Outshine Lime kind of the platonic “regular popsicle” to me, a real classic, no frills experience. I did try the Jeni’s grape/currant flavor at your behest and liked it a lot but maybe because it tasted more like currant than grape?? I’m a poor judge of ice cream because I’d nearly always rather be eating fresh fruit or vanilla soft serve, which I’m aware is one of my classic “wrong opinions”, like preferring Magic Mike to Magic Mile XXL.
you’ve got me hooked on outshine popsicles… i have tried like four different variety boxes in the past three weeks since you first mentioned. also i saw a tiktok recipe for a protein ice cream that i am gonna make
Every May when Aldi gets freezer pops in stock, I buy two boxes for the freezer at the dance studio where I teach. Nothing is quite as refreshing after 4 hours of teaching tap dance as a kinda gross grape freezer pop.
Randomly, the treat I've gotten into over the summer is cereal. But not for breakfast. There has been something so exquisite about having a bowl of honey nut cheerios (Aldi brand) with strawberries at 8pm while I'm furious over a baseball game.
I have had a love affair (for at least the last six years) with Vero Gelato's Chicago Pothole, found at Mariano's. I don't know where to find it when Mariano's leaves our area, and that makes me more anxious than usual. Re: blind item, WHO WHO WHO (Aaron Paul?)
ok they were last week when i got groceries so don't hold me to it, but it means that they have been there before and could be there again (i'm gonna look today)!
I got a Jeni's Tahini Oat Chocolate Cookie last week that was delicious but I am always a little bit guilty whenever I go because they opened up a Jeni's on Armitage a couple years ago right down the street from the local Annette's ice cream window and a friend of mine is an Annette's loyalist and boycotted Jeni's out of protest of the corporate incursion. I was also never allowed to eat Oberweis because they are Republicans but now that they have sold to private equity...jury's out?
I am dying to try the Jeni's Tahini Oat Choc Cookie which they came out with approximately three days after I ordered my grape pints fml.... I am hoping they still have it when I'm back in the future. Oberweis employed all the hottest kids from my high school and I was literally not cool enough to work at our local one (humiliating)... that said, I've always thought the ice cream was kinda mid!!!
Can second that it’s worth trying the Tahini Oat Choc cookie! I thought for sure compared to Double Dough I would be obsessed but as an oat lover, I was very disappointed and ended up liking Double Dough more.
I have not had much ice cream/ice block energy lately, slowly finishing off the rhubarb cardomom popsicles I made (shoulda added coconut water, they are good for winter days when it's sunny) (experiencing 'southern hemisphere discrimination' real hard right now). But I keep buying the 430 ml (maybe this is the same as a pint) little tubs in flavours like strawberry coconut makrut lime and feijoa crumble (can never remember if feijoas exist in the US). I also did a bunch of infusing native plants like manuka into syrups to use later. anyway these treats are so inspiring to me thank U Fran!
these all sound so good... we don't have feijoas in the states, or at least not anywhere I know to them them... they sound amazing though!!! please feel free to flex southern hemisphere seasons come winter when you are enjoying all the cold treats in the heat of December summertime!!!
this rocks; literally taking notes on both mag recs and comment recs. go-to snacks recently have been melona bars (melon flavor is best but i’ve been dying to find coconut), korean banana milk, cold take fives (the best chocolate bar), and, like, this massive bag of starbursts i accidentally got to watch the olympics open ceremony high. been searching for the good brooklyn ice cream joints, this is a godsend 🤝
they rock. they are usually at met fresh but last time i had to crouch down and dig back behind some other popsicle to find them. otherwise i have found that every mr. fruit carries them though!
no but great guess.... do you want one more try.... here are some hints: he was in a movie that was supposed to be big and kind of no one saw even though someone (not him) won an Oscar for it and then he fucked off to do prestige tv series that no one saw.... (though I did like the show)
Was wracking my brain for this thinking it was maybe Ben Whishaw in Women Talking or Andrew Garfield in Tammy Faye even though they didn’t quite fit but then I remembered that no one actually saw West Side Story, I just continuously hoped and dreamed people would. Mr. Elgort…you’re wild for that ice cream.
I have to respect the creativity of the combo even tho it sounds truly gross to me... a friend who worked on WSS also reported that they brought a Mr. Softee truck to work at one point & he cut the line to ask if they had root beer floats (no) and then moped off...
I am also in the "either order the strangest flavor or go one degree beyond normal" zone but where I really shine is getting insane flavors at the grocery store: Taco Bell "Baja Fiery Mango" Doritos officially deemed Not Bad by me and "criminal" by friends, while the Ruffles "Korean-Style Sweet and Spicy Chili" are my chip of the summer.
