Friendly's Jonas Brothers 20th Anniversary Ice Cream

[New for 2025] When I went to see if Friendly's was going to deliver something new this year, I really wasn't expecting a limited edition Jonas Brothers inspired flavor to be sitting at the top of the page. Apparently they've been fans of Friendly's since they were kids. You know I don't really do coffee ice cream, but let's take some scoops of....

Friendly's Jonas Brothers 20th Anniversary Ice Cream

coffee cookie crumble, chocolate marshmallow, and vanilla

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

Friendly's Caramel Waffle Cone Ice Cream Bars

[For 2024-2025] To be honest, based on Friendly's current lineup, I'm not expecting much from these bars. Last year's ice cream bars were ok, but not so good that they would force me to try these... but I do need me a mowing snack, so let's crack open a box of....

Friendly's Caramel Waffle Cone Ice Cream Bars

caramel ice cream, caramel flavored swirl, and chocolatey waffle cone pieces

Friendly's Boston Cream Pie Ice Cream

[New for Early 2024] When I saw this flavor, it took awhile to convince myself that it was actually new. As a company that started in Massachusetts, how could Friendly's not have attempted this one sooner? Better late than never?

Friendly's Boston Cream Pie Ice Cream

Bavarian cream flavored ice cream swirled with fudge, Boston cream filling and yellow cake pieces

News: New Stuff starting to roll out

Are you keeping your eyes open for new 2024 stuff? I found three things (in person) this past week, plus I found a few things online as well.

Breyers Star Spangled Scoops FDD

Breyers Pistachio Almond FDD

Friendly's Blueberry Cheesecake Ice Cream

[New for Mid 2023] As I mentioned in my last post, I've had a full freezer for months and yet I've done a not so great job of keep up with things. Here is another example of something I bought mid summer, finally opened in mid September and am now posting in November. In other words, you probably won't find this one anymore, but maybe you can try it next you if this review inspires you to do so. Let's take a long delayed look at....

Friendly's Blueberry Cheesecake Ice Cream

cheesecake ice cream swirled with blueberries and graham crunch

Friendly's Unicorn Sparkle Ice Cream Bars

[New for 2023] I know crunch coated ice cream bars don't have the same pizazz that they did decades ago (like everything else, they are made more cheaply now), but that doesn't mean that they still don't catch my attention. Case in point, the very fun looking....

Friendly's Unicorn Sparkle Ice Cream Bars

pink and blue vanilla ice cream

coated with cotten candy flavored cookie crunch

Blue Sundae Cup Showdown

The regulars here know that I'm a sucker for catchy packaging. Granted, what catches my eye may not be what catches your eye, but I do like to give props when something stands out on the shelf. In particular, I'm talking about the cool blue packaging of this Friendly's sundae cup, and to make things interesting, why don't we go ahead and pit it against the Turkey Hill version?

Friendly's Celebration Ice Cream Cake Sundae Cup

vs

Turkey Hill's Party Cake Layered Sundae

Friendly's Caramel Cookie Crumble Ice Cream

[New for 2022] A second Friendly's review in a single year? Ha, I kid, I used to review Friendly's alot more often, but there's just not a whole lot of new going on with them these days it seems. Well, there are the happy days bars and those SUPER STUFFED frozen dairy dessert flavors, but I can do without the latter. However, I have now bought *8* containers of Unicorn Power, so it seems only fair to give something else a try. Let's take a crack at....

Friendly's Limited Edition Caramel Cookie Crumble Ice Cream

vanilla ice cream with caramel ribbon and chocolate creme cookie pieces

Friendly's Unicorn Power Ice Cream

[New for 2022] I can't believe I bought this ice cream. I almost never buy friendly's nowadays, plus it has a sour swirl, and I don't do sour, but you know what? It was only $2.50!

Friendly's Unicorn Power Ice Cream

pint fruity ice cream with sour blue raspberry swirl,

marshmallow ribbon and glitter candy pieces

Friendly's Salted Caramel Brookie Big Chipper

[New for 2020] Lost review time! Every now and then, I swear a review disappears. I was trying to compile a list of 2020 products when I went to throw a link in to this particular product, I couldn't find the post. Now, it looks like I never prepped photos for this review either, so the review probably never existed, but that doesn't mean I want the experience to be lost forever.

