I’m tired. My family is sick. I ran to pickup some meds and ice cream. Saw “black cherry” available which is my favorite so I quickly grabbed it. I didn’t know I had to read the fine print for “Black Cherry”.
Also - the picture isn’t even right. The ice cream is white with sparse amounts of cherry. It’s awful. I’m returning it tomorrow. I think this is BS.
It's strange because black cherry vanilla ice cream is one of my favorites and it's usually a more pink/purple color than straight white. I've never had this brand, though.
Yes! I scooped some out and my first bite I thought something was wrong with this batch. The wife tried it (with a fork) and told me I’m an idiot for not reading the fine print.
To be fair the icecream on the cover is darker colored than the actual icecream and would imply that the icecream itself is black cherry flavored.
Like ya I guess you could've read it better but they also just straight up lied through visual advertising which is what people notice first. The name and look matched so why would you have to do a 3rd check to make sure its black cherry icecream.
Yeah, just like there's a big difference between "strawberry" and "strawberries & vanilla". The picture clearly implies that it was akin to the former.
Don't listen to the crazy utensil nazis. If you look in your drawer and are short on the 'appropriate' utensil, grab what you want to taste something that looks incredibly not right and are likely to take it back. FYI that brand is crap.
Anybody that thinks a fork is weird has never actually tried it. It glides right through the thickest and most filled ice creams. The increased surface area also melts it faster so it tastes more creamy and rich.
Never get the ice cream that says it’s “frozen dairy dessert”. Ben and Jerry’s, Hagen dazs, tillamook are all ACTUAL ice creams. It’s ridiculous you have to read the fine print but you do.
There are very few actual truly Cherry ice creams. Most of them are vanilla based and only have bits of cherry in them with a lot of other stuff like nuts and chocolate chunks. Two I do like are Häagen-Dazs Cherry Vanilla, because it has cherry chunks but also the ice cream is light pink/red and tastes like cherries. Another good one is Kroger's Amaretto Cherry Cordial with cherry chunks and a darker color and a good cherry/amaretto flavor. I've heard that Tillamook Oregon Dark Cherry is very good but it does not come in pints at my local stores and I am not paying for a full quart so I have not tried it yet. Any others I need to try? I am in GA USA.
I've had Cherry Garcia a few times but don't feel that the ice cream itself is really that cherry flavored, at least not as much as I would want or as compared to the others above. It may have a little cherry flavor but the ice cream is off-white and vanilla looking, so not a good first impression when you open it. I've settled for this when unable to find better cherry choices.
So it happens that I had a pint of Cherry Garcia in the freezer. Wow. Coincidence.
Eating some of it now. The ice cream is not strongly flavored. It's good enough with a lot of cherry fruit chunks and chocolate fragments, but is not as very cherry tasting as the Haagen-Dazs Cherry Vanilla.
I had a half gallon of Turkey Hill just last week. Looked at the nutrition info just out of curiosity and was shocked at how low the saturated fat content was. Apparently they use skim milk and vegetable oils, and that’s why it is labeled as “frozen dairy dessert” and not ice cream.
Ate the whole thing in 2 days, so no real complaints.. just thought it was interesting
Have you tried the private selection cherry cordial from Kroger? That might suit you better, the ice cream actually tastes cherry rather than vanilla. It’s not black cherry but it’s pretty damn good.
The private selection brand ice cream is a GOAT. The strawberry cheesecake is my absolute favorite. Literally can't beat the quality for that price. (This doesn't apply to other private selection products though)
I use whatever I grab. A fork is almost as good as a spoon for getting ice cream (unless putting in a cone, which I only do about 1% of the time) and are as good as each other when eating the ice cream.
OP I'm on your side. Your fam is sick, you're trying to cope, and you bought some crap by accident because everything for sale is garbage in 2026. That would suck.
Like are we actually all gonna pretend we read the ice cream fine print every time
IMO fine print should be made illegal as it is just an excuse for the most degenerate bullshit. Instead just have a rule stating you have to be upfront and honest about your product in as blatantly obvious ways possible
They put the BLACK CHERRY in bold text. You shouldn't have to read the fine print below that. Especially when OP is sick, fading in and out of consciousness. You should just be able to read the big letters and grab it and go.
OP, I regret to inform you this package does not specifically say it's even ice cream (which is a protected term in the US)-
They didn't even bother to put "frozen dairy dessert." I'd bet that's because using "frozen dairy dessert" has gotten a bad rep the past few years as a way to quickly tell that what you're buying isn't actually ice cream.
"Artificially flavored vanilla" relies on your brain filling in that it's ice cream.
Feels sneaky.
ETA: I stand corrected- in the bottom L in white ink it does say frozen daily dessert
It’s literally advertised as purple based off the picture lmao. I understand the text description fits but cmon they could’ve at least used food coloring or changed the picture
Yeah it is super misleading, shitty marketing and package design to be sure. But I've personally been burned enough times on not reading packaging I take the extra second to check it out. Specifically for ice cream, some brands will just chuck random nuts into a flavor that doesn't typically have nuts. I don't have an allergy but really dislike nuts in ice cream, so I always check.
When you're feeling better, get one of those Ninja ice cream makers. Buy a bag of frozen cherries, blend with some milk/ cream, some vanilla protein powder (or milk powder) and 1/4 tsp xanthan gum, adjust sweetness to taste.
And strawberry is the opposite. My local stores never hav strawberries in vanilla anymore, just strawberries in strawberry. I have to go to ice cream shops.
I’ve had this happen. The first few and last few cartons are supposed to be pulled because they may not receive all of the mix-ins. Send turkey hill a pic and they’ll send you a bunch of coupons for free stuff.
Regular ice cream is usually around 10% butterfat, and can have as much as 100% overrun, meaning an equal volume of air whipped into the product, premium is 11%-14% butterfat and under 50% overrun, and super-premium is anything over 14% butterfat and under 30% overrun. I don’t know how much of this is FDA regulation vs general convention, a need I’m also unsure how much you can skirt the rules by calling it “frozen dairy dessert” and saying “premium quality” instead of premium ice cream
I wonder if these things happen at the beginning of a production batch while they are still tuning the mix or at the end when things don't all run out at exactly the same time.
That being said, I think this is more infuriating for you right now than it normally would be because your family is sick, you're probably sick too or just exhausted from taking care of a sick family. I don't think it's worth returning, just worth noting that you shouldn't buy that brand again. This is, excuse me, but the "cherry on top" of an already bad day. You'll laugh about it later. I hope you and your family have a better day tomorrow!
ETA: If you have small children in your family/household, save this ice cream as small treat rewards for doing extra chores/helping out extra around the house. Help the grown ups fold the laundry after dinner and get a scoop of ice cream with cherries, etc.
Pay attention. This isn’t even ice cream! Where does it say ice cream? Believe it or not, most generic and store brands are still real ice cream but vanilla is the only real ice cream for the brand names. Some say frozen dessert. Some (like this one) don’t address it at all.
Turkey Hill used to make a chocolate MALT flavor and I swear to God I've never had a better ice cream since, and I've never found it again. At the point now where the nostalgia is so deep and the dragon is so far away that I'm probably remembering it being better than it actually was, but sadly I dont think I'll ever be able to test out the theory.
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u/Zestyclose_Car_4971 6h ago edited 6h ago
Nooooo why tf did they make it pink on the thing just to say it’s vanilla on the box?
Or was this a possible rare accident?
Edit: upon inspection, the inside edges of the box appear slightly tinted pink. I don’t know what that means exactly, but I found a clue.