For the fourth part of her split series, Madeleine Chapman ranked the ice cubes.
A note on semantics: I am well aware that "ice cube" has a special meaning, it does not involve cream or chocolate. But for the sake of brevity, I use "ice cubes" to mean anything purchased from the freezer. After conducting an internal Spinoff poll, this seems to be the real crux of people. Or I just work with a group of losers. You decide.
I made a huge mistake again. The thing about reviewing French fries, lollipops, and cookies is that although you need to get each one, you don't have to eat the whole package to judge it. But eating ice cubes is an experience, and you can’t just take a bite to know what this experience is like. This means that for the past month, I have eaten two to three ice cubes every day, which ruined me. Since I couldn't ask for a receipt, it ruined me financially. After an unexpectedly good lock, it ruined my body, health. Due to my mild allergy to dairy products, it ruined me in terms of digestion.
But now I look forward to the summer and fully understand my choices and the irreversible damage that may be caused to my body. I hope this list will also help you make the right choice.
Sorry for Nice Blocks, but in order to be included, the product must come from the off-the-shelf range of most dairies and gas stations. They are not, but they are good.
Anything that requires a spoon to eat is unqualified. Do you know how many random little jars are out there? too much. It is not good for the environment, and I refuse to participate (read: it will make the list too long and difficult to complete). There is one exception to this rule, which you will see in the list.
87-76. Small-Chocolate Salted Caramel (Tip Top), Small-Choc Sunday (Tip Top), White Chocolate and Raspberry (Kāpiti), Vanilla Bean (Kāpiti), Peach and Melon Sorbet (Kāpiti), Magnum-Chocolate Chip Cookies , Cookie Crush-Unicorn (Street), Cookie Crumble-Chocolate (Street), Paddle Pop-Strawberry Milkshake (Street), Paddle Pop-Icy Lemonade and Raspberry (Street), Caramel and Almonds (Kāpiti), Maxibon – Honeycomb
I visited more than a dozen dairy factories and gas stations, but I have never seen these items. In my many discussions of this list, no one mentioned any of them as my favorite. Therefore, I think it feels good to put them all here for virtual disqualification. If you have any objections, I believe you will tell me. But now for the actual ranking.
75. Calippo-Star Wars Blueberry (Street)
The existence of this ice cube makes me doubt my own mortality rate. It is blue, stains everything including teeth, and tastes like non-branded Raro. Obviously, if you take the whole thing out and put it upside down, it looks a bit like a lightsaber. But the same goes for cardboard wrapping paper rolls, you won't eat it.
74. Paddle Pop – Spider-Man 3D Ice Strawberry (Streets)
This is really terrible. I thought it would be the size of a V-Pop (remember those), but it's big and bumpy, and it doesn't look like Spiderman at all. The taste is not good.
73. Paddle Pop – Icy Blast Off Minions (Streets)
What happened to Streets? How much did Disney pay them to create these monsters? I don't like this cooperation a little bit. The only Disney product that should be placed near the refrigerator is Walt.
72. Popsicle – Tip Top
This is obviously Tip Top's attempt on Cyclone's competitors, oh my goodness, this is terrible. It is too watery, which means that the ice cubes are lumpy rather than crushable, and the taste is just like the intimacy that used to be in a 2-liter concentrate bottle.
71. Cookie Crumble – Coco Pops (Streets)
I am excited about this, so my broken dream is why it was unfairly placed in a low position. I like Coco Pops and Cookie Crumble, but it turns out that the taste of cereal is closely related to the interior of the kitchen, so that it feels unsacred to taste Coco Pops while walking on the street. If the milk is melted, so much the better.
How the strong fell. Bill used to manage this town. His power over Aotearoa's children has not yet been matched. Now he was just an amorphous spot, with no discernible cowboy hat in sight. The chocolate on the back is surprisingly good, but the gum—the previous draw card—is the last thing you taste and will leave a really disgusting film in your mouth. Actually ruined my day.
