the aftertaste is exactly that of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese-nothing I've ever yearned for from a dessert but possibly a scientific marvel. The color, akin to the liquified cheese remnants at the bottom of a plastic bowl after a sad overcooked pasta meal, doesn't help.Īnd the aftertaste. But it is modeled after a Kraft dinner, and that knowledge clouds every bite. This ice cream has notes of salted caramel and would maybe be passable if you didn't know it was modeled after a Kraft dinner. What I received was a perfectly round, strikingly orange scoop of ice cream. STAY COOL: Where to get soft serve ice cream and custard in Houston I steeled myself and handed over my $6, thinking longingly of the pint of Creamy Creations back home in my freezer. This neon monstrosity stared back at me as I waiting for a scoop that cost almost as much as a half-gallon of Blue Bell. "Ehhhhhhh," said the Van Leeuwen employee, unwilling to speak ill of the $6 ball of neon orange the customer had ordered. "Is it good?" a woman asked as an employee handed her a scoop of the concoction. Two customers ahead of me ordered scoops as I waited. And that’s the tea.GRAB A SLICE: These Houston spots for regional pizza styles will satisfy your travel-starved soulĪnd because I believe in suffering for my art, I headed to Rice Village minutes after opening to sample this science experiment.Ĭoincidentally, I wasn't the only one there with an apparent hunger for cheese-flavored ice cream at 11:15 a.m. Consumers think it tastes a heck of a lot like Arizona Iced Tea, but from what I can tell from these reviews, it still has enough earthiness that if you are a green tea person and not necessarily an Arizona person, you still might like this quite a bit. Essentially, it is a sweet green tea ice cream with little crunchy honeycomb pieces. It also has lil honeycomb pieces in it for a bit of texture. As for the taste, the consensus seems to be that it is extremely accurate to Arizona Tea. The verdict? The ice cream itself is not green or brown, it is greenish brown one reviewer noted that it looks like guacamole. While we knew the packaging would have that telltale seafoam-green-with-pink-flowers aesthetic that is so iconic to Arizona Tea, the rest of the info about this ice cream remained a mystery until just recently, when people started buying it and trying it out. What will this new Arizona green tea ice cream be like? Will it taste more like a can of Arizona or more like a classic green tea ice cream you might get elsewhere?Īlright, here’s the scoop (heh). + at a popup truck near Union Square on Jin New York City. How? Van Leeuwen strikes again! The company that brought us ice cream flavored like pizza, Kraft Mac & Cheese, Hidden Valley Ranch, and Grey Poupon and Pretzel (not to mention lots of totally normal flavors) is bringing us an Arizona Green Tea with Honeycomb flavor, and I couldn’t be more stoked. A womans Van Leeuwen new Kraft mac and cheese flavor ice cream melts due to the high temperatures. No, I mean real, purposeful Arizona in the freezer section. That mac & cheese ice cream from Kraft and Van Leeuwen that went wildly viral about one-and-a-half months ago is officially back and available for you to purchase riiiight now. And no it isn’t just a bunch of frozen, half-exploded cans of tea hidden in random spots all over the supermarket, because we all know that is something eighth graders would do (seeing as eighth graders’ top two favorite things are pranks and Arizona Iced Tea). We Regret to Inform You That Van Leeuwen’s Kraft Mac and Cheese Ice Cream Is Very Good It’s not just nostalgia or the enduring power of that neon-orange cheese powder. Good news if you like your Arizona iced tea really, really cold: You can now get it in the freezer aisle.
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