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Wegmans is a great local grocery chain. They have their ice cream made in the same facility as Perry’s, although slightly different recipes (and cheaper). This is my first time ever trying one of their “premium pints”, and first Wegmans ice cream review.

Their store brand ice cream is pretty solid. My go to tubs for vanilla, chocolate, etc for birthday parties and such. I’ll be kind of comparing this flavor to Haagen Dazs Dulce de Leche, since it’s a pretty identical flavor profile. “Caramel French Ice Cream with Caramel Swirl”. Maybe a knockoff of HD Dulce de Leche lol.

And it was pretty good! Creamy and tasty.. although maybe not quite as creamy as Haagen Dazs, it was pretty close. I always said Haagen Dazs has the best caramel of any brand in all of their ice creams. But this was pretty great too. The caramel ice cream here tastes more vanilla than HD, but the caramel flavor is there.

I will say at first, I was kind of disappointed with the small amount of caramel swirls. Haagen Dazs is often the same, but their amazing tasting caramel ice cream makes up for that. But by the time I hit the bottom of the pint, it was pretty loaded with almost a puddle of caramel sauce at the bottom. I kind of like this, since I usually scoop the softest parts of the ice cream first. I eat around the outside edges of the pint, and than dig into the melty bottom of it, before eating the center. Sometimes I flip it over halfway through, to get the softest ice cream first. So I was getting good scoops of caramel with most bites.

Overall, I liked it! I gave Haagen Dazs Dulce de Leche a 9.4.. I think I’ll give this one an 8.6 out of 10. I’ve never tried Perry’s premium pints either, and I’ll be reviewing one of those soon as well.

This is getting crazy! First pic I got sun sugars on one side, sun golds on the other, 2 pink Berkeley tie dye, 2 Cherokee purple, a San marzano, and what was suppose to be pineapple (probably mislabeled, sadly).

Black krim up front in the 2nd pic, outside the basket, than a nearly 1 lb Berkeley tie dye, and another CP. Still waiting on my Kellog breakfast to ripen up.

Weighing just under a pound, 433 grams (about 15.5 ounces). It’s got some crazy cat facing on it. Excited to try this for the first time

Can you guess which is which? The darker one was picked a day or 2 sooner and is about ripe enough to slice. I knew they’d be similar, but not this similar lol. Which is your favorite? I thought they’d both be darker colored.

I’ve already tried a Cherokee purple and it was delicious! Great umami flavor, perfect for BLT’s.

If they end up tasting real similar, I’ll probably stick to black krim next season.

Cherokee purple had some blossom end rot on the first couple fruits, stayed way shorter, leaves are curling/acting weird, and showing a tiny bit of disease down low.. although the fruits have been a little bigger (two 12.25 ouncer’s so far), and finished a week or so sooner. But it seems a bit finicky.

Black krim are some of my largest plants of 8 varieties, spitting out tons of tomatoes (the one might have better sunlight), haven’t seen any blossom rot, or any fungal disease on the leaves (like at least half of my 12 plants have).

I’ll get a good comparison in the next few days

No real review here, just reliving my childhood a bit. “Ice cream of the future” since the late 1980’s!!

Haven’t had dippin dots in many years. I don’t see the actual flash frozen ones (liquid nitrogen -320° F) very often at all. Very unique and great on a hot day. My 1.5 year old loved them! $10 for this though sheesh..

Have you guys tried Dippin dots? I used to get them at a local theme park. This time at the county fair. I swear they used to have peanut butter ones, and let you mix and match flavors in one cup.

Ben & Jerry’s is always hit or miss for me, so I’ve avoided it for awhile. After I just reviewed Perry’s S’more Adventure, I figured it would be a good time to try this one and compare.

And it was really good! I didn’t get a whole lot of s’more flavor from it, but it was delicious nonetheless. The graham flavor was mild but worked really well with the ice cream. I’m thinking Perry’s might’ve used artificial graham flavor to make that one stick out, or at least give it the “toasted” flavor. No toasted flavor on this one.

