Has anyone ever had watermelon flavored ice cream? We were talking about it around the Dairy and we realized that you never really see watermelon ice cream (or even watermelon sherbet), even though it sounds like it would taste great!
Speaking of watermelon, we wanted to point out a fun new blog created by our friends at the National Watermelon Promotion Board. They took a cue from us and used many of the same elements seen here on the Ice Cream Journal and so far, it looks great! Their blog is called “What About Watermelon” and it’s all about — you guessed it — WATERMELON! Check it out at www.whataboutwatermelon.com, and feel free to sign up to have new entries sent to your in-box. That way you’ll have ice cream and watermelon waiting for you in your e-mail every few days. Not bad, huh?
By the way, the winner of this week’s “Trivia Monday” prize is Sheila D. of Brooklyn, NY. Congratulations Sheila! I’m sure many of you are wondering what the answers to this week’s “Trivia Monday” questions are. Some of you got them all right, but question #4 was tricky for a lot of people (including me). Here are the answers:
1. The three cities locked in a battle to determine who invented the ice cream sundae are Evanston, IL; Two Rivers, WI; and Ithaca, NY.
2. The Indian tribe that inspired the Turkey Hill name are the Susquehannocks (or Conestoga).
3. Turkey Hill purchased its first giant cow in 1967.
4. You would have to purchase 16,200 Turkey Hill ice cream sandwiches to equal the weight of the world’s largest ice cream sandwich. (The world’s largest ice cream sandwich weighed 2,500 pounds. There are 453.6 grams in a pound, which makes the giant sandwich 1,134,000 grams. Divide that by 70 grams (the weight of a Turkey Hill ice cream sandwich) and you get 16,200.)
5. Three percent of people eat ice cream in the bathtub! (We think it might be higher, but they were too shy to admit it.)
Our next trivia contest is coming up this Monday. I promise there won’t be any tricky math questions. Good luck!
Tags: ice cream, trivia, turkey hill, watermelon
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It looks great, I think a sherbet would be best with bits of blueberries for the seeds
Congrats to the trivia contest winner!!
I think watermelon ice cream might be a little too fruity, although I do love watermelon water ice!
Also, thanks for the trivia answers… looking forward to more questions!
Watermelon ice cream sounds wonderful! Watermelon is so refreshing as it is, if it was an ice cream flavor and I think it would be my new favorite summer treat!!
Great idea Joe B! Blueberries or even bits of cherries for seeds. I’ll be watching the store freezer!
That looks delicious; I’d love to try watermelon ice cream.
Congratulation to the Trivia winner. I think Watermelon Ice cream would be so refreshing on a hot summer day. Linda
I had Friendly’s watermelon sherbet just last night. They also make a “Wattamelon Roll”.
(Yes, I know, it’s not Turkey Hill, but I’m from MA, and Friendly’s is the local ice cream chain. We didn’t get TH until a few years ago.)
Oh, and in their restaurants, you can also get a watermelon sherbet cooler. Yum yum.
Not a big fan of watermelon, but it looks refreshing.
i like fresh watermelon, but not watermelon flavored things…i think i’ll stick w/ chocolate!
My kids love the watermelon roll. Watermelon sherbet with chocolate chips for the seeds and the rind is lime sherbet. Now that may not seem like a good combo (watermelon and lime) but it actually is quite tasty and VERY REFRESHING on a hot day. (Sorry its made by one of your competitors.) But we love Turkey Hill ice cream also. I don’t buy the watermelon roll very often because of the cost. My new favorite for a really refreshing flavor is Turkey Hill Southern Lemon pie.
Watermelon sherbet sounds good, but I’m not too sure about watermelon ice cream.
i have never ever tried watermelon ice cream. /:
mmmmm watermelon ice cream! sounds great
I made a watermelon sherbet last night! Just puréed the watermelon, mixed it with a little lime juice and agave nectar.
I’d like to try watermelon. I’d also like to try teaberry but can’t find anyone who makes it. Did you ever consider this flavor?
I love watermelon but have never had ice cream made with it.
I love watermelon and we all know I love ice cream so what could be better.
Friendly’s makes a watermelon roll sherbet. I had it years ago. He’s a desciption – A desertshaped like a with watermelon sherbet on the inside with chocolate chips and then a lime sherbet lining.
Friendly’s is a restaurant chain in the northest. I just checked their website and they still carry this product as well as many other “rolls” I never knew about.
Doesn’t matter what kind it is, I love it all
Just stocked up my freezer again last night – Love the new peanut butter mania
Not a big watermelon fan—probably had it once in last 5 years
I don’t know if I’d like watermelon ice cream. Then again, I don’t watermelon. lol
Watermelon ice cream sounds fantastic! I want some.
