The Big Muddy Ice Cream Blog

Guys, we really like EXTRAVAGANZAS! This past weekend, your two friends over here at the Big Muddy Ice Cream Blog had our most exciting adventure yet as bloggers! We've had ice cream extravaganzas before, eaten ice cream from all over the country, but nothing compares to our adventure this past weekend.  We went on an ice cream run! Yes, you read that right, we ran from ice cream shop to ice cream shop, nausea be damned! Our ice cream run was totally the brain child of Madeline and it involved four ice cream shops and three segments of running. We started at Sebastian Joe's, ran .95 miles to Milkjam, ran 3.86 miles to Pumphouse Creamery, and then ran .87 miles to Grand Ole Creamery! Thanks Alex, Rebecca, Laurel, Somyi, Theo and Humberto for coming on this crazy adventure! Lizzy: The only one of these I had been to before was Sebastian Joe's, so I was super pumped to try all of these shops. But I will definitely need to go back to them, because I didn't get as m...

When yogurt became a trendy food, frozen yogurt quickly followed. And again, when, more recently, Greek yogurt became a trendy food, Greek frozen yogurt has quickly followed. Both of these types of products are supposed to be healthier alternatives to ice cream. Which I think is inherently silly. When I am eating ice cream, I am trying  to eat as unhealthily as possible. But whatever. There are sort of two types of players in this Greek and regular frozen yogurt game. Ice cream companies turning their ice cream products into yogurt (or coming up with new flavors of yogurt) and yogurt companies moving into making a frozen dessert. However, I definitely believe frozen yogurt is closer to a frozen dessert than it is to yogurt, so I am inclined to think an ice cream company would make a better frozen yogurt than a yogurt company. However, I'm now realizing the only frozen yogurts I've reviewed are from frozen yogurt shops (which is something altogether completely different) a...

I was incredibly impressed by the maturity of B&J's Vanilla Honey Caramel, the first flavor of their Greek Frozen Yogurt I had tried, and I was equally delighted by the Blueberry Vanilla Graham Flavor. This frozen yogurt is described as Blueberry and vanilla Greek frozen yogurts with a Graham Cracker Swirl. Confession: I discovered Greek yogurt and am never going back to the thin watery nonsense that tries to masquerade as yogurt.  In fact the thicker and tarter the yogurt is, the more I enjoy it.  I would eat Icelandic skyr - which is to Greek yogurt as Greek yogurt is to regular yogurt - if it was easier to get and less expensive. So of course what really stands out to me about B&J's Greek Frozen Yogurts is how they let their yogurt stand out.  Too many other frozen yogurt brands over-sweeten their product and mask the delicious tartness of the yogurt.  Not only does Ben and Jerry's accentuate the yogurt flavor, they use Greek yogurt , even mor...

First let me say that I am totally impressed with B&J’s Greek Frozen Yogurts.  I’ve had one other flavor, Raspberry Fudge Chunk, that I have not reviewed on the blog. (Because Kyle ate it all.  Boo.)  Both that flavor and the Vanilla Honey Caramel flavor were amazing! To me, the Ben and Jerry’s brand exudes a certain playfulness.  Their flavors are chock-full of mix-ins, they have very playful flavor descriptions and they have COWS on their pints!  In contrast to the ice cream flavors, I felt that Vanilla Honey Caramel was a very mature flavor.  Reading the description, I wasn’t sure this was going to be a great flavor, as the only mix in was a caramel and honey swirl.  It was described as Vanilla Greek frozen yogurt with a honey caramel swirl. Honestly, this sounds simple, but this pint didn’t need anything else.  The main thing I love about the Greek Frozen Yogurts is that they actually taste like Greek yogurt.  Somet...