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[Deadly Cyclone]

Where is your god now?

Ben & Jerry's first released its core flavor concept stateside early last year. The flavors featured ice cream around a center tunnel of jam, caramel, or chocolate fudge. This week, the Vermont-based ice creamery releases three new flavors and they're every milk-and-cookie lovers' dream: Boom Chocolatta! Cookie Core, Peanut Buttah Cookie Core, and Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core.

http://www.eater.com/2015/1/13/7538033/ben-jerrys-new-cookie-core-flavors

 

[Ferrio]

Oh great thanks you bastards AFTER i start my diet.

 

[Dai101]

Jeje. el dijo culos.

 

[The_Hitcher89]

All of the Cores they sell in the UK have something that ruins them


And they never sold the Apple Pie one over here afaik


And they don't sell Chunky Monkey anymore




I'm moving to the US ¬¬

 

[CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls]

 

[DeadNames]

What do they mean core?

 

[Escape Goat]

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

What do they mean core?

Meaning down the middle of the ice cream is a hole filled with X ingredient. In this case, cookie butter.

 

[Guevara]

I don't really like Core: too much goo, not enough ice cream. But I'll have to try this one.

Edit: this is Core

 

[loaf of bread]

What do they mean core?

There is a pole (core) of filling (speculoos) that runs down the middle of the pint.

 

[Chris R]

What do they mean core?

There is a solid core of the good stuff running through the entire thing of ice cream.

Think of it like a wheel and axle from the diabetus hypetrain.

 

[YuriLowell]

This sounds amazing.
Between this and 1.50 for 10 nuggets its a great time to be alive.

 

[Admiral Bone to Pick]

Welp this is going to be my keto cheat day food.

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

what a way to fuck up everyone's new year resolution

 

[Shanlei91]

I don't really like Core: too much goo, not enough ice cream. But I'll have to try this one.

Edit: this is Core

I...think I love core.

 

[SymbiantXenos]

Peanut butter cup ice cream = the g.o.a.t

 

[BronsonLee]

Oh you bastards

 

[backflip10019]

Oh great thanks you bastards AFTER i start my diet.

Same here. Maybe I'll eat this later in the year when I hit my goal weight. *cries*

 

[Ringo]

Hope they'll be selling it in Belgium as we crave everything with speculaas...

 

[BrassDragon]

 

[ahoyhoy]

I don't really like Core: too much goo, not enough ice cream. But I'll have to try this one.

Edit: this is Core

Lord knows I'd shoot that core.

 

[bigosc2k]

 

[RS4-]

Where do I find this in Toronto

 

[a secret-boss]

Time to go to Walmart buy 1 of each

 

[DarkKyo]

Serious question: are Ben and Jerry trying to kill me?

 

[Rest]

I read that as speculum. Why is there a brand of cookie which its name sounds so much like speculum?

 

[BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO]

Serious question: are Ben and Jerry trying to kill me?

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[red13th]

Reading this makes me so glad that I'm going to America next month.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Ben and Jerry's is gross. The most overrated ice cream maker.

 

[SteveWinwood]

whats a specaloo

 

[SeaOfMadness]

They're late to the party:

 

[piratepwnsninja]

This sounds amazing.
Between this and 1.50 for 10 nuggets its a great time to be alive.

Just not for long.

 

[leakey]

Oh, baby! BOom Chocolocka!

 

[Prez]

Is this US only?

 

[akira28]

This sounds amazing.
Between this and 1.50 for 10 nuggets its a great time to be alive.

dip the nuggets in the cookie butter and the greatness will intensify until you die.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

They're late to the party:

I can get behind this.

 

[Nesotenso]

They're late to the party:

I had this and I liked it but I liked Trader Joe's eggnog ice cream more.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

Meh, American brands like Ben & Jerry's are pumped too full with fat and air. I guess your dulled American taste buds need all that fat to be able to feel anything.

I much prefer Italian-style ice cream.

 

[Sovereign]

Oh, hell yeah!

 

[kruis]

Hope they'll be selling it in Belgium as we crave everything with speculaas...

You're goddamn right: it's called speculaas. Whoever came up with ... speculoos ... should be hung and quartered.

Gevulde speculaas ... hmmm ... I have no idea why they don't sell this throughout the year. So good!

 

[BrassDragon]

You're goddamn right: it's called speculaas. Whoever came up with ... speculoos ... should be hung and quartered.



Gevulde speculaas ... hmmm ... I have no idea why they don't sell this throughout the year. So good!

Nope, they're two different things - speculaas is the Dutch variant, speculoos the Belgian one. The latter doesn't have the spices of the Dutch (just ginger, taste like caramel) hence 'speculoos' (=spiceless in Dutch).

 

[pashmilla]

Speculoos is orgasmic. Ben and Jerry's is also orgasmic. Can the human body withstand this much orgasmicosity? I need it now.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

The salted caramel core one is so good. Replaced karamel sutra as my Ben and Jerrys go to flavor.

What the hell is speculous tho?

 

[The Broken Ska Record]

That peanut butter one. Hungh.

 

[Fjordson]

So these are already in stores? Well shit.

 

[fancimus]

The chocolate and the peanut butter flavors look best to me. My favorite of this core genre is still the raspberry flavor. It solves the great debate between having a chocolate-y desert or a fruity one.

 

[kruis]

Nope, they're two different things - speculaas is the Dutch variant, speculoos the Belgian one. The latter doesn't have the spices of the Dutch (just ginger, taste like caramel) hence 'speculoos' (=spiceless in Dutch).

Not true at all.

Sommige Belgische grootfabrikanten gebruiken weinig of geen speculaaskruiden, omdat deze in het Zuiden te duur waren voor een commercieel massaproduct. De hoofdingrediënten van hun koekjes zijn enkel tarwebloem (geen rogge in het mengsel), kandijstroop (van bietsuiker ) en − met wat geluk − kaneel. Deze niet-kruidige karamelkoekjes werden sinds enkele decennia de pseudo-traditionele, belgicistische term speculoos toegedicht, wat eigenlijk gewoon de Franse transcriptie van de Vlaamse uitspraak 'speculoas' is. Bij warme bakkers in Vlaanderen en Wallonië zal men rond de eindejaarsfeesten ( van Sint-Maarten tot Driekoningen) echter wel nog de authentiek traditionele speculaas vinden, met een aandeel roggemeel, ruwe rietsuiker, boter en kruiden.

So: speculoos is the cheap industrial made version of speculaas. It's called speculoos, because that's the French loan word. Real speculaas however is still made in Flanders, see for instance http://www.hasseltfeestspeculaas.be/

BTW It's typical that the watered down, cheapo version of speculaas (ie speculoos) is the variant that's become well known in the US ...

 

[BrassDragon]

Not true at all.

Erm, at all? You basically elaborated on what I said. I didn't google the etymology though, that was interesting.

 

[Anjelus_]

Has anyone actually found these damn flavors? I've looked at my local Target/Ralph's/Walgreens/Whole Foods and they had nichts. How am I supposed to eat them if I can't find them???

 

[BoboBrazil]

Has anyone actually found these damn flavors? I've looked at my local Target/Ralph's/Walgreens/Whole Foods and they had nichts. How am I supposed to eat them if I can't find them???

They had them at Walmart today. I picked up the speculoos and it's incredible.