Nosh or Not? Smearcase FroCo

[New for 2024] By any chance do you remember when Nick tried a few pints of gelato from the Fresh Market grocery store? Well, we had stopped at the Qdoba in Mansfield when I noticed some random stores in the back part of the plaza. I decided to drive through when I noticed a Fresh Market grocery store! Apparently Fresh Market came to the area in 2024, which was the same year that this debuted:

Smearcase Froco

frozen dairy dessert powered by cottage cheese

Canton Creamery Cookie Dough M&M

Who is Canton Creamery? Well, for starters, it's Canton, CT, not Canton, MA, and this is their website (which could use a bit of work to be honest). They are available at Big Y stores, which is where I found me a pint of....

Canton Creamery Cookie Dough M&M Ice Cream

(no description on pint or website)

Jeni's Double Dough Ice Cream

[New for Summer 2023] I really do need to get more Jeni's on the blog. With price and quality differentials the way they are right now, there's no reason I cant treat myself to a pint of Jeni's now and then.

Today's review is going to be a review of what used to be a "lonely ghost" collab. That branding is gone, but who doesn't love a cookie dough ice cream that has some actual cookie dough flavoring in the base? That's the way cookie dough ice cream should be. I don't expect this one to disappoint, so let's dive in to....

Jeni's Double Dough Ice Cream

Chocolate chip cookie dough swirled into a buttery brown sugar custard

Gifford's Cereal & Cream Ice Cream

[New for 2026] This is meant to be grapenut ice cream?? I bought it because I thought it was cereal inspired, but this could be better actually because I am a big fan of grapenut ice cream. If you havent tried it, you are missing out.

Gifford's Cereal & Cream Ice Cream

"vanilla ice cream packed with malted barley cereal nuggets"

Arethusa Farm Raspberry Ice Cream

To be honest, I can't remember where I first saw Arethusa Farm pints. I saw them at Big Y a few years ago, but I know I saw them before that at Whole Foods or Stop & Shop (or maybe both). They don't have a million flavors, but I'm always tempted to try another brand. So, let's crack open a pint of...

Arethusa Farm Old-Fashioned Raspberry Ice Cream

Emerald Brown Butter Irish Ice Cream

[New for 2025] Those new FatBoy pops werent the only thing I brought home from Shaw's the other week. See, I stumbled across the seven pint line up of Emerald Irish Ice Cream which is made with Irish milk, cream, and eggs. These pints debuted just last year and come in Atlantic Sea Salt, Salted Caramel, Chocolate Salted Caramel, Irish Cream, Irish Whiskey, Vanilla Bean, and... 

Emerald Brown Butter Irish Ice Cream

"a creamy blend of toffee and butter"

Nutella and Kinder Bueno in the Freezer Aisle

[New for Early 2026] Hannaford has been crushing the 2026 ice cream season by carrying lots of the new stuff. Among the many things I saw all the way back in mid February were these faux pints of....

Nutella Ice Cream and Kinder Bueno FDD

Describing Nutella ice cream as "Ice Cream with Nutella" is both very amusing and also kind of frustrating. Tell me what the ice cream tastes like! Ok, the press release says "the unmistakable taste of Nutella with swirls of Nutella", so I'm thinking they both taste like Nutella.

Kinder Bueno is hazelnut flavored frozen dairy dessert with nutty filling and cookie crunch. That does sound found despite being frozen dairy dessert.

Nutella is 330 cals per 2/3 cup serving and Kinder Bueno is 340 cals, so very close despite one being frozen dairy dessert and one being ice cream.

These flavors don't just come in faux pints either....

I was at Price Chopper on Wednesday when I saw the kinder bueno cones. The box says they are hazelnut flavored frozen dairy dessert with nutty core and topping in a sugar cone. 220 calories per 3.04 fluid oz cone.

There was also a spot on the shelves for the new Nutella cones as well. Similar to the pint, the description is "ice cream with Nutella in a sugar cone". They clock in at 250 calories per 3.04 fluid oz cone.

Now I probably won't be trying any of these any time soon, but a buddy of mine did try the kinder bueno "pint" and said "it's heavy on the hazelnuts".

Will you try these or have you tried them? As always, feel free to leave a comment!

Note: These are made by Wells (the Blue Bunny people) because Wells, Kinder, and Nutella are all owned by Ferrero these days.

Hudsonville Brownie Sundae Ice Cream

[New for Early 2026] My apologies to Hudsonville Ice Cream, I didn't realize that it had been so long since I bought a container of their ice cream. I'm going to try and rectify the lack of Hudsonville on the blog this year. Let's start with one of their three new big container flavors...

Hudsonville Brownie Sundae Ice Cream

vanilla ice cream with chocolate brownie chunks, rainbow sprinkles, and a fudge swirl

Ice Cream For Bears - Churro y Burrow

[New for 2025] I stumbled on the Ice Cream for Bears website several months ago (I think I was checking ice cream news at the time). The holiday season made me forget about it, but while visiting the new Big Y grocery store, what do I see but an entire shelf of ice cream for bears (faux) pints. Seven of their eleven flavors. Regularly $7.99 but on sale $6.49. Oh geez, where to start? I think I'll grab... 

