I wasn't about to pay $14 for Haagen-Dazs. Ben & Jerry's (almost as expensive) doesn't do a pure chocolate. Working my way down the price chain and through the ice cream freezer to the very cheapest brands of Walls, Magnolia and Kings, I was still left empty-handed. There was Rocky Road, plenty of Neapolitan and many other concoctions that ran along the lines of chocolate-chip-superfudge-chunky-chocolate-with-cookie-dough. But no plain chocolate.
Not at Cold Storage, not at NTUC. Not even the Haagen-Dazs brand.
I eventually settled for Wall's triple chocolate. As a point of comparison, it was 1.5 times the size and less than half the price of a pint of Haagen-Dazs. Admittedly it's also described on the packaging as a "chocolate and malt-flavoured ice confection".
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7 Comments:
the solution is clear: buy your own ice cream maker. :) that way you can always have exactly the flavour you want!
The world treats us so cruelly. :)
J. > I have a category on this blog called "Domestically challenged" for a reason. :)
Howard > I am still craving a scoop of good plain chocolate ice cream!
AWFULLY CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM. ONLY $3.80 A SCOOP SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO GET A TUB OF IT. Thinking about it makes me very excited.
B&J does do plain ol' chocolate! Lookie here.
strangemessages > I still have half a tub of the Wall's triple chocolate to finish first. But yes, there's an Awfully Chocolate not too far from where I live, and I keep forgetting that they do ice cream, not just cake.
Anonymous > Well, the question is whether the supermarket has that flavour in stock. It seems like they all stock up more on the fancy-schmancy flavours these days.
We got 1pt of Ben & Jerry's ice-cream at US Walmarts for US$2.99!
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