Hood Sweet & Salty Kettle Corn Ice Cream

[New for 2019] Hood likes to throw out two or more crazy limited flavors at us every year. Plenty of them fail, and yet, the craziness always calls me back in, at least for one of them. I'm not really interested in "Magic Bar" (picture shown at the end of this post), but I will take a crack at....

Hood Sweet & Salty Kettle Corn Ice Cream

artificially flavored popcorn reduced fat ice cream
with a salted burned caramel swirl

I crack the top open and I do smell popcorn.

I dive in and it does kind of taste like popcorn. It also kind of tastes like pretzels. It's a lighter ice cream and there's no solid textural component, so my brain isn't 100% sure how to place it.

So, let's do this. It's not too salty, so that's good. It's not to artificial, so that's good. I mean it's fake flavor, but it's not beating up your taste buds or anything. I've definitely had worse. There is a funness to it. I really do start thinking about the boardwalk when I taste the swirl... and then I bounce back to pretzels... and then I bounce to some strange middle ground.

So, yeah, it's definitely different!

On Second Scoop: I tried mixing it with pretzels, it did not help (at some point I will try mixing it with popcorn too). I wound up throwing in some cinnamon (because cinnamon) and it was interesting like that. I just think you need to be in the mood to eat this one... or maybe it just needs a nice fresh sugar cone to go in to. I would say pick it up because it's different, but at this point I don't imagine buying it again.

There's also the Hood New England Creamery limited edition flavor Magic Bar. It's artificially flavored coconut reduced fat ice cream with graham pieces, chocolates chips and a caramel swirl. There's also Frozen Hot Chocolate. If anyone tries either, please let us know how it is.

Verdict?  different, could use a little something
Buy Again?  nah