Nothing beats the feeling of cold ice cream on a hot summer’s day. People have their preferences, and some preferences might even be stronger than others.
For some people, however, the fine line between innocently expressing their opinions over ice cream preferences might teeter toward the edge of unnecessary bashing, where one might feel it is over the top and “doing too much.”
Humans are generally very opinionated, so it is expected to see even the most miniscule of topics like ice cream flavors be handled with such vigor and care. People do not want to argue over basics like vanilla, chocolate or strawberry; they seek out for more controversially rated flavors. One flavor in particular: mint chocolate.
While some do not care for mint chocolate as a flavor, they agree it can be enjoyable depending on their mood. People are entitled to their own opinions, and people who hate mint chocolate chip should not take that away from those who do.
It is unnecessary, although it is “unserious” as one might call it, to carry so much hate over this one flavor and even go as far as recounting the same argument over and over again:
“Mint chocolate is like eating toothpaste.”
People are allowed to dislike the flavor, but it often appears that people are over exaggerating their hate for this measly, little flavor, and their arguments are overused and boring.
Mint chocolate tasting like toothpaste could not be further from the truth. There are no toothpaste flavors that have bits of chocolate floating around in its tube accompanying its minty fresh counterpart.
Additionally, people do not use this argument for other flavors that have mint in them as well.
This repeated argument garners sympathy for mint chocolate lovers, because people can understand their frustration with being constantly met with the same unsound argument.
This repeated argument is similar to people who claim their least favorite word to be “moist” because it sounds uncomfortable, but frankly, some growing up needs to be done because it absolutely does not. The pretend forced cringe every time “moist” is said is overused and tired.
People have been jumping on the bandwagon to hate on this word because everyone else is doing it, and the same thing is happening with mint chocolate just because the toothpaste argument is easy to make and popular to rebuttal with.
Despite how popular hating on mint chocolate is, it is still considered to be one of the most popular ice cream flavors.
According to a YouGov poll from 2022, it was reported that “Mint chocolate chip… challenge vanilla and chocolate for favorite flavor” by “9%,” with vanilla having a 59% like rate, and chocolate with a 51% like rate, respectively. However, the flavor is not “liked by more than 35% of Americans.”
It is time for mint chocolate chip haters to find new arguments to show hatred against this flavor.
