McConnell's - Mint Chip

Mint Chip - A McC’s classic among classics. Fresh peppermint infused into our insanely creamy mix of fresh, Central Coast, grass-fed milk and cream and organic cage-free eggs, then mated to Guittard bittersweet chocolate.

Time for another McConnell's review.  The words above are there's and not mine.  I always feel like I have to remind the reader of that.  As gushy as they are in their short-description, they really go over the top this time in their Peterman-catalogue-style pint-side text this time.  Wow.  I am being transported through time and space, cursed at, and with the help of Dylan Thomas I am told that this ice cream will help in the fight against mortality.  Can this pint possibly deliver?

Happily, it does!  This is possibly the best pint of mint chip ice cream I've ever had.  Nothing fancy, just high quality mint and high quality chip.  Opening the pint, the first thing you notice is a yellow-ish tinge to the base.  I'm used to seeing the natural white mint or the artificial green mint but this yellow tinge is different.  It tasted great, though.  As with other McConnell's pints, it was a thicker ice cream with not a lot of air, but this time it very creamy and did not have an icy texture.  Double-checking the ingredient list, I wonder if its the eggs.  The other two McConnell's pints I had did not include eggs.  That might also explain the yellow-ish tinge.  It was still a strong minty flavor, it wasn't eggy like a New York Vanilla.  Perhaps the eggs made it more like a mint custard.  Then the chips were generously dispersed throughout the pint.  There were occasionally clustered a bit so that you would sometimes get a mint-heavy spoonful and sometimes get a chip-heavy spoonful.