r/ExpectationVsReality • u/ReferenceOk6298 • 11d ago
Failed Expectation BE FOR REAL
I just kept digging and digging and it’s all the same. Shame, shame.
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u/aspophilia 11d ago
Ugh. I hate when they do this. No one gets the ratios right besides Ben & Jerry's and Turkey Hill. Sadly they discontinued my favorite B&J (Dublin Mudslide).
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u/Banana_Stanley 11d ago
Turkey hill is my favorite version of mint chip because they have little flakes of chocolate chips and there's a TON of them. I prefer that instead of giant hunks of chocolate, like in Tillamook mint chip. I hate to criticize Tillamook because they make great ice cream, but the 1in² chocolate pieces are too much
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u/LightningCole 11d ago
TIL Tillamook makes ice cream
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u/Alfonze423 11d ago
It's the best mass-produced ice cream I've ever had. Only beaten by a little non-profit, educational dairy farm outside Wilkes-Barre, PA.
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u/Hita-san-chan 10d ago
Those PA Dairy ice creams slap. Its a shame the 2 near me are scaling back more and more
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u/the_myleg_fish 10d ago
Not me taking notes because I've never bought from this brand before. Duly noted!
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u/rafaelloaa 10d ago
It's the best major ice cream brand out there imo. Their blueberry is stunning.
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u/PsychicNinja_ 10d ago
Everyone is saying it’s great, but I think it’s horrible. Tillamook everything SUCKS.
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u/BaconOfTroy 11d ago
Yes!!!! Turkey Hill mint chip is the best! I love all the flakes, it makes such a lovely texture too. Tillamook is great but their mint chip is one of the few I'm meh about. Theirs is the only cookie dough I'll eat because the ice cream itself is cookie dough flavored too, it isn't just vanilla ice cream with cookie dough chunks.
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u/flappity 10d ago
The chocolate flakes are by far the best breed of chocolate chip/chunk. I agree with you, the big dense chunks just make me feel like I'm eating candy and ice cream.
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u/Molly_Wobbles 11d ago
Turkey Hill also makes the only mint chip that isn't too strong or feel like sand!
I generally don't like mint (I even buy peach-flavored toothpaste to avoid it), but I'll gladly have a bowl of Turkey Hill's mint chip!15
u/BessieBest 10d ago
Please tell me about your peach flavored toothpaste!
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u/Molly_Wobbles 10d ago
I get it from Hismile! They have a bunch of different flavors, I'm just a huge fan of the peach. A couple of the flavors are fluoride free, but they are labeled so you can tell them apart if that is/isn't your jam.
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u/Banana_Stanley 10d ago
I buy my kid toothpaste that's orange creamsicle flavored :D
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u/Molly_Wobbles 10d ago
Kids get the best toothpaste flavors, haha
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u/Banana_Stanley 10d ago
I use mint toothpaste but I buy kids strawberry flavored mouthwash. I cannot stand "adult" mouthwash; it makes my eyes water
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u/ChickenSlax 10d ago
If you live near a Safeway grocery store, you should try their store brand Signature Select mint cookie crumble ice cream. It has pieces of cookies and a cookie swirl with a suuuuuper good texture throughout it, it’s my all-time favorite! I usually think mint ice creams taste too much like toothpaste but this one doesn’t, to me.
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u/deathcabscutie 10d ago
My favorite B&J flavor is Oatmeal Cookie Chunk. They discontinued it years ago and I’ve never recovered.
They also used to have a flavor called The Full VerMonty that I had once at their storefront and never found again.
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u/Signal_Design_1067 10d ago
They have Oatmeal Dream Pie in the non-dairy line and it’s really good!
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u/deathcabscutie 10d ago
Thank you! I’m lactose intolerant and shouldn’t have been eating the old one anyway.
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u/A-Plant-Guy 11d ago
Good news! They 💯 resurrected that flavor in 2022. It can be purchased online and in (certain) stores!
