Which ice-cream flavor was named for golfer Arnold Palmer’s tea-and-lemonade drink?

Arnold Palmer ice-cream flavor was named for golfer Arnold Palmer’s tea-and-lemonade drink.

An Arnold Palmer drink traditionally combines iced tea and lemonade. The beverage became associated with the professional golfer after he was widely linked to ordering and drinking the mixture. Ice-cream makers later used the same name for products combining tea-flavored and lemon-flavored components.

The flavor is therefore a reference to a named drink, not a claim that Palmer invented a particular ice-cream recipe. Depending on the manufacturer, an Arnold Palmer ice cream may use black-tea flavor, lemon ice cream, lemon sorbet, or swirled components. Recipes differ, but the tea-and-lemonade concept is the identifying connection.

Arnold Palmer is also sometimes confused with John Daly, another golfer whose name is used for a related alcoholic drink. The nonalcoholic tea-and-lemonade combination is the classic Arnold Palmer, and that is the source of the ice-cream flavor name.