When free from the paralysis of choice at the ice cream parlor, do you opt for the strangest thing at the grocery store? Multiple people have referred me to the tweet that says something like "I love to check out the Oreo aisle and see what those little freaks have come up with next."
Mostly no at the grocery story because cross-brand collaborations are kind of nightmarish to me... that said, as a huge fan of Sour Patch Kids, I am always curious about a new brand of Sour Patch-related thing, like their go-gurt (kinda good) or their sodas (disgusting). I am not a huge at-home snacker so chips/cookies/etc don't really appeal unless I'm shopping for a special thing (Oscars night, party). When we were in London and Tallinn over the past year, however, we always tried to find the weirdest snack at the movie theater, which included some type of cheese chip and salted vanilla pocky in Estonia and really good not-Haribos in England.
the Sour Patch Oreos good, which I only got after good reviews: I don't go for sugar on sugar but these are interesting!
For Christmas my brother got me the Chinese variety pack of International Lays, meaning they were what the Chinese company came up with for "international:" 5/7 of them were good!
you should absolutely try to make mint choc chip homemade!!! it's ridiculously easy and it will honestly beat out just about any mint choc that you try from the store. and also, hate to hear i'm reinforcing gender essentialism by eating peanut butter ice cream ://
I planted rhubarb in our backyard last year and remembered this past weekend that I still have plenty available for harvesting, so I picked late-season rhubarb and my husband made a strawberry-rhubarb crumble with it. He also makes ice cream, so we paired it with a honey-ginger number he makes every summer. The ice cream maker didn’t want to cooperate because we don’t have central air and our kitchen gets very hot in the summertime, but the ice cream firmed up after spending 36 hours in the freezer. Glad to report that both desserts kick ass, especially when paired together.
When Josh isn’t making ice cream himself, we’ve been buying Tillamook from the Mariano’s around the corner. Shoutout to Tillamook, my favorite regional dairy company; you can take the girl out of the Pacific Northwest, but you can’t take the Pacific Northwest out of the girl.
omg that flavor sounds AMAZING... we got some great fresh rhubarb in our CSA a few months ago that went a long way from fridge to oven for a strawberry crumble. perfect breakfast for a whole week
I like Tillamook but if I am at Mariano's, I'm buying Graeter's black raspberry chip!!!!
my favorite treat is non-seasonal (almond croissant) and I've probably eaten fifty of them this summer. the problem with an almond croissant is that does have a pretty narrow floor and ceiling with it's window of quality, though the floor is high enough that every time I consider getting something else, I always get an almond croissant. though the last one I got had an undisclosed plum filling, which felt like a prank!!
the best ice cream I've made this year was a lemon blueberry swirl where I accidentally used the whole eggs in the custard.
I also have crazy dreams on melatonin (most memorable was when Travis Kelce was my therapist and kept breaking HIPAA on his podcast), so I cycle between very dependent on it or listening to this one podcast episode about the Colosseum that makes me fall asleep.
Lemon and blueberry.... do we have a better combination of natural flavors??? Maybe not!!! It can't be beat - it's always good!!!! Did you feel like the whole eggs changed it in a big way or no noticeable difference chemically/taste wise?
I have never been an almond croissant person but I aesthetically love them and find them so beautiful...
I think maybe it made it airier/fluffier? I need to do a comparison/intentional try, but mostly the major upside is I didn't have to figure out what do with egg whites, which always seem full of potential, but also feel like a chore!
I had a “Big Bing” today. One of the most underrated chalky old timey candies. The chocolate is so bland, but the cherry marshmallow filling is so vibrant, and the crunchy chewy juicy all in one texture is to die for!!!
Outshine Lime kind of the platonic “regular popsicle” to me, a real classic, no frills experience. I did try the Jeni’s grape/currant flavor at your behest and liked it a lot but maybe because it tasted more like currant than grape?? I’m a poor judge of ice cream because I’d nearly always rather be eating fresh fruit or vanilla soft serve, which I’m aware is one of my classic “wrong opinions”, like preferring Magic Mike to Magic Mile XXL.
Vanilla softserve is "goated"... I am literally omw to get one rn
you’ve got me hooked on outshine popsicles… i have tried like four different variety boxes in the past three weeks since you first mentioned. also i saw a tiktok recipe for a protein ice cream that i am gonna make
Every May when Aldi gets freezer pops in stock, I buy two boxes for the freezer at the dance studio where I teach. Nothing is quite as refreshing after 4 hours of teaching tap dance as a kinda gross grape freezer pop.
