NEWS: I Hope There Aren’t Any Golden Tickets Hidden in the New Wonka Ice Cream

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Before you get excited about the new Wonka Ice Cream, I should tell you that, currently, it’s only available at limited grocery stores in Northern California and Reno, Nevada. I’m sure that will eventually change and we’ll all be able to try one (or all) of Wonka Ice Cream’s seven flavors, which includes:

Kerfuffle Truffle – chocolate ice cream with chocolate truffles and swirls of fudge (1/2 cup serving – 260 calories, 15 grams of fat, 9 grams of saturated fat, 60 milligrams of cholesterol, 28 grams of carbohydrates, and 22 grams of sugar).

Chipperberry Swirl – black raspberry and vanilla ice cream with chocolate chips (1/2 cup serving – 210 calories, 13 grams of fat, 8 grams of saturated fat, 30 milligrams of sodium, 20 grams of carbohydrates, and 18 grams of sugar).

Chocolate Mintropolis – chocolate ice cream with peppermint patties and chocolate mint cookies (1/2 cup serving – 250 calories, 14 grams of fat, 9 grams of saturated fat, 70 milligrams of sodium, 26 grams of carbohydrates, and 19 grams of sugar).

Caramel Nut Kadoozle – caramel ice cream with mixed nut brittle and walnut caramel swirl (1/2 cup serving – 250 calories, 14 grams of fat, 9 grams of saturated fat, 135 milligrams of sodium, 29 grams of carbohydrates, and 26 grams of sugar).

Chocolate Chipper Chip – vanilla ice cream with chocolate and potato chip bark pieces (1/2 cup serving – 270 calories, 17 grams of fat, 9 grams of saturated fat, 130 milligrams of sodium, 26 grams of carbohydrates, and 21 grams of sugar).

Chocolate Snowflakes – vanilla ice cream with chocolate flakes (1/2 cup serving – 220 calories, 14 grams of fat, 8 grams of saturated fat, 30 milligrams of sodium, 21 grams of carbohydrates, and 18 grams of sugar).

Kernelpuff Caramelstuff – caramel corn ice cream with popped kernels, pecan pralines and salted caramel swirls (1/2 cup serving – 230 calories, 13 grams of fat, 9 grams of saturated fat, 130 milligrams of sodium, 26 grams of carbohydrates, and 23 grams of sugar).

Yup, some of the flavors sound Ben & Jerry’s-like, but Wonka Ice Cream’s 14-ounce containers are definitely Haagen-Dazs-like. If you happen to get your hands on some, let us know what you think of them in the comments below.

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NEWS: Fill Your Stolen IHOP Syrup Bottles With IHOP at HOME Syrups

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I once stole a syrup bottle from IHOP because I love making them talk or making them throw up syrup.

Since that spontaneous theft happened over 10 years, I believe the statute of limitations has passed, so it’s safe for me to admit I took a syrup bottle from IHOP. Besides, I don’t have the syrup bottle anymore, so I don’t know if IHOP could charge me with anything because without the bottle, no case can go full throttle.

Too bad I don’t have that syrup bottle anymore, because if I did, I could fill it up with one of the new IHOP at HOME Syrups, which come in five flavors: Original, Lite, Sugar Free, Rooty Tooty Fresh ‘N Fruity Strawberry, and Rooty Tooty Fresh ‘N Fruity Blueberry.

A 1/4 cup of Original Syrup has 220 calories, 0 grams of fat, 96 milligrams of sodium, 54 grams of carbohydrates, 28 grams of sugar. The Lite version has 110 calories, 0 grams of fat, 119 milligrams of sodium, 27 grams of carbohydrates, and 25 grams of sugar. Sugar Free has 15 calories, 0 grams of fat, 133 milligrams of sodium, 5 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of sugar, and 4 grams of sugar alcohol. The fruit flavored syrups are made with real fruit and have 200 calories, 0 grams of fat, 15 milligrams of sodium, 50 grams of carbohydrates, and 21 or 23 grams of sugar.

IHOP at HOME Syrups are available now. The Original, Lite and Sugar Free varieties come in 24-ounce bottles, while the fruity flavors are in a 12-ounce bottles.

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NEWS: Try To Make Your Microwave Feel Shame By Warming Up The New Limited Edition Hot Pockets Varieties In It

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Update: Click here to read our Hot Pockets Limited Edition Chili Sauce Cheese Dog review

Update #2: Click here to read our Hot Pockets Limited Edition BBQ Recipe Bacon Burger review

Hey, remember those limited edition Hot Pockets we reviewed last year? Well, it turns out the folks at Hot Pockets introduced new limited edition varieties this year: Chili Sauce Cheese Dog and BBQ Recipe Bacon Burger.

When Impulsive Buy reader Ree told us to check out the Hot Pockets Limited Edition Chili Sauce Cheese Dog on our Facebook page, I immediately took to the internets to find out whatever I could about it. I found a review, I learned they look more like Twinkies than regular Hot Pockets, and one of them has 280 calories, 13 grams of fat, 5 grams of saturated fat, 620 milligrams of sodium, 31 grams of carbohydrates, 2 grams of fiber, and 9 grams of protein.