As an adult, there are several ways to make a mess. It's best not to spend $1.80.
68-67. Calippo-Raspberry Pineapple (Street), Calippo-Lemon (Street)
I put these two together in the ranking because despite their different flavors, they were eventually downgraded to the same flavor: cardboard.
Why not just ordinary vanilla ice cream with a chocolate shell? Polar pie with a stick. Because the administrator involved in eating non-sticky frozen snacks means that the snack itself must be very good to justify it. Polar school is not like that. Introduce (or bring back) a piece of 99c ordinary ice cream. We are adults and should not lick our fingers in the park.
See above, but use raspberry sauce.
64. Cookie Crumble – Froot Loops (Street)
See entry 71. This one has a pretty color at least.
63. Calippo-Star Wars Watermelon (Street)
It's just because I forgot to put it second to last. Don't ask, don't ask.
62. Rocky Road Caramel (Tip Top)
You see, no problem. But at least three versions of this concept are better. Why use fake caramel when you can add caramel flavor to real caramel?
Full disclosure: I couldn't find this, thinking I had put it on the disqualified list, and now it is too late to change all the numbers. I think it's good but not great, like most things in life.
60. Magnum-Las Vegas Caramel Chocolate and Biscuits (Street)
Too sweet. All these novelties are deceptive, because they taste very good in the first bite, and in the end you really feel like vomiting.
59. Memphis Meltdown – White Bikkie (Tip Top)
How many people really like white chocolate? Who chose not only one kind of sweets (biscuits or white chocolate), but also two (biscuits and white chocolate)? Too much for my little head.
This is not bad, but you will be surprised how many waffle cones you can get at dairy and gas stations. It can be said too much, this one may go.
57-55. Memphis Meltdown – Mint Bikkie (Tip Top), Memphis Meltdown – Big Bikkie (Tip Top), Memphis Meltdown – Big Hokey Pokey (Tip Top)
They are too big! This is not a fun snack, this is a meal. I ate Big Hokey Pokey at work after lunch, and then had to lie down on the sofa for a few minutes. I appreciate that Big Bikkie is an attractive concept, but I firmly believe that biscuits and cream ice cream should be eaten on a cone in the form of a spoon, not buried in the chocolate on the stick.
"It's average. It's like you accidentally ordered oat milk, but it tastes like cardboard, but in the shape of a magnum."-People who are not allergic to almonds. This is not included in the photo below, because I didn't know it existed until this moment. Sorry for the vegetarian community.
53. FruJu – Orange Rush (Tip Top)
The most unsuccessful siblings in the FruJu family.
Listen to me: Jelly Tip sucks. It tastes good, but it's too risky for such a mediocre reward. Eat the taste separately? What kind of naive nonsense is this? It's like when you were a kid thinking that eating pie by peeling off the top and scooping out the meat is fun. But then you grow up and know that this is not the way pie works.
I also bought one for an adult colleague, and she had to take a plate to eat because it immediately began to drip. It’s time to take off your jelly glasses and realize that Jelly Tip ice cubes are not worth your love or effort.
disappointing! I liked them as a kid (fair target audience), but now it falls in the sad gray area between chocolate desserts and fruit desserts.
50. Trumpet – Hokey Pokey (Tip Top)
This is a great experience, but hokey pokey is another flavor, and it tastes better when rolled into a ball.
It's still very sweet. I like sweets as much as the next loser, but this is a bit too much.
48. Magnum – Tahiti Passion Fruit White Chocolate (Street)
Again, this is the first bite of love and the last bite of deep resentment.
47-46. Small-huge cone butterscotch caramel shortbread (top), small-huge cone biscuit and cream (top)
Too big! I think this means that the cone will be bigger, but there is only a huge ice cream (actual shape) on top of a normal cone. This means that when you touch its core, you are tired of it. Confusingly, its size makes cookies and cream ice cream scoops, so it's pretty good, but still too big.
Trumpet has done a great job in creating its own unique flavor, and in the process made its staple flavor redundant.
