Lori Timmer, features editor: I liked the creaminess of Dean's Country Fresh’s ice cream. Spartan I thought had the blandest ice cream and the cookie was a bit stiff so it didn’t break off with my bites the way the other sandwiches did. You could taste both flavor, and they complemented each other nicely. Sarah Leach, editor: Dean's was the perfect balance of vanilla ice cream and chocolate cookie.
It just didn’t have the softest cookie part or the best-tasting ice cream as compared to the others. Even though it was the worst, I would still eat Sundae Shoppe any day. Purple Cow was also pretty good with the most prominent vanilla flavor of the ice cream. Dean's had a nice, soft cookie part of the ice cream sandwich and a nice ice cream. Usually I am a pretty harsh taste tester, but I don’t have much to complain about this time. That paired with a totally flavorless ice cream made it completely forgettable.Īllen: They were all so good. Spartan had a weirdly stale-feeling cookie part. Purple Cow was bigger and messier, and I just feel like a good ice cream sandwich experience should end with sticky hands and kids’ faces smeared with ice cream. I want a really vanilla-y ice cream flavor, and Purple Cow had the strongest, with Dean's as a close second. Gamble: I liked both Dean's and Purple Cow. But if I was offered Spartan, I wouldn’t turn it down. It wasn’t exactly bad, but it wasn’t as good as the other ones. Spartan's ice cream was the blandest ice cream. It just depends on whether you’re in the mood for a little treat or a bigger treat. Dean's had a slightly nicer vanilla flavor, but Purple Cow was bigger. Dean's and Purple Cow are practically a tie. All the rest were regular sized.Įrin Dietzer, education reporter: This was very close for me.
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The purchaser missed the notice on the front of the Dean's Country Fresh box announcing it was full of mini ice cream sandwiches. In order of best to last, staff ranked Dean's Country Fresh with 22 points ($4.29 at Family Fare for 16 minis), Purple Cow with 20 points (Meijer's ice cream brand, costing $2.99 at Meijer for 12), Sundae Shoppe with 10 points (costing $8.99 at Aldi for a variety pack including 12 ice cream sandwiches, 8 sundae cones and 12 ice cream bars) and Spartan brand with 8 points ($2.99 at Family Fare for 12). There were clear winners and losers, though, so here are the final results. "I don’t buy a lot of junk food when I go grocery shopping, but I may have to add ice cream sandwiches to future shopping lists." "They were all delicious," said Jake Allen, county reporter. The staff ranked them from best to last, and those rankings were given numbers that were added up to find a winner by points - although, to be fair, they felt it was hard to mess up an ice cream sandwich. "Ice cream sandwiches are great, and now I want to go take a nap and not do any work at all for the rest of the day," said Audra Gamble, cops/courts reporter, after trying all four brands. Here at The Sentinel, staff celebrated by trying various brands of ice cream sandwiches in a blind taste test: Dean's Country Fresh, Purple Cow, Spartan and Sundae Shoppe. Summer is officially here, which for those of us focused on food means one thing: ice cream season.
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