I Love Watermelon and Ice Cream so I am sure Watermelon Ice Cream would be Great!
awww, I was so close for #4…
looks good, but watermelon flavor is too etherial to tie it down in ice cream
Looks delicious! I used to eat this watermelon sherbet with chocolate chips for the seeds and lemon sherbet for the rind.
Think we used raspberry ice cream with choc morsels surrounded by lime sherbert! YUMMY memory!
I am with you Greg, Friendly’s does have a good watta melon roll!!I am not sure that is is watermelon flavored or just red.. I am sure TH won’t mind giving a little credit to a fellow ice cream maker…they know it makes the industry better! Just like Milton Hershey helped Mars!
I like chocolate, so I’m not sure if I’d want watermelon in ice cream. I’ve heard of freezing grapes before, though, so I guess it’s kind of the same. I’d still choose chocolate over watermelon, though.
Looks real good – reminds me of Baked Alaska – but I still think Tin Roof Sundae is my favorite!
Looks real good – in the picture it reminds me of Baked Alaska – but I still think Tin Roof Sundae is my favorite Turkey Hill flavor!
What a refreshing summer treat!
I’ve had watermelon italian ice, but never watermelon ice cream.
Wow watermelon ice cream?! Yes! My two favorite desserts in the world into one yummy dessert!
This looks verrry good. The kids absolutely watermelon and ice cream ! Now the combination looks wonderful. Similar to Peanut Butter and Chocolate but more refreshing.
I have made this watermelon dessert and it is so good and looks cute. Congrats to the trivia winner, I was hoping I could get a prize just for getting all the questions right, but I guess I’ll have to hope for next week!
Watermellon ice cream? Now there is a new idea. I must say at first I am skeptical because I have my favorite Turkey Hill flavors and I cannot think of anything they are missing or how anything could even taste better. But then again, I thought I wouldn’t like fruity flavored ice cream until I tried the black cherry and fell in love with it, and all the fruity duettos. SO I say bring it on Turkey Hill because I will surely be your customer. You can count on me for that
YUM.
So I loved the trivia questions, and the answers all seemed interesting…one seemed unbelievable though. Only 3% of people eat ice cream in the bathtub? I do agree that I think the number is skewed and under par because people are afraid to admit it. But I will gladly and proudly say that ice cream is the best part of my bathtub soaking. I mean you do need something ice cold to keep the warm water from overheating and dehydrating you. And it is so indulgent, making the bathtub experience more enjoyable and decadent. In fact, I might unwind from my stressful day with a bathtub and ice cream break right now!
Watermelon ice cream is a grand idea whose time has FINALLY come!
I’ve never seen Watermelon Ice Cream but I have had Watermelon Sherbet.
Mmmm, watermelon ice cream sounds delicious – as long as those are chocolate chips and not watermelon seeds!
Everytime I look at this blog I get HUNGRY! And I’m out of Ice Cream. At 4:00 am that’s not good!
mmmmm love watermelon, one of my favorite things of summer if it comes to the stores I will definitley try it
Not a watermelon fan, though i have heard of watermelon sherbert or ice. I also have seen the recipe for watermelon flavored ice cream with the chocolate chips running through it. definitely something i would try to eat – but not necessarily make.
I love Watermelon but I don’t think it would be good for ice cream. Thanks anyway.
making a cake to look like a watermelon would be fun, using different flavors to coincide with the colors of the watermelon, but not a watermelon flavored ice cream.
Watermelon ice cream sounds interesting!
I have had watermelon sherbet before, and it was delicious! I think ice cream would be even more yummy!
That watermelon looking ice cream thing in the photo looks good!
just had a watermelon sorbet after dinner at the Babylon Carriage House -Long island-NY-the other day-really yummy-my neighbor looking for TH Burgundy Cherry-still around?
Congratulations, Sheila — enjoy your prize. That watermelon treat looks so inviting!
I enjoyed watermelon sorbet before, but not in an icecream flavor,sounds mighty tasty though. Thanks for the other website info.
It was very nice of you to place the watermelon site as a go to in your email.
please let us have more of the Turkey Hill flavors in the Detroit area !!!! Please!!!!! thanks
Is there a seedless version?
The picture looks great, but where’s the recipe? I’d love to make this. Does anyone have a recipe for this? there wasn’t one on the watermelon website.
Is watermelon ice cream something we could look forward to as a feature flavor from Tirkey Hill? Even better…watermelon Duetto. YUM!!!!
The Friendly’s has the wattamelon roll which others have mentioned above. It’s okay….I’m sure if TH made one it’d be a bit better. I like TH better than Friendly’s.