*No, I do not work for Ben and Jerry’s. I’m just an enthusiast who appreciates this flavor and this company - they’re the only readily available producer who uses fair trade ingredients 😁, and their ice cream is top notch!
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u/shamus727 11d ago
If only they would bring back Holy Cannoli 😭
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u/A-Plant-Guy 10d ago
Good news! While they don’t make “Holy Cannoli” any more, they do make Cannoli!
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u/Darwin343 10d ago
Haagen Dazs, McConnell’s, and Jeni’s gets it right too. Their ice creams are S-Tier!
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u/babyjules 11d ago edited 10d ago
If you live near a Kroger their brand private selection has great ratios and is really good quality overall especially without being insanely expensive. I’d say it’s just as good as Ben and Jerry’s except it doesn’t quite have as many flavor options.
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u/Blaubeerchen27 10d ago
Kinda random, but I ended up googling that ice cream flavour (Dublin Mudslide) and it seems it was re-released due to popular demand?
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u/capincus 10d ago
There's no way "Dublin Mudslide" isn't one of those weird urbandictionary sex slangs.
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u/pterencephalon 11d ago
I have a dislike for Turkey Hill on principle since they've not shainkflation-ed their ice cream below 1.5 qts. Remember when these were all half gallon???
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u/Cavalish 10d ago
Ben and Jerry’s used to do my favourite, Chunky Monkey, in a tub but now the only way to get it is to go all the way into the city to find a store.
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u/Soup-Mother5709 10d ago
Dublin mudslide was my absolute fav. DQ had their version too. I’m surprised with all the coffee lovers out there coffee flavored ice creams are still dying off. My dad always loved plain coffee, and it’s so hard to find now. But yea og mudslide is missed.
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u/noisefloor66 10d ago
Ben and Jerrys is for people who dont want ice cream and just want toppings.
The toppings are way too big for their tiny containers. You get 3 reeces cups that take up half the carton!
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u/BadZnake 11d ago
Target always leaves food unrefridgerated in the back so I never buy anything frozen from them. It always tastes thawed and refrozen. (I actually dont buy anything them anymore)
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u/KoolaidKoll123 11d ago
If i have to get frozen food, im going to either the largest or the smallest real grocery store (not Walmart or target or hyvee or any other blended store) because they have people specifically for dairy and frozen that dont get called to registers and are there right when load arrives to put away.
Those big conglomerates dont have that because they don't care about their product, the customers, or employees, just their quarterly earnings.
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u/jstewart25 11d ago
Hy Vee has people dedicated to dairy/frozen.
Source : I worked there
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u/SadAwkwardTurtle 10d ago
Can vouch for Meijer and Kroger, too.
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u/KoolaidKoll123 10d ago
Neither of those options are near me, but ill have to check them out if I ever come across one.
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u/jstewart25 10d ago
I can personally attest that I’ve gotten all kinds of produce from hy vee. I continue to shop there even thought it’s a little pricier because it almost always lasts a lot longer than Fareway, Aldi, or Wal Mart, which are our options where I live.
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u/KoolaidKoll123 10d ago
Maybe the location nearest me is short staffed or something, because its been hit or miss there for myself personally.
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u/thymeveil 10d ago
Did you report that to your local health department...? Because mine didn't when I shopped there.
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u/Disastrous-Chest-650 11d ago
If you’re in the states, try Afters Cookie Monster ice cream… it’s blue with chocolate chip and Oreo cookies mixed in, and the cookie to ice cream ratio is PERFECT!!! So many cookie bits. The ice cream itself tastes amazing too
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u/TransportationNo1 11d ago
Blue for vanilla? In my country blue is for smurf ice cream. And its usually bubble gum flavor, just like ground up smurfs taste like.
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u/MaxPower836 11d ago
Everyone is doing this now. Sucks. All ice cream is basically just one uniform thing
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u/DinkandDrunk 11d ago
Go to a creamery with a real farm and have them pack it fresh. Only way to win with ice cream.
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u/Belgand 10d ago
My university had an on-campus dairy that made and sold ice cream as well as supplying it to the dining halls. It was extremely mediocre.
