[CH] Spicy ice cream
H0T5AUCE@aol.com
Tue, 21 Dec 1999 13:45:16 EST
The latest from a new-food review column in the newspaper I work for:
"Edy’s Dreamery Ice Cream. Hot Chilly Chili, (snip, snip) $2.99 to $3.49 per
pint.
Bonnie: Dream up the wildest flavor of ice cream you can imagine and you just
might find it in this eclectic selection of new premium ice creams from
Dreamery. To share the fun part of my job, I asked some friends who were over
playing bridge to assist me in trying all 18 imaginative flavors. They
attacked the task with gusto.
The ones that stirred up the most conversation were Sticky Bun and Hot Chilly
Chili. Sticky Bun is cinnamon ice cream with chewy sticky bun pieces, praline
pecans and raisins that tastes incredibly like its namesake. Hot Chilly Chili
is vanilla ice cream with a mole fudge swirl and spicy covered nuts. Trying
it sent my friend Sharon running to the sink. I think that flavor would make
a more interesting dessert if it were wrapped in a warmed flour tortilla and
drizzled with chocolate sauce or honey.
Nutritionally these are less decadent (read: fewer calories, less fat) than
most flavors of Haagen-Dazs or Ben & Jerry’s. That’s because the most
abundant ingredient is milk, not cream. They’re also not as pure as
Haagen-Dazs, containing many additives and thickeners.
Carolyn: Just when you thought every ice cream flavor had already been
invented, along comes Dreamery, the line of superpremium pints from Edy’s,
where the premium appears to be on weirdness. Would you believe a hot chili
ice cream? A cold rendering of sticky buns? An ice cream berry pie? Believe
all three, but buy only the Blue Ribbon Berry Pie, where the pie crust is
almost as good an add-in as cookies are. The Hot Chilly Chili and Sticky Bun
unfortunately deliver on the promised flavors and are way too weird to be
anything more than conversation pieces. The weirdness is reinforced by
drawings of fantasy landscapes on the packages. Think Candyland at 20
degrees."
Haven't seen the Hot Chilly Chili in the stores in my area yet, but will
probably try it when I do. Any fellow CH-ers tried this stuff yet?
Brad