During my Googling, I also learned about the Hot Pocket Limited Edition BBQ Recipe Bacon Burger. Just like the Chili Sauce Cheese Dog, this limited edition variety isn’t like a regular Hot Pocket, instead it more like Hot Pockets Sideshots. A serving has 290 calories, 9 grams of fat, 3.5 grams of saturated fat, 0.5 grams of trans fat, 620 milligrams of sodium, 42 grams of carbohydrates, 10 grams of sugar, and 10 grams of protein.

NEWS: Pizza Hut in the Middle East Puts Pizza Hut in America To Shame

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I’m just going to embed these two recent Pizza Hut commercials from the Middle East and then I’m going to imagine your jaws dropping.

More info at A Hamburger Today.

Thanks to JB McDaniel for letting us know about these pizzas via our Facebook page.

REVIEW: Ben & Jerry’s Limited Batch Banana Cream Pie

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Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Banana Cream Pie

When you do a search for something you think is innocuous like “cream pie” and Google Instant suddenly disappears, you know you’re about to learn about something you probably didn’t want to know.

When you do a search for “banana cream pie jokes” and it gets even worse, you just want to give up.

So let’s start over.

Awful sexual terms aside, when I think about cream pies, I think clowns. I think Stooges. I think classic comedy. The pie in the face is right up there with the banana peel on the ground. And this new Ben & Jerry’s Banana Cream Pie ice cream has cream pie and bananas!

While it may be tempting, please do not attempt to use a pint of this ice cream to hit somebody in the face. It will probably not be funny. Also, setting it on the ground will probably not result in a pratfall; whoever you’re trying to prank will probably just wonder why a perfectly good carton of ice cream is sitting on the ground, getting all melty. Also not funny.

Banana Cream Pie is an “Exclusive Batch”, which means it’s only available at Walmart. Which means I had to go to Walmart. The things I do for you TIB readers. It’s not even listed on the Ben & Jerry’s website, so you can sneak out to your local Walmart, pick up a pint, and be the envy of all your neighbors.

“Hey, I’ve never seen that Ben & Jerry’s flavor before!” They’ll say. “Where did you get it?” Then you can look all smug and tell them you’ve got secret ice cream connections. They’ll be so impressed. Also, your neighbors are fucking weird and you should really think about moving. Or, as the cow that just got pied in the face on the front of the B&J’s carton would say, “moooving”.

I’m sorry. In my defense, Ben & Jerry themselves say on the carton, “If you’re a fan of Banana Cream Pie, you’ll love the in-your-face taste of Banana Cream Pie ice cream.” Yes, that’s right. In your face. The puns, they just can’t be helped. You could say they are punstoppable. Someone help me.

Anyways, the official description of Ben & Jerry’s Banana Cream Pie is “banana ice cream with pastry cream swirls, marshmallow swirls & pie crust pieces”.

Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Banana Cream Pie Closeup

Well, that sounds like a pretty close approximation to a deconstructed banana cream pie. Unfortunately, to me it tasted more “fallen apart” than “deconstructed”. I thought the banana flavor tasted a little artificial, but a quick look at the ingredients revealed that real bananas are used, which makes me wonder if some of the other ingredients tricked my taste buds.

There was a pleasant and authentic pie crust flavor, but there weren’t big chunks like I expected. Instead, it was more of a grainy texture, like the crust had been completely pulverized before being added to the ice cream.

As for the marshmallow and pastry cream swirls, well, I could see swirls, but they looked darker than marshmallows or pastry cream. In fact, they looked more like banana swirls than anything. If I tried really hard, I could taste a bit of marshmallow, but the pastry cream flavor was nowhere to be found, even if I closed my eyes and pretended real hard.

Ben & Jerry’s usually delivers on their flavors – even the wacky ones – but I feel as though they missed the mark on Banana Cream Pie. Without the marshmallow and pastry cream flavors, you’re left with banana ice cream that has some grainy pie crust flavor to it. I love B&J and their constant stream of new flavors, so I won’t threaten to chuck a carton of this ice cream at them. Perhaps if I hit them in the face with a real banana cream pie, they would understand what this ice cream should have tasted like.

(Nutrition Facts — 1/2 cup — 260 calories, 110 calories from fat, 12 grams of total fat, 6 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 65 milligrams of cholesterol, 100 milligrams of sodium, 34 grams of total carbohydrates, 0 grams of dietary fiber, 24 grams of sugar, 4 grams of protein, 8% vitamin A, 10% calcium and 2% iron.)

Item: Ben & Jerry’s Limited Batch Banana Cream Pie
Price: $3.25
Size: 1 pint
Purchased at: Walmart
Rating: 3 out of 10
Pros: Real bananas used. Classic pie-in-the-face joke. Pie crust was tasty and authentic. Classic banana-peel-on-the-ground joke. Tiny hint of marshmallow did taste good.
Cons: No pastry cream taste and barely any marshmallow. Learning from Google that “cream pie” is not an innocent search term. Pie crust was grainy instead of chunky. Clowns. Bananas tasted somewhat artificial even though they weren’t.

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