Along with most ice creams, it was hard to notice the marshmallow flavor here. But the base ice cream was really good. I thought it was weird that they added oreo cookie swirls for a s’more ice cream. But they were probably my favorite part. The slightly crunchy fudge chips were really delicious with the soft cookies in there.

Overall, I think I’d rate this one slightly higher than Perry’s. Even though it didn’t really taste like a s’more to me at all. I liked it better than their PB S’more too. I’ll give it an 8.1 out of 10

Think I got the perfect ripeness. Look at those slices on the right, looks like slices of actual meat! From 2 tomatoes here.

Definitely a slightly different taste than I’m used too. I don’t know if I’d call it smoky, but definitely a bit savory. Perfect for BLT’s, and great on their own. Made these with local Italian bread, romaine lettuce, local provalone, local bacon, and Hellman’s mayonnaise.

It’s usually hard for me to tell tastes of tomatoes apart, but this is definitely different. I’ll try a tomato mayo sandwich tomorrow, maybe with some basil I grew and olive oil or something.

Next I’ll be trying black krim for the first time, almost ripe enough now. Black krim is my biggest plant, great producer, and probably the most disease resistant of my 8 or so varieties. Unlike CP which was a little finicky, and some BER on the first few.

Very satisfying

Found out it was s’more day so I figured it was a perfect night to try this one out. Perry’s is made about a 30min drive away from me, but pretty popular in multiple states across the north east.

“Marshmallow and graham cracker swirled ice cream, with fudge coated waffle cone pieces”

Pretty good! I thought it was interesting that they used waffle cone pieces in a s’more ice cream, but I’m not complaining. Haagen dazs caramel cone is probably one of my top 3. A lot of them were crunchy with a real nice tasting chocolate layer, just like HD. But some of them had no chocolate and were a little soft/almost soggy, which honestly I didn’t mind either. Kind of like eating the bottom of an ice cream cone. Always loved good waffle cones.

The first thing I noticed though, was the Graham swirl. The dominant flavor. The Graham flavor tastes kind of “toasted” instead of the marshmallow, which is a little odd. But still good. Nice Graham cracker taste. But I gotta say, wish it had more marshmallow. I really only saw marshmallow swirl on one side of the tub, and was sure to scoop some. But it was still kind of a mild flavor. Seems like marshmallow swirls in ice cream are often like that. I’d love to try Graeter’s version, which I’m reading has actual marshmallow pieces.

But I really liked this flavor! Perry’s is always pretty solid. I put it up there with other premium brands. The ice cream was real creamy and dense, but not too dense where it’s hard to scoop. I’m about to go back for seconds.

And for $5-6 for a 1.5 quart tub, you can’t go wrong. I have some Wegmans premium pints in my freezer, which I will try for the first time and review soon as well. Wegman’s grocery store brand is made in the same facility as Perry’s, although even the same flavors (vanilla, etc) have slightly different ingredients.

The only other s’more ice cream I remember trying before this was Ben & Jerry’s peanut butter s’more, which I think I really liked and gave it a high rating. I have their Gimme S’more in my freezer, and maybe I’ll try that and compare tomorrow.

Overall, I liked this and I’ll give it an 8.0 out of 10.
Edit: Here is my old PB S’more review. I guess I didn’t rate it as high as I remember

not too tart...not too sweet

turned out to be really good!

I’ll be doing a few Perry’s and Wegmans brand ice cream reviews coming up. This is my dad’s favorite flavor, and just grabbed a tub of Perry’s s’mores, and a few of theirs and Wegmans premium pints as well.

My dad’s favorite, but I had to have some too. This ice cream is really delicious. The sweet maraschino cherry’s remind me of getting a sundae from a local scoop shop when I was a kid. Almost like candy, love them. And the amaretto flavored base… woooo it is good! I love almond flavored desserts, and it has hints of apricot and maybe a little nutty too. Super creamy texture.

