Ben & Jerry's - Roasted & Toasted (Walmart Exclusive)

Roasted & Toasted - Dark Chocolate Ice Cream with Fudge Chunks, Fudge-Covered Roasted Almonds & a Toasted Marshmallow Swirl

I stopped by Walmart to check out their ice cream display -- I only go to Walmart for ice cream -- and I was surprised to see a brand-new Ben & Jerry's Flavor called Roasted & Toasted.  I had not heard anything about a new flavor and there it was.  Unfortunately, this particular Walmart's freezer case had severe frost issues.  So thick was the frost on the outside of these pints that I was concerned for the integrity of the ice cream inside.  After researching online, I found another Walmart location and their freezer case had frost issues too, but thankfully their pints of Roasted & Toasted were freshly stocked and appeared to be unscathed.

This is the first Ben & Jerry's pint I've seen with a dark chocolate base.  McConnell's Chocolate Almond Brittle had a dark chocolate base, but not any Ben & Jerry's pint that I've had.  Opening the pint the first think I noticed was that the dark chocolate was indeed very dark.  Also noticeable were dark golden color of the toasted marshmallow swirls and a couple of the fudge chunks.  Digging into the pint dark chocolate base was very tasty.  The marshmallow swirls did not end up making the pint gooey as it did in the Phish Food flavor, but it did soften the pint up a bit as the dark chocolate base would otherwise be very thick.  The fudge chunks and fudge-covered almonds were generously dispersed throughout the pint.  The roastedness of the almond flavor really stuck out as I was crunching into these fill-ins.

I enjoyed this pint.  Its interesting to compare this to the McConnell's Chocolate Almond Brittle flavor as they are both dark chocolate bases with almond fill-ins.  The McConnell's base was thicker and had more of a fudgesicle consistency and its melt-in-your-mouth brittle softened it up a little bit but not as much as the marshmallow swirls did here.  In the brittle, the almond pieces were small and unroasted whereas here they were larger, fudge-covered and had a strong roasted flavor.

Walmart switches their exclusive flavors fairly frequently so if this flavor interests you and you can find a store with a decent freezer case, then check it out before they swap in a new flavor.