44. FruJu – Raspberry and Lime (Top)
Did you know that FruJu stands for fruit juice? I do not have. I'm just assuming this is based on a capital J, so please let me know if it is wrong.
43. Paddle Pop – Icy Twist (Streets)
Compared with the compact shaved ice of the Tip Top series, the Streets ice cubes have a more muddy consistency. This is the consistency I like, but it can't be compared to the lemonade popsicle. Yes, I did eat one after another during the lunch break, and yes, I do feel sorry for it.
42. Trumpet – Chocolate V GF (Tip Top)
The vegan trumpet is surprisingly good, but still not as good as the regular trumpet. Once again, I extend my sincerest apologies to the vegetarian community.
Chocolate is far from even being the best trumpet.
40. FruJu – Tropical Snow (top)
I used to think that tropical snow was the top five ice cubes. The texture of the sorbet relieved my sensitive teeth. But when I re-examined it, I realized that texture does not make up for the confusion of taste. What is it? I don't know, I am afraid to know.
It is not the best Magnum, nor is it the worst. Will accept a free one, but will not buy it again.
See above, but there are almonds, so I guess better?
37. Chocolate Hazelnut (Kāpiti)
36. Trumpet – Banoffee Pie (Tip Top)
This should be named Perky Nana, because this is what it tastes like. An interesting experience, and then never try again. Three people in the freezer.
35. Memphis Meltdown – Big Nuts (Tip Top)
It's still too big, but in order not to reduce the benefits of all things with nuts, this one has a good mid-range position because I heard it is a mid-range product.
34. Magnum – New York Chocolate Cheesecake (Street)
"The first bite is delicious. The sixth bite is too sweet. But the amazing taste of the cheesecake cannot be denied. It didn't send me to New York."-A representative who I have eaten this and clearly agrees to the whole series" Too sweet" commented colleague.
very good! There are no other thoughts except for the lovely crunchy short memories.
The Cornetto cone is the poor man's trumpet, but at $2, this is clearly the goal. I thought I could eat this, but boys, do they like to sprinkle peanuts on everything? A trusted colleague said it was delicious, but if they had a choice, they would not choose it.
31. FruJu – Pineapple Crush (Tip Top)
Decent cooperation between ice and pineapple. This is probably the best pineapple collaboration ever since Kenny Rogers worked with Dole to produce this incredible ad.
30. Goody Goody Gum Drops (Tip Top)
I was pleasantly surprised by this. On its own, the disgusting sweetness may be a bit too much, but with a thin chocolate shell and a stick, it feels easier to control. For some reason, gum drops are not that hard.
I had one like this about a year ago. I remember it very well, so I put it at the back of the list. But in the process of typing this short story, I ate another one, which was amazing. Support my theory that cookies and cream should be nothing more than that.
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I think it will be a fun mint treat, on the contrary it is like eating a huge mint after a meal. There is a reason why these things are so small. I can imagine that the small version in the box would be an almost perfect dessert, but unfortunately, this is not the criterion here.
According to the packaging, this sandwich contains only 1% hazelnuts. I am allergic to hazelnuts, but in the face of objectivity, what is 1%? So I ate some. I want to say publicly that there is some witchcraft here because it tastes exactly the same as Ferrero Rocher (famous for Yum, with a hazelnut content of more than 1%). Although I got hives shortly after eating it, it is still impressive.
26. Dark Chocolate and Berries (Kāpiti)
Didn't they distribute these on Air New Zealand flights before? I couldn't find anything in the dairy factories I visited, but if they were the ones I was considering, what a lovely dessert with a lovely sorbet consistency. If this is not what I think, then please ignore this.
25. Memphis Meltdown – Gooey Raspberry (Tip Top)
I think I like this better than I do, because I appreciate the collapse of Memphis monopolizing the market on raspberries. But maybe there is a reason for this. The slimy raspberry is very sweet and costs $4.90, making it the most expensive ice cream in the refrigerator. At this price, you must offer something special. This is special, but not special.
