Letters to the Editor
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This article and letters...
...made me laugh myself into a hernia! I enjoyed the whole dialogue. Well, when I was a kid in Naperville, Illinois there was a place called Cock Robin (I kid you not!) that had wonderful ice cream. I'm still trying to duplicate their grape sherbet. And they used square-shaped scoops, which kept the ice cream scoops from falling off each other. Now I live in Norway. If any of you come here, eat Hennig-Olsen ice cream--it's the greatest!
And I'll just have plain old coffee...and I'll stir it with my thumb...
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Cold Stone left me cold
Thanks for articulating what I found disturbing about my visit to Cold Stone. I don't like more than two flavors competing for my palate's attention, and chose coffee ice cream with chocolate chips, which should yield a rich mocha effect. It turned out to be the worst served ice cream I've ever tasted, with barely any flavor at all -- way too sweet. I could not finish the huge serving. I should have realized that I already knew size means nothing. And what's more, I don't desire to be "pampered" (hah!) by lunatics. The goony server thought I was some kind of self-depriving kook for not ordering one of their contrived pre-designed "creations" whose names I was too embarrassed to utter while ordering.
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I don't know about you, but I dare to eat the peach, T.S.
Well. De gustibus non disputandum est. I love Coldstone Creamery. Nobody sings at the branch I visit, I skip the mix-ins and nobody's pants fall off in amazement. The peach ice cream I ate there made me curse like a sailor, it was so good.
You can lead a horse to mix-ins, but you can't make him eat them. The mix-ins aren't mandatory. There's no law. If a cone is larded, you've larded it yourself.
But by all means, skip it. Shorter lines for us plebes!
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a good one
justin, you ought to visit amy's ice cream in austin, texas. they have super premium ice cream (by def. a certain huge percent must be butterfat) that is pretty great. the basic flavors are the focus. the mexican vanilla will knock your socks off! i think the steve you mention was amy's guru. and i know that amy's isn't as great as it used to be, but i bet it's still pretty good.
i would also like to note that i thought this article, in general, sucked the big one.
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Oh, this is a supremely silly article.
What exactly is the expose? Customer services stores pretend a cheery friendliness that only exists for profit? The merchandise isn't really unique, it's the presentation? They charge what the customers are willing to pay?
So...Peters wants corporate stores to be manned by drab, frowning employees who let you know they only want your cash. And he wants the ice cream thinner. And the price should be fixed at exacly 1% over the cost of production so there is a minimum profit, but no crazy excess.
Of course, Peters could have gone on a search for good ice cream, or a good ice cream store. He could have alerted readers where to find a treat. Instead he went down to his local chain and complained about the obvious. And then he presented us with something more or less identical to things we've read before, in a chummy, pseudo friendly style to seduce us, so that he sell his article and make a profit. Much like Marble Slab, no?
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Ben and Jerry's is just as bad
Yes, Cold Stone Creamery sucks, but I can't believe how everyone compares it to negatively to "real" ice cream like Ben and Jerry's. Ben and Jerry's is the model for Cold Stone. They invented all those ridiculous candy-loaded flavors that sacrifice quality ice cream for sugar overload. And I don't understand how you can be creeped out by Cold Stone's corporate aesthetic but not by B&J's manufactured and just as corportate version of "save the rainforest." B&J's was once an independent company (though I don't know how good it ever was), but that was decades ago. Ben and Jerry's has the lousiest ice cream I know of, but they cheat by filling it with candy bars. The sole purpose of Ben and Jerry's is to satisfy the munchies when you're stoned. Meanwhile, I think Baskin-Robbins, while certainly not the greatest ice cream in the world, is the best of the national chains, and gets a bad rap by being essentially gimmick-free and old-fashioned.
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Ridiculous, Tasteless Fluff
I am referring of course to this article, not the ice cream. "At the mix-inneries, the focus isn't so much the ice cream itself as the ice cream experience." Well, no. It's not. The ice cream is definitely better than the "glop" or "lard and Cool Whip" described in the article. Of course that may be my "infantile taste buds" talking but I found the ice cream itself to be sweet, creamy, and delicious. It's ice cream! If you don't like it, go somewhere else. This hatchet job was unnecessary, unbalanced, and beneath the standards of Salon.
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So, if I waddled in and bought some non-Vanilla ice cream, could I still be President?
"The company specifically targets 25- to 34-year-old women who diet intermittently, have the money to treat themselves, and are fully invested in the idea that super-rich ice cream is the sort of decadent reward that they deserve. It doesn't matter if the ice cream tastes good, it just has to be naughty -- and what's naughtier than a big bowl of Mud Pie Mojo ice cream?"
Good lord, doesn't Salon have editors? If I wanted to hear patronizing, sexist arguments, there are plenty of places I could get them. I read Salon because it tries to avoid such hateful, condescending and obnoxious statements. I mean, what do the women of Broadsheet think of this article?
Letter to Hillary: Avoid Cold Stone ice cream. Apparently, men (or at this one jackass male writer) doesn’t respect women who like their ice cream frivolous and filled with add-ins. I guess wanting a mars bar mix in indicative of women’s inability to understand aesthetics, consumerism and – apparently, their own selfish stupidity
Personally, when I eat ice cream, I always choose plain vanilla in a cup. Even at Cold Stone. But just to spite Mr. Peters, I will order a strawberry, chocolate, M&Ms and Mars bar in a waffle cone next time I am there.