Top 10 Ice Cream Flavors

When I am in the ice cream aisle at the grocery store, I can never decide which flavor to get, and I usually end up getting more than one. Notes from many hours of late-night ice cream sampling bring you this: The top 10 ice cream flavors that you will find at your local grocery store.

10) One of my cousin's all-time favorites scraped its way on to the list at number ten: Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Ice Cream is a must-taste for any true chocoholic.

9) As soon as I tasted it, I liked the novelty of Haagen-Dazs' Mango Ice Cream. Normally I'm not a big fan of Haagen-Dazs, but this ice cream was too good to leave off.

8) A big shocker here: the best chocolate ice cream was a close competition, but it ended in a huge upset, the winner being Publix Brand Chocolate Ice Cream. In absence of a Publix store near you, Breyer's Original Chocolate Ice Cream was almost as good.

7) A unique ice cream named for guitarist Jerry Garcia, Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia is a cherry ice cream with cherries and fudge flakes.

6) Although I'm a chocolate fan myself, I had to include good old vanilla. The best vanilla ice cream I ever tasted was Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla, which reminded me of the world-renowned Creamery ice cream at Penn State University.

5) Surprisingly, a diet version of an ice cream made the list. Breyer's Double Churn Light Caramel Tracks made a name for itself after it lasted half a day in the family freezer.

4) Chocolate chip cookie dough would have to make any list of the best ice creams. But there were so many different varieties at Publix, it took weeks to sample them all. But the best by far was Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. Incidentally, this was the very first chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream flavor ever created.

3) The best cake batter ice cream I ever had was high in the mountains of North Carolina, so when I saw a similar Blue Bell Cake Batter ice cream, I had to try it. Sure enough, it was an instant favorite.

2) Vanilla ice cream with fudge and peanut butter mixed in. Something is missing...how about fudge-covered, peanut butter-filled pretzels? Originally conceived as a prank, Ben & Jerry's Chubby Hubby weighs in at a delectable number 2.

1) A delicious banana-flavored ice cream with walnuts and chunks of fudge mixed in, the number one ice cream flavor available at your local grocery store is Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey. On any given day you'll find an empty carton at my house.