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Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Therapy Ice Cream Review
This has a great name! I am loving my Psychology Today and PsychCentral blogs, for which I do the cartoons and also write articles. I’ve done many cartoons on chocolate, on therapy, and even in my chocolate book I have relationships with certain foods.
(Copyright infringement from Ben & Jerry’s on the name because of the book below? – nah, these are nice guys. They’re liberal and they’re from Vermont. Btw, there are 12 Chocolate Therapy titles on Amazon, but the book I have, Chocolate Therapy: Dare to Discover Your Inner Center, is below 🙂 )
Also has an interesting description. The pint lid describes it as: Chocolate Ice Cream with Chocolate Cookies & Swirls of Chocolate Pudding Ice Cream. I would suspect them of padding the keyword chocolate for SEO, since it’s written 3 times, if it wasn’t on the hardcopy container… 🙂
But it sounds great, right?
Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Therapy ice cream on the couch
So: great title, interesting qualities, trustworthy brand…I would love to recommend it, but this is not well executed. It has a medium dark flavor, with little annoying chocolate bits that feel like miniature chocolate chips in your mouth – these might be the cookies, but it does not have that softer cookie texture at all, as they are too hard. In addition, you can’t tell where the “pudding” part is in the scoop. I even let it melt for 5 minutes (I’m usually a rock-hard ice cream gal), but nope, no pudding texture or flavor to be found.
The chocolate taste in also not as intense as in their far more popular brother, Chocolate Brownie, which has satisfying bits of crumbly brownie strewn throughout. Or maybe it’s just not that quality of a chocolate.
I generally do like Ben & Jerry, so my message to them is what some editors have told me: This didn’t quite work for us, but please keep trying. (which makes me never want to send anything more to that editor ever again, btw.)
What others think about B&J’s Chocolate Therapy Ice Cream
From Amazon: This review was on the correct page, but was for Strawberry Cheesecake.They throw all the reviews for Ben & Jerry’s flavors on the same page. I just had to post it here:
Great ice cream. It was packed in dry ice so it could be shipped. I am a handicapped widow. It was such a treat to have some terrific ice cream. I have to order everything online. This is the first time I could order something that was perishable. I haven’t had any ice cream since my husband passed away 4 years ago.
This one is for Chocolate Therapy alone:
OMG…They named it correctly. My local source has disappeared, for some unknown reason! Do not try to down the whole thing at one go…it’s that rich. A tablespoon is therapy for a really lousy day, though!
Ice Cream Recovery Reviews has a lot of close-up photos – one of which looks like the entire pint cut in half. 🙂 And is very detailed.
This pint get 95/100. It’s really good for an ice cream that revolves around one flavor. That said, they could have made more of an effort to switch up the textures because everything sort of rolls together into one thick and fudgy chocolate dessert.
Where to buy Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
Almost anywhere. It’s definitely worth a try. If you love it, Amazon has a good deal.
And Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream is a staple in my freezer. Amazon.
