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- informaluncountableClipped compound of mint chocolate chip.
Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma bomber, ate two tubs of mint choc chip ice-cream before he was killed by lethal injection in 2001.
2012 April 27, Hannah Booth, “Big picture: Death Row Prisoners’ Last Meals, by Helen Thompson”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Sep 20142 more examples
Vanilla is still the UK's most popular flavour - accounting for more than 80% of ice cream sold - followed by strawberry, chocolate and mint choc chip.
1999 August 21, Hilary Freeman, “The ice cream of the crop”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 May 2014The ice-cream freezer we had housed only four large 5-gallon tubs of ice-cream so we stocked it with vanilla, chocolate, strawberry and mint choc chip, the classics. Occasionally, the mint choc chip was out of stock and they would send peppermint stick, a peppermint ice-cream with crushed candy canes churned through, as a replacement. […] They would also make wonderful ice-cream sandwiches with peppermint stick, mint choc chip, or even chocolate ice-cream.
2022 November 28, Claire Ptak, “Candy cane chocolate chip cookies recipe by Claire Ptak”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2022
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