Ben & Jerry's - Everything But The...

Everything But The... - A Collision of Chocolate & Vanilla Ice Creams mixed with Peanut Butter Cups, Fudge-Covered Toffee Pieces, White Chocolatey Chunks & Fudge-Covered Almonds

Ben & Jerry's shows its sense of humor with this latest pint.  Introduced in 2000, "Everything But The..." contains as many fill-ins as three flavors put together.  There's really no theme to the mixture either.  They just threw everything in there.  Well, they did leave out the kitchen sink as the name of the flavor implies.

Opening the pint, you see the swirls of the chocolate and vanilla bases plus a few of the fill-ins, a fudge covering for something, a white chocolate chunk, the ooze of caramel that must come from a toffee piece.  Digging into the pint, the base flavors were surprisingly noticeable even with all the fill-ins.  With all the peanut butter, caramel or brown sugar bases that I've had in recent pints, I really noticed the vanilla.  The fill-ins were fairly numerous as the laundry list above implies.  The white chocolate chunks were decent enough but white chocolate does not have a strong flavor that sticks out amongst the mix.  I noticed what I thought was caramel in there and I double checked the side of the carton and did not see caramel on the list.  Perhaps that was the toffee pieces and it was a soft toffee rather than a toffee of Heath Bar-like consistency.  It was a very eclectic eating experience because you could never predict what was going to be included in any particular spoonful.

I enjoyed the pint for the humor aspect, just to say that I had had it, but once you get past the joke its kind of an eclectic mixture of flavors with no theme.  Its a funny joke, but I'm a bit surprised this flavor has lasted for fifteen years.