Talk:Neapolitan ice cream

message: I thought the banana split added something to the article. Also, is there any coumtry correlation on the flavour ordering? I noticed the UK and US ones were in different orders. Maybe that would be a reason to have the country labels? I think someone needs to go out and buy several different brands to see if there is order dependency there. No, wait, that would be violating WP:NOR!!! ++Lar: t/c 02:18, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Lar, actually I went out and looked and all the brands in the US were different. Different order, different arrangement, (horizontal vs. vertical). So i got the one in a square block so I could unmold it and take a nicer picture.  Its more a brand thing than a country thing.  As for the "split" the whole point of neapolitan is that it is molded together. The split didn't show that, its could be three random scoops of ice cream.  Also, it was an unappetizing picture with a random black spot in the middle. Much better suited to illustrating banana split.  Anyway, I wouldn't object to a better pic that showed the flavors combined in one scoop, but that particualr one didn't lend much. Later dude. :)  pschemp | talk 12:13, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well isn't neapolitan a term for combined flavours too? I've seen banana splits badged that way.  (see for example this unofficial Disney menu reference under heading "classic Neapolitan Banana Split") Also... glad (scared?) to hear you have already researched the important order/shape/sequence question in some depth. Later, dudette... ++Lar: t/c 13:47, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Banana split 

message: The ice cream has been produced for quite a while- two centuries, at least. It has been done. Very good. Ice cream is a dairy product.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nsequeira119 (talk • contribs) 01:11, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: It has been done

message: This is a good article. Way to go, guys!--Sonjaaa 09:29, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: grats

message: This article contradicts the Spumoni article, stating that Spumoni was created in Italy before Neapolitan. —XSG 03:09, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  vs. Spumoni 

message: I'm fairly certain this "American spumoni" (kinda like what American cheese is to cheddar) was originally designed to be served like spumoni, that is, with all three flavors being eaten at once with the flavors combining in the mouth, presumably before they melt together into a pinkish beige puddle.
However, I believe the reason Neapolitan continues to be a top 5 seller in the US is due to a misunderstanding of this concept, coupled with a desire to save money: every time I've ever seen or been served Neapolitan ice cream, it was in a group setting (school cafeterias, church picnics, etc.) from a giant "valu-style" plastic tub that looked like it had a past life as a 55-gallon oil drum. There was no (intentional) mixing, it was straight scoops of low-quality strawberry, vanilla or chocolate. It also was never very good. I've never seen gourmet Neapolitan in the US, for example, any more than I've seen gourmet Velveeta.
As the above Homer Simpson quote references, I posit that Americans like Neapolitan because its a cheap way to get the most popular three flavors at once (in order to please large groups or picky children) by buying a bigger carton with all three rather than buying one carton of each. Bravo Foxtrot (talk) 19:59, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serving method? 

message: what is the name of the ice cream with strawberry vanilla and PISTACHIO -- instead of chocolate -- roughly approximating the Italian flag?
some sources claim Neapolitan originally refered to THIS combo, which sounds quite likely to me.  unless there is a DISTINCT term for it?
either way, i would think this is (or was) the default combo in Italy at one point.  obviously, the whole idea was to mimic the flag at some point, no?
anyone know for sure? 209.172.25.159 (talk) 07:40, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italian Flag 

message: I would like to point out that this cake is unheard of in Italy. I question the inclusion in the "Italian desserts" category. --Gspinoza (talk) 13:05, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is not Italian 

message: "It is the first flavor of ice cream to combines (sic.) three different flavours". This is surely bad grammar, as it should surely say "to combine three different flavours". Vorbee (talk) 18:23, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Bad grammar

message: This article says that this ice cream gets its name "from the presumed origins in the cuisine of the Italian city of Naples" but it would be good if it said where this ice cream does originate. I do not know  - if it did originate from Naples, this could be mentioned in the article. Vorbee (talk) 18:28, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Presumed origins versus actual origins