Neapolitan Ice Cream, One Flavor or Three? [Picture]

Neapolitan Ice Cream is made up of blocks of the three most popular ice cream flavors strawberry, chocolate and vanilla put side by side as one big block of ice cream. Yesterday was my Mother-In-Laws birthday. I married into an Italian family from Staten Island, New York. I'm from small town Southwestern Colorado. I grew up with Neapolitan Ice Cream being the answer to pleasing a group of people with all different flavor preferences. However, as I asked yesterday while serving up the Neapolitan Ice Cream and cake "which flavor would you like?" The chastising came in harmony by my husband, his mom and his brother. In their world all 3 flavors should be within the single scoop of ice cream. It's not a choice of flavors, rather a meld of flavors. I wasn't going to win the argument, since I don't have Italian roots and the ice cream does. City mouse and country mouse meet again! P.S. I don't like strawberry ice cream and left that out of mine, secretly.

Wikipedia says:

Neapolitan ice cream was named in the late 19th century as a reflection of its presumed origins in the cuisine of the Italian city of Naples, and the many Neapolitan immigrants who brought their expertise in frozen desserts with them to the United States. Spumoni was introduced to the United States in the 1870s as Neapolitan-style ice cream. Early recipes used a variety of flavors; however, the number of three molded together was a common denominator, to resemble the Italian flag (cf. insalata tricolore). More than likely, chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry became the standard for the reason that they were the most popular flavors in the United States at the time of introduction.

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