Randomly, the treat I've gotten into over the summer is cereal. But not for breakfast. There has been something so exquisite about having a bowl of honey nut cheerios (Aldi brand) with strawberries at 8pm while I'm furious over a baseball game.
omg cereal after dark sounds... truly divine!!!!!!!!!!!
I have had a love affair (for at least the last six years) with Vero Gelato's Chicago Pothole, found at Mariano's. I don't know where to find it when Mariano's leaves our area, and that makes me more anxious than usual. Re: blind item, WHO WHO WHO (Aaron Paul?)
I'll text you
Sooooooo addicted to the Outshine Mango Tajin pops. Dripping one all over my phone right now!!
NEED to try this one ofc impossible to find at local grocery
Lincoln Market in Harlem if you are ever in the area!
they’re at the bed stuy met fresh on tompkins too…i was too scared to try them but now i WON’T be!
they ARE????????? wait why have I never found there....
ok they were last week when i got groceries so don't hold me to it, but it means that they have been there before and could be there again (i'm gonna look today)!
I got a Jeni's Tahini Oat Chocolate Cookie last week that was delicious but I am always a little bit guilty whenever I go because they opened up a Jeni's on Armitage a couple years ago right down the street from the local Annette's ice cream window and a friend of mine is an Annette's loyalist and boycotted Jeni's out of protest of the corporate incursion. I was also never allowed to eat Oberweis because they are Republicans but now that they have sold to private equity...jury's out?
I am dying to try the Jeni's Tahini Oat Choc Cookie which they came out with approximately three days after I ordered my grape pints fml.... I am hoping they still have it when I'm back in the future. Oberweis employed all the hottest kids from my high school and I was literally not cool enough to work at our local one (humiliating)... that said, I've always thought the ice cream was kinda mid!!!
Can second that it’s worth trying the Tahini Oat Choc cookie! I thought for sure compared to Double Dough I would be obsessed but as an oat lover, I was very disappointed and ended up liking Double Dough more.
i hope i was exposed to mono via the jeni's pints in june or whatever and they made my immune system strong 💪
omg this
TREATS:
-Dot's pretzel sticks & cheese curls- Most recently the cinnamon SUGAR pretzel sticks.... addicting
-Strawberries- they're so good
-Walnuts and dried cherries- feels healthy and elderly
I have strawberries in the fridge right now which is something that can be so yay
Came to the comments to find the peanut butter celeb but no luck... As always Laura and I are on the same wavelength...
I have not had much ice cream/ice block energy lately, slowly finishing off the rhubarb cardomom popsicles I made (shoulda added coconut water, they are good for winter days when it's sunny) (experiencing 'southern hemisphere discrimination' real hard right now). But I keep buying the 430 ml (maybe this is the same as a pint) little tubs in flavours like strawberry coconut makrut lime and feijoa crumble (can never remember if feijoas exist in the US). I also did a bunch of infusing native plants like manuka into syrups to use later. anyway these treats are so inspiring to me thank U Fran!
these all sound so good... we don't have feijoas in the states, or at least not anywhere I know to them them... they sound amazing though!!! please feel free to flex southern hemisphere seasons come winter when you are enjoying all the cold treats in the heat of December summertime!!!
this rocks; literally taking notes on both mag recs and comment recs. go-to snacks recently have been melona bars (melon flavor is best but i’ve been dying to find coconut), korean banana milk, cold take fives (the best chocolate bar), and, like, this massive bag of starbursts i accidentally got to watch the olympics open ceremony high. been searching for the good brooklyn ice cream joints, this is a godsend 🤝
I NEED to try the Melona bars....... where have you found...
they rock. they are usually at met fresh but last time i had to crouch down and dig back behind some other popsicle to find them. otherwise i have found that every mr. fruit carries them though!
no one's answered the blind item question so here's my guess: michael shannon
loving that you think Michael Shannon is millennial..... but alas, no
skipped right over the millennial part. changing my answer to Dylan O’Brien.
no but great guess.... do you want one more try.... here are some hints: he was in a movie that was supposed to be big and kind of no one saw even though someone (not him) won an Oscar for it and then he fucked off to do prestige tv series that no one saw.... (though I did like the show)
Was wracking my brain for this thinking it was maybe Ben Whishaw in Women Talking or Andrew Garfield in Tammy Faye even though they didn’t quite fit but then I remembered that no one actually saw West Side Story, I just continuously hoped and dreamed people would. Mr. Elgort…you’re wild for that ice cream.
I have to respect the creativity of the combo even tho it sounds truly gross to me... a friend who worked on WSS also reported that they brought a Mr. Softee truck to work at one point & he cut the line to ask if they had root beer floats (no) and then moped off...
