Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
For the most part, I am faithful to Ben & Jerry's ice cream, for several reasons: First and foremost, they're an excellent company, in terms of giving a percentage of their profits to worthy causes; they treat their employees well; I like their approach to business in general; and they have fantastic ice cream. Plus I've been eating more of it lately because the long-distance company I use keeps sending me free coupons for pints. Yum yum.
Holy Cannoli
I wouldn't have bought this flavor under normal circumstances, because I don't really care for cannoli, but the coupon I was sent specified this Feature Flavor. Who am I to turn down free ice cream? This flavor has vanilla ice cream with pistachios and chunks of cannoli in it. I like the pistachios. They're green and chewy, which is fun to experience with the pure vanilla ice cream. The cannoli, not so much. As I said, I don't like cannoli in the first place, and this is frozen cannoli. I find it hard to bite into and not worth the hassle. It's dark chocolate, which isn't my favorite, surrounding sweet ricotta cheese. Eh. It's taken me weeks, and I'm still not finished with this pint. I just have a few spoonfuls to satisfy my ice cream cravings, and then I put it back, because I'm not enjoying it that much. I have a feeling this Feature Flavor won't become a regular. But hey, it's always worth a try -- where would Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough be without that?
Chocolate Fudge Brownie
Now THIS is more my speed. No, it's not a Feature Flavor -- it's been around for awhile -- but it's my favorite flavor. With fudge brownies tucked into perfect chocolate ice cream, two of my favorite desserts come together in a beautiful way to make me oh-so-happy. I always have to have a wipe-down with a wet paper towel after I eat this stuff. You get the idea.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
This is Ben & Jerry's number one flavor, and with good reason. Delicious vanilla ice cream with chunks of yummy cookie dough dispersed throughout make it a fun, sugary, and rewarding ice cream experience. I think the reason it's not my favorite is that when Cookie Dough was still a Feature Flavor, I ate way too much of it. I sincerely ate a pint of the stuff every few days for an entire summer. I couldn't get enough of it. At one point, I couldn't find it in the stores -- it was gone. I wrote Ben & Jerry a frantic letter asking what had happened. I got a nice, hand-signed letter back from one of their representatives, telling me that the cookie dough was harder to get into the ice cream than other things, and demand was outweighing supply at the moment. (They were right -- within a week, it was back in my store.) In with that nice letter were two Ben & Jerry's refrigerator magnets. I just love those guys.