Haagen Daaz or Ben and Jerrys?

[Just-Legal]

Which company? And what flavour?

To quote Lou: Discuss!

 

[lilith1979]

B&J's
New York Super Chunk!!!!!!
Peanut Butter Cookie Dough!!!!

I love their ice cream, just can't afford it.

 

[Just-Legal]

HALF BAKED!

Sorry.

Here, you can have some of mine, although by the time the mailman gets it there it'll've melted

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Ben & Jerry's chubby hubby. oh yea!

but my preference would be Perry's country Pumpkin pie.

 

[TheEarl]

Ben & Jerry's Chocloate Fudge Brownie by a long way.

The Earl

 

[Guest]

Daaz: Rum Raisen and Dulce de Leche

Perdita

 

[Weird Harold]

Which company? And what flavour?

Baskin & Robbins' Cherries Jubilee.

I didn't vote because you didn't put any good ice cream brands in the poll.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Sorry. I like the cheap brands, like Swillcrest and Shuttered Farms, the ones with all the artifical flavorings and alginates in them. They're just so damned tasty and rich. Better living through chemistry.

Vanilla or chocolate would be fine. I think that's all they make, anyhow.

---Zoot

 

[Guest]

Swillcrest

Good grief! I've been using it as toothpaste. I must call my dentist now.

Perdita

 

[Guest]

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Blue Bell is the big deal here in the south.

I like Pecan Prailines & Creme or Strawberry



p.s. Baskin Robbins carries a Rainbow Sherbet that I've loved since I was a kid.

 

[Guest]

Blue Bell is the big deal here in the south.

I heard you fry ice cream. Just how does that work?

Perdita

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I heard you fry ice cream. Just how does that work?

Perdita

LOL

Only in Mexican food restaurants.



Yum, btw!

~lucky

 

[Guest]

Discuss?

There's nothing to discuss, the stuff is EBIL!!!! Yep, I'm the one that voted, "Erm... I don't like it."

Headaches, nausea, flashing in front of eyes, not good.

Lou - lubber of frozen choc.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Headaches, nausea, flashing in front of eyes, not good.

THat sounds like a night at the pub, not icecream.

 

[R. Richard]

Ice cream? Fine for children.

Try champagne sherbet if you want a ice treat. (When I have a lady over, I call it 'sorbet au champagne.' The things I will do to score high class pussy never cease to amaze me.)

 

[Guest]

Ice cream? Fine for children.

Try champagne sherbet if you want a ice treat. (When I have a lady over, I call it 'sorbet au champagne.' The things I will do to score high class pussy never cease to amaze me.)

Nah, I just skip the sorbet bit and drink the champagne.

 

[Liar]

THat sounds like a night at the pub, not icecream.

Or a night at the pub, with icecream.


Ben & Jerry's is quite freakin rare in this part of the world. I have seen it now and then in stores, but never when I've had the munchies for icecream.

But if it's comparable to Daaz...well...both have their hineys kicked by Lejonet & Björnen. These guys are contracted to make the Nobel Price banquet desserts, but they also make Hägen-Daaz priced "regular" stuff.

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Richard, they have a killer champagne sorbet too.

 

[Honey123]

I don't like ice cream...but Ben& Jerry's has an actual ice cream parlor by me. -- Supposedly made fresh there

I tasted my son’s ice cream and it was horrible. He even hated it..we have a Hagen Daaz by us as well, it’s much better. But we have this family run ice cream parlor by us that is out of this world....the line is usually out the door and into the parking lot 12 months out of the year! And it is cheaper than both places and they give you enormous amounts of ice cream. They definately make their own ice cream there - as well as sorbet and Italian ice. I used to go to TCBY (The Country's Best Yogurt) - which does great iced yogurt - anyway, they would make shakes with Slim Fast...LOL...now that's an oxymoron!!!! But they were fantastic...

I miss ice cream...but...I'll keep my chips and forego the ice cream...

 

[cloudy]

Haagen Dazs.....Dulce de Leche....it is so rich, and so wonderful....

 

[SlickTony]

Blue Bell is the big deal here in the south.

Just what I was going to have said. I am so glad that you can now get Blue Bell somewhere other than just in Texas. When I lived in Louisiana I used to know people who would make runs into Texas to get Blue Bell and bring it back in insulated containers with dry ice. Gradually it began to migrate eastward.

