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What's lebneh?

I love Haagen-Dazs's Caramel Cone ice cream! It's like tasting a sundae cone in an ice cream!

Well after reading everyone's comments- Im going to have to agree that its def based on where you are in your life and what your taste buds are craving.
Honestly- when I was a child- I hated Haagen Dazs. I found it too bland- no spice! no chucks! just....ice cream. Now- I love it. I love that creamy, fattiness that is haagen Dazs
But- Im also a college student. And we young people LOVE chucks in our ice cream. After a night of "fun" - you want super double chucky brownie whatever- basically everything in your mouth at once.
I whole heartingly agree that B&J is the ice cream one eats alone, at a girls night, or after a night of drinking while H.D is very much one to savor

BUT- The BEST ice cream I have ever had came from France, in the northern parts, around Rouen. I could see the cows sleeping off in the distance- I knew it was fresh. And nothing, nothing- can beat freshness.

Haagen Dazs strawberry- lovely
B&J Dublin Mudslide- please, the taste of Baileys with brownie and fudge swirl......beautiful
Although, in the end, its all ice cream therefore all good to me

I used love the simple HD flavors and savor it in small bits, never more than a few spoonfulls at a sitting. Almost everyone I know loves Cherry Garcia though and I can't stand it.

Now I just make my own that I like just as much.

just because i have such a blast at the factory - i'll have to go with ben & jerrys.

When I used to make a habit of eating a pint of B&J's at a time, it was always "Urban Jumble" (an almond/chocolate/coconut confection which has since been discontinued). Back then, something about HD didn't appeal to me.

Like most people posting, I like HD now for its purer flavor and texture -- but don't count me out of a pint of NY Super Fudge Chunk from B&J's in a pinch!

By the way, HD pomegranate chocolate chip is outrageous. I also tried the coconut sesame ginger concoction (another "premium flavor"), but was less-than-impressed.

Dominic
the zen kitchen

I love both, although I tend to avoid the more complicated Ben & Jerry flavors and go for Peanut Butter Cup or something with a cohesive theme. I also really like Tortoise Soup, because, mmm, cashews. I'm a New Englander at heart, always will be.

But Haagen Dazs has recently won my heart with Sticky Toffee Pudding. I never had the actual dessert until I moved to Canada, and then a year later it is made into an ice cream? um...Thank You.

Haagen-Dazs---I have never been disappointed in their flavors & creaminess. I wish I lived in an area that sold their new premium flavors.

Has anybody tried the new H-D premium flavor, pomegranite choc chip? It's beyond ice cream!

Haagen-Dazs. B&J's is great, but their flavors can be kind of overwhelming. I love the simple, pure flavors - H-D's rum raisin, I just can't stand how good it is!

The fate of Frusen Gladje: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frusen_Gladje

@NYminknit--I guess we're of the same generation: I, too, remember Fruzen Gladje, though I have no better sense of whether my remembered spelling matches the actual than you did. It was the first competitor to Haagen-Dazs that I recall, but I guess it didn't stand up to Haagen-Dazs's strongarming as well as Ben & Jerry's does.

My personal preference is for small boutique ice-cream shops (I'm looking at YOU, Dr. Mike's in Bethel CT!), but I confess that when it comes to sheer quotidian pleasure, I go for Ben & Jerry's every time. For years I was devoted to Cherry Garcia, but I've recently become enamored of Everything But The... which has the nature that appears to offend so many posters here: there's more stuff in it than there is ice cream. I don't care. English Toffee pieces AND Peanut Butter Cups?? Where do I sign!

But I agree that, when I just need a plain vanilla to set off something distinctive, I'll go with Haagen-Dazs. I don't actually like their flavors like Dulce de Leche, though, which is too sweet.