Haagen-Dazs Banoffee Pie

Karenuk is a bad influence. As if it wasn?t bad enough that I was already addicted to Ben and Jerry?s ice cream, she introduced me to Haagen-Dazs and I now find myself buying tubs of this highly calorific and pricey frozen dessert! One of the first flavours she enticed me with was Banoffee Banana Caramel Pie. Goodness, even the name of it is enough to get me salivating. PACKAGING The background colour to the tub is burgundy and gold, which looks extremely elegant and promises a refined and exquisite dessert inside. In the foreground is a picture of what is presumably supposed to be a slice of banana caramel pie. The pie has what ...

I?m not normally an ice cream eater and can take it or leave it, but every now and again whilst walking around the supermarket I get craving for some and have to buy it immediately. This happened the other day and I chose Haagen - Dazs Banoffee Banana Caramel Pie, partly because I liked the sound of it and partly because I am stingy and this was on offer in Safeway for £1.99 for a 500ml tub. As soon as I got home from the shops I took off the lid and peeled back the top. Because I had walked home from the shops it had softened to just the right texture for eating. Not too soft so it was runny but still with that ice cream texture and crunchy bits. It ...

(NOTE : As usual, Dooyoo don't have this exact category, so I put it in one as close as I could find. Apologies, but 'needs must' and all that.) Okay, I have to ‘fess up here and let you all in on my sad story. I am an addict. Not the John Leslie/Angus Deayton type, you’ll be pleased to know – but an addict nonetheless. Therefore, I should hardly have been surprised to be emailed by a BBC researcher a couple of days ago, who wanted to talk to me about my love of ice cream. But I was. I hadn’t realised things had got that bad. Would I soon be making tabloid headlines, draping myself in skimpy bikinis over a hundred ...