If eating ice cream everyday because it’s delicious isn’t a good enough reason for you, then use the weather to help rationalize your intake. For example: Ah, Puerto Rican heat and humidity! Why art thou so suffocating? What can I eat that will quell this fire burning from the outside in? What’s that you say? Ice cream? You’ve been convinced, huh? I know, I know, it works like a charm.
Okay, let’s get down to business. Have you tasted Ben & Jerry’s new Core Ice Cream? It is essentially two ice cream flavors divided by a core of a delightful something, ranging from jam to Nutella to caramel to just about anything you can imagine. (Don’t pretend you’re not swooning, peeps).
A few days ago, I was wandering the halls of Walgreens when I felt the gravitational shift pull me towards the ice cream refrigerators. In my line of sight, under what looked like a ray of light from the heavens (but was actually just a light bulb), was THIS:
Behold, That’s My Jam!
I had yet to taste Ben & Jerry’s newest invention, but was eager to take it for a test drive down Taste Buds Lane (if you know what I mean *wink*wink*). Naturally, I proceeded to cradle the pint to the cash register and spent half of the next day’s lunch money. Now, the description itself was gold medal worthy: chocolate & raspberry ice creams split in half by a raspberry jam core, and as if it wasn’t enough for your sweet tooth to handle, our friends Ben & Jerry added fudge chips because what the heck, it’s all or nothing, right?
From the moment the spoon carved a half circle on the ice cream’s flat surface to the minute it cooled the inside of my mouth, I knew. It was everything I expected it to be and more: the creamy goodness, the chocolate & raspberry ice creams mixing together to make an explosion of flavor followed by the slight crunch of fudge chips, and *PLOT TWIST* raspberry jam making the combination all the more glorious.
Wow. After all this fancy, ice-cream-craving talk though, I have to admit that while it was indeed an incredibly tasty experience, it wasn’t the best. As my very good lady friend, Mariana told me, it’s almost as if “the ice cream isn’t the main character” in this one-pint story. The jam while making a very good first impression gets over bearing within 3 spoonfuls, making ones taste buds go into sensory overload (and not the really enjoyable kind). That being said, it doesn’t mean I won’t be trying other Core flavors within the next couple of weeks, because I am. Totally.
I have a yummy-measuring system, which you might find useful, where I grade ice cream depending on how long it lasts. I usually ravish ice cream very quickly (in less than an hour or two), but this particular pint sat in the freezer for three long days because it palled with increasing speed. *Fair warning, this measuring system might get complicated: sometimes the ice cream is so undeniably good you don’t want it to end, and so it lasts an extra day or two.* Usually though, the better it is, the shorter its life span.
There you have it, ladies & gents. The Ben & Jerry’s Core experience through the taste buds of an ice cream enthusiast. I urge you to hop on the flavor rollercoaster yourself, and tell us about your experience with the creamy goodness. Until next week, adiós!
First and third pictures taken from Google. Second picture taken from the author’s personal Instagram account, @intimeoficecream.