Orgasm in a tub (Other Sorbets and Ice Creams)

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Product:	Other Sorbets and Ice Creams
Date:	31/10/02 (34 review reads)
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Advantages: Delicious, Gorgeous, Scrummy

Disadvantages: Calorific, Fattening, Naughty

I found ice cream heaven. Orgasm in a tub. The perfect combination of cream, flavourings and cold.

It’s official. In my opinion, Sainsburys Indulgence Marvellous Mocha Coffee ice cream is the best I’ve ever tasted. High praise? Yes. Deserved? Yes, I believe so.

It’s the yummiest, scrummiest thing I’ve ever had in my mouth, and that’s saying something. I’ve eaten a lot of nice stuff in my time.

So, let me describe to you the culinary miracle that is Marvellous Mocha. It comes in an itty bitty 500ml tub, which is the only thing that is wrong with it. 500ml is not nearly enough. I could lick and nibble and suck my way through that in no time. But I suppose Sainsburys are trying to emulate brands like Ben and Jerrys and Haagen Dazs.

It tastes best if you leave the ice cream to defrost for a few minutes before eating it. This allows the full flavour to develop and gives it chance to achieve the ideal ice cream consistency – smooth, soft and luscious on the tongue. Ooooohhh.

Marvellous Mocha is a swirled combination of Arabica coffee ice cream and dairy vanilla ice cream, with mocha sauce. Mouth watering yet?

As we open the tub, the first thing you notice is that it looks really beautiful with the swirling coffee and cream colours, and marbled with the dark, shiny chocolate mocha sauce. And if you look closely, there are tiny brown flecks in the coffee ice cream. These are pieces of Arabica coffee bean, and together with the 5 per cent filter coffee in the ice cream, they pack a really flavoursome punch.

The next thing that hits you is the glorious aroma. It smells like one of those shops that sells fresh ground coffee, backed with sweetness and cream. Delicious.

Now, take a spoon and dig in. It should be soft and creamy in texture, light and velvety in the mouth, like semi-liquid pleasure.

The coffee taste is potent but never bitter,

dark and smoky like a full roasted freshly ground blend. The tiny coffee grounds secreted within the ice cream provide a wonderful further intense coffee hit, without being intrusive or too bitty. And the sweet and creamy vanilla is the perfect foil for the coffee, like a yummy cappuccino.

The thick, sticky, dark chocolate sauce is the final perfect element and there is just the right amount. Too little would leave you wanting and too much would be cloying. The tub says sauce makes up eight per cent of the total volume, and that seems pretty perfect to me.

The downside to this delectable dessert, of course, is that it’s rather calorific. Frighteningly so, actually, seeing as it is made from 17 per cent double cream, egg yolk, butter, condensed milk and sugar.

A quarter of a tub will give you a scary 172 calories and 10.4g of fat. But, as the name says, it is an indulgence, and not one you should allow yourself too often.

For allergy sufferers, the ice cream contains egg, milk and Soya, but no nut traces. The tub isn’t marked “suitable for vegetarians”, although other flavours in the range are, so I can only assume that there is some hidden animal product in the list of ingredients that I can’t fathom.

The 500ml tub usually retails at around the 2GBP mark, but at the moment, Sainsburys is doing an offer of any two tubs from the Indulgence range for 3GBP, which is a bit of a bargain for such yummy stuff.

The range includes a toffee flavour, a Belgian chocolate flavour and a cookies and cream with ginger variety, amongst others. I shall report back on the other flavours in due course, all in the name of consumer research, of course. It’s a tough job, but someone’s got to do it.

And finally, how would I serve this wonderful ice cream? Well, if I’m feeling particularly piggy, straight from the tub with one spoon. If I have guests, I think a litt
le ba
sket made of bitter chocolate, or ginger snap biscuit or spun sugar, a couple of scoops of Marvellous Mocha Coffee ice cream, and a garnish of chocolate covered coffee beans would make a rather elegant and delicious dessert. What do you think? Dinner at my house?

Thanks for reading.

Allie xx

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