Even so, it still hadn't come to Florida when we first moved there. The first summer we were there, we went to the shrimp festival in Fernandina Beach, and it was the kind of event they made you put your car in the parking lot of the local HS and shuttled you to the event grounds. On the way back, my son, who has Asperger's (he hadn't been diagnosed at the time, but his eccentricities had been noted) suddenly, apropos of nothing, broke into the Blue Bell jingle. This caused everybody on the shuttle to smile and start talking about how much they liked Blue Bell and missed it and wished one could get it in Florida.

Now you can. It's kind of pricey most of the time, but all dairy stuff has gone up. It usually costs around $5.69 in the grocery, but every now and then the grocery, even Walgreen's, has it on sale 2 for $7.

 

[shereads]

Haagen Das. For one thing, Ben & Jerry's mixes in chunks of stuff that get in the way. A good steak doesn't have pistachios inserted in every other bite; why should ice cream be cluttered with fudge chunks?

For another thing....

(Caution: Verbose Nostalgia)

In Germany, where we lived when I was 3 to 5 years old, the Air Force moms were warned not to let their children eat unpasteurized dairy products. It would give us scurvy or make us go blind or something. I wondered why German children weren't dropping dead on the streets from dairy products. Mom explained, "Their systems are used to it."



Whatever. I hated milk. I just wished there were no American supermarkets with American-style milk.

Then my mom decided that the warning applied to German ice cream. This was getting serious! We had discovered a children's park in Wiesbaden, and I knew there was an ice cream vendor there. When my mother pronounced it off-limits, I knew I had to have some German ice cream. It would be delicious beyond anything in my experience.

Thank God for dads. Mine was unaware of mom's rules, including the one about killer dairy products. Trips to the park became a challenge to separate my dad and me from my mom and sister. Then I'd take him by the hand and slowly steer him in the direction of the ice cream vendor, with all the subtlety a 5-year-old can muster. He pretended not to know what I was up to, and i pretended I wasn't risking a hideous death for both of us. I'd ask for a chocolate cone, averting my eyes so my dad wouldn't discern the little thrill of guilt and triumph.

I remember being worried after the first time. I might be dying. I might get in trouble. But I survived, and I was hooked.

Deadly German ice cream was a five-year-old's equivalent of forbidden sex.

It was worth the deception, worth the risk. It was rich and dense and smooth. No nuts, no distracting hooplah; just butterfat and flavor.

When we moved back to the USA, ice cream was just ice cream. Like a wine connoisseur condemned to drink Cold Duck, I eventually forgot why the experience had once been special.

It was years before my first taste of Haagen Das brought it it all back: the buttery texture; the darker, almost smoky flavor of chocolate. The duck pond. Roses. Wiesbaden. My dad, letting me lead him by the hand and pretending not to know we were breaking a rule.

Haagen Das may not be forbidden, but it's the next best thing. If it gives me scurvy, I'll let you Litsters know.

 

[fifty5]

Luca's of Musselburgh (just outside Edinburgh) - any flavour!

Used to be a regular trip out when I was at Ed. Uni.

Punch line...

I worked at the Ed Wimpy Bar and an Italian co-worker wanted to get into ice cream. He arranged a trip round Luca's, but had no transport, so got me to drive him there. On the way home again he complained, "Well, if they make it out of fresh cream and fresh fruit, of course it's going to be good..."

It was and is (I was back up there not long ago.)

Eff

 

[BlackShanglan]

Normally I actually thrive on trashy, chunky ice cream - B&J's Phish Food or Dreamery Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup. Good chocolate/peanut butter ice cream really does it for me.

That said, the best ice cream I ever tasted was house-made coconut sorbet at the Plumed Horse in Saratoga. It was the perfect finish to a meal that was an absolute joy from beginning to end. There was only about five tablespoons of it in a little chocolate dish, and one could not possibly have wanted more. There was as much beauty and delicate flavor in it as a gallon of B&J's. It was totally fulfilling in an almost sexual way

Shanglan

 

[Goldie Munro]

Luca's of Musselburgh (just outside Edinburgh) - any flavour!

Used to be a regular trip out when I was at Ed. Uni.

Punch line...

I worked at the Ed Wimpy Bar and an Italian co-worker wanted to get into ice cream. He arranged a trip round Luca's, but had no transport, so got me to drive him there. On the way home again he complained, "Well, if they make it out of fresh cream and fresh fruit, of course it's going to be good..."

It was and is (I was back up there not long ago.)

Eff

OMG! I used to work in Lucas when I was a nipper! Had ice cream every day - and yes it is the best!!