Ice Cream for Bears - Churro y Burrow

cinnamon French ice cream

Haagen-Dazs Dark Cherry Truffle Ice Cream

[New for Early 2026] There are three new HD pints this year, but two have nuts (Peanut Butter Brittle and Coffee Almond Toffee), so we'll need to try those at a later date. What I can bring home is this tasty looking pint, and I dont mind that, because I do love a good cherry ice cream. Let's scoop into...

Haagen-Dazs Dark Cherry Truffle Ice Cream

cherry ice cream, cherry swirls, and soft cocoa truffles

New Blue Bell Pro Frozen Dairy Dessert

[New for 2026] Thanks to the commenter who let me know that Blue Bell announced a new product line today. I definitely did not have this on my 2026 frozen bingo card.

Blue Bell PRO high protein frozen dairy dessert

The good news: full size pints that are packed with protein!

The debatable news: frozen dairy dessert and it's unclear which sugar substitute they used.

Flavors are chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, coffee and salted caramel.

I tried do a little quick digging, but I can only find marketing images of the front of the pints. Thought I might get lucky and find a nutrition panel somewhere.

I'm not sure how good these will be, but soon some of us will find out. Not me, I'm in the northeast, but others will, including people in Cincinnati at some point in Spring 2026 thanks to a new distribution facility that Blue Bell is building.

Baskin-Robbins Cotton Candy Ice Cream

[New for 2024] Since Shaw's was having a sale (many months ago), I decided to buy three faux pints of my beloved cookie monster ice cream and one pint of...

Baskin-Robbins (at Home) Cotton Candy Ice Cream

cotton candy flavored ice cream

New City Salted Cookies & Cream Ice Cream

My daughter strikes again with another pint of New City ice cream. She's heard good things about this one, so let's check out...

New City Microcreamery Salted Cookies & Cream Ice Cream

salted sweet cram ice cream with chunks of chocolate sandwich cookies smothered in chocolate

Tillamook Strawberries & Cream Ice Cream

[New for very late 2025] I ran in to Shaws for an excuse to stretch my legs for a moment. Sure, I hoped for something new in the freezer aisle, but I wasn't really expecting to find anything, but then I saw it....

Tillamook Strawberries & Cream Ice Cream

strawberry with a a strawberry ripple and sweet cream ice creams

What's your favorite new flavor of 2025?

It;s not countdown time quite yet, but I have a related question. What's your favorite new pint (or container) of ice cream been this year? I know what mine is.

This one worked it's way to the top of my 2025 favorites list.

New City Microcreamery Cannoli Ice Cream

Our daughter surprised us with a pint of....

New City Microcreamery Cannoli Ice Cream

Cinnamon and Orange Ice Cream with Chocolate Covered Waffle Cones and Cannoli Cream Swirl

I bought a carton of Breyers ice cream...

Our schedule of eating ice cream in the house has definitely changed as we get older. I cant even remember the last time that I had ice cream three times in one day..... but seriously, ice cream changed and so did we. I'm still all over the place in terms of what I grab from the freezer, but my wife has gone back to mainstream ice cream as her daily driver. For the most part, this meant Turkey Hill ice cream, but something changed very recently. Cholesterol and saturated fat are now gone from their frozen dairy dessert! Skim milk is now the main ingredient, and then that is mildly supported by milk and coconut oil whereas they were using regular milk with a dash of nonfat milk mixed in. Polydextrose was replaced by maltodextrin, which is probably why the fiber count dropped to zero as well. What does all that mean? Well, it means that for the first time in over four years, I bought a carton of...

Breyers vanilla, chocolate, strawberry ice cream

McConnell's Chocolate Covered Strawberries Ice Cream

I said I would try more McConnell's, and I did, but I also got covid (as mentioned in my last post). I somehow managed to wait almost six years before getting it, and let me tell you, I am not a fan. It wasnt until the end of the first week that I realized that I had lost my sense of smell (for the most part) and that in turn dulled my sense of taste. Both are on the mend, but please be aware that I wrote the first scooping without realizing that things were amiss.

McConnell's Chocolate Covered Strawberries Ice Cream

sweet cream ice cream with strawberry preserves  and dark chocolate

Target Favorite Day Ice Cream Seasonal Offerings

Wow, just shy of three years since I've talked about Target's favorite day ice cream. It just hasn't caught my attention recently, but then I saw these two weeks ago.

Target Favorite Day Ice Cream Seasonal Offerings

New City Microcreamery Cake Batter

I wasn't sure which New City flavor would be next, but then I got to scoop....

New City Microcreamery Cake Batter Ice Cream

sweet cream ice cream with real birthday cake batter and tons of rainbow sprinkles