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: Breyer’s Peach Ice Cream

Sometimes I kind of wonder who eats Breyer’s ice cream anymore. When I was kid, it was pretty much the only brand in town. But how can they even stay in business against Ben and Jerry’s and all those other dense high-fat brands with the crazy flavors?

Well, someone must buy it, because it’s still around, although the familiar rectangular boxes have shrunk from half-gallon to 1.5 quarts (without any decrease in price, as with a lot of products, someone was reporting on the radio lately).

It’s summer, peaches are in season, and I had a wicked craving for peach ice cream. Not “peach cobbler” or “peach melba” oh, please, don’t get me started on what is wrong with America that we think that if one ingredient is good then fifteen toppings on a pizza simultaneously must be better. I wanted just the heavenly combination of two perfect simple tastes that is ripe peaches and cream, which truly must be the flavor they eat in any decent afterlife that might exist.

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Snack Review: Edy’s Slow Churned Neapolitan Ice Cream

I don’t usually bother with low fat ice cream. I’d rather just eat a smaller portion less often of something that’s actually good.

I decided to try this anyway because it got a good review in Consumer Reports. I am ambivalent about the food reviews in Consumer Reports. On the one hand, they seem to be quite systematic and to have some idea of what they’re talking about. On the other hand, you turn the page and there’s an article telling you that when you grill food, you should wrap it in foil and make sure it doesn’t get any charred parts because they are bad for you. Hello, CR, did you ever notice that the tasty charred parts are the only conceivable reason to grill something instead of cooking it in a convenient indoor kitchen??

Anyway, the chocolate flavor was rated “very good” and described as “No flaws; typical chocolate ice cream.” Not exactly a rave, but, hey, I’d be thrilled if someone told me I had no flaws, right?
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