Icecream

Right, here we have to icecream options from the freezer. On the right, weighing in at 939gms, we have some Streets vanilla icecream (2 litres thereof). Cost - about $4.19.

On the left, we have some Maggie Beer Vanilla Bean and Elderflower icecream. Got no idea what it weighed before I opened it and ate it, but that small tub cost about twice as much as the big one.



The verdict?

I am a sucker for real vanilla icecream - the kind of stuff that has little bits of vanilla bean clearly visible in it, so in most circumstances, I'd say max out the credit card and blow your dosh on Maggie's stuff.

But in this case, the elderflower is just not to my taste. Pity. It was good to try something completely out of the ordinary, but it's too whacky for my taste. I'm sticking to the bland, factory mush from Streets. Until I find a really good, simple, vanilla bean icecream. Then Streets can stick this 2 litre tub up their arse.

Very dense icecream

I have a new contender to add to the ranks of good icecream - a product called Connoussuer (bugger, will have to go to the freezer to check how it is spelt again). I bought a 1 litre tub the other night and found that it weighs 950gm, which makes it the densest of all the icecreams and gellatos that I have tried to date. Got no idea what it cost though - just grabbed it off the shelf in the freezer and brought it home. I think I will continue to buy it. If I can work out how to spell it.

Icecream continued

In my search for better icecream, I have just bought a 1 litre tub of fancy icecream - some sort of Sara Lee concoction I think. Chocolate. Lots of chocolate.

The 1 litre tub weighed in at 903 grams. The last time I examined high quality icecream, a 1 litre tub of fancy gellato tipped the scales at 888 grams. A fairly ordinary tub came in around the same weight - but for 2 litres.

So I now have the numbers on three different icecreams. Good quality stuff is nearly twice as dense as cheap stuff. Cheap stuff though costs about 60% by weight as the good stuff.

My head is spinning. The great gellato costs me $9. The good icecream costs $7.50. The dead ordinary stuff is around $5 a tub. Which one do I choose?

The one with the biggest tits.

Ha ha.