Overall I’ll give this an 8.6 out of 10. Really well done, and I don’t see the flavor too often outside of Perry’s. This is a staple in our house. I’m surprised like Haagen Dazs doesn’t do this flavor.

Van Leeuwen.. what are you doing with this one? Just doing way too much lol.

I open the lid and I see that bright blue “frosting”. To me it looks like somebody dumped paint into the pint. I first tasted the cake ice cream on the lid though, and I thought it had a pretty solid cake flavor. I liked the base ice cream.

But than I tried to take a scoop. The frosting is so solid that I had to take a huge scoop and it fell off my spoon. Somebody else mentioned the same thing here about how dense it is, about it a day or 2 ago.

And the flavor of this frosting.. I don’t know what I could compare it too, but’s it doesn’t take like frosting/icing to me. It’s not horrible, it’s kind of sweet.. but doesn’t taste like frosting to me at all. It’s crunchy and doesn’t melt in your mouth one bit. Moving the pint from my freezer to the fridge for 20min before eating didn’t help. It was just an inconvenience while trying to eat the ice cream, and it took up too much space. Not enough actual ice cream.

The cake pieces were ok. I’m not a big brownie or chocolate guy when it comes to ice cream, but it wasn’t bad. The worst part about the chocolate cake bits, was that it completely killed the cake flavor of the ice cream. I really couldn’t taste it at all, besides trying some on the lid at first, with no cake. I think yellow cake pieces would meld much better with this overall.

This ice cream just kept losing more points for me, the further I got into it. One positive is that there wasn’t as much “frosting” toward the bottom. I think this would be much better if it were just straight up cake flavored ice cream by itself, or maybe some yellow cake pieces mixed in.

I’ll have to give this one a 6.2 out of 10. Not horrible, but one of my lowest scores in awhile.

Got through my netting, inside my front garden, and wrecked a good bit of my only sungold. And 1 of 3 of my San marzanos (not pictured). It really sucks to put so much effort, time, and money into this.. only to feed the neighborhood animals.

Green sungolds all over the ground and
Multiple branches stripped. This was the 2nd or 3rd time they snacked on my plants. You think I’d have learned by now. I thought I built up my netting high enough this time; but I guess not. And I put Irish spring soap all over the garden in stockings, that didn’t deter them at all.

I got a doorbell motion notification at 2am, opened it and heard kind of an eating sound and heard my front door moving. I rushed out there and looked all over but didn’t see anything. I think deer might’ve walked up my porch to get to these. They are all netted up in the front and most of the tops.

I guess it’s time for a repellant or something. They already got like 1/3 or my only Kellog, some of my only pink Berkeley, and Cherokee purple.

Funny I was just commenting on a post last night, a guy posted that deer got through his netting and wrecked his plants. I said that worries me. Than it happens to me the same night. At least they didn’t completely wipe out any of my plants

First time trying this one, finally. And it lives up to the hype. Formerly known as “the buckeye state”. I’m only a few hours from Ohio and have tried Buckeyes, they are really good (peanut butter chocolate balls).

First thing I noticed is wow this stuff is creammmmy! I don’t know if ice cream could get creamier than this.. especially store bought. From grass-grazed Ohio milk.

The peanut butter base is really delicious.. it’s almost a little mild but I thought it was perfect, not overly salty like Van Leeuwen (which I also love). Natural tasting PB but still sweet.

I was kind of expecting some peanut butter swirls, but it didn’t really need them. It actually reminds me of these peanut butter cream chocolates from a local chocolate store here, which are one of my candies.

I thought it was funny that they called them “chocolate flecks” lol. I sometimes like chewier chocolate like Graeter’s uses in their mocha chip, etc. But these worked perfectly with the smooth, creamy peanut butter base.

