I like the cow parts. Cow parts=creamy. I've had Tofutti. My supermarkets are awash in Tofutti and Rice Dream and at least six other kinds of non-dairy "ice-cream." I've tried several of them. There's no substitute for cow.
I think Tofutti is a little gross (though in a strangely compelling way), but It's Soy Delicious (NOT the fruit-sweetened kind; the good stuff) and Double Rainbow Soy Cream are as good as regular, IMO.
Because they could get their vitamin D year round from the sun like most of the civilized world. It's only us poor northerners that had to suckle year round to avoid rickets.
Breyer's is good. I'm also a big fan of Haagen Dazs. Brigham's vanilla is delicious--not as rich as Haagen Dazs--but you can't get Brigham's outside of New England. (They make great peppermint stick ice cream too.)
Cambridge. The original is in Central Square, and there's a branch in Harvard Square (and I think still in the MIT student center.) By far the best ice cream I've ever had -- weird flavors, but nothing that's weird just to be weird, the sort of thing where you realize that you've always wanted cardamom ice cream. And plenty of normal flavors too.
Now that bacon ice cream has gone from a concept to a reality, I'm anxious to see the the next ice cream flavor whose arrival I've been awaiting: Biscuits 'N Gravy.
The best I've ever had was basil-flavored gelato at Laboratorio del Gelato in New York's Lower East Side. I sampled the flavor on a lark and it blew my mind.
This conversation is reminding me of the dubious culinary merits but sterling integrity of the commercial version of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. That vomit bean tastes like vomit. I was nearly sick when I ate them the first time.
I respect them. It would have been so easy to make a root beer bean and call it vomit, but they didn't. I think it's my duty to continue to consume them when they're sold, to support integrity in product tie ins.
Yes! I demand that Grape Nuts taste like both grapes and nuts!
Totally off topic, but you know those multiflavored dog biscuits that come in differently colored and shaped pieces? The "cheese" is a nice yellow and shaped like a cheese wedge, for example?
Sadly, he's not ours any more. My Dad couldn't take care of him anymore, and my parents are retired to the Caribbean. Quarantine would have been too much for poor Boswell.
You're going to love the taste of in vitro meat, admit it.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 10:47 AM
It's a good question. Given that one can taste in meat whether the cow was raised on grass or corn, what is in vitro meat going to taste like?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 10:51 AM
Yummy agar agar.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 10:56 AM
Try Tofutti sometime:
http://www.tofutti.com/ourProducts.asp
Why ditch just (99% of) the lactose when you can ditch the cow's entire involvement? :)
My supermarket carries it near the cow-milk ice cream, yours might too.
Posted by Jamie McCarthy | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 11:34 AM
I like the cow parts. Cow parts=creamy. I've had Tofutti. My supermarkets are awash in Tofutti and Rice Dream and at least six other kinds of non-dairy "ice-cream." I've tried several of them. There's no substitute for cow.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 11:37 AM
Why only cow though? I've had yoghurt from sheep's milk, I think. It was very good.
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 11:42 AM
Why are Iranians lactose-intolerant? Don't they arrange marriages by exchanging herds of cattle? (Or is it camels? Is camel milk low-lactose?)
After a primary culturing with bacteria (like making yogurt), lactose can be made into alcohol using ordinary yeast.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 12:22 PM
I think Tofutti is a little gross (though in a strangely compelling way), but It's Soy Delicious (NOT the fruit-sweetened kind; the good stuff) and Double Rainbow Soy Cream are as good as regular, IMO.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 12:26 PM
Why are Iranians lactose-intolerant?
Punishment from God.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 12:26 PM
Why are Iranians lactose-intolerant?
Because they could get their vitamin D year round from the sun like most of the civilized world. It's only us poor northerners that had to suckle year round to avoid rickets.
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 12:29 PM
Oh, and in my opinion regular Breyer's vanilla is about as good as ice cream gets.
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 12:29 PM
Breyer's is good. I'm also a big fan of Haagen Dazs. Brigham's vanilla is delicious--not as rich as Haagen Dazs--but you can't get Brigham's outside of New England. (They make great peppermint stick ice cream too.)
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 12:33 PM
Mean old Mr. Sun.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 12:35 PM
I never totally got on the ice cream richness bandwagon. And it's not nice to tease about good things I can't get.
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 12:37 PM
Blue Bell. Mm, mm.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 12:39 PM
I didn't mean to tease. When you come to Massachusetts, you'll have to try some.
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 12:39 PM
You live in Boston and you eat ice cream other than Toscanini's? Blasphemy, I say!
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 12:47 PM
Brigham's is supermarket ice cream, and I've never heard of Toscanini's. Is that in the North End. I'm on a low budget anyway.
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 12:52 PM
I'm a fan of JP Licks. Herrell's is good too.
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 12:53 PM
Cambridge. The original is in Central Square, and there's a branch in Harvard Square (and I think still in the MIT student center.) By far the best ice cream I've ever had -- weird flavors, but nothing that's weird just to be weird, the sort of thing where you realize that you've always wanted cardamom ice cream. And plenty of normal flavors too.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 12:59 PM
When you come to Massachusetts, you'll have to try some.
I would very much love to! I don't think it will happen any time soon, though. That's a pity.
