A
brick of
ice cream with multiple
flavors in it, usually
chocolate,
vanilla, and
strawberry. Of course, too many people who
buy Neapolitan ice cream in the
grocery store only eat one
flavor and leave the other two to
freeze into a
solid, inert mass. More sensible people eat every possible
combination of the three flavors, 'cause seriously, chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry all taste
fantastic together.
Oh, and a Neapolitan is also a
native of
Naples,
Italy. You might have expected that Neapolitan ice cream was
invented by a Neapolitan, but it appears it was first created by a
Prussian
chef in the late 1830s. It used to be that the combined flavors were
pistachio,
vanilla, and
cherry, in an approximation of the Italian national
flag. But chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry flavors were much more popular, so that's now the standard.