Damn tasty Ice Cream, but gotta say I’m a pretty big Monty Python fan and I just don’t get it. Why Coffee Liqueur and Chocolate Cookie Crumbs? Is it a very vague and clever reference that I’m missing?
Now the little cow-shaped chocolate pieces, that’s a “Fetchez la Vache!” reference. Maybe not entirely obvious, but the artwork on the Ice Cream tub shows cows falling from the sky as if they had been catapulted, they fall all around amidst a Gilliam styled drawing of a Grail. So, yes, once placed in context the cows are a valid Monty Python reference.
I would, however, save the cows for a Far Side Ice Cream. For Monty Python, maybe little chocolate parrots would be better.
So, if Ben and Jerry had first consulted with you, how would you have suggested an appropriate Monty Python themed Ice Cream?
I’d use Vanilla Ice Cream, just because it makes a nice “blank canvass”.
Let’s keep the parrot-shaped chocolate pieces idea,
add some Crunchy Frog
Spam
Albatross
and just a sliver of a Mint.
I think the flavor is precedent to the gimmick. No mattter what you do, you need a new and delicious flavor, the Python tribute and marketing probably came antecedent. Chocolate chunks become chocolate cows.
They had a great new chocolate coffee ice cream flavor in R&D. They applied it… I would have done gummi snakes and chocolate covered spam chunks in chocolate peanut butter ice cream, but that’s me.
And don’t forget Ram’s Bladder Cup: We use choicest juicy chunks of fresh Cornish ram’s bladder, emptied, steamed, flavoured with sesame seeds, whipped into a fondue and garnished with lark’s vomit.
And Cockroach Cluster, Anthrax Ripple, and Spring Surprise, covered with darkest creamy chocolate. When you pop it into your mouth steel bolts spring out and plunge straight through both cheeks.
They must have discontinued some other flavor that use the little chocolate cows and had a big supply left over. They’ve used them in a couple of other good flavors - I thought the cows were just a “Mmmm, milk/ice cream/Vermont” reference, myself. They have cows on the cartons, don’t they? They used to.
Yeah, I wanted to say that my guess is that they still had the moulds for chocolate cows from Bovinity Divinity, so that´s why cows were the choice for this flavor.
I love ice cream, but Ben and Jerry just put too damn much crap into it: “Vanilla, chocolate and coffee ice cream with nuts, gummy bears, chocolate chips, lima beans, thumbtacks, and swirls of fudge, strawberry and chicken gravy!” Give me a one-flavor ice cream, maybe with one swirl or some kinda chips. Not both. Ruins the “bouquet.”
Speaking of trendy new flavors, has anyone seen SpongeBob SquarePants ice cream? I don’t know what’s in it, but I cannot see eating an ice cream with the words “sponge” and “pants” in its name.
