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Christopher Boan is a contributing writer at BetSouthCarolina.com specializing in covering state issues. He covered sports and sports betting for close to 10 years.
What Are South Carolina’s Favorite Ice Cream Flavors?
With the summer months upon us and the thermometer edging upward, there’s no better relief from the heat than a nice scoop (or scoops) of ice cream. In South Carolina, the state’s go-to scoop seems to be a pair of traditional flavors, in vanilla and chocolate, speaking to the simple pleasures that come from the frozen delicacy.
BetSouthCarolina.com, your home to all news regarding South Carolina sports betting, utilized Google Trends to determine the most searched ice cream flavors by each state of the United States by utilizing YouGov’s data on the Top 11 most popular ice cream flavors in 2018.
After completing the trends over the past 12 months (from July 6th, 2022, to July 6th, 2023), we were able to find results to get the top 5 ice cream flavors in South Carolina. Whether you're a Gamecocks fan or root for the Clemson Tigers, we can all agree on a few simple things like the comfort of ice cream.
SC's Favorite Flavors
The Palmetto State Has Spoken
The Palmetto State’s favorite ice cream flavor overall was vanilla, scoring a search interest score of 29.
The other top five flavors, using the same search interest score, were chocolate (21), cookies and crèam (13), strawberry (11), chocolate chip cookie dough and rocky road (10 apiece) — putting the final say in which scoops the state of South Carolina loves the most. Now that summer’s hit its unofficial halfway measuring stick and the fall is fast approaching, now’s the time to hit the nearest scoop shop and load up on whatever flavors hit the spot.
It seems safe to say that residents of the Palmetto State will likely opt for the dynamic duo of vanilla or chocolate when they do hit up those shops, based on South Carolina’s ice cream search interest numbers.