Ranking Ben and Jerrys Flavors #10-6

Here we go, the top ten. Needless to say, these are amazing flavors that I routinely buy when I can.

10. Red Velvet Cake: Based off the popular cake flavor, this is red velvet cake batter ice cream, with red velvet cake pieces and a cream cheese swirl. The red velvet ice cream tastes incredible, one of the best, most unique base flavors of ice cream I have ever had. The cake pieces dont add a ton of taste, but add a perfect chewy texture to the ice cream base. The wild card is the cream cheese swirl. its too subtle, if it were just a little more prevalent, this would be a top 5 flavor easily.

9. Phish Food: This is one of those chocolate rich flavors I did not think I would enjoy, but I was very wrong. Chocolate ice cream with fudge fish pieces, a marshmallow swirl, and a caramel swirl. A busy flavor that all comes together to create something special. Caramel, marshmallow and chocolate in one pint is a great and unique combo, and the fish shaped fudge pieces are a fun addition, and adds a hard mix in to offset all the swirls.

8. Cinnamon Buns: Cinnamon ice cream with a cinnamon swirl and cinnamon bun dough pieces. The swirl tastes perfect and the cinnamon dough is incredible as well. The only thing that sets this farther back than the 7 ahead of it is that cinnamon just isnt my favorite flavor when it comes to ice cream.

7. Chocolate Peppermint Crunch: A new flavor for 2013, chocolate ice cream with chocolate covered wafer cookies, a fudge swirl, and a peppermint swirl. The wafer cookies are amazing, like mini kit kats inside of ice cream. The fudge swirls dont add a whole lot, but the peppermint swirl sure does. Minty ice cream with mini kit kats? yes please.

6. Peanut Butter Jam session: Another new 2013 flavor, this one replaces Berry Voluntary seen previously in the countdown. Weve seen Snickers, Reeses, Cinnamon Buns, and other in ice cream form. This one is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in ice cream form. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. Peanut butter ice cream with Peanut butter swirls and raspberry swirls. The only gripe is the raspberry swirls are too subtle. If they were more prevalent, this would be a top 3 flavor.

Ranking Ben and Jerrys flavors 15-11

Now we are really getting into the good stuff. Starting with number 15 all these flavors are grade A flavors, and all of them I would welcome in my freezer anytime.

15. Chocolate Therapy: I am not a big fan of chocolate ice cream, so a flavor completely dedicated to it is one I did not think I would enjoy, and almost didnt even give it a chance. Im glad I did, as this flavor is so much better than I anticipated. Chocolate ice cream with chocolate cookie pieces and chocolate pudding swirls. The cookie pieces are great but the pudding swirl is what made this flavor for me. It added a soft contrasting texture to the ice cream that made it stand out as more than just plain chocolate ice cream.

14. Peanut Butter World: Earlier we had Nutty Caramel Swirl that I said was Snickers in ice cream form. Well this flavor is like Reeses in ice cream form. Milk Chocolate ice cream with peanut butter swirls and chocolate cookie pieces. Unfortunately the cookie pieces dont add much as it is very subtle compared to other flavors that incorporate them. The peanut butter combined with milk chocolate however is divine, if only the cookies fit in better this would be a top ten flavor easily.

13. Cotton Candy: An exclusive flavor found only at wal mart this flavor is cotton candy ice cream with candy sprinkles. The cotton candy flavor is perfectly subtle, not to in your face which can certainly happen for a cotton candy flavor. The candy sprinkles steal the show as they provide a crunchy texture, perfect for a candy flavor like cotton candy.

12. Scotchy Scotch Scotch: A current limited batch flavor, I certainly plan on stocking up on more if this delicious flavor before it goes away. Caramel ice cream with butterscotch swirls. This is basically like eating werthers butterscotch candies inside of ice cream, which is just as delicious as it sounds. I was expecting a soft swirl of butterscotch, but these were crunchy swirls just like the candy, making it even better in my opinion.

11. Brownie Chew Gooder: This is the first flavor I would classify as A+, so now we are entering the truly elite flavors. Vanilla caramel ice cream with brownies and a caramel swirl. I will tell you the combination of brownies and caramel is stunningly delicious, I cant believe more people dont go for this combination. Unfortunately this flavor has been discontinued, replaced by underwhelming Rockin' Blondies which we saw earlier in the countdown.

Ranking Ben and Jerrys Flavors 20-16

Well we have finally made it to the top half of the rankings, and now these flavors are starting to get really good.

20. Liz Lemon: The second of three frozen yogurt flavors on this countdown, this is simply lemon ice cream (frozen yogurt) with a lavender swirl. The lavender swirl really doesnt add any taste, so its really just lemon ice cream, which would normally lead to a low ranking due to blandness, but this lemon flavor is delicious. It reminded me of frozen lemonade, and it is quite impressive for such a simple flavor to get this high in the rankings.

