July is national ice cream month so in honour of the occasion we've been taking a closer look at our favourite frozen treat.
Apparently your favourite flavour of ice cream says as much about your personality as it does about your taste buds.
Baskin-Robbins, the world's largest chain of ice cream speciality shops, partnered with Dr Alan Hirsch, a recognised smell and taste expert and founder of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in the US, to identify what some of the most popular ice cream flavours suggest about someone's personality. The findings uncovered some interesting insights into ice cream fans' unique characteristics based on their favourite Baskin-Robbins ice cream flavour.
"We uncovered quite a few surprising findings when investigating what a person's favorite ice cream flavor says about their personality," said Dr Hirsch. "For instance, we found that people who prefer Rainbow Sherbet are more pessimistic than you would think, in spite of the flavour's bright taste profile, and that those who prefer Rocky Road are actually very good listeners."
If your favourite flavour is:
Vanilla, you're more likely to be impulsive, easily suggestible and an idealist.
Chocolate, you're more likely to be dramatic, lively, charming, flirtatious, seductive and gullible.
Very Berry Strawberry, you're more likely to be a tolerant, devoted and an introvert.
Mint Chocolate Chip, you're more likely to be argumentative, frugal and cautious.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, you're more likely to be ambitious, competitive and a visionary.
Pralines 'n Cream, you're more likely to be loving, supportive and prefer to avoid the spotlight.
Jamoca (i.e. coffee), you're more likely to be scrupulous, conscientious and a moral perfectionist.
Chocolate Chip, you're more likely to be generous, competent and a go getter.
Rainbow Sherbet, you're more likely to be analytic, decisive and a pessimistic.
Rocky Road, you're more likely to be aggressive, engaging and a good listener.
