Ice Cream Sandwiches

The Article About Ice Cream Sandwiches You Need Right Now

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-ice-cream-sandwiches/

Dirty secret. I love Ice Cream. For two decades now I’ve told anyone who asks that I have two great loves in my life: Ice Cream and Amazon. I always added that if Amazon ever started delivering Ice Cream I’d be in real trouble. They did and this did not turn out to the be problem I had imagined wherein I would go into ice cream rehab after gaining 100lbs. Tragedy averted!

Ice Cream Sandwiches present a real conundrum. Done well they are just about as close to ice cream nirvana as you can get. The delicate combination of the chocolate outer structure and the succulent insides can mouthgasm you on the first bite, and every bite thereafter. In fact I will often find myself more in rapture with the last bites than the first, just like with real sex. And that first bite is a doozy. Okay, this got weird but stay with me.

Ice Cream Sandwiches done wrong make a mockery of both the idea of chocolate cookie frame (dry, cardboard like, there are lots of ways to go wrong) and the vanilla ice cream which much too often is substandard garbage that they peddling via sandwich because they can’t get away with selling it by the carton. These often taste almost medical like all the joy has been sucked out of them.

I call this the hot dog syndrome - wherein the meat industry takes “stuff” you wouldn’t ever buy on its own and packages it into a delightful meat package known for several good reasons as a “weenie”.

I’ve tried several of the sandwiches in the article but not the winner from Whole Foods, which, is really strange considering the aforementioned Amazon → Ice Cream instant gratification pipeline I lived in fear of. Maybe the problem IS real…..

So read and rejoice!