Ben & Jerry's sucks -

[Big Nasty]

I don't understand why so many think Ben & Jerry's is the best icecream.

Häagen-Dazs is tastier, cheaper and uses higher-quality ingredients.

Also, it practically says "Vote Democrat" on the container.

 

[GentlemanFaggot]

They both cost the same here. I buy the brownie and cookie dough one of whichever is on sale at the stores.

 

[A Skeleton]

it's okay. horrifically overpriced though so I haven't had it in years

 

[sapir&worf]

It's impossible to get anything else but Ben and Jerry's where I live. Also, I do like Häagen-Dazs helping the bees, but alas.

 

[melty]

The Democrat thing is right but otherwise I think it's great icecream. Also Häagen-Dazs doesn't have shops. The Ben & Jerry's by my campus gave out free ice cream every year. I guess they all do but I only went during college.
Also I thought Ben & Jerry's is cheaper, is that not right?

 

[Jacquetta]

I think the price point is a regional thing. Where I live they're both horrifically overpriced (I'm not paying five bucks for a pint of fucking ice cream), so the last time I had either one of them was in high school because my kid sibling had been promised ice cream on a family vacation and all my parents could find was convenience store Ben and Jerry's.

The regional chains are the best bang for your buck around here. The one closest to me supposedly isn't quite as good as B&J's or Häagen-Dazs but honestly it's close enough that I don't know how you can even tell unless you're some kind of ice cream reviewer.

Also last time I checked it was like two bucks cheaper per pint and they have sales all the time on top of that so regardless of quality I'd probably be getting those anyway.

(edit: spelling/grammar.)

 

[AnOminous]

The main ingredient that matters in ice cream is the cream anyway. Lots of fat is good cream.

So far as I know, B&J still uses high fat cream.

My favorite is their Heath Bar Crunch.

But as noted, $5 for a pint of ice cream is still ridiculous. I'll buy that stuff if it's like $3.

 

[D.Va]

B&J goes on sale in my local supermarket sometimes so I grab more of it then.

One Love is my favorite flavor right now. Apparently it's Europe exclusive though.

 

[melty]

When I lived in New York Ben & Jerry's was always $5/pint, but they would often have 2 for one sales. Häagen-Dazs could often be $6-$7 per pint.
I think they have sales too but I don't really buy much ice cream.
Now that I live in portland we have salt & straw and Cool Moon.
To be really autistic about ice cream, there was a shop near me in NY that was so good i've strongly considered paying a bunch of money to have it shipped to me.

 

[AnOminous]

Ice cream is worth being autistic about.

 

[DumbCWCQuote]

You can't get much else but Ben & Jerry's here I'd rather have Gifford's even if it does cost more I don't get ice cream that often anyway.

 

[Big Nasty]

In my location, Ben & Jerry's is about $5-5.5, Häagen-Dazs goes for $4.5, but you can sometimes get it for $3 if they're on clearance.

 

[melty]

You can't get much else but Ben & Jerry's here I'd rather have Gifford's even if it does cost more I don't get ice cream that often anyway.

What is Gifford's

 

[VJ 120]

That one kind of Ben & Jerry's where it's just full of chocolate everything (brownie bits, chocolate syrup, chocolate pieces, the ice cream is chocolate, etc) has gotten me through some shit, man.

edit: just remembered that interestingly enough it's called Chocolate Therapy

 

[DumbCWCQuote]

What is Gifford's

It's an ice cream brand from Maine you can find it throughout New England, I love their lobster tracks it's "Vanilla ice cream, lobster-colored chocolate cups filled with caramel all swirled with a unique éclair crunch." They have a bunch of flavors http://www.giffordsicecream.com/ice-cream-flavors/

 

[punks is hippies]

Yeah, H-D is better. I lost a bit of weight because my local grocery store stopped carrying their rocky road.

 

[mickrussom]

the quality has dropped drastically and the flavors taste altered and cheap. its totally commercialized at this point and is one of the worst "premium" ice creams now in the freezer aisle by far. sad. and ben and jerry are just rich people pretending to care to keep the pitchforks from coming for them. they are secretly greedy vile shysters.

 

[Biffo]

I like Cookie Dough from Ben & Jerry the most however Häagen-Dazs do more flavour I like where I live, however my favourite is the ice cream Hotel Chocolate does and Blood Orange & Belgian Milk Chocolate from Marks and Spencers.

 

[Un Platano]

Tillamook has the best ice cream out of any of them. It makes even the other 'premium' brands taste like cheap processed crap.

 

[Niggernerd]

I only get sonic and pikachu popsicles because gumball eyes kick ass