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What Does Your Ice Cream Say About You?
Celebrate National Ice Cream Day Sunday by discovering if your favorite flavor matches your personality.
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.
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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:
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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.
If these profiles don’t match your palate or personality, why not create a flavor that does? Patch asked Prince George’s County residents to invent a flavor of ice cream. Check out their responses here.Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.
