Thursday, March 31, 2011

Baskin Robbins 32 Flavors?

I am by no means an ice cream connoisseur or even an ice cream snob. I ususally don't eat ice cream and when I do, my tastes are pretty parochial and I stick with pistachio. And if pistachio is not available I usually will pass. That being said, I will still try something if it piques my interest.


Even though I work for a football team, I still am a big baseball fan at heart. So when I heard that Baskin and Robbins had a flavor named Baseball Nut®, I had to give it a try. It is a seasonal flavor that Baskin and Robbin rotates with other flavors that make up their lineup of 31 flavors. Baseball Nut® is a vanilla ice cream with a ribbon of black raspberry and cashew nuts. Even I know that Baskin and Robbins is not the best ice cream out there but I still went ahead and ordered a small scoop on a sugar cone. The ice cream wasn't that bad. Not creamy nor rich as the premium stuff but the flavors were not overpowering each other and there was no aftertaste. At least the ice cream didn't have any aftertaste.


I usually like sugar cones with my ice cream, as they provide a nice crunchy texture to go with the cool smooth ice cream. But this cone was unbelievably disgusting. It literally tasted like Play-Doh, that child's modeling clay toy. Now I have never eaten Play-Doh, but as a child I did know a few kids that did. But the taste of this cone was exactly like the smell of Play-Doh. It was so bad that I chucked the rest of the cone in the trash.

The aftertaste was so bad that I went over to a hot dog truck in front of Home Depot and ordered a chili dog to get the taste of Play-Doh out of my mouth. This was one ice cream flavor I could have done without.