The Big Muddy Ice Cream Blog

This review will be my fifth review of a banana ice cream in the last year and I'm not entirely sure why. As you may know, every single time I purchase and review a banana ice cream I simply end up saying, "I don't really like banana ice creams, but if you do, you'll probably like this." Which I am sure isn't entirely thrilling for you to read. But as I'm currently in between ice cream projects (I'm thinking of going for the whole line of Til the Cows Come Home, next) I get kind of listless and weird and more existential-crisis-y than normal in the ice cream isle and just buy pints I would never normally buy. Who knows, maybe this will be the banana ice cream to finally convince me I like banana ice cream? This flavor is described as We started with rich banana gelato and added a ribbon of golden Argentine caramel and bittersweet chocolatey bits to balance it out. Consider it the best banana flambé that's never actually been on fire .  ...

Oh banana ice cream/gelato, I have a love/hate relationship with you.  When it's good it's good, but it's just so easy to do badly.  Talenti's Banana Chocolate Swirl, is definitely on the delicious end of the spectrum.  I mean, what did you expect?  This gelato is described as We started with a rich banana gelato and added a ribbon of golden Argentine caramel and bittersweet chocolate bits to balance it out.  Consider it the best banana flambe that's never actually been on fire. Banana flambe!  For the life of me I couldn't figure out how to describe this banana flavor, and I was looking for the words banana flambe! This has the standard, awesome Talenti Gelato texture, don't need to say much more there.  To me, the banana flavor definitely didn't taste like nasty fake banana flavor, but it didn't taste like fresh bananas either.  I thought it maybe tasted a like bananas in the way that banana bread tastes like bananas, but that wasn't...