Brain freeze
As the champion-foodstuffs bracket prepares to make its triumphant midsummer return with an ice-cream face-off, Keckler and I find ourselves with a few unanswered questions — starting with whether Rocky Road is the same thing as Heavenly Hash.
Internet research is telling us it’s two names for the same thing — chocolate ice cream, marshmallows, and nuts, although the ‘mallow in the Hash may take ribbon form — but our sense is that it’s not.I feel like the Hash doesn’t have nuts, or like one of them has chocolate chips and the other doesn’t.
Help us out, my people.Same thing?Different things?We have a freezer-case-load of qualifiers for the Sweet 64, so a few of these delectations have gots to go.School us in the comments.
(The bad news: I’m in Vegas as of this writing and my flight back will have me out of commish much of the day, so if your comment doesn’t come through right away, don’t worry — I’ll get to it.The good news: three randomly selected commenters can win a free pint of Ben and Jerry’s for answering, so if you want to qualify, please post your comment with a working email address.)
Tags: Ben and/or Jerry contests food Heavenly Hash Rocky Road
@Sars – is it possible that you have never had Bananas Foster? Because I cannot believe that anyone who’s ever had it would dismiss rum-laced desserts out of hand. Bananas, fried in butter and brown sugar and rum, flamed in the pan and then poured over vanilla ice cream. Quite possibly the finest dessert ever invented. (And no, the Haagen Dazs Bananas Foster ice cream does not even come close. I really, really wanted it to be good, but it kind of sucked.)
I better see Cinnamon Buns in there somewhere.
… and something banana-flavored, for which there used to be many choices but is now just about down to Ben & Jerry’s Chunky Monkey.
It is funny that the consensus seems to be that Rocky Road is mashmallow bits becuase recently I just finished a Haagen Daza Rocky Road and the marshmallow in that was like a marshmallow liquid to the point that once the ice cream would melt a little the marshmallow goo would flow from the high point to a low point.
Also best Ice Cream ever “Friendly’s Royal Banana Split”. I mean it is Chocolate ice cream with walnuts, banana ice cream with fudge swirl and strawberry ice cream with pineapple. Plus it is the only ice cream that I have ever had with pineapple in it and that makes it extra awesome. Last time I was in the US I made sure to bring a cooler with me and stopped at the last grocery store I could find before the border bought some of that stuff and bought ice to fill the rest of the cooler since I needed to make it back another 2 hour drive home in the summer in the car. It made it and it was totally worth it. Hopefully it will make Sars’ cut.
I would just like to make you all jealous by adding that where I went to college in Vermont, we had Ben & Jerry’s in the dining halls. As in, the all-you-can-eat dining halls. Sometimes it was a new flavor that hadn’t come out yet, or a failed batch (like peanut butter and jelly ice cream where they forgot the jelly), but there was always some delicious option.
@Tebazile: I’ve lived in terror of Neopolitan ice cream for years, but I have fond memories of spumoni with my grandpa in NJ.
@ferretrick: I know that, as a girl living in Cincinnati, I should feel great love and loyalty for Graeter’s. But? Those chocolate chunks that they’re famous for? I can’t stand them. I HATE huge chunks of semi-sweet chocolate, even more so when they’re rock hard in the middle of my pint. I will concede that they made excellant coffee, caramel, and cinnamon ice cream though.
Does anyone even find rocky road ice cream with the mini marshmallows anymore? It’s not RR unless it’s mini marshmallows, whole almonds and rich chocolate ice cream IMHO….
I do not generally like chunks in my ice cream, but Turkey Hill’s Party Cake ice cream is one of my favorites: multicolored chunks of cake in a vanilla ice cream with ribbons of buttercream frosting. It’s like a birthday party in a bowl.