... The store itself didn't really make much of an impression on me, but as we passed through the ice cream isle my eyes lit up as I saw that they had Haagen Dazs on special offer. Cue squeals of delight from me, and groans from James.
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A review by kthdsn on Haagen Dazs Belgian Chocolate August 12th, 2004
Author's product rating:
Value for Money
Poor
Product Quality
Excellent
Product package
Good
Taste
Delicious
How loyal are you to this brand?
Quite
Advantages:
Simply delicious
Disadvantages:
The price
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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We took a trip to the new Waitrose store last week to be nosey and see if it was any good. The store itself didn't really make much of an impression on me, but as we passed through the ice cream isle my eyes lit up as I saw that they had Haagen Dazs on special offer. Cue squeals of delight from me, and groans from James.
The ice cream was reduced from its usualfour pounds ish per 500g tub to a fiver for two. They didn't have my favourite flavour, baileys, so I chose the Vanilla one and the Belgian Chocolate one. I have just opened the later and am tucking into to it as I type.
The ice cream comes in the usual Haagen Dazs packaging, a cardboard tub with a plastic lid. The gold and burgendy colouring suggests quality and class, and is very suited to this premium desert range.
Removing the plastic lid is a little tricky, although it is much easier to remove than the cardboard equivalent on the ben and jerrys tub we had last week. There is also a second layer of plastic which seals the tub kind of like a yogurt pot lid which must be peeled off. This is very easy to remove and I have now arrived at the glorious ice cream.
The appearance of the ice cream itself is rather different from the usual pale brown chocolate ice cream from cheaper brands. It is much darker and closer to the colour of actual chocolate. It is also dotted with tiny pieces of dark chocolate, similar in size to granulated sugar.
The ice cream is extremely solid and hard when you first take it out of the freezer and it is almost impossible to dig your spoon into it. If you do manage to get some out of the tub, you may be disappointed as it does not taste its best in this state. The flavour of the chocolate is apparent, but it seems to dissapear before you can really enjoy it. It is best to wait a few minutes so you can realy enjoy it.
When the ice cream has been standing at room temperature for a few minutes it begins to soften. If you wait long enough, you will find that your spoon glides through it with ease. The bits around the edge of the tub obviously reach this state first, and this is where I take my first spoonfulls from.
Putting a spoonfull into my mouth, the first thing I notice is the delicious chocolate flavour. It is very rich and tastes of proper expensive chocolates. The flavour is somewhere between dark and milk chocolate, due to the combination of the milk chocolate ice cream and the dark chocolate granules it contains. It is not too sweet and sickly, but very chocolatey. I am very impressed with the flavour.
The texture of the icecream is also very nice. It is rich and creamy and would be very smooth if it was without the tiny grains of dark chocolate. These grains add an almost bubbly feel to the texture, not gritty as I had expected, and they seem to melt with ice cream as I eat it. Each mouthful is a most pleasurable experience.
I would not find it difficult to eat a whole tub of this stuff in one go as it has just the right balance of being extremely rich and flavoursome without being sickly. I normally share a tub with someone else and finish it in one sitting. This really is the best way to eat it, as once it is refrozen the melted bits just arent the same. They lose the creamy texture and become kind of icey and strange. Not horrid, just not as nice,
Taking a look at the ingredients I can see why it tastes so creamy, the main ingredient is fresh cream. There is also a good 13% chocolate in there. There is a warning that it contains milk and egg products for allergy sufferers. I feel very sorry for these people as they are missing out on a most delicious treat.
The other information on the tub includes a suggestion that you let it soften before eating, instructions to store it below -18 degrees, and various contact information. The best before date is approximately a year ahead, although how anyone could keep it for a year before tucking into it is beyond me.
There is no nutritional information on the tub, but if you were bothered about that kind of thing then you probably wouldn't be eating a desert made from fresh cream and chocolate now would you? I can only imagine that it is extortionately high in calories and all things bad, but it tastes so good that I really couldn't give a monkeys.
So, you can probably already tell that this is one of my favourite foods of all time. Is it really worth all that money for what is essentially a small tub of ice cream? Well I hate to tell you this but it is worth every penny. It is definitely a cut above the rest. A luxury desert with a painful price tag.
I could not however justify spending almost a fiver on a tub of ice cream on my current budget, what with three under fives and a new house to pay for, so luckily it is one of the products that is often on special offer in various places. I have seen it on 2 for 1, or buy 2 for a fiver several times over the last few years and it is a perfect treat for yourself if you want to pig out on something a bit special.
This is one of the nicest flavours from the haagen dazs range, and in it has just overtaken the baileys flavour to become my favourite ice cream. It really is a little bit of heaven. Now please bog off and let me eat the other half of the tub in peace!
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