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Cookie dough ice cream, without chocolate chips. Maybe it was a limited time thing, but I remember having this at an ice cream shop similar to Baskin Robbins in my youth. It was just plain vanilla ice cream with cookie dough in it and neither part had chocolate chips.
I get that I'm likely one of very few people this would have sold to. But, I really do wish I could have this again.
CHOCO TACOS
IMO ice cream in general has really gone downhill. The flavors are all worse and more artificial, the ice cream is lucky to have any real “ice cream” in it anymore, and it’s all areated or “fluffed” with air to reduce the actual amount in the carton.
We kinda laughed at some ice cream one of our kids had left partly unfinished and it melted. Well, sorta. The liquid (whatever it was) drained out of the remaining ice cream and we were left with this lump of rubbery foam sitting in a pool of whatever.
Probably one of the last decent ice creams that can be bought in a normal (not tiny Ben and Jerry’s or other botique priced grocery store ice creams) container is Costco’s Kirkland brand Vanilla.
Ice cream nerd here!
Start by looking for "super premium ice cream" on the label. Super premium is a category of ice cream that will be 14-18% butterfat and no more than 50% air by volume (this amount is called overrun in ice cream manufacturing).
You also want to check ingredients as with all foods - real cream, milk and sugar, high fat content, high calorie content. Fat and calories = good ice cream.
Finally, pick the dang thing up. Is it heavy and dense? That's a good sign. Is it expensive? That's also a good sign. Good ice cream isn't cheap and cheap "ice cream" isn't good.
Kirkland is a super premium brand. I also like Haagen-Dazs, Turkey Hill, Ben and Jerry's, and great regional brands like Jeni's or Chocolate Shoppe if you have them.
This is my problem with American products. The standards are too low! Sugar is replaced with corn. The cream in ice cream is replaced with oil. Chocolate is replaced with unrelated fats. And it's all legally allowed to be sold as what they're a facsimile of!
At best, there are names like "chocolatey". Bullshit.
My least favourite alternative that Nestle loves is just leaving what it is off the package. So here in Canada, it doesn't say ice cream. It doesn't say anything unless you look for the fine print.
But it's in an ice cream carton sitting a metre away from real ice cream. This is false marketing by omission. If I wrote the laws, this would be illegal.
To be fair, at least currently (until the government fucks this up, too), to be legally called “ice cream”, it has to have minimum milkfat and butterfat percentages. Otherwise it has to be called “frozen dairy dessert,” or whatever.
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You're right; I just don't think the law goes far enough
Thanks for the pointers. I knew some of those, but the “super premium” is helpful.
Edit: just went to the store. No “super premium” available. :(
Also make sure what you're buying isn't labeled "frozen dairy dessert". That's a product that does not legally meet the requirements of being ice cream and cannot be labeled as such.
We used to get Trickling Springs Creamery ice cream from a local farm store. And it was really good ice cream. But, they had some problems and shut down. I'm not sure what they did to make the ice cream so good, but I've not found anything since which compared.
I've never heard of that or had that, but it sounds absolutely perfect to me. Maybe there are dozens of us.