Ben and Jerry's invading supermarket freezers

Most 7-elevens have been selling B&J’s for some time now..

Expensive and overly sweet ice cream… Pass !

Mothy said :

Wait! I have to apologize – they had Clusterfluff (oh the irony) not Peanut Brittle!

That’s all good thanks anyway. I know of around 10 places at least in Canberra that sell Ben and Jerry’s but no one has big tubs of Peanut Brittle.

Clusterfluff is my second favourite though.

Why on earth would you put wheat products into a premium ice cream? One of the ingredients in the maple variety was Wheat Flour. There’s no good reason for that.

(Last year I found I’m intolerant to wheat products including wheat-derived glucose, which rules out almost all of the cheap supermarket ice creams except for 3 varietites of Unilever’s Streets Magnums, as well as Splits and the Aldi imitation of Splits. Everything else uses Glucose Syrup (from wheat) because it means they get to not put the word Sugar in the ingredients list. It may also be cheaper.)

I haven’t had a good batch come out of my DIY machine yet either. It’s infuriating that even B&J’s will add cheap and nasty ingredients too.

bigfeet said :

It will never be as good as Maggie Beer’s Burnt Fig, Honeycomb and Caramel Ice Cream, in my opinion, the standard by which all ‘gourmet’ ice-cream should be judged.

Also phenomenally expensive, but we’ll worth it for the two or three times a year I have it.

Oh yeah!! Simply the best ice cream ever.

Wait! I have to apologize – they had Clusterfluff (oh the irony) not Peanut Brittle!

Disposable said :

If anyone knows of anywhere in Canberra to get large tubs of the Peanut Brittle please let me know.

Ben and Jerry’s also sell a combination locking device that keeps people out of your Ice Cream:

http://laughingsquid.com/ben-jerrys-euphori-lock-an-ice-cream-pint-combination-lock/

Disposable: I have thus far only noted two locations selling Ben and Jerry’s. One is the SPAR at Ngunnawal shops (the ones off of Wanganeen/Jabbanugga Ave’s) and the other is the Friendly Grocer at Forde shops.

While they don’t have particularly large tubs, I have purchased the Peanut Brittle from Forde.

Sadly for my wife, and fortuitously for me, listed in the ingredients was cocca (she is allergic, and had identified the flavor as a prospective cocoa free ice cream she could have).

It was a tub of magnificence.

If anyone knows of anywhere in Canberra to get large tubs of the Peanut Brittle please let me know.

Ben and Jerry’s also sell a combination locking device that keeps people out of your Ice Cream:

http://laughingsquid.com/ben-jerrys-euphori-lock-an-ice-cream-pint-combination-lock/

I remember buying some Ben and Jerry’s stuff from a servo in Port Macquarie in January last year. My reaction was “meh, just another ice cream”. Inferior to, say, Homer Hudson’s Hoboken Crunch.

Snarky – flame out will be less visible due to not being a franchised shopfront.

Woolworths Select packaging is getting more deceptive – I prefered it when their house brand “home brand” could be identified by its white packaging, red stripe and black lettering…

At that price investment in an ice cream maker would be paid back very quickly, given that you can make probably over a litre in one hit in an ice cream maker in a short 25 minutes. That gives you an idea of what is actually in the product and what needs to be done to create it. And your home made stuff will not have any of the additives in it that commercial organisations use to make it soft and have just the right feel in your mouth.

It’s more expensive than the Maggie Beer stuff which I now refuse to buy also. I tried her Vanilla (and something else) ice cream and thought it was very ordinary for the cost.

You seem to have forgotten the ‘Advertising Feature’ tagline for this article…