There are some ice cream flavors that are reliably popular and that you can find in just about any grocery store with a freezer aisle — or at any ice cream shop you might walk into. Vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry are always summertime staples and it's not just public perception — according to the , in 2024, survey respondents named these three flavors as their top favorite flavors overall. However, there are some ice cream flavors that have fallen to the wayside in years and decades past.
No, we're not talking about novelty flavors like or . We're talking ice cream flavors that were once legitimately widely popular and just as common on store shelves or on the dessert table as chocolate or strawberry (or at least as close as they could get). Still, despite their once wide popularity, ingredient trends have shifted, leaving these flavors in the dust.
These are some of the once popular ice cream flavors you hardly ever see anymore. Tutti Frutti You may know it as a song. You may be familiar with the Jelly Belly flavor of the same name (albeit a slightly different spelling).
You may know it in connection with the original Italian, translating to "all fruits." Whatever the phrase "tutti frutti" conjures up in your mind, if we're talking ice cream, tutti frutti is a pink confection spotted with bits of tropical fruit (recipes call for banana, pineapple, and cherries). While tutti frutti ice cream enjoyed a long run, appearing on -compiled restaurant menus from 1890 to 1981.