Breyers Oreo & Chips Ahoy! 2in1

[New for early 2018] You remember my post about how Breyers Blasts are dead and we are getting four new 2 in 1 flavors in their place right? Well most stores are still pushing out the remaining Blasts stock but Price Chopper finally started putting out the new stuff in my area. Since the other three all have nut components, looks like the only one that is safe to bring home is...

Breyers Oreo & Chips Ahoy! 2in1

vanilla frozen dairy dessert with Oreo chunks swirled with
caramel frozen dairy dessert with Chips Ahoy chunks

Ample Hills Star Wars Ice Cream

[By Nick] A long time ago in a freezer aisle far, far away... Actually it was last week at my local Whole Foods that I spotted the Ample Hills x Star Wars collaboration while waiting to go see Black Panther. (Not a movie critic by any means but it was one of the best marvel movies to date!) I was honestly surprised to even encounter Ample Hills outside of NYC let alone 6 pints including these 3 pints. As you know, Dubba and I are nerds, so I was definitely excited. However, the $9.99 price tag left me conflicted. Did I want to review these flavors for you all? Yes. Did I want to spend $30+ on 3 pints of ice cream? Nope, that’s just insane to me especially when I’ve been making my own ice cream as of late. Thankfully the kind folks at Whole Foods hooked me up with the trio to try.

So let’s plunge into deep space and kick this review into hyperdrive!

We’ll start things out on the dark side with our Sith friends in the First Order.

Talenti Chocolate Caramel Blondie Gelato #48

[2018 only] My batting average for new products feels like it's below .100 right now but thankfully my local Price Chopper is starting to update as they burn off 2017 backlog. Now Nick already covered the new Almond Butter & Honey flavor, and Cold Brew Coffee Sorbetto isn't my thing, so let's happily dive in to a pint of...

Talenti Chocolate Caramel Blondie Gelato #48

chocolate and dulce de leche gelato
with salted caramel swirl and mini blondie pieces

New Nutty Options from Gelato Fiasco

[New for 2018] Hello Nosh Show listeners! Ha, just kidding, happy Monday everyone, hopefully a lot of you have the day off and are thinking of heading to the grocery store to fill up the freezer. Our buds over at Gelato Fiasco were nice enough to send over free samples of their six new flavors that they just released. I'm going to cheat a little and show you all the nutty ones first. That's right, four of the six are bringing some nuttiness to your freezer. Let's see what they've got to offer.

Some of the new 2018 offerings from Gelato Fiasco

Graeter's Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

About a month ago, I got an email from Graeter's asking me why I hadn't done a review with the pair of free pint coupons they had sent over. As I explained to them when they sent the coupons, there just isn't a lot of NEW Graeters in my area. I'm grateful that I have some Graeter's, but it's usually just the same few flavors I see. Thankfully I realized I had never tried....

Graeter's Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

Friendly's Nor'easter Pothole Ice Cream

[New for early 2018] When I first spotted this flavor a month ago, I didn't really have the urge to review it because it just seemed like a spiced up chocolate cookies & cream flavor. Yes, technically I adore cookies & cream, but I just didn't trust Friendly's to really make this one anything but catchy to the eye. Well, fast forward a month and there was nothing to buy at Hannaford, so I came home with a container of...

Friendly's Nor'easter Pothole Ice Cream

chocolate ice cream swirled with black tar fudge
with crushed chocolate cream cookie gravel & asphalt chocolate chips

Magnum Milk Chocolate Vanilla Ice Cream

[New for 2018] Ok, you know the basics of these Magnum pints by now. It's chocolate on top and on the sides plus chocolate layers mixed in. It's like H-D Trio but with less dense ice cream.

Magnum Milk Chocolate Vanilla Tub

vanilla ice cream and milk chocolate shards
in a cracking milk chocolate shell

Dairy Queen Dipped Strawberry Blizzard

[New for 2018] I was all excited to have my first blizzard since September. I was excited to have my first blizzard of 2018. I was excited to try the new February Blizzard of the Month. I was excited to have a strawberry blizzard. And then DQ and their infuriating inconsistency ruined my plans...

Dairy Queen Dipped Strawberry Blizzard

vanilla soft serve blended with
chunks of Ghirardelli chocolate and strawberry topping

Chime in on.... Skinny Cow Pints

Ok, time for you, the reader, to chime in on.... Skinny Cow low fat ice cream pints. These were first spotted way back in August (of 2017) but I just spied them today, sitting on a Haagen-Dazs shelf of all places. Since Stevia isn't really my thing, I'm opening the floor up to hear what you think.

Skinny Cow low fat ice cream pints

Why do these pints always seem to have a spoon drawing on them?

There are seven 14oz flavors in all:

Oh My! Vanilla Bean - vanilla low fat ice cream
Fudgetastic Java - coffee low fat ice cream with fudge swirls
Mint Chip Mashup - mint low fat ice cream with chocolate chips
Oh Fudge Cookie - vanilla low fat ice cream with C&C and fudge swirls
Peanut Butter Chocolate - light chocolate ice cream with peanut butter swirls
Chocolate Cake Me Away - light chocolate ice cream with chocolate frosting swirls
Rock On! Rocky Road - light chocolate ice cream with almonds & marshmallows

When I picked up that top right pint to spin it around to show nutrition info, I was shocked out how light it was. I do realize that these low sugar, high protein pints are a good amount of air, but the pint felt practically empty.

So, have you seen these? and if so, have you tried them? which ones? how would you rank them? I got a couple of positive comments on instagram so maybe you've had a similar experience.

History Note: Skinny Cow made ice cream cups back in 2010-2012 (reviews here)

Talenti Almond Butter & Honey Gelato #49

[By Nick, New for 2018] The new products are coming! The new products are coming!! I’ve been seeing Dubba post about all the new stuff showing up on shelves this year but haven’t had any luck finding any of them. Until recently, I first found the new Magnum Ice Cream tubs which was pretty exciting. What was more exciting was finding this guy hiding in a sea of Haagen Dazs.

Talenti Almond Butter & Honey Gelato #49

Almond Butter Gelato with a Honey Swirl

Edy's Triple Peanut Butter Ice Cream

[New for 2018] You may have noticed on instagram that Edy's is up to a bit of repackaging this year, but not so much in the traditional sense. For one, their candy powered line up has completely lost all of its Edy's / Dreyer's branding, but on top of that, they are now dishing up light ice cream in brown containers instead of the traditional slow churned beige containers. Think about that for a minute. It's kind of.... would sneaky be the right word? Rovo and I were discussing it and he's wondering if they will go light ice cream across their entire line up. You could take that thought a bit further and question if it's a two-fold approach to both saving money and saving calories on the base, giving you more budget and calorie room for swirls and mix-ins.

Edy's Triple Peanut Butter (light) Ice Cream

peanut butter light ice cream with a peanut butter ribbon
and mini-chocolate peanut butter cups