Can't pronounce it but will eat it. (Carte D'Or Stracciatella)

Member Name: Bryn Pearson

Product:	Carte D'Or Stracciatella
Date:	12/03/03 (227 review reads)
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Advantages: tastes great

Disadvantages: collapsing lid

Carte D'or seem to have a weakness for extravagent names that don't really give you much insight into the product. It's ice cream (not pasta as the name might suggest) in fact, it's ice cream of the chocolaty variety and very nice it is too.

Prices for carte D'or seem to fluctuate wildly in the Sainsburys I frequent, but I think you could expect to spend something around the three pounds mark for a pot that will give you four modest servings.

So, what do you get? White vanilla ice cream with chocolate ripples in it and somewhat ahrder chocolate fragments sprinkled over the top for added texture. The first thing to note is that this ice cream freezes really hard - I had to wrestle with it to persuade it out of the pot. When I did, I found that the chocolate ripples started to melt and by the time I got to it (freezer in the cellar, slight delay) I had vanilla ice cream swimmign in a sticky chocolate sauce, whichw as nice. I enjoyed the little chocolate lumps - nice contrast. The ice cream is light, sweet without being sickly and a nice contrast to the richer chocolate. It is rather moorish and I can see how a person might end up eating the whole pot in one fell swoop.

Now, back to the packaging, because this is the fist time I've had trouble with Carte D'or. It was fine in the shop, but when I took it back to the freezer, I found that the lid was breaking up. Normally Carte D'or pots are nicely solid and can be reused for storage, but this one was breaking up in my hands. Inevitably my ice cream will be even more rock like when it next emerges, which is something of a shame. There's some sort of flaw in this lid. It's the first time I've seen anything like it, but if it turns out to be some sort of congenital weakness its going to put me off this ice cream for good.

Generally Carte D'or are very good, making high quality ice creams at bearable prices, offering products that are sweet
without being too much.

If you care about the fat content, go away. I don't want to talk to you. This obviously isn't going to be any sort of health food, its an icecream, duh.

I'm planning on digging out some Mrs Beeton recepies and seeing if I can make my own ice cream this summer. None of them will have unpronouncable names, but I think if I was going to try and replicate a more fiddley one, this might just be it. I'll probably be lazy and just do strawberry instead though.

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