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Triple Caramel Chunk - Caramel Ice Cream with a Swirl of Caramel and Fudge Covered Caramel Chunks.
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One
of the things I noticed on my trip to London ice-cream-wise was the
popularity in the UK of a flavour called Caramel Chew Chew. Checking
the ingredients list, I noticed that this flavor exists in the United
States as Triple Caramel Chunk. It also appears to be very popular in
Canada as well, where it goes by Caramel Hat Trick. Three names for the
same flavor is quite curious. I guess the Canadian name has a hockey
appeal, but I don't know why it doesn't go by Caramel Chew Chew in the
US. That's a much more clever name in my opinion. Anyhow, I had other
UK-only flavours to review while I was over there so I waited until I
got back states-side to review this one. Funny thing is that over here
the flavor is relatively obscure. Do the Brits enjoy caramel better
than the Yanks?
Opening
the pint, you see all the ingredients right away. The very light brown
color of the caramel base with the swirl visible right away as well as
signs of a couple of the chocolate-covered caramel chunks. Digging into
the pint, the caramel base does not have a strong flavor. You could
definitely tell it is not vanilla, but its purpose is to hold the
fillins. The caramel swirl was tasty when I got a bit of it on my spoon
but there was not as much of this swirl as I was expecting. But that
did not matter because the star of the pint was the chocolate-covered
caramel chunks. These were large and fairly numerous. I thought they'd
be the shape of peanut-butter cups but they were 'dot'-candy-shaped.
About half or two-thirds the size of the dot. They chocolate covering
was firm at first, but when you bit into one you get a squirt of caramel
which is inside. It was a like a chocolate and caramel version of
Freshen-Up gum. With that, there was no shortage of caramel in this
pint.
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