Ben & Jerry’s make some dairy-free icecream!!!! Ben & Jerry’s the well-known icecream brand that normal people can have! Make dairy free options! Tesco sells it! Online not sure about in store – I could totally drive to Tesco’s right now and find out – but, but argh this is so cool!!!!
I will forever associate Ben & Jerry’s with Miss Congeniality. From memory the scene went like this:
Hart: “Hey Mike give me a pint”
Bartender: “You sure you want a whole one.”
Hart: “oh yeah hit me big time baby. I’m going to get chip faced”
And then he puts down a pint of Ben & Jerry’s icecream. That movie had a ton of problems which I saw once I got older (side note: @worryinglyinnocent did a Swanfire, Rumbelle fic of the movie fixing the issues as well, excellent fic go read!) erm what was I saying?
Oh yeah it’s just as a teenager I thought Hart was kickass. “I’m wearing a dress, I have gel in my hair, I haven’t slept all night and I’m armed – don’t mess with me!” and so to be able to have something so normal, something that a childhood icon had…
I have feelings ok.
UPDATE!
I bankrupted myself (seriously how damn expensive is that icecream?) and just had a taste-test session.
Chocolate Fudge Brownie: Verdict = meh. It’s chocolate but not the best fake!choc icecream I’ve had. Maybe I didn’t dig deep enough but it wasn’t really all that flavourful. It’s edible but definitely a one-off purchase.
Chunky Monkey: Verdict = oddly addictive. My first mouthful I was like “ok tastes like banana and these chunks are really hard, can I chew without breaking my teeth?” and I was feeling a bit meh about it … and then my spoon kept going back in the tub. I don’t know what it is, there’s nothing about it that I would usually like and yet – well oddly addictive.
Peanut Butter and Cookies: Verdict = yum! By far the best of the three. I had to limit myself to two spoonfuls as this was supposed to be a tasting session (not an eating session) but it’s seriously nice. Not nice in a weird way like the Chunky Monkey (I still can’t work out why that’s more-ish as it shouldn’t be, I don’t even like banana) but just super tasty. It really does taste like what it says on the box but in smooth icecream form. Thumbs-up!
So TLDR. If you want to bankrupt yourself and can’t eat regular icecream (but want to be like everyone else) then Sam’s recommendation is the Peanut Butter and Cookies flavour. YMMV obviously heh as taste is subjective but that’s what I felt anyway 🙂
