This week I'm mostly being brunette although that is subject to change. Now i've turned 31 and I've ...
This week I'm mostly being brunette although that is subject to change. Now i've turned 31 and I've got my degree I'm trying in vain to look a bit more sophisticated and intelligent...(not that i'm saying blondes are not, of course!)
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If I ever went on ‘Mastermind’ my specialist subject might well be Cherry Ice Cream (well its no weirder than the bloke who chose ‘Cements Used In Hip Replacement’ now is it?!) I see myself as something of a cherry ice cream connoisseur and although Ben and Jerry’s ‘Cherry Garcia’ reigns supreme as the ice cream of choice in my household there is a young pretender to its throne…enter Carte D’Or Spagnola ice cream.
Carte D’Or ice cream isn’t new to the market and according to my ‘extensive’ research is the number one brand
in Britain – one in 10 people have now eaten Carte D’or ice cream (that was my useless fact for the day – an even more useless one being that enough Carte D’or ice cream is sold in Britain each year to stretch from Lands End to John O’Groats and back again – imagine the hassle getting to work if you had to negotiate a long line of ice cream tubs all over the place – it would be chaos…although you could pass the time eating the ice cream I suppose!!)
I first tried Spagnola several years ago in France when it was popular in little individual tubs – I don’t know if those are available over here yet – I haven’t seen them anywhere – the tubs available in the supermarket are the large ‘family sized’ 500g tubs. The immediate benefit of Carte D’Or ice cream over some of its ‘funkier’ rivals is the fact that it come in a plastic container rather than a cardboard one – it won’t end up all soggy and squidy. The oval flat container means you are also less likely to eat the whole thing straight from the tub – it’s less easy to hold – which makes it better for your waistline!
The ice cream itself is creamy vanilla coloured with dark cherry sauce running through it. The sauce looks like quite a small amount and you would be forgiven for expecting it to be a ‘hint of cherry’ sort of flavour. Its not! It’s CHERRY!! The flavour is strong without being too sweet or overpowering but it’s certainly Very Cherry. Even the ice cream that does not have cherry marbling through it and looks like plain vanilla is flavoured. It is quite a natural sort of taste – obviously not as delicious as real cherries – it has a slightly marzipan undertone to it – but it certainly doesn’t taste chemically. It’s very pleasant. It smells quite chemically which is a bit off putting but once you taste it all is forgiven!
On top of it – looking rather forlorn I have to say, are 10 black cherries who look like they had gone to a fancy dress party as prunes! I ate them first rather than mixing them in, but to be honest the didn’t really taste of anything – they would probably have been better chopped up and mixed in to add texture to the ice cream which is very smooth.
This smoothness I found, made it an idea product to create McDonalds style ‘thick shake’ – it tastes delicious melted down ( I can pretend that I found this out because I was being imaginative, but truth be known it was in fact because I left it out of the freezer and it melted – nonetheless, a very happy accident.)
Calorie wise, my tub was keeping quiet – clearly a sign that its full of calories and bad things, but I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – Its Ice Cream, its not a health food – its good for you in that indulgent ‘making you feel happy’ sort of way. Your waistline may suffer but if it makes you feel good, who cares, you can’t have it all! It is apparently suitable for vegetarians as well.
Carte D’or Ice Cream is available in a wide variety of flavours. It’s not top of the range ice cream but it is very nice and a little more sophisticated than the Ben and Jerry’s brigade. (If it were a Spice Girl it would be Victoria Beckham – not as posh as it would like to be, its adopted a name to make people THINK its posh but compared to the others its really quite sophisticated – certainly not as loud and in your face as Ben and Jerry’s ‘Geri Garcia’…sorry, I thought that was quite funny – if you are not as big a fan of Cherry Ice Cream and the Spice Girls as I am then you might not and I can only apologise for myself!!)
The 500g tubs retail at around £2.89 and are available from most supermarkets, although they are regularly on special offer so its worth keeping an eye out for that.
To sum up – try this if you like cherries and ice cream – if you don’t, don’t bother!!
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Tasty ice cream although not the best I have tried.
Sootica.P.Monster 08.10.2003 15:15
I have to say I''m quite partial to this one too. The best cherry ice cream is the homemade variety, but this is pretty good for shop bought stuff. I have half a tub of Jerry Garcia residing in my freezer as I write...it would normally have disappeared by now only I've got a cold and can't taste it :( Sootica XXX
Kukana 07.10.2003 14:29
Well I love ice cream and I like cherries, but for some reason I loathe anything made with cherries (eg cherry jam or yogurt) and thus have never tried cherry ice cream. But Carte d'or is usually very good!
Advantages: Loads of lovely chocolate so great for chocoholics Disadvantages: No nutritional values, bitter plain chocolate ice cream takes over flavour
Jul 21st, 2003
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