19. Strawberry shortcake: The third and final frozen yogurt flavor. Strawberry ice cream with shortcake cookie pieces. The cookie pieces are perfect, in size, texture, and taste. This is the only flavor where I added something myself, and I threw graham crackers into this and it made it unbelievably good. Unfortunately the graham cracker part doesnt contribute to these rankings since its technically not part of the flavor.

18. Nutty Caramel Swirl: An exclusive flavor only available at 7-11. This is a very busy flavor chock full of mix ins. Nougat ice cream with peanuts, fudge flakes and a caramel swirl. I am on the record as saying I dont like nuts or fudge flakes in my ice cream, but in this flavor together with caramel and nougat ice cream. Why? Because these are all the ingredients of a Snickers, which is what this flavor basically is, Snickers in ice cream form. Sound amazing? it is. The only problem is the caramel swirl is really subtle, if it were a little more bold this could have been a top ten flavor. The peanuts are also unsalted, if they were salted we may be talking top five.

17. Half Baked: Now were really getting into the good stuff as this is the first flavor that is part of my "rotation" as in flavors I buy regularly while all the previous flavors I have only bought once. This is a mix of chocolate and vanilla ice cream with brownie and cookie dough. Really good, just a little to straight forward to be ranked higher.

16. Berry Voluntary: Sadly, this flavor has been discontinued, but the flavor that replaced it is even better as we'll see it later in this countdown. Raspberry cheesecake ice cream, with a rasperry swirl and white chocolate chunks. The swirl and ice cream flavor sync perfectly together and the white chocolate is a unique mix in, its the only flavor on this countdown that has it. White chocolate isnt as good as regular, but it worked perfectly for this delicious, sadly extinct flavor.

Ranking Ben and Jerrys flavors 25-21

With this we will round out the bottom half of my rankings and move into the top half next time.

25. Americone Dream: This flavor inspired by Stephen Colbert was much better than I anticipated. Vanilla Ice Cream with a Caramel Swirl and fudge covered waffle cone pieces. The Caramel Swirl pushes this one higher as it was delicious, as are all the Ben and Jerrys Flavors that incorporate a caramel Swirl. I am not a fan of waffle cones at all so I thought Id hate this one but the fudge coating made me enjoy it enough to push it this high in the ranking.

24. Mint Chocolate Cookie: Mint chocolate chip is probably my favorite "classic" ice cream flavor. Unfortunately Ben and Jerrys doesnt offer it, instead incorporating cookie instead of chocolate chips. The cookies are pretty good, but the mint flavor is way to subtle, and part of the fun of mint flavors is the green color, which this flavor lacks.

23. Cake Batter: I really wanted this flavor to be amazing, but all it is is cake batter ice cream with chocolate icing swirl. The batter flavor was too subtle, and I would have preffered vanilla icing swirl and/or cake pieces within the ice cream. One of those two things would have improved this flavor significantally.

22. Strawberry Cheesecake: The third of four cheesecake flavors, only one left now. The Graham cracker swirl in this one is actually too potent, the exact opposite of my gripe from the Blueberry cheesecake flavor. Somewhere in the middle between those two would be optimal, and the number one cheesecake flavor on this countdown does that. The strawberry flavor is great, but the actual strawberry pieces are hard to eat frozen, like nearly impossible, ruining it a bit.

21. Rockin Blondies: A new flavor for 2013, vanilla ice cream with blondie brownies and toffee pieces. This flavor replaces one of my favorites, coming up later in the countdown, and it was comparably disappointing. Blondie brownies are pretty bland when incorporated in ice cream, and the toffee pieces are way to subtle compared to another flavor that incorporates them coming up later on the countdown.

Ranking Ben and Jerry's flavors 30-26

We are still in the bottom half of the flavors, but they are getting better. Here are flavors 30-26 of the 40 Ben and Jerrys Flavors Ive tried.

30. Blueberry Vanilla Graham: Technically this isn't ice cream, its one of Ben and Jerrys flavors in their new frozen yogurt line, the first of three frozen yogurt flavors on this countdown, and therefore my least favorite. The vanilla tastes just like a vanilla yogurt, which is a little to tart for me, ad the blueberry tastes good, but where this flavor falls short is the lack of graham cracker. More graham cracker would have propelled this flavor way higher in the rankings.

29. Chunky Monkey: Banana ice cream with fudge chunks and walnuts. One of ben and Jerrys top selling flavors, falls into the too bland category for me. While the Banana flavor ice cream is delicious, Im not a huge fan of fudge chunks, and really not a fan of any kind of nuts in my ice cream.

28. Chocolate Nougat Crunch: Sweet cream ice cream with a nougat swirl fudge covered wafer cookies. at first taste I found this flavor amazing, but after that it was a let down. the sweet cream ice cream flavor became increasingly unbearably sweet and the wafer cookies were dissapointing, as I was anticipating a kit kat like flavor, but didnt get it. The nougat swirl was great, but as well see later in the countdown, there a better flavor that incorporates it.