24. Pineapple, Lime & Coconut bar (Weis)
Welcome to the ring, Weis. These ice cream sticks are relatively new to the freezer, but they gave me a little hope for non-stick frozen food. Technically, it's ice cream, but it doesn't have as much as Polar Bar, so it won't become a mess anytime soon. It still exists, it's just not that fast.
23. Trumpet – Boysenberry V GF (Tip Top)
Frankly speaking, this is just a bad Boysenberry trumpet. Scroll down to view the comment, then subtract 10%, and you will know what it is like.
22. Magnum-Caramel and Nut Bar (Street)
A cute little size, maybe the smallest on the list. The caramel is nice and delicate inside, it doesn't hit you in the face. Almost more like a novelty chocolate bar than ice cream. At least that's what the person who fed me said.
21. Peanut Slab Bar (Whittaker's)
I heard that people are full of praise for it, but I also heard that many people don't know it exists. "Not as good as marzipan" was said by two different people on two different occasions, so I will believe them.
20. Cookie Crumble – Cookie Crumble (Street)
There are two types of people: Cookie Crumble people and Rocky Road people. I was Rocky Road until I died, but I can admire a worthy opponent.
Life is all about perspective. Cornetto may be the poor man's trumpet, but Cornetto Classic Vanilla is the rich man's soft serve cone. The ice cream has no frills, the chocolate is very thin, and there is no sauce in the middle. However, it fits perfectly with the statement on the budget package: it is a classic taste, just a little dazzling, and its quality shocked my colleagues.
Yes, I have been asking my colleague for the past month, can you eat this nut ice cream at 10 o'clock in the morning?
I have heard a lot of news about how good almond wine is, so I put it on a respectable 18-year-old, even if I ate one I might be hospitalized.
We like Boysenberry ice cream in this country more than any other country. Classic flavor with chocolate flavor, you know that Kāpiti ice cream will be like cream. A real class behavior.
16. Trumpet – Jelly Tip (Tip Top)
If you want to wait, do you hate to say that Jelly Tip sucks before 2000 words, yes, I did it. But my problem is not the taste, but the delivery system. In the waffle cone, jelly, chocolate and vanilla ice cream are mixed together, and Jelly Tip will not suck. If handled properly, it is actually very good.
15. Passion Fruit Yogurt (Kāpiti)
Passionflower is too sweet to match with ice cream, or at least the passionfruit flavor is. But the success of Kāpiti lies in the combination of rich sweetness and yogurt ice cream to create a balanced and lovely dessert. Great, unexpected joy. The closest thing to Splice or Paradiso is gone.
14. Memphis Meltdown – Gooey Caramel (Tip Top)
For some reason, Caramel is sexy. It is advertised as an attractive ingredient for consumers with horns (see: Toffee Pop). This is why I respect Tip Top for taking sexy products and advertising with Alf Stewart from Home & Away. "You want to bribe me, boy?" What thread. I didn't notice when I was a kid, but now I definitely notice how bad this woman's accent is. Must like it very much
13. Magnum – Double Caramel Self (Street)
Although the ad from Memphis Meltdown is incredible, the equivalent Magnum is an excellent product. You won’t really notice them until you eat them at the same time (which I unfortunately did). Although the two are almost the same, the ice cream in Magnum is a bit richer. Just like ordinary vanilla and vanilla beans. Always go to Pacman.
As we grow older, most of the joy of childhood loses its luster, but chocolate lollipops are still a joy. A simple concept, cleverly executed.
An exception to the "Spoon not allowed" rule. For us frugal people, this is the ice of choice due to its large size. Products with the same price as medium ice cream. Before frozen Coke swept the scene, popsicle mud was the gateway to frozen beverages. My sister wants me to include it on youths who are struggling, and it can double as a cute red lip gloss during a day at the beach.
For the slightly weird person in your life, the mint trumpet is the way to go. It has a mint flavor, but not absolute. It is a lovely taste cleanser after eating fish and chips for lunch.
