Butter brickle and rum raisin among the old nostalgic ice cream flavors

While today’s freezers are overflowing with ice cream flavors like cookies and cream, salted caramel, and mint chocolate chip, some old-time favorites seem to have melted away.

Flavors such as Butter Brickle, Rum Raisin and Maple Walnut were once familiar options at ice cream stands and grocery stores, but many have become harder to find as tastes have changed.

Food site Tasting Table recently looked at a variety of nostalgic flavors that defined many Americans’ childhoods. Here are five that might bring back sweet memories.

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Butter brickle

Once-familiar ice cream flavors from the 1970s have become harder to find in today’s freezer aisles. (H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)

Butter Brickle ice cream was inspired by a butterscotch-flavored candy created in Omaha, Nebraska, in the 1920s, according to Tasting Table. Featuring a butterscotch flavor and crunchy caramel pieces, this ice cream had become a national favorite in the 1970s, but it’s harder to find today.

In a Facebook group dedicated to 1970s memories, the flavor came up repeatedly as fans remembered its iconic crunchy caramel bits.

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Rum Raisin

Rum raisin ice cream dates back to the 1930s, but gained popularity in the 1970s, when the combo of rum-soaked raisins and vanilla ice cream became widely available in stores and grocery stores. The flavor even made its way to the White House, where President Richard Nixon reportedly served it as a dessert.

Rum raisin ice cream gained popularity in the 1970s and was reportedly served in the Nixon White House. (iStock)

Although it can still be found today, rum raisin has become harder to spot in many parts of the country. “I miss it so much! This is my favorite ice cream flavor,” one Reddit user wrote in a subreddit dedicated to ice cream.

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Pink chewing gum

Baskin-Robbins launched its bright pink Bubblegum ice cream in the 1970s, with small pieces of chewy bubblegum mixed into each scoop, Tasting Table reported. This unusual flavor became a childhood favorite for some and was occasionally brought back by Baskin-Robbins for limited runs.

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“It was my favorite. I ate the ice cream and saved the bubblegum for later,” one Reddit user recalled.

Classic ice cream stands offered a range of flavors that are perhaps harder to find today. (Lambert/Getty Images)

Heavenly Hash

Before it became an ice cream flavor, heavenly hash referred to another nostalgic oddity: a fruit salad made with ingredients like whipped cream, marshmallows, candied fruit, and nuts. Sealtest launched its Heavenly Hash ice cream in 1969, combining marshmallows, almonds and chocolate chips for a treat similar to the Rocky Road we know today.

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The flavor later disappeared with the Sealtest line of ice creams, but some fans still remember it fondly. “It was excellent ice cream!” » wrote one Facebook user.

Nostalgic flavors like Butter Brickle, Rum, Raisin, and Maple Walnut can bring back memories for Americans who grew up in the 1970s. (iStock)

Maple Walnut

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Maple ice cream has deep roots in the Northeast, appearing in some 19th-century cookbooks, and the addition of nuts eventually made it a New England staple. Maple walnut, also known as maple walnut, was much easier to find in the 1970s, but has since disappeared from many ice cream shelves and stores.

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“My grandmother loved the maple walnut flavor. I don’t think I’ve seen it since I was a kid,” one Reddit user recalled.