Ben & Jerry should chuck the chunks (Ben & Jerrys Chocolate Fudge Brownie Frozen Yogurt)

Member Name: UKGuy

Product:	Ben & Jerrys Chocolate Fudge Brownie Frozen Yogurt
Date:	27/12/05 (245 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Low in fat

Disadvantages: Overpowering 'brownie' chunks

Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie Low Fat Frozen Yogurt

What can you say about frozen yogurt? If I was writing a car review I could rattle on for ages about styling, performance and comfort - but then cars do many things; yogurt doesn't... does it? Well here is about where anyone who makes their livelihood producing frozen yogurt might beg to differ. There's taste, texture, flavour, keeping qualities, packaging, and I guess lots more besides. So, I'm here to try and do justice to "Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie Low Fat Frozen Yogurt".

First thing is, this isn't so much frozen chocolate yogurt with some fudge brownie pieces in it, it's more like a mass of fudge brownie held together with a limited amount of frozen yogurt. Given that I actually rather liked the frozen yogurt part, the whole dessert turned out to be a bit of a let down. The frozen yogurt itself is good, it's pleasantly chocolatey without being sickly, and has just the right texture - not watery or gritty. Basically I could eat the stuff all day.

The chocolate fudge brownie 'chunks' are a whole different matter, with both the quantity (there was far too much for the volume of frozen yogurt) or the taste. The brownie taste is rather too sugary and cloying, giving a chocolate fondant icing sort of taste as opposed to the rich creamy chocolatey flavour of a restaurant brownie. I suspect that if the exact same fudge brownies were marketed as such, they wouldn't fly off the shelves. They also had the taste of something that's been left open in the cupboard a little too long - it's hard to describe, but if you ever open a pack of fudge brownies and leave the pack open for a couple of weeks and come back to the last one, you'll know what I mean.

In the end, I ate the frozen yogurt part and tried to go around the brownie chunks!


As for the packaging - it's standard Ben & Jerry's fayre. Anyone who ever shops for ice cream will recognise it instantly. The tub sports the usual logo and images of what must be cubes of chocolate fudge brownies, kinda obvious really.

All in all, a nice frozen chocolate yogurt, spolied by the very thing that's supposed to make it exciting.... the chocolate fudge brownies which dominate the dessert both in quantity and their rather curious flavour. So, whether it's taking the phone off the hook and settling down to a good movie and a tub of Ben & Jerry's for the evening, or maybe entertaining friends and trying to give them an exotic desert, I'd recommend one of Ben & Jerry's other ice cream offerings rather than this Jekyll & Hyde concoction.

UPDATE - 29/Dec/05

As someone pointed out, I omitted the price. It was £3.97 from my local Sainsbury store.

Summary: Pleasant chocolate yogurt dessert spoiled by dubious chunks