Ice Cream Coupon Giveaway

Here at Snackerrific, we love frozen snacks - from Fruit Ice Pops to Fudgsicles (but only the original flavor, thanks), we can’t get enough. Well, now you can get in on some frozen goodness as well!

For our inaugural giveaway here at Snackerrific, we’re offering 15 full value (up to $7) coupons for frozen treats from Klondike, Good Humor, Breyers, and Popsicle. So, how do you get them? Simple, really. Leave a comment with an original ice cream haiku and the writers will vote for the best three. In addition to those three, two others we pick at random will also win. That means all five winners will receive $21 worth of coupons for ice cream!

Don’t forget to use your real email address when you leave your comment - it won’t appear on the site, but we need it to notify you if you win!

We’ll read submissions through October 13, 2008, which leaves you two weeks to come up with your own poetic genius. Winners will be announced October 20.

The fine print
Prizes can be sent to US addresses only. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older. One entry per person, per email address. Offer void where prohibited. Not responsible for lost, misdirected, or unread e-mail. If you don’t reply to the winning email in 2 days, your prize will be forfeit and we will choose another winner. Entries must be received no later than midnight EST on October 13, 2008. Two random entries will be chosen as winners from all entries.

Snack News: PETA Asks Ben & Jerry’s to Make Ice Cream with Human Breast Milk

United Press International (UPI) reports that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has formally asked the makers of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to use human breast milk instead of cow’s milk in all of their products.

The PETA statement reads “[the] request comes in the wake of news reports that a Swiss restaurant owner will begin purchasing breast milk from nursing mothers and substituting breast milk for much of the cow’s milk in the food he serves.” The letter also says “the fact that human adults consume huge quantities of dairy products made from milk that was meant for a baby cow just doesn’t make sense. Everyone knows that ‘the breast is best,’ so Ben & Jerry’s could do consumers and cows a big favor by making the switch.”

The folks at Ben & Jerry’s declined the idea and in a statement said, “We applaud PETA’s novel approach to bringing attention to an issue, but we believe a mother’s milk is best used for her child.”

The mere mention of using breast milk in ice cream raises all sorts of possibilities for new flavor names: Lactating Lemon, Boob-berries and Cream… oh, I just can’t go on without offending a whole Double-D-cupful of people.

I love Ben & Jerry’s, by the way, and as a baby I loved breast milk, or so I’m told.

• Ben & Jerry’s Website
• PETA Website

Snack Review: Triple Chocolate Fudgsicle Assortment

After my traumatic experience with the Chocolate Éclair Bar, you’d think I’d have learned. But I was intrigued by the introduction of dark and white chocolate versions of the original Fudgsicle. I realized that this just left me open to the possibility that this would be a box of Triple Disappointment: the old-fashioned milk chocolate being not as good as I remembered and the new kinds being both not traditional and no good at all.

But what can I say? Hope springing eternal, as well as the fact that “Triple Disappointment” sounded like a charmingly bad translation of a name of a dish on a Chinese restaurant menu, sucked me in.

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Snack Review: Smooze! Fruit Ice

I was a sucker for the romance of these when I saw them at my nemesis, Whole Foods. Made of little else besides coconut milk and fruit juice, they are “freshly packed at our farm located on the Equator in East Sumatra, Indonesia,” says the box. And so politically correct: “Our focus on environmental and ethical best practices ensures self sufficiency and sustainability.”

All that, and a delicious snack too? Is it possible? They say that they have “a constant supply of fresh, ripe fruits packed in optimal conditions within hours of picking.” It can’t get better than that, right? And only fifty calories each!

Anyway, they had me at “coconut milk.” It’s one of my weaknesses. There was no way I could avoid trying these.

I couldn’t decide what flavor, though. Hello, snack-makers! Please note: a variety pack is ALWAYS a good idea. Unfortunately, one was not offered in this case, so I had to make a choice. I am a huge fan of mango, as I often mention. But because, as a result, I am very opinionated about mango, I thought maybe that would be an unfair trial. Maybe passion fruit would be a better idea.

Good try. I bought the passion fruit flavor. But then I had to go back to the store and get mango also. The things I do for you, dear readers. I hope you appreciate it.

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Snack Review: Breyers Pomegranate Blends All Fruit Ice Pops

Pomegranate is supposed to be one of those new miracle foods that will make you live forever. Trumpeting antioxidants on a box of ice pops seems silly to me. I mean, if you want a fruit-flavored healthy snack, let’s face it, they invented that a long time ago: they call it fruit.

But I’m always on the lookout for an ice pop made with real fruit juice for a more sensible reason: because they usually taste better. So I figured I ought to give these a go. If nothing else, they’d be a lot easier to eat than sucking all those little pomegranate seeds to get the juice off them. You have to feel sorry for the first human who was hungry enough to try that, you know?

The first thing you notice about these is that they have a much softer texture than something like a Popsicle – definitely not that hard snappy kind of ice pop. If you eat them slowly enough they soften into something almost like Italian ice.

They come in three flavors. Fortunately for the fussy among us, they are helpfully labeled on the outside of each pop so you don’t have to rip a corner open to see which flavor it is.

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