Friendly's Salted Caramel Brookie Big Chipper

brownie cookies with caramel ice cream

with a salted caramel swirl and coated with butterscotch chips

Friendly's Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry Friendwich

[Limited Edition] Have you noticed that there are fewer and fewer Friendly's treats on store shelves? Sure, the big chippers are hanging around but that's just parent company Dean's reusing a product across all of their brand names. Anyway, there are a few stragglers left like...

Friendly's Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry Friendwich

vanilla flavored, chocolate and strawberry ice cream

between two chocolate flavored wafers

Friendly's S'mores Big Chipper

[New for 2020] Oh Deans, I know what you are up to. Giving us a national snack in regional packaging. Very sneaky, but I get that's how things work. So, whether you see these as Mayfield, Dean's, or Friendly's, if you are like me, you won't be able to walk past....

Friendly's S'mores Big Chipper Sandwich

graham flavored cookies with toasted marshmallow flavored ice cream
with fudge swirl and coated with chocolate chips

Friendly's I Cannot Tell a Lie Cherry Pie Ice Cream

[Limited Edition for Early 2020] Pickings are slim when you only go to the grocery store once a week, and my local walmart has been consistently wiped out. However, those stocking up seem a little hesitant to grab something new which means I get to try....

Friendly's I Cannot Tell a Lie Cherry Pie Ice Cream

sweet cream ice cream, pie crust pieces and tart cherry swirl

Friendly's Summer Breeze Ice Cream

[New for 2019] I think it's safe to say that my relationship with Friendly's has soured on several fronts over the last few years. Their "regular" ice cream has gone way done in quality, the naturally line up was a fail, the big sundae lineup was amusing in some regards but is also dying. Their limited edition container game (1.5 quart offerings) has also tossed us several meh flavors.... until now. Finally we have a fun, flavorful item I can actually recommend.

Friendly's Summer Breeze Ice Cream

sunny lemon ice cream, lemonade flavored sea shells
with sandy graham cracker swirls

Friendly's Blackberry Peach Pie Dessert Cup

[New for early 2019] Since these new cups are on sale at 2 for $4 this week, it's probably high time I tried one of them right? There are 7 in all but I went back and forth before deciding on....

Friendly's Blackberry Peach Pie Dessert Cup

layers of pie crust pieces, peach pie filling and vanilla ice cream,
topped with blackberry sauce, whipped topping and streusel crumble

Friendly's Strawberry Krunch Cake Single

"New" for 2019 - What's up everybody? Time for a Friday Night Fight! We've got last year's Strawberry Cake Krunch Sundae vs this year's Strawberry Krunch Cake Single. Yes, those are different things. Will the 8.5 oz noob crush the old 6.5 oz cup? Who knows! Well, I mean I know because I've already eaten half of both of these, but let's pretend like there is suspense here!

Friendly's Strawberry Krunch Cake Single

layers of vanilla and strawberry ice creams separated by
a center layer of pink vanilla flavored crunchies, topped with strawberry sauce,
whipped icing with more pink vanilla flavored crunchies

Friendly's Strawberry Cheesecake Cake Singles

[New for 2019] Of the four "new" Friendly's cake singles, this is the only one that's truly a fresh flavor that's not a rehash of an earlier sundae to go flavor. No cheesecake isn't at the top of my priority list, but I do adore graham!

Friendly's Strawberry Cheesecake Cake Singles

layers of cheesecake flavored and strawberry ice creams
separated by a center layer of graham crunchies,
topped with graham variegate, whipped icing with more graham crunchies

Friendly's Chocolate Krunch Cake Singles

[New for early 2019] Guess what? Friendly's has themselves a pretty clever idea here because there are people out there, like me, who adore ice cream cake but can't really justify buying an entire cake to eat by themselves. So, how did they solve this problem?

Friendly's Chocolate Krunch Cake Single

layers of vanilla and chocolate ice creams
separated by a center layer of chocolate & vanilla flavored crunchies,
topped with fudge, whipped icing with more chocolate & vanilla flavored crunchies

Friendly's Vanilla Caramel Signature Sundae

We haven't seen this product line expand in 2018 and in fact I've seen it disappear from a few stores, so I figured I should finally review the 4th flavor before I lost the chance to.

Friendly's Vanilla Caramel Signature Sundae

vanilla ice cream with caramel, topped with more caramel,
dollops of whipped topping and candy curls