Friendly's Salted Vanilla Fudge Ice Cream

[New for 2025] More new stuff already? Yup! I actually bought this before the churro stuff but only because I thought I would need it to pass the time until the good stuff came out.

Friendly's Salted Vanilla Fudge Ice Cream

salted vanilla ice cream with fudge pieces and a fudge swirl

Fat Boy Churro Sandwich

[New for 2025] ...whoa, I just wrote "New for 2025".... crazy....  but yeah, I'm actually pretty stoked to be ice cream hunting this year. The last few years have been pretty boring, and I know I'm not going to enjoy everything headed our way, but it just feels more....   normal? We're supposed to get wound up for a new ice cream season in January. It's kind of a lost tradition. So, knowing that my local Shaw's had already started clearing shelf space, I ran to see what I could find early in the morning, and yeah, I found one of the things that I was most excited for!

Fat Boy Cinnamon Churro Sandwich

vanilla ice cream with a sea salt caramel core sandwiched between two cinnamon churro cookies

New Ben & Jerry's for 2025

I was a little confused why we were seeing lots of good stuff from everyone except Ben & Jerry's, but an eagle eyed reader noticed some more new stuff on their website. Yay! I'm happier now!

Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Covered Strawberry Ice Cream

strawberry ice cream with a strawberry jam swirl & fudge flakes

I love strawberry ice cream, so this makes me very happy, but wait, there's more!

New Ben & Jerry's Sundaes! The funny thing is that @sven_and_jerrys posted about these hitting Germany way back January 2022! Both countries now have the Cookie Vermont-ster and Dulce De-lish flavors. CV looks like Milk & Cookies turned into a sundae, so that's fun. We also get Choco-lotta Cheesecake and Turtle Sundae. Wait, has B&J's done a chocolate cheesecake flavor before? I don't think so! Man, that's cool, and I also love that Turtle Sundae has a pretzel swirl.

Dear B&J's, I forgive you for the boring Scoop-apalooza lineup. This totally makes up for it!

*all photo rights belong to Ben & Jerry's

More New Stuff for 2025

To be honest, I don't spend a ton of time on instagram anymore. I'm not saying that I ever spent that much time on it, but there's just too much suggested content and sponsored ads for me these days. Somedays it feels like there are 2-3 filler posts for every one post from an account that I actually follow... sorry, anyway, @snackgator, @candyhunting and @mnmtwinz have been posting lots of new stuff like...

New Haagen-Dazs for 2025

Time to talk Haagen-Dazs news! First off, the short-lived butter cones are out, and new Belgian waffle cones are in! Will these tasty looking cones last more than two years?

Summer Berry, Vanilla Salted Caramel,

Toasted Almond Fudge and Triple Chocolate Fudge

Tillamook Salty Caramel Pretzel Ice Cream

[New for Dec 2024] More new Tillamook! Woohoo! I'm pretty sure that I'm going to continue to eat a lot of Tillamook ice cream in 2025. Let's scoop in to....

Tillamook Salty Caramel Pretzel Ice Cream

salted vanilla ice cream with chocolaty covered pretzel bits and a ribbon of salted caramel

New Stuff for 2025

Now I've seen a few new things pop up on instagram, but now I'm running in to new stuff online as well, so let me share what I've stumbled upon so far. First up, I found the new "Bakery Collection" over on the Talenti website. We're going to get three new layered flavors and you can be sure that I'll be testing all three: Italian Tiramisu, Snickerdoodle Cookie, and Chocolate Chip Cookie Batter.

Talenti Bakery Collection Gelato Layers

Top Ten Reviews of 2024

Hello! Another year is in the books as the blog crawls it's way to it's 17th anniversary in early May. The most viewed review of 2024 was actually my Cool Dog review from 2012, and that's due to Ayo Edebiri mentioning them to Seth Meyers this summer. That old review actually has more views than the top ten 2024 reviews combined! 

Anyway.....   so this is my first year using the new analytics to compile the top ten list of the most viewed new reviews. It's been a bit of a learning curve, but here goes.