A starting-point ice cream flavour ranking
Weighted on flavour, texture and the milk it leaves behind. A baseline — your S-tier is probably different, so make it above.
SCookies and Cream, Mint Chocolate Chip
ACookie Dough, Chocolate, Salted Caramel, Butter Pecan
BVanilla, Strawberry, Rocky Road, Coffee, Moose Tracks
CNeapolitan, Pistachio, Birthday Cake, Cotton Candy
DRum Raisin, Superman
Cookies and cream and mint choc chip trade the top spot in most US surveys. Vanilla splits opinion hard: filler to some, the honest base everything else copies to others.
The mint chocolate chip line divides households
Ice cream rankings hide the fact that 'best flavor' is really 'best base plus best mix-in'. Vanilla partisans argue it's the honest foundation everything else copies; adventure rankers dock it as a blank canvas. Texture is the sneaky axis — cookie dough and moose tracks earn tiers on the hunt for chunks, while smooth churners like pistachio win on the cream itself. And mint chocolate chip is the designated flashpoint: toothpaste to its haters, S-tier refreshment to its loyalists, with no neutral ground by design. Rank honestly and expect to be judged.