Style & Design 2009: Our Favorite Old School Ice Creams

Seems like every year there’s a new magical dessert clamoring for attention—and more often than not, it’s some horrible retro-kitsch thing. To wit: rice pudding; creampuffs; inexplicably tangy frozen yogurt. To which we say: meh.

Dessert doesn’t need to be gussied up, it just needs to be cold and sweet and make you feel like a kid. So take it back to the ice-cream man. No Big Worm, no Master P, just some good humor. In this month’s Style & Design issue of Complex we co-signed old-school ice cream (after having a hot model taste-test them for us), and now we’re getting more specific with our five favorite choices…

BEST ICE CREAM SANDWICH: MOUNTAIN HOUSE ICE CREAM SANDWICH
Price: $1.80
There have been many competitors, like the “Chaco Taco” and the “Chip-Wich,” but nothing beats the O.G.

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BEST ICE POP: FLA-VOR-ICE
Price: 50 cent at the local corner store; $3.99 a box online
This is the desert you started to buy during that summer you first started to notice that chicks didn’t have cooties any more. The go-to method is allowing the the ice to melt a little bit, then drinking the artificially flavored liquid like it was a quarter-water.

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BEST MULTI-FLAVORED ICE CREAM: POPSICLE PUSH POP ICE CREAM
Price: $2.00
Sherbert is for pussies, but as long as it’s in Push-Pop form, you can get away with it. The Flintstones had its own line of these things that were banging as well.

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BEST DESERT-FLAVORED ICE CREAM: STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE
PRICE: $1.50
Bakereis got tight when strawberry shortcake went from cake to ice cream bar. Haven’t had one of these? It’s like eating awesome.

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BEST ICE: POPSICLE SNOW CONE
Price: $2.00
What else did you expect at #1? Ice cream men and Mr. Softee still have jobs thanks to the amount of (colored) ice they sling.