27. Cheesecake Brownie: Cheesecake ice cream with brownies. Sounds incredible right? well it was good, but it could have been so much better. The brownies are much smaller than the Brownies in other Ben and Jerrys flavors that feature them, and the lack of graham cracker that is in every other cheesecake flavor of Ben and Jerrys makes this all too bland. Good, but so much potential wasted.

26. Cherry Garcia: Ben and Jerrys #1 all time selling flavor ultimately is a little to bland for my ambitous tastes. Cherry Ice cream with fudge flakes and cherries. I love cherries, and these huge cherries in this flavor are amazing, but besides that its just cherry ice cream with some chocolate, not to exciting for me.

Ranking Ben and Jerrys Flavors 35-31

Part two of my rankings of every Ben and Jerrys Ice Cream flavor Ive tried continues

35. Truffle Trifecta: This flavor as chocolate ice cream with Marshmallow, Caramel, and fudge truffles mixed in. It sounds delicious and wasnt bad at all, just boring. One of the few unexciting Ben and Jerrys flavors there are. No surprises, just choclate ice cream with the ocassional truffle mixed in. Yawn.

34. Peanut Butter Cup: Peanut Butter Ice cream with peanut butter cups. Another straightforward flavor that suffers from its own blandess. My biggest issue with this flavor is the peanut butter cups mixed in are rock hard and frozen, making it a chore to eat this flavor.

33. Blueberry Cheesecake: The first of four Cheesecake based flavors, and thus my least favorite. The problem with this one is Cheesecake flavor is so overpowering over the blueberry flavor that I dont taste any blueberry at all unless I close my eyes and concentrate real hard. Also, the graham cracker in this one is weak compared to the other cheesecake flavors.

32. S'mores: A flavor based off the popular campfire treat sounds like a great idea, but unfortunately the chocolate flavor overpowers the marshmallow and graham cracker flavor so much that it doesnt taste like much of a s'more at all.

31. Late Night Snack: Deep down I knew this wasnt my kind of flavor, but my curious side had to try it. Vanilla Bean Ice cream with chocolate covered potato chips. Potato chips in ice cream sounds gross to me and while its wasnt as repulsive as I feared it might be, it still wasn't all that good either. The saltiness mixed with vanilla was decent for a few bites, but then became to much.

We have now gotten through the bottom ten flavors of Ben and Jerrys ice cream that I have tried. Next time we'll countdown 30-26, not the worst flavors Ive tried, but still far from the best.

Ranking Ben and Jerrys Flavors # 40-36

Even though this is technically a theme Park blog I reserve the right to go off on a tangent and do whatever I want with it. I have decided that for the time being I am going to turn this into a countdown blog, counting down my favorite thing such as foods, movies, tv shows, rides, etc. starting today.

Now I am a relatively skinny person, at least for the time being, but despite this I still have a very big sweet tooth, especially for Ice Cream. I have had a love for Ben and Jerrys Ice Cream for the past two years or so and over the past two years I have tried 40 different flavors. Some of these flavors are absolutely delicious and have earned many repeat buys, some of them have been so gross I wont ever touch them again. Those are the ones we'll be talking about today as these are #40-36, the bottom five, of the Ben and Jerrys flavors that I have tried.

40. Creme Brulee: This flavor was so nasty that I didnt even make it past a first spoonful, honestly. I remember vividly when I tried this, August of 2012, and I still remember the gross flavor it had. This ice cream based off the french desert was supposed to taste like sugar and caramel but just tasted way to artificially sweet. This flavor has since been discontinued so I guess I wasnt the only one not fond of it.

39. Pina Colada: This limited edition flavor available as a summer flavor in summer 2013 based off the popular drink was another disgusting flavor to me. Coconut ice cream with pineapple chunks is the description. the ice cream flavor was pretty bland, resembling not a coconut at all to me. The pineapple chunks were rock hard, Ben and Jerrys usually does a good job of making sure their food mix ins dont have a frozen texture despite being in ice cream but this time they didnt. I made it past one spoonful, putting it above Creme Brulee, but I still didnt make it through even one full scoop. This flavor was supposed to be a limited edition flavor for the summer but we are in January and it is still available in many stores because it has sold so poorly.

38. Cannoli: Another limited edition flavor available from November 2012 through March 2013, I at least made it through half a pint of this one. Based off the italian desert this flavor was very sweet, and had mini cannoli pieces with the marscapone ice cream. It was an OK flavor, but the overly sweet nature of it made it hard to get through a bowl. Unlike the previous two flavor on this list however, I am in the minority on this one as most of the public loved this flavor.

37. Boston Cream Pie: Yet another flavor based off of a popular desert. Another flavor that was way to sweet, and the syrup inside made to resemble the filling of one of these pies was pretty gross.

36. Volun-Tiramisu: Yet another flavor off a popular desert, with a volun prefix to promote volunteering. the Tiramisu flavor was very much like coffee which isnt really up my alley.

Next time the countdown will continue with 35-31