I have a blogging friend who loves ice cream. She can buy pints of it and eat all of it in one sitting. hmmmm and yum…She dedicated whole posts to the joy and delight of eating it. When I wrote a post about another brand, there she was commenting on the pleasures of eating her brand. It didn’t take long to find out her favorite brand was Ben & Jerry’s. Once I found that out, I wondered which flavor she liked. It didn’t take long for that to be revealed either. ta-da — Phish Food!
Oh no, I thought. Is that a sign that I’m being phished on the internet? Is this an attempt to reveal my own favorite flavor? Am I really going to swallow that bait?
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So I sent my husband out from our home,
to find that phish food to see if twas real.
I wasn’t going to fall for a clone,
for this blogger–it had to be the real deal.
Real it was…
Home he returned with a pint of that stuff.
Oh, I was assured, so it isn’t virtual.
“What’s in it?” I asked, “is a pint enough?”
The good news — sodium, fiber, vitamins.
The bad news — fats, sugars, cholesterol.
So right from the pint with spoon in hand
I raised it up high, my mouth salivating.
hmmm…hmmm…remember When Harry Met Sally?
In that pint — I had what she was having.
Creamy goodness on the roof of my mouth,
lip-smacking bad news so much better.
My spoon kept digging all the way south.
Half way down and then it was over.
So I went out to find still another.
Eureka! I found one as good as the other.
As good as the other? Is there something better?
There has to be, got to be one even better.
Ameri-cone Dream, Boston Cream Pie,
Banana Split, Buzz and Cherry Garcia,
Chunky Monkey, Chocolate Therapy
everything but the…, Late Night Snack.
Which is my favorite? Must I reveal?
I know life’s better now, Phish Food’s not bait.
Life is Better with a Pint of Vermont’s Finest!
Go — go do your research and weigh back in.
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It doesn’t matter the flavor. It’s what makes you go mmmm…I want me some more! S’more, S’more, S’more.
So hard to decide, so hard to decide, so hard to decide.
You are so very cool, Georgette. I’ve never tried the Phish Food FroYo. I’ll start looking for it now. May you continue your research.
According to daughter–somewhat fewer calories and it tastes as good as ice cream. Frankly, I couldn’t tell the diff. Both are good.
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I don’t think I have the nerve to ever try Late Night Snack. But Phish Food? One of my favorites for sure.
I’m intrigued. Will have to get that one after Phish Food and Key Lime Pie is all gone.
I so appreciate the research you put into your blog posts.
It’s gotta be real.
“…I had what she was having….” HaHa.
Nice work, Miss G.
Same to you, Miss Kate!
Loved your poem this morning.
True deal…thought of you as we scooped into the Key Lime Pie…ice cream… last night.
You may be worse off than I in your ice cream obsession. I love it.
LD’s to blame…just going on and on about this stuff. She’s right. It is the real deal in 42 flavors and more retired.
Oh, dear. I’m the one who’s going to have to demur. Ice cream? Absolutely! And Ben & Jerry’s is good, especially Willy Nelson’s Country Peach Cobbler.
But if I’m going to spend the money – and the calories – on a frozen treat, it has to be Talenti Gelato. It’s so much better than regular ice cream, even the grocery store checkers warn you to scoop it out into a bowl, less the whole pint disappear in a flash!
My flavors? Mediterranean Mint, Double Dark Chocolate, Tahitian Vanilla. And all of them get their flavor naturally – even the mint, which has only the slightest, lovely green tint from the crushed mint leaves, and a truly refreshing taste. And if you want to avoid the fat, there are three sorbettos – Roman Raspberry, Lemon and Blood Orange.
No, I’m not being paid to represent these folks! But for true heaven – this Dallas-made gelato is the best!
Willy Nelson’s Country Peach Cobbler is on the list.
Talenti Gelato? Dallas made? hmmm…I’m here! Daughter, grandbaby, my mother and SIL will be doing some more research. Thank you for the lead!
Happy Monday to you!
It’s everywhere! Kroger, Randalls, Whole Foods, etc. There’s usually just one shelf devoted to it – look for it near the Hagen-Daz and B&J’s.
Thanks and can’t wait.
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I like a woman who is thorough in her research.
Phish Food is the clear winner. At least that’s frozen yogurt so the calories are like negative, right?
I don’t think Phish Food will be retired anytime soon. My daughter and the sweet clerk at J&B’s say it (Fro-Yo) tastes like the real deal.
Thank you for weighing in the negative calories.
