Good Ice Cream

It seems to become harder and harder to find good ice cream.  Tillamook never fails and is our brand of choice.

Target's Exclusive Ben & Jerry's Flavors

For more than a month, Target has been promoting the coming arrival of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream flavors exclusive to Target stores. A few days ago, they finally arrived. The flavors are "Brownie Chew Gooder" which has vanilla caramel ice cream with brownie chunks and a caramel swirl. This is the best of the two new flavors in our opinion. The brownie pieces are very chewy. If you're the kind of person who likes the brownie in the corner of the brownie pan, you'll really like this ice cream.

The second exclusive flavor is called "Berry Voluntary". It has raspberry cheesecake ice cream with a raspberry swirl and white chocolatey chunks. You read that right, white "chocolatey" chunks, not white chocolate chunks. My best guess from looking at the ingredient list is that said chunks are made from coconut oil.

Ben & Jerry's Boston Cream Pie Ice Cream

I picked up this new pint of ice cream the other thinking fondly of the Boston Cream donuts they sell at Dunkin. Out of the gate Steph was not impressed with my flavor selection. Then she tried a spoon. She then declared, "this is good!" and proceeded to start digging around for the cake pieces (which she is prone to do)



I agreed - this is ice cream that is worth trying despite the fact that it has little chocolate bits in it. I'm not a fan of the little chocoloate bits as I think the cold ice cream invariably make them taste kind of waxy. B&J got this one right though.

Ben & Jerry Begin Rolling Out Summer Flavors

Out of these four flavors, I bought Boston Cream Pie. It's pretty darn good if you like boston cream. Erin was disappointed I didn't choose Milk & Cookies, so that'll probably the next flavor we try.

Dreyer's Dibs Product

This review was going to start out as a positive. We've been enjoying Dreyer's Dibs all summer long - especially Jack. Even Kodak got his teeth on a few...


take careful note of description: "ice cream"

but.... :( now that Nestle owns Dreyer's you know what's coming next... yeap... no more ice cream... hello frozen dairy product. It's enough to even make a food-crazed beagle lose interest.

(click picture for better viewing of "frozen dairy dessert")

First Bryer's - now Dryer's. Ice cream fans - all I can saw is beware.

Häagen-Daz Five

Dad talks about the declining quality of Ben & Jerry's, and I have observed many questionable ingredients in dairy desert products on the market that can't even legally be called "ice cream". It seems Häagan-Daz has made a similar observation, and has presented an answer to the problem in the form of Häagen-Daz Five. It's an all natural ice cream that only has five ingredients. We tried the brown sugar flavor and found it to be excellent. Sometimes, simpler is better. Other flavors I saw, but have not tried, include chocolate, vanilla, coffee, and ginger.

Mission to Marzipan

Ben & Jerry's has released a new flavor called, "Mission to Marzipan". It's a sweet cream ice cream with almond cookies and a marzipan swirl. Erin picked this up when I was in Las Vegas and found it to be weird tasting and basically inedible. I agree that it isn't the best B&J's flavor out there, but didn't have much problem eating the stuff.

We actually had to research marzipan to figure out what it was. Strangely, after reading about it, we're still not sure what it is. Here's the best description we could find:
"Marzipan is a confection consisting primarily of sugar and almond meal. It derives its characteristic flavor from bitter almonds, which constitute 4% to 6% of the total almond content by weight. Some marzipan is also flavored with rosewater."

Mission to Marzipan hits your tongue with a strongly flavored almond extract bite that rings a little weird. Maybe this is how marzipan always tastes. Who knows? At any rate, I'd say this flavor is for marzipan fans only, assuming marzipan fans exist.

Breyers Ice Cream...Don't be so sure...

I've always regarded Breyers as a producer of quality ice creams. Their website certainly doesn't go out of its way to mention they also slip in "frozen dairy desert" on occasion and we recently made the mistake of purchasing such a product.



It's a good bet that the peanut butter cups mixed in to this dairy product are not made of chocolate but rather a palm oil derivative.

Don't make the assumption that the Breyer's name represents top quality ice cream like I did.