30-07-2025
Is this the best Irish dessert? Classic ice-cream treat has everyone feeling nostalgic
There's nothing like sweet treats to get you reminiscing about your childhood, and this classic is being dubbed the 'best Irish dessert.'
The dessert in question is vanilla ice cream wedged between two slices of wafer. Yum!
Social media users have been getting nostalgic over the classic dessert — making us here at Extra want to run to our nearest shop to pick up a block of ice-cream and a packet of wafers. There's nothing like sweet treats to get you reminiscing about your childhood, and this classic dessert is being dubbed the 'best Irish dessert.' Pic: Reddit
One Reddit user shared a picture of two ice-cream sandwiches to the r/AskIreland reddit board, wondering: 'Best Irish dessert?'
They added: 'These were the highlight of my youth. Down the local shop you'd get one of these and two loose John Player Blue for 20pm. Any memories of the simple life from you all?'
Fellow Reddit users flocked to the comments full of nostalgia for the good old days. Social media users have been getting nostalgic over the classic dessert — making us here at Extra wanting to run to our nearest shop to pick up a block of ice-cream and packet of wafers. Pic: Getty Images
One said: 'A wafer was the best everyday dessert. For special occasions, e.g. milestone birthdays, graduations, appointment to the Cabinet table etc, mammy might splash out the big bucks and get a Romantica.'
Another responded: 'Or Vienetta. Decadence.'
A third commented: 'You always thought you had them cut perfectly straight only to stick it between two wafers and see that bloody slant every time.' While, we would argue vanilla is the classic, others in the comments offered other options. Pic: Getty Images
While we would argue vanilla is the classic, others in the comments offered other options.
'It had to be raspberry ripple icecream,' one shared, while another noted: 'If the ice-cream was Neopolitan then we'd be talking.'
'This, but banana ice-cream,' another put forward.
Earlier in the month, Irish people got nostalgic once again as a staple drink reappeared in a Limerick shop.
'Craft' soda Jones Soda was made with cane sugar and came in differing flavours ranging from green apple to bubblegum.
Despite sales of the soda falling off a cliff in the past decade, sometimes you can find yourself lucky enough to find a bottle; and if you're in Limerick, you're in luck, as it has reappeared in Candy Castle, a shop in the Treaty County.