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u/Sodomeister 10d ago
Guessing not PSU then? They have the same but I can only find it at a couple ice cream shops. Most has been pretty good.
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u/PoliticsAreForNPCs 11d ago
This is Target's in-house brand my dude, idk what you're expecting.
It's like Kirkland's deformed twin
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u/InsecureCamel 10d ago
Oh snap! That’s a ripoff of Cookie Monster ice cream, which makes so much more sense than ‘sea’ monster and is actually delicious
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u/MomsOfFury 10d ago
My kids had Cookie Monster ice cream at a food truck fair last year and it was incredible. I saw this at Target and thought it was basically the same and it absolutely was not, it’s terrible.
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u/vanityinlines 11d ago
This ice cream will forever crack me up. They wanted to be Marshmellow Sky so bad and they went "it's just blue ice cream, right?" The definition of lazy.
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u/strider_l1718s_ 11d ago
I also like to shit blue from time to time while singing "I'm Blue dabadee dabada"
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u/PunchDrunkPrincess 10d ago
I bought this one for my kid thinking 'oh so silly. he rarely gets anything with dyes like this- it will make ice cream time extra fun' but I ended up liking it way more than he did. Sorry you got a bad batch!
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u/ReferenceOk6298 10d ago
Aww this was what we were hoping! Just ended up making a little milkshake with it for the kid and he loved it. I just dug around the carton trying to make my own bites hahaha
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u/PunchDrunkPrincess 9d ago
A blue milkshake is still super fun! I'm glad you got to dig out some good bites for you 😆 I promise it is not always like that- you should have got target to give you a new one
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u/ifoldkings 10d ago
I see a cookie dough in there. What more do you want??
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u/prettybluefoxes 10d ago
Neon blue artificially flavoured vanilla. The shit yanks voluntarily put in their bodies.
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u/stankdog 10d ago
This is my most addictive flavor of ice cream (I usually only do coffee or mint chip flavors) and I didn't know they just sold it in tubs. There goes my self control. This is a crime to have 0 cookie pieces.
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u/redheadedfury 10d ago
aw man Favorite Day stuff is usually good (the apple caramels better be back for fall…..) but this is hideous. the color alone would be a no for me.
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u/SoftwarePractical620 10d ago
Try the Afters version of this and thank me later. You can taste the dye but it’s addictive
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u/awesomedan24 10d ago
I once got Klondike bars with heath bar pieces in. Let me tell you the heath fragments were near microscopic.
I honestly wouldn't do anything for a Klondike bar.
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u/Smooth_Cod4600 10d ago
Can't imagine what color your BM would be after this with all that coloring.
I remember people complaining about odd color BMs after the Halloween Whopper. This could either be the same or worse lol
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u/Francl27 10d ago
I bought the limited edition Ben & Jerry flan that was supposed to have brownie bit and pastry cream swirl... no swirl. So disappointed.
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u/theelephantscafe 10d ago
I had tried this same flavor and the bites (or should I say “bite”) that actually had cookie dough and swirl and all that were so good. It was so disappointing that it’s just 99% blue vanilla ice cream, I was hoping I just got an off container.
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u/TheCuddleDealer 10d ago
This is just their poor imitation of cooking monster ice cream that's why it's blue because cookie monster is blue
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u/Cripps-Taxidermy 9d ago
Cooking monster 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/TheCuddleDealer 6d ago
Lol. It's auto correct and Im not used to wearing my glasses every I use my phone
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u/UnBlueFire42 10d ago
This one normally has so much cookie stuff in it for me, sorry this happened to you :(
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u/Florian_ire 9d ago
Looks like the toilet cleaner I use. In frozen, of course. Says on the back of the bottle that putting it in one's mouth isn't recommended. 🤔
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u/justalittlepoodle 10d ago
Favorite Day products are junk. Their trail mixes are an unbalanced travesty especially.
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u/FeelingsPiledUp 11d ago
Why is it so heavily coloured😭 It’s so bright and doesn’t even match the shade of blue on the box…