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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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I want to send out a big THANKS FOR NOTHING! to everyone for their kind assistance on my recent ice cream purchase adventure. After posting that, I headed out on two wheels over slick, drizzly, steep and DARK mountain roads to get to B-R before 10 o'clock. They actually close at 11 o'clock, but who knew?
I tried to remember some flavours people mentioned. I'd say about 80% of all the ice cream I've consumed in my life has been vanilla, french vanilla, or spumone. Places like B-R 31 can really annoy me.
I asked what's new. "What's new?" They showed me ever-loving favourite 4-flavour WELL BEING assortment. (Well Being = Korean) They were:
Green Tea: rather chalky and bizarre. I've had it before.
Jasmine Tea: sounds better than it tastes. chalky, a little bitter
Pumpkin Pudding: about what you'd expect, but sweeter
Red Bean: Yeah, fusion. It's an East-Meets-West, You-Meet-Korea, "ice cream-meets-patbingsoo" thingy
"Koreans really like these best!" "Good for health!" And stamina!
I've had enough of the usual arrogant Western ice cream flavour imperialism. Korea should assert its independent defence capability & National Pride™ in this area, and us offer Goguma Ice Cream and Fermented Bean Paste Ice Cream and Chamisul Ice Cream. While taking away all other flavours. |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 2:43 am Post subject: |
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They can put up to three flavours in one pint, and that's exactly what everyone orders. Like a pint with 3 flavours is better than one with 2. But I normally prefer to screw with their heads and ask for just 2. "Half of X and half of Y. Nope, just those two. Ban-ban." It also makes it cleaner. I like keeping different flavours segregated and isolated from opportunities for self-advancement.
Different serving girls, different B-R branches, the "just 2 flavours" thing never fails to stun them for a brief moment. |
I know.
Try asking for an entire pint of only ONE flavour. Now that, my friend, shocks the hell out of them. They usually have to consult with the manager to see if it can be done. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:01 am Post subject: |
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| At Baskin Robbins it's got to be chocolate mousse first, cheesecake second, and green tea very definitely last. You think 'Green tea? Interesting..' so you try it once then the next time someone offers it's 'Ice-cream? Oh. Green tea. No thanks'. |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:10 am Post subject: |
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| You think Green Tea is bad? Try Secret Garden of Herb sometime. As bad as the name is creepy. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 8:35 am Post subject: |
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| Woland wrote: |
| You think Green Tea is bad? |
Yeah, I'm afraid I do. And I've had several different brands of it here. The only time I've ever liked it wasn't in Korea but at Korean restaurants in the West and Hong Kong. Those were yummy, but I've never had anything nice here from a store or a restaurant.
Green tea is to ice cream what red bean paste is to a chocolate �clair. |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Mmm. mmm...mmm...I just bought got some Ben and Jerry's "Everything but the..." flavor today. It's fabulicious! |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:19 am Post subject: |
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I have to amend this.
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| Jasmine Tea: sounds better than it tastes. chalky, a little bitter |
It's not bitter at all, quite the opposite. Maybe it was just the small sample spoonful they gave me that tasted off. Jasmine Tea ice cream is in fact not chalky or bitter. If anything, it's too sweet. Overpoweringly sweet. And certainly doesn't belong in any "Well Being" category.
Jasmine Tea
A delicious pairing of delicate jasmine and vanilla mousse ice-creams swirled with a white tea ribbon. |
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happygirl
Joined: 20 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:54 am Post subject: |
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1. butter pecan
2. ben & jerry's pistachio, pistachio - the 1st thing i ate when i went home
3. pralines & cream
4. blue bell cantalope
anything with carmel and nuts |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
I have to amend this.
| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| Jasmine Tea: sounds better than it tastes. chalky, a little bitter |
It's not bitter at all, quite the opposite. Maybe it was just the small sample spoonful they gave me that tasted off. Jasmine Tea ice cream is in fact not chalky or bitter. If anything, it's too sweet. Overpoweringly sweet. And certainly doesn't belong in any "Well Being" category.
Jasmine Tea
A delicious pairing of delicate jasmine and vanilla mousse ice-creams swirled with a white tea ribbon. |
Mmm...I want to try jasmine tea ice cream. I love jasmine tea! |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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I had sunflower seed flavour yesterday- it tasted like sunflower seeds.
What's everyone's favourite seed? |
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Buff
Joined: 07 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| butter pecan |
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Buff
Joined: 07 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| favorite seed? mustard. but that's off topic. |
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crazykiwi
Joined: 07 Jun 2003
Location: new zealand via daejeon
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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Hokey Pokey
and also, L & P flavored, (its a fizzy drink, lemony, made into ice cream) |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:46 am Post subject: |
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A Japanese cafe in my city sells wasabi icecream.
I'm not sure if that's the best flavour though. |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:41 am Post subject: Re: what's the best flavour ice-cream? |
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| Swiss James wrote: |
| I like strawberry |
My ex-fiance from Deutschland had some cream that, in some sense, beat the heck outta anything served up by the kids on patrol at the I'taewon Baskin Robbins.
I sheet thee not: It was sweet yet pungent.
Hmmm... Me wonders if the Green Tea at good ol' Baskins could give me a nostalgia-induced woodie.
I'll get back to y'all, eh.
Carry on. |
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