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 Review: Good Humor Chocolate Éclair Bars

Summer is Ice Cream Novelty season. Remember all of those treats, mostly on sticks, that you used to buy at the ice cream truck when you were a kid? Well, there’s nothing stopping you from eating them as a grownup. If you’re lucky enough, that is, to live in a place where the ice cream truck hasn’t gone out of business because of high gas prices, or it hasn’t been banned because of its noise pollution or its carbon footprint or the fact that it sells stuff made with corn syrup or trans fat or whatever the evil of the day is.

Fortunately, you can buy a lot of these treats at the supermarket, too. Unfortunately, it turns out that it might not be worth the bother.

Seriously, what have they done to these Chocolate Éclair bars? The chocolate inside layer is a nasty icy texture. There isn’t enough vanilla ice cream surrounding it, ruining the interplay between chocolate and vanilla. The chocolate coating, which has the cake crumbs stuck to it – it’s barely thick enough to be chocolate-colored, much less chocolate flavored. And didn’t the cake crumbs used to be both chocolate and vanilla? And why are they so stingy with them? And the whole deal is too darn sweet.

I didn’t even finish it. I can’t remember ever in my life not finishing a serving of ice cream.

I had planned to also conduct research into the mystery of why these are called Chocolate Eclairs when they bear not even a metaphorical resemblance to the pastry of the same name, which has a non-chocolate filling and no relationship to cake crumbs. But now I’m too depressed.

• Good Humor website