Adal Rifai lives with a severe case of choice paralysis in grocery aisles, which explains the stash of Everything Bagel ice cream in his freezer.

Do I taste garlic?

The Chicago-based podcaster has a trick to managing his indecision over ice-cream flavors. “If I see 50 different flavors, and I see some kind of novelty flavor, something that’s off-the-wall,” says Mr. Rifai, 39, “I’ll always go with that.”

So the bagel flavor was the obvious choice when he discovered it—a cream-cheese concoction with poppy seeds, sesame seeds, onion and garlic. “Whatever they’re putting in there is fantastic,” he says. His wife, Jemma Rifai, 32, agrees: “Typically you relegate bagels to breakfast-lunch, but now I get to have a cheeky little spoonful throughout the day or night.”