Taht looks cool……how about cantaloupe ice cream!!!
When I was younger I worked in a friendlys ices cream restaurant that served what they called ice cream roll it was watermelon sherbet then lemon sherbet and then a thin line of lime sherbet and when you cut it it looked like a slice of watermelon it was a big hit with the customers it was such a big hit you could buy at are local grocery store if iam not mistaking I think you can still get it at the bigger stores
I would like to make a watermelon roll, this picture inspires me!
I have seen a cake like you pictured with chocolate chips for the seeds. I even cut out the recipe, and, of course, it’s still there yellowing with all the others that I was going to make Someday!
Can you provide a recipe how to create a presentation looking like a watermelon or other fruits? It would be fun to serve!
Sounds kind of like a funny flavor, will defantley have to try it before i say i don’t like it though. Looks really pretty!
I have to agree. I believe watermelon ice would be preferable to watermelon ice cream.
One of your competitors does make a watermelon roll. It’s more like a creamy sherbert. I’m sure Turkey Hill can beat that. I love watermelon.
Forget it!
All we can say is Yuk. No way watermelon ice cream for us. But if it was made to look like a watermelon but didn’t taste like it , we’d eat it.
I’m sure my mother-in-law would be first to buy eat. They did at one time have watermelon jello and she used that in one of her receipes. However, the no longer make it
Hi Turkey Hill fan
I have watermelon sherbert, not ice cream, I can’t if I will like it or not. turkey Hill Ice cream…are you going to make watermenlon ice cream…
I am presently finishing off Watermelon Sherbet which my 10 year old grand daughter wanted for her Camp Grandma visit. Its eatable but I prefer my Raspberry. My hubby got the better of the deal since the 12 year old wanted “cookie dough” but he prefers butter pecan or non-mint flavor with chocolate & nuts
Definitely sherbet or sorbet! With chocolate chips for seeds!!
My Gram used to make a watermelon roll for us. We always thought it was the neatest thing. And, because I don’t like watermelon, she used raspberry sherbert for the red part! It was so yummy and refreshing on a hot day.
I likewatermelon but would not buy that flavor ice cream even if its TH
I want to make this!
I think that watermelon would be very tasty, especially in a cone outside on a summer day. I love Rita’s Watermelon, flavor so Im sure Turkey Hill could knock it out of the park.
Would definitely like it with watermelon sherbet & chocolate chip “seeds” – I don’t think watermelon would make a good ice cream flavor, though.
That ice cream cake looks so neat!
Funny you should have watermelon in your topic today. Just last evening I was watching Unwrapped on the Food Network and they visited a place in Texas that makes (among other flavors) watermelon sorbet.
I certainly hope that my TH will have that ice cream before the end of summer! It looks delicious, so I am sure that it will be terrific. Keep working on new ideas you always inspire me to try something new.
A great big bowl of Turkey Hill ice cream on a hot summer day really cools you off.
Forget the watermelon, make peppermint yearround.
Really love all flavors – favorite is
Tin Roof followed by Fudge Ripple!
I don’t believe that water mellon ice cream would be good. But using lime sherbet for shell with vanilla ice cream lining and filled with water mellon sherbet with choc chips for seeds would be great.
I’m going to check out that watermelon site. Bet they have some yummy recipes, etc.
Hey, not only is it National Ice Cream Month but according to http://www.whataboutwatermelon.com it’s also National Watermelon Month too. MMMMMMMM
Goooooooood, both of them.
Looks too real
Ive had watermelon gelatto & it was XL– ent Old guy in bakery store makes it here & when you go in there you never know what he’ll have for flavors but they are all good —Cant wait to try this ice cream yumm yummm
We have a local ice-cream stand that has wonderful Watermellon Sherbert..Love it on a hot summers day..
I like the idea of watermelon sorbet or sherbert. Sounds refreshing on a hot summer day.
Watermelon Sherbet sounds great. It would be so much better than having to cut up a real watermelon and eat around the seeds to get that refreshing taste. Love the idea…hope to see it soon.
Friendly’s Restuarant’s sell watermelon roll icecream that looks and tastes like watermelon but the price of their icecream roll is a sin. Most families can not afford to serve it very often because it is so overpriced. Turkey Hill has much more reasonably priced their icecream. Please keep the good icecream coming and do not outprice your faithful customers..
ALONG WITH EATING TURKEY HILL ICE CREAM ,IT FUN TO LEARN THINGS ABOUT HISTORY;;;;
Watermelon ice cream sounds wonderful
J love watermelon, but I don’t know if I would like the ice cream, maybe a sherbert. barbara
Sounds & looks delicious.I normaly don’t like the seeds,but I’m sure they taste great in the ice cream.
