Vanilla is my favorite flavor of ice cream. Especially Blue Bell's homemade vanilla. I know it's a plain choice but you can't beat it.
Vanilla
Vanilla is a flavoring derived from orchids of the genus "Vanilla", primarily from the Mexican species, flat-leaved vanilla ("V. planifolia"). The word "vanilla", derived from , the diminutive of the Spanish word ( itself meaning a sheath or a pod), is translated simply as "little pod". Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people cultivated the vine of the vanilla orchid, called "tlīlxochitl" by the Aztecs. Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés is credited with introducing both vanilla and
and was the first company to mass-produce the flavor Cookies 'n Cream. Although the company at one time made Cookies 'n Cream from Nabisco's Oreo cookies, buying ordinary retail packages, today it bakes its own cookies. As of 1997, Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla was the best-selling single flavor of ice cream in the United States, and in 2001, "Forbes" named Blue Bell the best ice cream in the country.
R.W. Apple, Jr., of "The New York Times" claimed