[Magdalen] Creme de la Creme.

[Jon Egger]

On da rench, the local ice cream place was Bridgeman's.

James, the Stewart's web site is yummy to look at!  The hot dog has catsup
on it...something you'd never see on a real hot dog, the Chicago dog.

Now I'm jonesing for a visit to Portillo's!

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Grace & peace,
jon


On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com> wrote:

> The important thing is for the vanilla to be REAL vanilla, not vanilla
> flavored.  I always check the labels.  There are a couple of local
> brands that are pretty good.
>
> I like B&J Chunky Monkey and I like good coffee ice cream.  My very
> favorite is real summertime homemade peach ice cream.
>
> I grew up in Silver Spring and Giffords made the ultimate Swiss
> chocolate banana split.
>
> Susan
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
> <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> > I've had occasion to taste and evaluate the two national (USA)
> > premium ice cream brands this week.  True, there are other  national
> > brands, but they don't have quite the same exalted reputation.
> >
> > The brands are Haagan Daz and Ben and Jerry's.
> >
> > I think the best way to evaluate ice cream is to sample their vanilla
> > flavors.  IMHO this is the basic ice cream, and if the brand  doesn't
> > do well with vanilla, the rest of their production is suspect.
> >
> > I thought this would be a quick and easy toss-up, but it wasn't.
> > Both brands melted in the mouth, but there the characteristics of
> > each brand surfaced.
> >
> > Haagan Daz (which I understand is an artificial term made up to
> > give a sort of Scandinavian luster to the brand) melted away in
> > the mouth and left a faint vanilla taste but no other residue.   The
> > vanilla flavor was good but not overpowering.  I sampled the
> > plain vanilla flavor; they have a vanilla bean flavor, as well.
> >
> > The Ben and Jerry's, OTOH, melted in the mouth but left an odd
> > oily, even waxy residue.  The vanilla flavor of the Ben and  Jerry's
> > was so subtle as to almost be non-existent, leaving an egg and
> > cream taste, not necessarily bad, but not identifiable as vanilla.
> >
> > I looked at the ingredients, and found oils and wax listed for the
> > B&J but not the Haagan Daz.
> >
> > I'd therefore rate the Haagan Daz as the superior product since
> > I didn't find the oil/wax consistency pleasant.
> >
> > I know that B&J's has a lot of unusual and unique flavors, but
> > I wonder if they haven't forgotten about the basic ice cream in
> > their rush to mix in all sorts of stuff?
> >
> >
> > David S.
>
>
>
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