Ben and Jerrys New York Super Fudge Chunk Review

New York Super Fudge Chunk - Chocolate Water ice Foam with White & Dark Fudge Chunks, Pecans, Walnuts & Fudge-Covered Almonds

The New York Super Fudge Chunk flavour is one of the oldest flavors in the Ben & Jerry's line of pints.  The story behind the season'south creation is quite interesting.  Dorsum in 1983, Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield were just starting to explore expansion outside of the northwestern Vermont market -- which they thought they had covered pretty well.  So they decided to make their pints available at Dmitri'south Cafe at 156 Spring Street in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan.  They had practiced give-and-take of oral fissure backing so the famed food critic Gael Greene went to attempt it out and published the following review in the New Yorker magazine that fall (gyre down nigh six paragraphs for the section on Ben & Jerry'due south)

Needless to say, " pleasant enough, but not thrilling, and the chips and bits seem rather sparse" were not words that Ben and Jerry wanted to hear. They took the review as a claiming. The response was to add extra chocolate syrup to the water ice cream to strengthen its chocolate flavour and then to load it up with 40% make full-ins than they had ever added before.  The extra fill-ins also made it the most expensive pint they had always made as well.  The name "New York Super Fudge Chunk" was selected and it was launched with great fanfare.  The flavor was a big success 30 years ago and information technology still remains a popular flavor today.

Since we're on the topic of loaded flavors in New York ice cream shops, hither is a link to a very contempo Wall Street Journal article that my sister sent me about the economics of ice cream flavors:

... some of the exotic, tastiest and about desired fill-ins are indeed the about expensive.  So shopkeepers either have to raise their prices or they accept to rely on some customer just getting vanilla to subside the more costly flavors.

On to the pint of the day!  Opening the chapeau, I was surprised to see mainly plain chocolate.  Only a hint of the fill-ins that I had been reading so much nigh were visible.  Eating into the pint, I encountered the fill-ins fairly speedily.  There were the fudge chips.  White and nighttime chips -- each rectangular shaped like the chunks of Chunky Monkey.  Then in that location were the nuts which added extra crunchiness to each spoonful.  At get-go, I was not every bit overwhelmed by the density of the fill-ins as I expected to be especially later reading above articles.  I call up the "40% more than whatsoever other flavor" line is a bit dated -- some of the newer flavors are quite dense.  That said, every bit I kept eating the pint and the base ice cream got softer as it melted the density of fill up-ins seemed to increase as I got to the bottom.  So, by whatsoever standard a very stacked pint.  Plus it was very chocolatey!  I ate the entire pint in ane sitting and as I write this a one-half an hour after I am noticing that the surfaces of my eyeballs are drying out from chocolate overload.    I accept temporarily switched my beverage of choice from Diet Coke to water in hopes to rebalance my ocular electrolytes. Its a practiced feeling though, it is like the chocolate ice cream version of having extra spicy Thai food.

So all in all, a successful pint.  I would rate information technology as i of the iii superlative chocolate flavors available from Ben & Jerry's.  If you like your chocolate gooey, and then you get Phish Food with its marshmallow swirls.  If you similar similar your chocolate chewy, and so you get Chocolate Fudge Credibility with its stays-soft-in-the-freezer Greyston Brownies.  Simply if you lot like your chocolate chunky, you get New York Super Fudge Chunk.  Personally, I am a Phish Food guy but variety is the spice of life and I imagine I'll have this i again.

Update:  In the fall of 2018, Ben & Jerry'south created a express batch repackaging of this season called called Pecan Resist -- yous tin even see that the ice cream in the pint images at Pecan Resist and the old season are identical, the pint labels are swapped with photoshop.  The new artwork looks really cool, though!  Since this is not a new flavor, I'll merely add together a note here.

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