Overall, this would be hard to compare with VL peanut butter brownie honeycomb.. they’re both really good in their own ways. But I think I’ll rate it about the same, 8.7 out of 10. Delicious!

Back left one is ready to pick right? Or should I pick it and let it sit out to get deeper orange. My first harvest of my 12 plants this season

This might be my favorite vanilla flavor, if not very close to Haagen Dazs. From a local favorite around here, Perry’s ice cream. And can’t go wrong with $5-6 for 1.5 quarts!

Funny, because I usually prefer plain vanilla over a French vanilla or others. But I think with trying so much Leeuwen and other French ice creams, maybe my tastes of changed? Become more refined? I’m not sure. I always did love custard.

But even the texture of this is more custard-like. I definitely appreciate the extra egg yolks. Very rich and smooth, great vanilla flavor. Creamy and the perfect amount of sweetness. The perfect topping for desserts. Pictured here with peach cobbler and cherry pie.

I’d have to try this side by side with Haagen Dazs vanilla to see which one I like more. But for now, I’ll give it an 8.2 out of 10 overall. I’ll give it a 9.3 when comparing it with other vanilla ice creams alone.

Here is my last review of Haagen Dazs Vanilla. There’s a separate link to my vanilla bean review in that post as well

The dreaded blossom end rot.. I just made a post how I found one of my Cherokee purple fruits cat-faced and started rotting. I mentioned “at least no BEM rot that I can see yet”. Than I found 2 more tomatoes on the same CP plant with actual BER, right after posting lol.

Cherokee purple must be a finicky plant. None of my other 8 or so varieties are showing any signs of rot or anything, not even my San marzanos

Good news is, finally found my first tomato starting to ripen in western NY! Sungolds, which I can’t wait to try for the first time.

Bad news is, I had my first casualty. Looks like one of my Cherokee purple super bloomed, and heavy rains a few days ago probably helped the catfacing rot.

At least no blossom end rot anywhere that I see. Everything else looks good!

Hope you all had a good national ice cream day! I finally got into Summer Peach from Graeter’s last night. I also tried some Perry’s French Vanilla, which I’ll save for another post.

The first thing that hit me was that amazing, thick & creamy base that Graeter’s always has. Always full of flavor. It did kind of taste like canned peaches though, I’m not going to lie.

And I actually kind of wish they used smaller peach slices.. since the larger peach slices became a little bit, not icey, but I’ll say they were slushy. They were a little bit too crunchy and had a bit of an almost icey texture. Hard to avoid with the water content, but I think smaller peach bits would help.

I know that Graeter’s is known for going big with their mix in pieces though . I absolute love the big/melty chocolate chunks they use in other flavors, like mocha chip (one of my favorite flavors). It was pretty sweet and great for summer, lots of peach flavor. But I think I liked a peach ice cream that I tried and a local, homemade scoop shop last summer better.

Overall, I think I’ll give it a 7.9 out of 10. Great ice cream! Maybe just not something I’d rush to grab again. But my wife really loves it, and I’m glad I tried it while it’s still around

I tried Haagen Dazs Vanilla Bean about a month ago and reviewed it here. This time I’m trying their plain vanilla flavor.

Like I said in the last review, I don’t have vanilla ice cream too often. Unless I’m pairing it with a dessert like pie or cake. And that’s what I did this time. First tried it between some chocolate chip cookies, and than with a slice of homemade apple pie.

This is a really good vanilla. Creamy and rich. I love that HD only used a few ingredients. This one is just cream, skim milk, cane sugar, egg yolks, and Madagascar vanilla. The vanilla flavor tastes great and really comes through. You can really taste the cream. I think I liked this one more than the vanilla bean. Perfect amount of sweetness.

Overall, I think I’ll give it an 8.1 out of 10. But compared to other vanilla ice creams, I’ll give it a 9.3.. good, high quality ice cream. Haagen Dazs almost never lets me down. Especially for the price compared to other premium ice creams. Love this brand!