Land of Liberty and Darned Good Ice Cream (Ben & Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk)

Member Name: Ophelia

Product:	Ben & Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk
Date:	14/06/02 (280 review reads)
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Advantages: Chocolate, nuts, more nuts

Disadvantages: Not good if you don't like nuts

In the United States of America everything is BIGGER and BETTER. The pictures of the Statue of Liberty and the Empire States Building on the lid of the tub and the name itself, 'Ben and Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk' ice cream, promises a truly phenomenal taste experience. Did the product match up to my heightened anticipation?

THE ICE CREAM

The ice cream consists of a rich chocolate ice cream base containing chunks of white chocolate and dark chocolate, large lumps of pecans and walnuts, and almonds coated in fudge!

Just imagining the mix of ingredients is not quite sufficient for this is no ordinary ice cream; it is American! The 'chunks' of white and dark chocolate are exactly that - entire pieces that look as if they have been broken off an enormous bar. The 'lumps' of pecans and walnuts are often entire nuts and the almonds are almost unimaginable. These are almonds as you have never seen them before; the broken pieces of nut have been coated in a very hard layer of fudge, which looks like chocolate but tastes like the most luxuriously rich fudge ever produced.

The large scatterings of chocolate and nuts takes you so much off guard that you, at first, overlook the ice cream base. Once your taste buds and bulging eyes get over the initial shock of the generous ingredients, your mind begins to wander to the ice cream and you suddenly become aware of the richest, softest, creamiest chocolate ice cream ever to be seen this side of a cornetto salesman.

The combination of textures within the ice cream is challenging: creamy ice cream, crunchy nuts and chewy fudge. These complement each other well and while you are luxuriating in a reverie of smooth ice cream you will be brought to attention by the crunch and glorious taste of a nut, swiftly sweetened by the felicitous fudge. The tub is so pack full of flavours that you cannot be bored by the product.

The ingredients are i
ndeed BIGGER and the taste is indeed BETTER. I'm applying for my Green Card as we speak.

THE TUB

The 500 ml cardboard tub is emblazoned with the figures of the Statue of Liberty and the tip of the Empire States Building surrounded by the ice cream and its ingredients. Just a glance at the picture will give you a very accurate idea of what the ice cream looks like.

The chocolate colour background is identical to that of the ice cream and the representations of the nuts and chocolate lumps are extremely redolent of the genuine articles. On the tub, what you see is what you get. Well, apart from the Building and the Statue, which is quite good actually as things that are made from stone could easily break a tooth, crown or filling and lead to expensive dental work being required.

Warning - product contains nuts.
Notice - product contains no icons of the American ethos.

MONETARY VALUE

A 500 ml tub costs £3.79. (Don't work out how much that costs per teaspoonful as the results can be depressing and the author accepts no responsibility for mental distressed caused by such knowledge.) This may seem an exorbitant amount but you will never have tasted anything quite like it and it is worth every penny (remember if you go out for a meal in a restaurant it will set you back approximately £10 and once you have tasted this ice cream you would rather stay at home with a tub, therefore saving yourself over £6 that would have lined the pockets of Mr Harvester down the road).

There is currently a special offer on at Tesco where two 500 ml tubs will only cost you £5 in total! Yes, you read right - difficult to believe I know. In fact, writing this opinion has really whet my appetite and I feel a trip to Tesco coming on but before I go, for those who are interested in that sort of thing:

HEALTH INFORMATION

It is not healthy and contains more calories than the number of hours that An
gus Deayton has lost in sleep over the past week.

Sorry chaps but you can't have your cake and eat it! But I would definitely recommend that you buy this ice cream and eat it!

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