What Does Your Ice Cream Say About You?

By Kirsten Petersen

When you buy a tub of ice cream at the grocery store or order a scoop from your favorite parlor for National Ice Cream Day, choose wisely: your favorite flavor might say more about you than you’d think.

A study conducted by Allan Hirsch, a nationally recognized smell and taste expert and founder of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, identified correlations between an individual’s personality and his favorite ice cream flavor.

Baskin-Robbins teamed up with the research foundation for the study. Participants completed standardized comprehensive psychiatric and personality tests, and the results were statistically correlated with ice cream hedonics, or how ice cream preferences are related to what an individual finds pleasurable.

Here’s a sampling of the results:

• If your favorite flavor is Vanilla, you’re more likely to be impulsive, easily suggestible and an idealist.
• If your favorite flavor is Chocolate, you’re more likely to be dramatic, lively, charming, flirtatious, seductive and gullible.
• If your favorite flavor is, Very Berry Strawberry, you’re more likely to be a tolerant, devoted and an introvert.
• If your favorite flavor is Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, you’re more likely to be ambitious, competitive and a visionary.
• If your favorite flavor is Jamoca (Coffee), you’re more likely to be scrupulous, conscientious and a moral perfectionist.
• If your favorite flavor is Rainbow Sherbet, you’re more likely to be analytic, decisive and a pessimistic.

Find the full list of results here.

Westminster Patch readers weighed in when asked what flavors they would create if given the chance. 

Christine Kreiner Stidham said she would create the flavor "Ravens" which would have in it blueberry, chocolate chip and peanut butter. 

Denise Warfield said her concoction would be black cherry ice cream overloaded with cherries, dark chocolate chips, macadamia nuts and candied orange slivers.

What is your favorite ice cream flavor and where do you go to get it locally?