THE THOUGHT OF REAL WATERMELLON TASTING ICE CREAM IS TERRIFIC!
KEEP TRYING!! I BET IT WOULD BE A HUGE SELLER!!!
I’d love watermelon sherbet. Watermelon is my favorite summertime treat & if the sherbet were available, I could enjoy it year round.
Interesting. I would like to try watermelon ice cream.
I like watermelon and ice cream, but don’t think I would want watermelon ice cream.
Watermelon pits in ice cream? Not for me.
Watermelon sherbet sounds delicious! As for the seeds, use chocolate chips shaped like the seeds-delicious!!
Certainly worth a try! Might I recommend brown candy coated sunflower seeds for ‘seeds’ (I’ve purchased multi-colored candy coated sunflower seeds- they have a coating like M&Ms)
I LOVE watermelon sherbet…here’s a recipe I enjoy making:
* 2 1/2 cups watermelon pulp (seeds strained out)
* 1/2 cup sugar
* 1/4c + 1/4 cup watermelon liquid
* 1/3 cup heavy cream
* 1 lemons’ worth of juice
Preparation:
Heat the sugar with a 1/4 c watermelon liquid and let the syrup cool. Blend melon syrup, melon pulp, additional 1/4 c melon liquid and lemon juice in blender. Chill mixture in fridge for several hours
Whip the cream. Combine all the ingredients, folding the cream in carefully lest it deflate, and pour the mixture into the ice cream machine.
Watermelon ice cream doesn’t sound good to me, however, watermelon sherbert might be refreshing.
Nancy N wrote earlier & I’m Nancy N,too!!! Watermellon sorbet sounds very refreshing for a hot summer day like today!!! Go TH!!!
One of the yogurt companies recently introduced watermelon flavored yogurt. I have not tried it yet, but if it is good I imagine the creamy consistency of ice cream would also work. I think I would prefer watermelon in a sorbet — closer the the original texture.
It’s seems a little strange to me, but I know my wife would try it if the fal and calories were like real watermeoln.
that looks soooooooooo good! Only place I’ve seen watermelon sherbet is Friendly’s in Hershey, PA.
Congratulations, Sheila. That watermelon sorbet looks so refreshing, wish I had some right now.
I don’t think I’d like that not being a big fan of watermelon.
Growing up my mom always made a watermelon bombe as dessert for parties. Everybody loved it! Made with raspberry sherbert (w/choc chips for seeds), pineapple sherbert and lime sherbert. Made in none other than a Tupperware bowl, there was one years and years ago that molded out to look like half a watermelon. Yummy!!
It seems like you can make ice cream to look like watermelon but not really taste like watermelon. Maybe you can throw some watermelon jelly beans into vanilla ice cream and call it watermelon ice cream. I’ll choose any flavor of Turkey Hill ice cream over watermelon any day.
I still like chocolate best.
I think that Turkey Hill can create that watermelon flavor because they are creative. That is a good summer creation although in this area there is an icecream restaurant that has a watamelon roll ( that is the correct spelling not watermelon)
I love watermelon but this ice cream would be a good substitute
I like watermelon and I like Turkey Hill Moose Tracks, Put them together and I have a wonderful bowl of goodies going down real quick. Evening snack.
watermelon is ok but I would still like to see a licorice flavored ice cream someday,or how about grape?
Would it be seedless watermelon???
Watermelon sorbet, covered in tinted vanilla–mmmm.
The watermelon ice cream looks great!
How ironic, I recently suggested combo of watermelon and maybe vanilla ice cream with chocolate chips. I got excited when I seen the header of your e:mail saying watermelon ice cream. You can do it, will be looking for the new ice cream with watermelon.
Hate t osay this— because I think Turkey Hill IS the best… but Friendly ( owned by Hershey’s?) has a watermelon roll ice cream….. had it once or twice as a youngster but have seen it in summer months at the grocery stores.
Watermelon needs to be a sorbet!
We’ve had the watermelon roll and watermelon sherbet by an “unknown” competitor.
My wife and daughters love Watermelon and this would naturally be loved as ice cream. Maybe you could work it into your Duettos. MMMMMMMMMM
Gotta have it!
Well if were going for summer flavor and were gonna try to beat friendlys wattamelon roll (whose rhine is lemon sherbet and choc chip seeds) WHY not do a triple flavor Like a Summer Neopolitain MELON MADNESS
WATERMELON CANTALOPE & HONEY DEW !!!
now that what im talking about
till then ill freeze my watermelon slices and enjoy them like that till Someone creates something to tickle my fancy
it would be nice if turkey hill came out with a wtermelon ice cream . or a mango ice cream yum yum !