Lovely tribute! I laughed, I cried, I ran out to the store and loaded up on a couple more pints.
Just think; in grocery stores all over this great land, people were surreptitiously standing in the frozen food aisle, snapping pics of the Ben & Jerry’s with their phones for this operation. We must have looked like an ice-cream terrorist plot!
You’ve got that right. I looked to the left, and looked to the right. Then I stacked them just the way I wanted them and clicked. I wish I had a video clip of the stocking clerk rearranging them the way they were.
We just rolled in from Dallas. It was fun to leave the kids’ freezer with a few more pints than they had. SIL won a trophy for his golf tournament this weekend. I told him to look in the freezer; there was another prize waiting for him there.
i will rarely splurge on ben and jerry’s as it is easily 3x the price or more of my local brand. but when i need a fix, it is coffee ice cream w/ heath bar. yum!
I think we are both very aware that a gallon of our great state Blue Bell on sale is the same $ as one pint of B&J + a few dimes. Still it’s good.
My favorites are Mint Chocolate Chunk and Cherry Garcia. You have to be wearing the tie-dyed T-shirt to eat the Cherry Garcia though… costume adds to the flavor. Sounds like a fun research project Georgette!!
The tie dyed t-shirt belonged to the sweet clerk who I assured I was only snapping the Fro-Yo Phish Food. She did a nice job posing it in the shop. Then I bought it and we were off to Kroger for further research.
We were an entourage–my mother, SIL, daughter, grandbaby and me. My trips to Dallas seem to coincide with LD’s latest game. We all can’t pass by the bronze bull by the ice cream shop remembering Andy’s bull ride on it back in March.
I like B & J (as I wrote on Darla’s blog we’ve driven down to the factory from Quebec) but my very favorite ice cream is GROM. It’s an Italian ice cream we discovered last time we were in Italy and which I wrote about when they opened a branch in Malibu (another one is in NYC) :
“GROM’s mission is to make gelato the slow, old-fashioned way, with top quality, mainly Italian, seasonal ingredients, and no artificial colorings and preservatives: hazelnuts from Piedmont, pistachios from Sicily, and lemons from the Amalfi coast.”
http://rosannefreed.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/would-you-drive-60-miles-for-an-ice-cream-i-did/
Thank you for including your link. I’ll be right over. Then shoreacres shared with me another find, Talenti Gelato that she says I can find at our local Kroger. How funny we are discussing ice cream on the weekend we are experiencing a high of 54 degrees!
I hesitate to admit this, but I’m not a big ice cream fan. However, my son loves Ben & Jerry’s, and since he’s a bonafide Phish fan, Phish Food is one of his favorites. Although I think he also likes the Cherry Garcia….and Chunky Monkey….and….
I thought it really funny to be doing this ice cream research on the weekend when the temps dipped to a high of 54.
Still we all enjoyed a scoop of each other’s find at daughter’s in Dallas Saturday night. M has good taste–I have to agree–Phish Food was my favorite. But then if the real truth be told, our local Blue Bell is hard to beat!
When I’m in the freer section at the grocery store I just close my eyes and grab. I love surprises!
Yikes! I wonder what is in your shopping cart??
Haha. Love the research, Georgette! I didn’t know they had fro-yo. I prefer mine by the bowl at the soft-serve shop, and I can add whatever toppings/stir-ins I want to whatever flavor I choose!
Sounds yummy to me, Patti!
A sweet series………..you all are making me hungry. I await the corporate kudos from B&J
That would be nice, wouldn’t it?
I agree with Bella. Your blog should be sponsored by B & J. We’ll all be trying Phish Food now.
Now that would make for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Delicious and irresistibly sweet post! Love them too. I like the Pistachio, cherry Garcia, pumpkin and many more. Best and finest of Vermont indeed.
And of course, for those of us who live in TX, we do like our Blue Bell. That would be an adventure for your son–to go out to Brenham on a school holiday to get a tour of the ice cream factory and receive the treat at the end–your favorite flavor in a cone or a cup! Check the website for hours open to visitors.
Love Ben and Jerry’s…. different flavor almost every time….yummmmm….
Until I conducted this…er…research, I had no idea. Now I have a list of flavors I want to try–gradually, of course.
This post is simply delicious! I can’t wait to try the B&J Phish Food of course. Thanks for your advance investigation!
I do like to share any work involved. It wasn’t until now that I realized how many flavors they offer–yum. Thank you for stopping by. Don’t be a stranger, as we say in TX.