31 Flavors

Toddlers come in a wide variety of flavors, textures, and consistencies. Of course, you have your old trusty favorites such as, Vanilla and Strawberry. Vanilla and Strawberry are reliable and sweet and seem to fit in the box when it comes to plotting their growth on the chart and falling asleep at bedtime. Vanilla and strawberry love stuffed toys and are happy to play with other children or simply sit in front of the television and watch a cartoon. They do experience a slight degree of elevated anxiety when going to their doctor for a check-up but can be easily distracted by the germ filled toys in the waiting room.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Reese's Peanut Butter Cup are a little more unpredictable. Just when you think you are able to anticipate the next bite, BAM, a chunk hits your tongue and you are left attempting to maneuver the piece to the side of your mouth which has less sensitivity to cold or has been to the dentist last. Sure a routine can help in determining the cause of a meltdown or the apparent need of an early nap, but on any given day, a small chocolate chip can enter the equation, leaving even the most seasoned of parents searching for explanation. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Reese's Peanut Butter Cup are both rewarding and possess bits of the extraordinary.

The most intense flavors include Wild and Reckless, which is made up of a swirl of green apple, blue raspberry and fruit punch sherbets for a combination bursting with flavor and Raspberry Cheese Louise, which is a frozen treat with raspberry cheesecake pieces and coated graham cracker bits swirled with a raspberry ribbon. These flavors may be highly explosive and are in no way predictable. Wild and Reckless and Raspberry Cheese Louise may melt quickly or stay solid and become more than entertaining for any passerby. They are more intense than the others and purely led by emotion. These flavors are rich and posses many levels of decadence. They are the independent thinkers, who see no need for a set schedule and may blow kisses to you one day and act as though they had never seen you the next.

In a category all alone stands Rock n' Pop Swirl, my personal all time favorite. Rock n' PoP Swirl, which is loaded with purple-colored grape sherbet and green-colored green apple sherbet is loaded with popping candy. This flavor has been served at Baskin-Robbins since 2004 and appeared in my house in 2006. Do you remember Pop Rocks? Pop Rocks are the tiny candies that sizzle and explode in your mouth without warning. As a kid it was always fun to put the entire package in your mouth to prove to your friends that you were even wilder and crazier than they were. Rock n' Pop Swirl is loaded with Pop Rocks and endures the same traits as the most intense flavors. Rock n' Pop Swirl is creative, reactive, endearing and always leaves me wanting more.