Ben & Jerry’s Milk & Cookies Ice Cream & Why Melting Is Good
The Money Shot
Decided to try something different this time around: COLD OPEN WITH TODAY’S JUNK FOOD: Ben & Jerry’s Milk & Cookies Ice Cream! Get it? COLD. OPEN. Eh? Nothing?
…Hmph. You don’t know comedy.
Chocolate Chip AND CHOCOLATE Chocolate Chip??
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream is known for being fattening, for being made by tree hugging liberals, and for being absolutely amazing. Also B&J is staffed with marketing geniuses. They can take the EXACT SAME ICE CREAM COMBO and name it three different names, reselling it under a different label each time! “Milk & Cookies Ice Cream” is “Vanilla ice cream with a chocolate cookie swirl, chocolate chip & chocolate chocolate chip cookies.”
You could name this flavor, “Super Cookies & Cream.” “I Did It All for the Cookie.” “Snooki Cookie Nooky.”
Chewy Cookie bliss indeed!
See, the problem with this description: is this ice cream REALLY going to taste like a cookie dunked in milk? Or is it gonna taste like cookies…broken up and mixed with vanilla ice cream. Which. It. Is.
Ooooo that's gooey
Ok, I must admit, while I was hating on the description and skeptical about whether the name would deliver, my mind went numb when I took off the top. I mean, the first spoonful into a new tub of ice cream is always the best. And this tub was the perfect temperature – not too cold so the ice cream was a solid brick, and not too melted. I was drooling.
Speckled spoonful
There's a (Fudge) Ribbon in the (Ice Cream) Sky
Each delicious spoon of this ice cream was PACKED with fudge-like swirls and bits of cookie. BUT, I was right – this was basically cookies and cream ice cream with a liitttttle bit added here and there. I did not think it tasted like Milk & Cookies. It tasted like ice cream. I’m onto you, Ben. You too, Jerry.
Ice Cream Soup
I tend to think a GOOD ice cream tends to start melting right away, as soon as exposed to air. Why? Because good ice creams tend to be higher in cream content, and less in AIR content (which more mass produced ice creams have). More frozen air whipped into the ice cream = more heat the ice cream is able to absorb before losing shape. SEE? KNOWLEDGE IS HALF THE BATTLE, KIDS. Nerds, more info here.
Rock Bottom
The “suggested” serving size of this ice cream is something like 1-2 oz. Have you ever SEEN 1-2 oz of ice cream?? Think of this – you know those shampoos you get at a hotel, those tiny bottles? THAT’S FOUR FLUID OUNCES RIGHT THERE. A serving is HALF of that bottle. Seriously.
Nope, MY single serving of ice cream ends when the spoon hits the bottom of the tub. Yeah, that’s normal.
Sincerely, Junk Food Guy
Discuss - 5 Comments
Your blog is too funny! Loving it! Not sure if you heard but B&J is coming out with a new product, Shweddy Balls (no, I’m not kidding!) Based on the SNL skit by the same name. Can’t WAIT till you those! LOL
Dude you ate the whole thing? Damn…
I remember taking my plastic bowl of plain chocolate ice cream out to the swing set in the backyard and making ice cream soup – it was my preferred method of eating ice cream. 🙂
MMmmmmmm ….. Ice Cream Soup is the best!!! And, what do ya know ….. July is National Ice Cream Month, too!
Loving the blog!!!!! 😉
I’m with you, if you dig into a “frozen dairy dessert” expecting ice cream you’re going to be terribly upset.
The 70g 2.5oz serving size needs to be at least doubled to workout to an appreciable amount, and by that time the calories are getting closer to a serving of the normal stuff anyway.
A couple of comments here:
A. Actually ice cream melts faster when there is more air and less fat in it. Dense objects resist change longer than less dense objects, and saturated dairy fats tend to have a higher melting point than say…water. Air is already in the gas phase and contributes nothing to thermal density at these temps. Because of all of the above, “premium” ice creams should melt much more slowly than ice creams with more air and a lower fat content.
B. The suggested serving size of all ice creams is 4 fl oz, or a quarter of a pint.