I haven't eaten one of them for about 20 years, but I am surprised by how refreshing it is. It is essentially a piece of crushed ice with a little sugar on it, and guess what, it works.
It is shameful to put a brand new product in the top 10, but I want what it wants in my heart. I like mango and almost rank it as the best FruJu, but I restrained myself. If ordinary FruJus is essentially frozen Raro, then Mango FruJu is frozen Tank juice. It's just a bit thicker (sounds disgusting, but it's not), and its fruity smell is more pronounced. I'm so happy, this bad boy is probably my summer vacation.
But, oh, this beauty. There is an assumption that the taste of ice cubes is natural, but in the end it is also artificial. That's not it. This tastes like a beautiful frozen mango. Although it does not have a stick, it is a bit smelly, but it also does not have a chocolate shell, so it is a neat bar, perfect for when you want to feel healthy, even if you are not.
6. Rocky Road Strawberry (Tip Top)
Somehow, this is the cleanest food on the entire list. Biscuit puffs can prevent it from melting too fast, and there is no chocolate crust to bite through carefully. For all the centrists there, this is a safe, sturdy, and reliable choice. Strawberry seasoning is very artificial, but it does not pretend to be anything else. Maybe I have Stockholm syndrome because I always grow up in mixed packaging (with chocolate bars and jelly tips too) because I am one of the youngest people and they are always the last. But this is something I want to talk to professionals.
If this position makes you angry because you are the Cookie Crumble team, just pretend that I put it here. They are really not that different.
Pure class (ic). Magnums' ice cream is unparalleled. In the classroom, less is more. This Classic Magnum is an enduring classic. The best is simple (in a gourmet sense), all you get is chocolate shell ice cream. This is what you need. The crust is thick enough not to melt or break immediately on the first contact, the ice cream is soft, rich and not too big in size. If you ask a group of people what they want from the refrigerator and one person says "you choose", the classic Magnum will never fail.
4. FruJu – Grapefruit and Lemon (Tip Top)
It was done in the Tang Dynasty. For decades, Grapefruit has the strongest public relations team. Grapefruit weight loss method? Grapefruit weight loss method? ! As people realized that half of a citrus fruit does not really constitute a meal, this strange fruit made us feel embarrassed, and this species finally began to decline in the 2010s.
But one of its redemptive functions is in this classic pairing. Just the most acidic food that works in a certain way. You will not give this to children (and you will not steal cars), but this is not a list for children.
I believe in people's trust in this. Aotearoa's obsession with boysenberry as a flavor is revealed through this crunchy waffle cone, sprinkled with some nuts to wish you good luck, and then on the podium. Enjoy it, you elites allergic to nuts.
In addition to the items below, the best last bite of all small (and therefore this) is the small piece of chocolate. I just can't put a non-stick ice cube on top. It doesn't feel right, that's all I have to say about it.
Is there a more delicious dessert than the last bite of chocolate on a chocolate bar? It's not even the best chocolate, but...it is. The coconut in the shell elevates ordinary hospitality to a world-class experience. It's like putting truffles on macaroni and cheese. Or me, when I apply mascara once a year. Each of us has a chocolate bar. If you don’t have one, I hope you will find your coconut in 2022.
Perfect frozen food. It has everything: lovely fruity flavor, beautiful consistency, neither miniature nor ridiculous size. The cyclone is not ostentatious, because it doesn't even try to compete with the FruJus or Trumpets of this world. It is completely original, with no derivative or novel versions. A whirlwind is a whirlwind is a whirlwind. When we are all dead and gone, the whirlwind will still be a whirlwind.
Eating cyclones can also strengthen a person's soul. Eating penis-shaped food in public requires a certain degree of self-confidence. Frankly speaking, not everyone has this self-confidence. Face your fears and work hard to get rewards. Because if you find yourself on the beach or in the park, eating Cyclone in the summer breeze, a carefree world, only then will you know that you are free.
Cyclone is the best ice cube in New Zealand.
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