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 1:03 PM
One ice cream provider that has the odd combination of attributes of being
a) Boston-based before opening a number of branches in New York
and yet
b) really good
is Emack & Bollio's. In fact, it's excellent.
Sorry, baseball has infected my opinion of all things Boston, except for maybe the commenters here.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 1:19 PM
I think Mass might be the nation's ice cream capital. I once heard that we had the highest per capita consumption of ice cream anywhere in the U.S.
Speaking of unusual flavors, though it appears to have gone mainstream, does anyone know how cake batter flavored ice cream is made?
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 1:22 PM
I think that Ben and Jerry's has a trademark on Chunky Munky, so when J.P. Lick's decided to do a knock off they had to come up with their own name.
Their knock off name was hilarious: Lumpy Primate.
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 1:25 PM
Now that bacon ice cream has gone from a concept to a reality, I'm anxious to see the the next ice cream flavor whose arrival I've been awaiting: Biscuits 'N Gravy.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 1:32 PM
There's gravy flavor soda -- I saw it on line at Thanksgiving last year.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 1:33 PM
The Tosci's is gone from MIT, I think it's a burrito place now. They used to give me free ice cream.
Posted by SP | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 1:36 PM
I once had lobster ice cream somewhere in Maine. It sucked. It was basically vanilla with buttered chunks of cold lobster thrown in.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 1:36 PM
gravy flavor soda
Not just gravy, but the whole Thanksgiving meal!
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 1:38 PM
Bacon ice cream! That's like popcorn jelly beans.
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 1:41 PM
The best I've ever had was basil-flavored gelato at Laboratorio del Gelato in New York's Lower East Side. I sampled the flavor on a lark and it blew my mind.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 1:52 PM
This conversation is reminding me of the dubious culinary merits but sterling integrity of the commercial version of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. That vomit bean tastes like vomit. I was nearly sick when I ate them the first time.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 1:54 PM
Are the people of India lactose-intolerant? Why are the cows sacred, then?
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 1:55 PM
"This is extremely nasty. Can't prosecute you for that."
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 1:57 PM
OMG. "Flown from Iraq." "Anthrax ripple." It's like they were reading today's headlines.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 1:59 PM
Wait, Tia, the first time?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 2:00 PM
I respect them. It would have been so easy to make a root beer bean and call it vomit, but they didn't. I think it's my duty to continue to consume them when they're sold, to support integrity in product tie ins.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 2:03 PM
Yeah Tia, here's the 10 flavor discovery box of Bertie's Botts. In addition to vomit, they've got bacon (hey' there apostropher) and rotten egg.
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 2:04 PM
You could buy, but not eat, them. You could buy them and give them as gifts.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 2:05 PM
Or put them in a bowl on your desk for the faculty members who are constantly looking for candy to mooch.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 2:06 PM
Yes! I demand that Grape Nuts taste like both grapes and nuts!
Totally off topic, but you know those multiflavored dog biscuits that come in differently colored and shaped pieces? The "cheese" is a nice yellow and shaped like a cheese wedge, for example?
They all taste the same! Absolutely the same!
Liars!
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 2:06 PM
Tripp,
Have you tried them?
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 2:08 PM
If you want them to taste like nuts, is that with or without shaving?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 2:08 PM
Grape nut ice cream is tasty. Or the memory of it would be, if not clouded by the suggestion in 43.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 2:27 PM
They all taste the same! Absolutely the same!
Also, Beggin' Strips do not taste like bacon.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 2:39 PM
Bostoniangirl,
Have you tried them?
Haven't you?
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 2:43 PM
Can't say that I'm a dog food coinnoisseur. We used to give our chocolate lab cheap hot dogs as a treat. Those I've tried.
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 2:46 PM
Goddamned Tia has me writing slash in my head whenever two commenters get into any kind of prolonged or playful exchange. It's like a disease.
Posted by Tarrou | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 2:49 PM
whenever two commenters get into any kind of prolonged or playful exchange
Ogged and I should be hooking up any thread now.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 2:50 PM
I guess I'm the only one who's watched Rescue Me; otherwise someone would have to have mentioned beefstachio ice cream.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 2:58 PM
We used to give our chocolate lab cheap hot dogs as a treat.
At the lab I treated my cheap dog to hot chocolate.
But, yeah, I've tried dog biscuits. Other than the grit they aren't too bad. The label lists no meat products, so how bad can they be?
Posted by Anonymous | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 3:01 PM
Labs treated his cheap hottie to... OK, gotta work "dog" and "chocolate" in there and I can't bring myself to sign my name to that.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 4:27 PM
Ha, slo, I had forgotten all about that. I think "double peaches of pleasure" maybe wiped it out.
Posted by Tarrou | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 4:51 PM
52: The benefits of using your real name, it keeps you from going to far over the top.
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 4:54 PM
We used to give our chocolate lab cheap hot dogs as a treat.
Chocolate research doesn't have the prestige of medical research, but it's still important. I'm sure we can expect major breakthroughs from BG's lab.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 5:56 PM
Sadly, he's not ours any more. My Dad couldn't take care of him anymore, and my parents are retired to the Caribbean. Quarantine would have been too much for poor Boswell.
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10- 6-05 6:03 PM