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Ice Cream Favorites
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#1Ice Cream Favorites
Posted: 4/20/12 at 12:50pm
Breyers and Haagen Dazs.
Updated On: 6/10/12 at 12:50 PM
#2Ice Cream Favorites
Posted: 4/20/12 at 1:21pm
Trader Joe's use to have an amazing tiramisu gelato years ago and it was the best grocery-store ice cream I'd ever tasted. It was wildly popular and you constantly had to check with the staff to see when the next shipment would arrive as it would sell out in a day. I don't know why they stopped selling it.
Talenti gelatos and sorbets are quite good. The only Ben & Jerry's I like is Cinnamon Buns. Since I can't have chocolate, my ice cream choices are pretty limited.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#3Artisanal
Posted: 4/20/12 at 1:42pm
"Artisanal' is THE marketing word of 2012. It's not a real word. Artisan is a word but "Artisanal" is something they found that makes people think of better quality, special, small batch, etc.
It's amusing that Dunkin Donuts embraced the word fully ("Artisanal Bagels") and then felt the need to make commercials that talk about how their customers have no idea what that means.
You can buy "artisanal" Doritos. Really.
JbaraFan1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/04
#5deja soup
Posted: 4/21/12 at 2:48pm
^ lol Good point!
I don't care what they call something, I just care how it tastes, and this "artisan" chocolate is some of the best I've ever had. The cinnamon chili flavor is my favorite -
Olive and Sinclair Southern Artisan Chocolate:
http://www.oliveandsinclair.com/
I've had Talenti - double chocolate flavor I think (delish). I'll admit that when it comes to ice cream I usually just buy the store brand (Publix), which tastes fine to me, plus it's still sold by the 1/2 gallon instead of 1.75 or 1.5 quarts or whatever.
Mister Matt, I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't eat chocolate!
Updated On: 4/21/12 at 02:48 PM
#7deja soup
Posted: 4/21/12 at 3:12pmWe have Ben & Jerry's at about $9 a pint and Häagen-Dazs for around $7.50. I have found most of the Swedish brands to be light and airy and not thick and creamy like I liked in the states. I do, however, love gelato. I live in a tiny little town with one movie theatre that only has one screen, so imagine my surprise when I tried the gelato place and was blown away. The couple that owns it are straight from Italy and they make it all themselves. Each day they have different flavors. Their hazelnut and stracciatella are my favorites, but I have never had anything I didn't like.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
JbaraFan1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/04
#9deja soup
Posted: 4/21/12 at 3:20pm
Fair enough, Mister Matt! I'm sure I wouldn't.
No ER situation but I'm starting to think that I have developed some sort of allergy or intolerance to tomato sauce because the more of it a food has, the sicker I seem to get to my stomach afterward. (I'd say more, but would be TMI. lol) I'm fine eating salsa - hot even - or fresh tomato, but things like tomato-sauce-based spaghetti sauce, or if pizza has a lot of tomato sauce on it, I tend to get sick these days. Never used to from tomato sauce.
#10deja soup
Posted: 4/21/12 at 3:22pm
The soup Nazi becomes The Ice Cream Nazi.
Yes, the word "artisanal" is pretentious, but there are definitely some off-beat, unusual ice cream flavors that are a cut above Breyer's and are worth a dollar or two more. When I was getting my master's degree, there was a wonderful boutique ice cream parlor in the town that made the best ice cream I've ever had, and I'd happily pay the extra buck for a scoop. This is not to say that ALL unique/experimental ice cream flavors work, but plenty of them do, and are worth the price increase.
If Breyer's is your thing, there's nothing wrong with that. But don't unilaterally dismiss everything else.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
JbaraFan1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/04
#11deja soup
Posted: 4/21/12 at 3:33pm
AC126748, sure, I guess it depends on personal taste and even someone's budget. Some things I might really like but just not be able to afford on a regular basis.
Where I live there is a locally-made salsa which I purchased recently in a local produce market. It's $5 for a 16 ounce jar. Normally I would not pay that much for a jar of salsa, but since I've had this particular salsa, no others taste anywhere near as good, so it's worth $5 to me. Would I pay $10 for a jar? Maaaaybeeee.... but would probably buy it less often. 
(Sorry, thread, I keep getting off the ice cream topic!)
Updated On: 4/21/12 at 03:33 PM
#12deja soup
Posted: 4/21/12 at 3:41pmI hear you, JbaraFan. Local products usually cost more money on a whole, but they're often worth it, and the level of freshness can't compare. My budget doesn't allow me to buy a $10+ pint of ice cream on a regular basis, but it definitely is an occasional, worthwhile luxury.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#14deja soup
Posted: 4/22/12 at 12:51am
My local market charges an arm and a leg for their artisanal cheese. I don't really taste any difference.
Aldi's has the best salsa I've ever eaten. It's fresh (not the nasty ketchup consistency kind) and its under $3.
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JbaraFan1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/04
#15deja soup
Posted: 4/22/12 at 1:08am
Bettyboy72, Aldi is my second main grocery store. Publix is a bit closer, so more convenient, but I'm a fan of both. I mentioned Publix's ice cream. Well Aldi's is pretty good too (though they've gone to the smaller containers). As for the salsa, if you're talking about the kind in the clear plastic tubs stocked in the refrigerated bin, that is indeed very good salsa. I like Aldi's hummus too.
#16deja soup
Posted: 4/22/12 at 1:26amJbarafan-yes the kind in the clear plastic tubs. Fresh tasting and some great flavor profiles. Their ice cream is really nice too. We don't have Publix here. I'll have to try the Aldi's hummus.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#17deja soup
Posted: 4/22/12 at 7:58am
After Eight,
I think your subsequent post perfectly illuminates the point of my post. As I state very clearly in my post, we all have different likes and dislikes, and it's all a matter of personal taste. I am not criticizing your dislike of "artisanal" fare, but rather taking issue with your unilateral dismissiveness and tone--basically that anyone who enjoys and is willing to pay extra for such fare is a dupe who is blindly following the latest manufactured trend. And if you don't want people to disagree with you, or offer alternative views to your own, then you shouldn't open up a forum for discussion at all.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 4/22/12 at 07:58 AM
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#19deja soup
Posted: 4/22/12 at 8:31amAnd you did get opinions that differed from yours A8, so what's your beef with AC? Especially as he has given you very eloquent and well considered responses.
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After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
Bluemoon
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/04
#22deja soup
Posted: 4/22/12 at 11:21am
Right.
You're welcome to like whatever you like, dislike whatever you choose, start a thread about anything you care to--and people get to respond however they respond.
AC's point, and I agree, is that your posts frequently start with a negative. That's fine--your choice of words is up to you--but you can't be surprised if a negative post generates some negative responses.
Because of your choice of words.
