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More fat may make the ice cream taste better in
ice cream sandwiches.

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or me, the harbinger of sum-
mer is not the crack of a bat
as it slams into the ball on
opening day nor is it the an-
nual bathing suit sale at the local
department store.
No, I know that summer is just
around the corner when I hear the
chiming of bells and the sounding
of a warped version of "Pop Goes
The Weasel" from a slow-moving
truck. While little robin red breast
may usher in spring, nothing re-
calls the first days of summer like
the Good Humor man.
So, when I heard the chimes
and the cheap recording for the
first time in many long winter
months, I acted more like an 8-
year-old than a 28-year-old as I
rushed inside my house to scrape
together enough coinage for an ice
cream sandwich. I savored each
bite, taking care to lick up any er-
rant drops of melted bliss.
As we approach the final days
of a somewhat dismal spring, I am
happy to announce that my neigh-
borhood ice cream man is back in
action.
For this taste test, we wanted
to see if the amount of fat in an ice
cream sandwich made any differ-
ence in the taste so we made ran-
dom selections from Kroger's
freezer shelves.
The Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream
Sandwiches — vanilla ice cream
with Pepperidge Farms cookies —
had three ice cream sandwiches
per box, each sandwich boasting
260 calories, a startling 13 grams
of fat, 31 grams of carbohydrates,
four grams of protein and 65 mil-
ligrams of cholesterol. The pack-
age cost $3.29.
The Klondike Big Bear Vanil-
la Flavored Ice Cream Sandwich-
es carry seven grams of fat, 200
calories, 15 milligrams of choles-
terol, 130 milligrams of sodium,
31 grams of carbohydrates and
three grams of protein. It cost
$3.39 for a package of six sand-
wiches that were roughly the
same size as the Haagen-Dazs
sandwiches.
The Betty Crocker Healthy
Temptations had half the calories
and was half the size of the
Klondike, but had 1.5 grams of fat,
95 milligrams of sodium, 20 grams
of carbohydrates and three grams
of protein. The box of 12 sand-
wiches cost $3.59.

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Clearly fat played a big part in
the taste of the ice cream sand-
wiches. The one carrying the high-
est fat count got the highest rating,
the one lacking the fat garnered

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But one must remember, sum-
mer is a time when cooler cloth-
ing may mean more bulges
showing. Although the fat may
make the ice cream taste better,
the fat also makes the bulges big-
ger. Therefore, a higher rating
may not be what one looks for with
ice cream sandwiches.

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Haagen-Dazs Vanilla and
Chocolate

"Can I give this five forks? Mm-
mmm. Great chocolate flavor!"

— Patty McMurray

"Pepperidge Farms cookie and
Haagen-Dazs? What a team!"

— Julie Edgar

Klondike Premium Big Bear

"Yummy cookie but a bit too much
ice cream."

— Lynne Korzstantin

"Creamy ice cream, good cookie.
Yummy but second to Haagen-
Dazs."

—Debbie Schultz

Betty Crocker Healthy
Temptations Low Fat

"Back to the mixing bowl, Betty!"

— Gayle Baldi

"Tasteless but I feel like I'm not
cheating by consuming mega calo-
nes."
— Shari Cimino ❑

St Kosher Bites is a nonscien-
tific, consumer-oriented taste
test. Since consumers general-
ly do not engage in market re-
search prior to picking products
to purchase, we don't either. We
test what grabs us and what is
readily available on grocery
market shelves. We offer our
honest, maven-driven opinions,
as best we can.
Please let us know if you
have any suggestions for this
column, We are willing to by al-
most any kosher product for the

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