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Sep 07 2015
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Candy Bar or Candy Baren't, Frozen Week

Frozen (long) Week(end): An Ode to the Ice Cream Sandwich

IMG_4572[Ed. note: It’s a baren’t. We are all on the same page on this.]

It is the last day of summer and I would like to take a moment to celebrate the goddamn ice cream sandwich.

It … it is a perfect dessert.

On the surface, it seems kinda dumb, right? The cookie is a poor excuse for a wafer, much less a cookie, and the ice cream is best for describing a watered-down way of playing defense.

But holy hell if the combination of the two isn’t the damn definition of “better than the sum of their parts”.

And you notice more when there’s less to notice.

The silent thp from the first bite when the cookies are fresh and crisp. The almost-fuzzy remnants on your thumbs when you’re done and it isn’t. The wax-paper wrapper and that everyone knows exactly what that is when you hand them one. The way on a July day that the ice cream squishes out the side and drips on your towel. The understanding that no, this isn’t traditionally a breakfast food, but fk it that is exactly what is about to happen.

The ice cream sammie is a portable piece of summer. Until next year, friend-o.

[Ed. note: /until next Tuesday, because who are we kidding here.]

[Ed. note 2: And get out of here, neapolitan. You can come on back in when you can commit to something.]

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Sep 06 2015
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Frozen Week: Reese’s Peanut Butter Ice Cream Cup

IMG_4570All I was expecting out of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Ice Cream Cup was some peanut butter ice cream surrounded by a cup-shaped chocolate shell.

Which would have been outstanding.

But upon first bite [Ed. note: /or upon first reading of the box, had that been something I’d done], I discovered that there was also a thin ribbon of actual peanut butter dispersed throughout the ice cream bar.

Game done changed.

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Peanut butter ribbon visible on the right side of the cup.

Nah, game the same; it just got more fierce.

This is a simple, subtle and altogether wonderful ice cream novelty for anybody who’s a fan of peanut butter ribbons.

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Sep 05 2015
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Frozen Week: Buncha (Ice Cream) Crunch

IMG_4557Buncha Crunch is my favorite movie candy. Eminently shareable, couples well with popcorn, easy to gobble.

I have fond memories of my mom shooting me dirty looks in the middle of Remember the Titans for how loudly I was eating them [Ed. note: They come in a loud-ass box.] and falala not caring at all.

The Nestle Dibs is essentially the ice cream bar version of the Buncha Crunch. They come in a little tin, they’re eminently shareable, easy to gobble and may or may not couple well with popcorn. I’ve never had them at a movie, but I did buy them once at a One Direction concert while receiving looks for an entirely different reason and falala didn’t care at all.

IMG_4558The extra surface area allows for more chocolate in the ice-cream-to-puffed-rice-to-chocolate balance (as opposed to a full-length bar, and man, is it a refreshing treat. Big fan.

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Sep 02 2015
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Frozen Week: Good job, good effort, Twix Ice Cream Bar

IMG_4554Not a bold statement: The defining trait of a Twix bar is the cookie.

There’s chocolate, caramel and/or peanut butter going on there, for sure, but that’s not why you buy a Twix.

You buy a Twix because of the crunch from that sweet-ass cookie.

[Ed. note: Alternatively, you very well buy a Twix because there are two of them because you love to eat things in prime numbers or you are a mother/father of two young children who do NOT need to eat a whole candy bar right now.]

With that basic Twix principle understood, one would think that when developing a Twix ice cream bar, the ice cream bar developers would make sure they nailed the cookie part.

#nope.

The Twix Ice Cream Bar is very similar to the Snickers Ice Cream Bar [Ed. note: ICB will be the preferred term here on out, in the proper sense], with a few key differences:

  • The ice cream filling is straight-up vanilla. Not some tan/caramel/gently chocolate facsimile (as featured in Snickers ICB). Polar-bear/first-communion/most-useless-crayon-in-the-box white vanilla.
  • In lieu of the peanut, the Twix ICB features small bites of the aforementioned sweet-ass cookie interspersed atop its caramel-sauce layer.
  • The Twix ICB is slightly narrower.

Otherwise, though, the bars are the same: thin outer chocolate layer, caramel sauce, made of ice cream.

Those differences, ahem, make all the difference.

Focusing first on the cookie bites, because, duh: Man, do they ever leave you wanting more. Continue reading →

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Sep 01 2015
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Frozen Week: Bask in the glory of the Snickers Ice Cream bar

IMG_4550Unpopular opinion: I think Snickers are just OK.

I really have nothing bad to say about the bar. The Snickers is one of the most well-constructed candy bars of all time. It has balance, flavor, mouthfeel and can cure a case of the grumpies.

It’s just never done it for me. I like to eat them, but I have just never understood their unanimous coronation as Most Perfect Candy Bar Of All Time.

I’d rather have a Butterfinger. #sorrybro

Snickers Ice Cream bars, on the other hand? Swapping the chewy nougat and caramel for a smoother ice cream and caramel sauce?? Staying so cold the chocolate shell crisps in your mouth every time you bite into it, dawg??? Being just the right size that it is a satisfying dessert without leaving you overstuffed????

That’s a treat so deserving in praise that it should have a scholarship named after it.

This is the king of ice cream candy bars, the standard by which all others are judged.

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