Picturing this in his Tony costume is really good stuff
I am also in the "either order the strangest flavor or go one degree beyond normal" zone but where I really shine is getting insane flavors at the grocery store: Taco Bell "Baja Fiery Mango" Doritos officially deemed Not Bad by me and "criminal" by friends, while the Ruffles "Korean-Style Sweet and Spicy Chili" are my chip of the summer.
When free from the paralysis of choice at the ice cream parlor, do you opt for the strangest thing at the grocery store? Multiple people have referred me to the tweet that says something like "I love to check out the Oreo aisle and see what those little freaks have come up with next."
Mostly no at the grocery story because cross-brand collaborations are kind of nightmarish to me... that said, as a huge fan of Sour Patch Kids, I am always curious about a new brand of Sour Patch-related thing, like their go-gurt (kinda good) or their sodas (disgusting). I am not a huge at-home snacker so chips/cookies/etc don't really appeal unless I'm shopping for a special thing (Oscars night, party). When we were in London and Tallinn over the past year, however, we always tried to find the weirdest snack at the movie theater, which included some type of cheese chip and salted vanilla pocky in Estonia and really good not-Haribos in England.
the Sour Patch Oreos good, which I only got after good reviews: I don't go for sugar on sugar but these are interesting!
For Christmas my brother got me the Chinese variety pack of International Lays, meaning they were what the Chinese company came up with for "international:" 5/7 of them were good!
you should absolutely try to make mint choc chip homemade!!! it's ridiculously easy and it will honestly beat out just about any mint choc that you try from the store. and also, hate to hear i'm reinforcing gender essentialism by eating peanut butter ice cream ://
Do you make with fresh mint or do "mint extract"? This tripped me up last year and I got MCC paralysis...
:o I've done both!! Extract was easy, but I've used fresh mint too... love mint choc but i'm not sure if it's worth MCC paralysis!!
No no I mean paralysis of choice! Between extract and fresh... but I will try.... with the extract for sake of buying at local store.
ohhh lol, very different situation. yeah the extract is so easy, let me know how it goes.
I planted rhubarb in our backyard last year and remembered this past weekend that I still have plenty available for harvesting, so I picked late-season rhubarb and my husband made a strawberry-rhubarb crumble with it. He also makes ice cream, so we paired it with a honey-ginger number he makes every summer. The ice cream maker didn’t want to cooperate because we don’t have central air and our kitchen gets very hot in the summertime, but the ice cream firmed up after spending 36 hours in the freezer. Glad to report that both desserts kick ass, especially when paired together.
When Josh isn’t making ice cream himself, we’ve been buying Tillamook from the Mariano’s around the corner. Shoutout to Tillamook, my favorite regional dairy company; you can take the girl out of the Pacific Northwest, but you can’t take the Pacific Northwest out of the girl.
omg that flavor sounds AMAZING... we got some great fresh rhubarb in our CSA a few months ago that went a long way from fridge to oven for a strawberry crumble. perfect breakfast for a whole week
I like Tillamook but if I am at Mariano's, I'm buying Graeter's black raspberry chip!!!!
I’m gonna have to try Graeter’s! I am anti-raspberry ice cream though :(
my favorite treat is non-seasonal (almond croissant) and I've probably eaten fifty of them this summer. the problem with an almond croissant is that does have a pretty narrow floor and ceiling with it's window of quality, though the floor is high enough that every time I consider getting something else, I always get an almond croissant. though the last one I got had an undisclosed plum filling, which felt like a prank!!
the best ice cream I've made this year was a lemon blueberry swirl where I accidentally used the whole eggs in the custard.
I also have crazy dreams on melatonin (most memorable was when Travis Kelce was my therapist and kept breaking HIPAA on his podcast), so I cycle between very dependent on it or listening to this one podcast episode about the Colosseum that makes me fall asleep.
Lemon and blueberry.... do we have a better combination of natural flavors??? Maybe not!!! It can't be beat - it's always good!!!! Did you feel like the whole eggs changed it in a big way or no noticeable difference chemically/taste wise?
I have never been an almond croissant person but I aesthetically love them and find them so beautiful...
I think maybe it made it airier/fluffier? I need to do a comparison/intentional try, but mostly the major upside is I didn't have to figure out what do with egg whites, which always seem full of potential, but also feel like a chore!
I very boringly use them for omelets/scrambles...
I had a “Big Bing” today. One of the most underrated chalky old timey candies. The chocolate is so bland, but the cherry marshmallow filling is so vibrant, and the crunchy chewy juicy all in one texture is to die for!!!