STILL NOT BLUE BELL: Sure, it may be snowing and cold, but they have found a way to make Girl Scout Cookies even more dangerously addictive--ice cream. Edy's now has
vanilla with Tagalongs pieces,
vanilla with Samoas pieces, and
chocolate with Thin Mint pieces flavors (avaialble through April).
That with Samoas one is super yummy, in case that was ever in doubt.
ReplyDeleteMy sister has been raving about the Samoa. I tried the Thin Mint a few years ago and wasn't particularly impressed. My favorite remains the Edy's peppermint ice cream that comes out each Christmas season. As for Blue Bell, my favorite's always been the frozen banana pudding, though I also like the homemade vanilla and the banana split flavors.
ReplyDeleteI've been eating these flavors for years -- was it purely a DC thing? Samoa-flavored ice cream is indeed deadly good.
ReplyDeleteThe Thin Mint has been out for awhile, and they changed the formula a few years ago. If I recall correctly, the ice cream used to be chocolate peppermint as well, rather than just plain chocolate. Either way, it used to be better, and then they changed it. Which kind of made it go from awesome plus to just awesome.
ReplyDeleteYour sister also makes me giggle with her rantings about only being able to find the low-fat version (which I concur is less tasty).
ReplyDeleteNot only is the low fat Samoa anticlimactic because it's, ya know, low fat, the base is vanilla instead of caramel
ReplyDeleteThese definitely aren't new - the Samoa one is my favorite, though the Thin Mint one is also good.
ReplyDeleteCompletely agree with StvMg that I lie in wait each November for the Peppermint flavor to become available, then hoard it. Ridiculously good.
I love the Slow Churned - am I in the minority on that? Tastes great, less fattening. What's not to love?
That's rather disappointing, since I've been searching for a chocolate peppermint combo flavor ever since Haagen-Dazs dropped its chocolate chocolate mint ice cream in the early 90s (at least I think that's when it happened. I used to buy it in grad school, then it disappeared just as I'd become addicted).
ReplyDeleteColdstone used to put out a dark chocolate peppermint ice cream each Christmas season, but I couldn't find it in Nashville this time around. I tried to compensate by ordering dark chocolate ice cream with pieces of a York peppermint patty mixed in, but I got no mint taste out of it. It just seemed like an unusually chewy form of chocolate ice cream.
I can't imagine finding Girl Scout Cookies addictive. The worst cookie they sell at Trader Joe's is still better than the best Girl Scout cookie. I think it's just the ice cream you're collectively responding to.
ReplyDeleteThey've had these out for a number of years here -- under the Dreyer's label out here (which is the original name of Edy's before it butted heads with Breyer's)
ReplyDeleteSpacewoman - have you found your way to Tucker's Ice Cream in Alameda yet? -- their peppermint, when in season, is the freaking bomb.
ReplyDeleteGood to know, TPE! Will have to check it out.
ReplyDeleteThe official family Christmas dessert is a peppermint ice cream sundae with my mom's homemade hot fudge sauce. It is to die for.
ReplyDeleteHaagen Daza had a limited edition dark chocolate mint out last fall that was pretty darn delicious.
ReplyDeleteThose on the west coast might be able to find Tillamook Peppermint Candy Ice Cream. I have it when I'm home in Portland for the holidays. So good.
ReplyDeleteThanks for letting me know. I'll have to look out for it next fall.
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