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 23h ago
I would buy a carton of chocolate, a bag of marshmallows (cut up) and whatever nut you like, and blend away. :) You've just made your own rocky road! Sound complicated and messy? Maybe, but it might be fun and clean up would taste great! LOL
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u/greina23 23h ago
I don't pay attention to other brands, the brand I buy is Blue Bell (my husband will on occasion buy Tillamook & Talenti, but he's not a Rocky Road fan) and they have sell Rocky Road.
I went to a candy shop recently and they sell Thrifty's ice cream; I saw they had Rocky Road.
Admittedly I live in Arizona, so it can and more than likely is different from your location.
I did open two of my local grocery store apps, searched under Rocky Road and it listed all brands and the aisles where they can be found.
Edited for spelling
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u/Warningwaffle 23h ago
I think it might be out looking for Tin Roof Sundae. That one has been missing for a long time.
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u/pain_is_bread 23h ago
This is heavy on my mind. Even when I happen to find Rocky Road in the wild, it’s not the same mix that I had growing up.
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u/ABigFuckingSword 23h ago
I’m in central MO - I get the Edy’s Xtra Rocky Road from Dollar General! Rocky Road is my favorite and this is the best rocky road.
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u/BertaRocks 23h ago
I know Aldi and Walmart carry it in the south east. It’s a regular rotation in our house.
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u/reesesbigcup 23h ago edited 22h ago
Many tubs of Rocky Road at my local Krogers. But I have never seen any spumoni. Local Italian restaurant has it. Gotta check some other stores.
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u/Apprehensive-Bag-900 23h ago
Weird it's a regular flavor at every grocery store I shop at and I remember it at my local ice cream parlor too. Blue Bell sells rocky road
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u/panzer_boi 22h ago
Honestly, Kroger in Ohio still keeps it on the shelf if you check the back freezer. Good luck finding it elsewhere though.
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u/turnitwayup 22h ago
My local Kroger has been selling Thrifty’s Rocky Road. My local ice cream shop calls theirs Rocky Rage but I wasn’t paying attention to if it had real marshmallows when I was there yesterday.
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u/geekofthegalaxy 22h ago
It’s very popular and often sells out when ice cream goes on sale in our area. It’s my wife’s favorite and finding it is hard sometimes usually because the best rocky roads are usually picked first by other shoppers
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u/daydreamingaway86 22h ago
I love Haagen dazs Rocky road and cannot find it anywhere anymore! It makes me so sad.
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u/rockfordred 22h ago
Kemp’s used to make the best. I called them to ask why they don’t make it anymore and they said they do but it’s only made for food service. Pisses me off that I can’t get it in the grocery store.
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u/ObviousToe1636 22h ago
By ice cream stores do you mean stores that ONLY sell ice cream, like Baskin Robbins? I have not been inside a Baskin Robbins in 25 years, but I buy the Dreyer’s rocky road from the grocery store all the time. It goes on sale relatively often, so I usually buy 2-4 at a time. I’ve purchased as many as 8 at once. It has real marshmallows (I won’t eat rocky road with the marshmallow swirl).
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u/anonymouscog 22h ago
It's all over the place here. If it isn't in your stores, do you have a Badkin Robbins?
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u/RadiantCarpenter1498 22h ago
The only Rocky Road I’ve been able to find is Breyers Carb Smart Rocky Road.
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u/AlternativeReading10 21h ago
Baskin and Robbin’s has gone downhill they were the best I could find. Häagen-Dazs does a marshmallow swirl which does not work. I feel your pain.
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u/Popular-Deal-1481 21h ago
This conversation is making me crave ice cream! Im going out to get me some!
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u/JunkMale975 20h ago
I’m that way with chocolate chip. Only kind I can find now is mint chocolate chip. I hate mint.
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u/Prestigious-Web4824 19h ago
Tillamook makes Rocky Road. I haven't tried it, but their other flavors are excellent.
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u/CyndiIsOnReddit 19h ago
I have some in my freezer right now because it's the only flavor with chunky chocolate that doesn't have peanut butter. I think it's my favorite, but really I don't see it at ice cream shops, just in tubs.
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u/featurescreature 19h ago
Walmart has a rocky road that I really like, but it's not chunky like original rocky road.
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u/OstensibleFirkin 19h ago
This is the one ice cream that stays hanging out in the freezer until someone gets really desperate.
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u/otter_mayhem 17h ago
I see it here and there. I'm in the south. I also haven't seen Heavenly Hash in forever and I really liked it.
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u/Tom_Art_UFO 15h ago
Yeah, and what happened to Heavenly Hash ice cream? We used to be a proper country!
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u/JenniferJuniper6 15h ago
I want to know what happened to spumoni. Didn’t all the Italian restaurants used to have it as part of their kids’ menus? (I’m not above ordering ice cream off the kids’ menu.)
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u/1InvisibleStranger 15h ago
Baskin Robbins has the best Rocky Road!! I live in SoCal and some of our grocery stores have started selling BR ice cream tubs. If you have a local BR definitely call, make sure they have some in stock and then go enjoy!
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u/into_outdoors 14h ago
I never liked Rocky Road, but wow... It has seemingly disappeared. I hadn't noticed until you mentioned it.
It was extremely popular during my life (56yo), seemingly as popular as chocolate, vanilla and strawberry. I couldn't imagine one of those just disappeared.
Now you have me wondering...
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u/StOnEy333 12h ago
Buy chocolate ice cream. Add marshmallows and nuts. Boom. You got rocky road ice cream.
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u/whosthebigwinner 12h ago
If you haven’t tried Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food, then you haven’t lived a full life. I loved Rocky Road growing up, then when I developed Diverticulitis, I swore off nuts of any kind.
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u/SwitchOdd5322 10h ago
I have Tillamook rocky road in my freezer right now!!! It has great mini marshmallows but not enough almonds!
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u/brettyrocks 5h ago
I avoided getting it at Dollar General last night. I went with salted caramel pretzel instead.
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u/FlimsyTry2892 1d ago
My friggin dad ate it all.