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Ice cream may be the quintessential summertime treat, but Americans' appetite for it clearly knows no season. In 2000, we put away nearly 20 quarts each, or a pint every nine days. (Since some of us fell short on that score, others must have eaten more--you know who you are.) About half of the ice cream we consume is bought in supermarkets. And though manufacturers keep coming up with new flavor twists (Cherry Chip ba da Bing, anyone?), we mostly stick to the tried and true: vanilla and chocolate.
Those are the flavors we focused on in tests for this report. Our trained tasters evaluated 20 vanilla and 14 chocolate ice creams (including a few lower-fat products) ...