Have you ever seen grape crank pick ? It ’s doubtful because it does n’t really exist . Slushies , water ice , and Otter papa do n’t bet . It ’s weird , right ? As a omnipresent flavor in snack solid food , grapeshot ’s absence from the methamphetamine hydrochloride cream cosmos is glaring .
There are some trulybatshit theoriesas towhygrapes have n’t made the jump from vine to pint . One isthat grapessimply ca n’t be freeze down . Another is that grape shabu creamputs dogs(who may by chance eat it ) at risk of exposure so it ’s literally illegal to make . And others still aresuper specific , like the one that claim Ben Cohen – of Ben & Jerry ’s fame – really made a batch of grape vine ice emollient for a girl he had a crush on ( Jerry ’s sister Becky , no less ) . Her dear dog then eat up some and died an immediate and unceremonious death . Thus , Cohen consecrate to never make grapevine ice cream again . Allegedly .
This is all – expectedly – complete Irish bull . Here ’s the realscoop . Sorry . dingy for that .
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Grapes in ice cream = ice chunks in ice cream
Sean Greenwood , Ben & Jerry ’s PR lead , agreed to talk with me and fructify the phonograph recording straight .
" Yeah , those stories sound like a stretchiness , a slight flake of ice cream lore , " he said after I detail the tarradiddle of Ben , his mistaken attempt at capturing beloved through frappe cream , and the numb dog .
First off , using grapes as an shabu cream base submit logistical problems . " make ice cream at home , you’re able to get yield like grapes moderately tight to a puree , but when you are using fruit as a base on a large scale , that ’s when you play into problems . "
Fruits – grapes specifically – have high water system content . When using such a watery theme to make ice pick , the results often come peppered with chunks of ice . Which equates to some pretty shitty ice ointment .
" Jerry and Ben will talk about the day of making melon methamphetamine hydrochloride cream , or cantaloupe ice pick , and how good that was . But then , they were doing it on a 2 - congius batch . To seek to do that on a massive scale is much more challenging . "
For something like lolly – which are predictably gelid and often by artificial means flavored – this is all right . But for a company like Ben & Jerry ’s , it presents a virtually insurmountable engineering science vault .
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If that’s true, then how do they make Cherry Garcia?!
Grapes are about81%-84 % pee . But so are cherry … the fundament of Cherry Garcia , one of the brand ’s most celebrated flavors . What gives ?
" Grapes are a difficult fruit , because of the water content – but it ’s also not a very mainstream look for meth cream , " Greenwood said . " Most hoi polloi do n’t even associate grape with crank cream . People grow up on cherry and vanilla extract – so now , they bang cherry - based frappe cream . Grape has not broken through the creme - de - glace ceiling , if you will . "
Basically , it ’s a brutal cycle . People have never had grape vine ice cream , and in turn , they neither bear it nor straight-out want it . And because of the engine room difficulties , it would be a high - risk , low - reward speculation . While cherry ice cream – though difficult to make – is a indisputable bet .
There are precedents, and they are gross
It seems as though proper grape ice cream has only been assay once on a big scale – by Airheads , of all society . The ice pick is beige with dark-skinned - green swirls . The reader ’s vox in the TV above sounds like his lips are straight enclose around my ear drum . Overall , it ’s fabulously unappetizing .
Has Ben & Jerry ’s ever considered going grape ?
" So , we have an actual necropolis of flavor we made and just did n’t slay . One of the most iconic examples is ' Sugar Plum , ' which is a similar flavor visibility to grapeshot made in the former ' 80s . A lot of our employee still lecture about how it was a fun approximation , but not a great nip . I do n’t think there ’s a huge entreaty or appetite for it , " Greenwood said .
Though he would n’t say it outright , it would make sense that Sugar Plum ’s epical failure likely scared Ben & Jerry ’s aside from the purple - fruit spectrum .
" I babble with Jerry yesterday , he say that he knew we did a Grape - Nuts ice rink cream back in the day , and there was the plum , but he never remembered us go too far down the route with a grape flavor . "
So, will they ever do a grape-flavored ice cream?
Despite the difficulty , is a grape vine - base ice cream next on Ben & Jerry ’s schedule ? The name - puns are there : " Hope Solo ’s Sour grape , " " Heard It Through the ( Chocolate - Covered ) Grape Vine , " " Great imitator ! : A Grape King Kong Flavor . "
Will Greenwood mention the conception of a grape ice cream at his next flavor brainstorm , bringing my dreams to yield - establish realization ?
" I ’ve got to be honest … probably not . "
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