Top ten ice cream flavours
From the van hatch: the ten flavours that never fail, and what each one actually does for you.
Serving from a hatch for years teaches you something about flavours — mainly that the classics are classics for a reason. Here are ten that never fail.
- Vanilla — not boring, foundational. Everything else is measured against it, and a good vanilla carries a 99 entirely on its own.
- Chocolate — the safest crowd-pleaser on the van and the one children point at without reading anything.
- Strawberry — the summer flavour. Lighter than the other two and the one adults come back for.
- Mint choc chip — divisive and proud of it. The people who love it order nothing else.
- Raspberry ripple — the sauce is the point. It is what makes an ordinary cone look like a treat.
- Honeycomb — sweet, crunchy and the one people describe as tasting like a holiday.
- Cookies and cream — texture doing the heavy lifting. Reliably the teenagers’ pick.
- Salted caramel — the newest arrival on this list and now firmly established.
- Banana — quietly one of the most requested, particularly by anyone over sixty.
- Rum and raisin — an old-school flavour that has been out of fashion for thirty years and still sells every time.
The traditional 99 with a flake is still the single most ordered thing on the van, by a distance. Everything else is a variation on it.
