- Good thing we wore bras for this episode.
- Yep.
- 'Cause it's about to get chilly. (both laugh)
(upbeat music)
- Hey guys, I'm Candice the edgy veg.
- And I'm Molly, not the edgy veg. (laughing)
- And we are here to taste test some ice cream for you.
We did a Beyond Meat versus Impossible Food,
like taste test review a couple of weeks ago,
and you guys loved it.
So we figured why not make this a thing?
So we have four different types of ice cream,
the ones that I could get via grocery delivery
since here in Toronto, we are still locked to our homes.
So yeah.
Should we just go through the different ingredients
and what makes them different?
Ideally, I would have had like, all vanilla
or all peanut butter or whatever,
but this is Oreo and this one is peanut butter and Oreo,
and this one's peanut butter and this one's vanilla.
So they're all kind of different, but yet the same.
They're all in here.
- And we're going to make a milkshake. No?
- Yes. Yeah.
We'll see which one makes the best milkshake.
I feel like that is a great tester
because not all vegan ice cream makes good milkshakes.
I learned that when I did it with coconut
and all I tasted was coconut.
- Yeah. I'm not big on coconut ice cream,
if I'm being honest. - Yeah, no.
- But I don't think any of these are coconut ice cream.
- And that was by design.
(both laugh)
All right. Well, what do you have on your side?
Okay, so first I have Haagen Dazs, which is obviously
like the most famous ice cream company on the planet.
The flavor is non-dairy peanut butter chocolate fudge,
and I'm looking at the ingredients
and I have no idea what the ice cream base is made of.
I'm pretty sure the Haagen-Dazs bars are almond milk
if I'm not mistaken,
but this one just says that it's made of peanut butter.
So it's just- - Just frozen peanut butter.
- Maybe. I mean, that'd be probably good.
So I would not hate that.
- Yeah, probably peanut butter and oil.
I mean, when I make cashew ice cream,
it's pretty much cashew butter.
- Right. And you can make almond milk.
So why can't you make peanut milk and freeze it?
- There you go.
- And then this one's So Delicious,
which is a super amazing vegan brand that we love
and they make really good ice cream,
particularly the cashew base.
- Yeah. That's my favorite, I think.
- Yeah.
- Although I haven't tried this one.
- Yeah. This is one of my favorite vegan ice creams already.
- It's the perfect vanilla for a milkshake
in my personal opinion.
- The cashew version.
- Yes. - Yeah.
- And then over here I have Ben and Jerry's,
also super famous ice cream company brand.
The base of this one is, I'm pretty sure almond isn't it?
So it's water, sugar, peanuts, coconut oil,
a bunch of sugar stuff. Peanut oil, pea protein.
Oh, I think they changed their formula.
Where are the almonds? Oh, there we go. No, I'm lying.
It's after wheat flour and corn syrup solids,
then it's almonds, peanut oil and pea protein.
This one I'm also pretty sure has
a peanut or a pea protein base,
water, sugar, coconut oil, corn syrup solids, wheat flour.
Oh, ground almonds, pea protein.
So these ones I think are actually gonna be quite similar.
All right. Well, should we open them?
Ooh, that looks fun.
Why are we doing this with spoons
when we have an ice cream scoop?
- When I did work at an ice cream shop,
I had the craziest arm muscles scooping.
- Yeah, I definitely took these out
like 20 minutes before we did anything
because I find vegan ice cream does get really hard
in the freezer.
- It's pretty good.
- Yeah. I'm not mad at it. It doesn't upset me in any way.
- Big Oreo flavor.
- Mm-hmm. It tastes like the center of an Oreo.
- Mm-hmm.
- That's what I'm getting from this.
It's not overly creamy, but like also not not creamy.
- It might be a bit oily.
- Yeah. And a little bit icy.
- But I think it's probably
one of the more affordable ice creams as well.
- Yeah.
This was the same amount as pretty much each one of these.
And it's like two or three times the amount.
So yeah, it's definitely the more affordable one.
All right.
- Really good.
- If you're looking for a bargain, it's a great option.
But yeah, now that you said oily, I can taste the oil.
- Like, the mouth feel after you stop eating it is a bit-
- Yeah. Like, it coats your mouth.
All right. So Ben and Jerry's next, 'cause it's similar?
Here's the thing with vegan ice cream.
It does melt really bizarrely.
- Yeah.
Like you can even see, you can see at the sides,
it's like way more liquidy.
And then in the middle,
it's still extremely hard and frozen.
But Ben and Jerry's always hides all the goods
in the center of the pint.
- What's your favorite Ben and Jerry's flavor?
- Vegan or non vegan?
Ooh, what's the one they do
that's like peanut butter and brownie?
D'you know what I'm talking about?
- Netflix and chill? Cause that's my favorite one.
- Or...
Cherry Garcia is good, but I don't really like fruit in-
- I hate it. Oh, I hate it.
It tastes like, have you ever had those like
chocolates at Christmas when you were young
and they have the cherries in the middle and like
your old ass stinky grandma gives it to you.
Yeah. That's what it tastes like to me.
Okay. So this one is creamier.
- Mm-hmm. I think you can taste the better quality.
- Mm-hmm. It's also really sweet though.
- Mm-hmm. They're all cold, that's for sure.
(laughing)
- Yeah. You can taste that this one costs more
and I like the peanut butter chunks,
but there was no option for that with this one.
So that's unfair.
- I just love this ice cream. I like that it's chunkier.
This one is more,
the Breyers is more Oreo flavored ice cream.
The Ben and Jerry's is more ice cream with Oreos in it.
- That's a great way of putting it.
- So good.
- I'm not mad. In fact, I would buy this again.
- You do. All the time.
- Well, I've switched to Netflix and chill now.
It's the waffle.
You have like that waffle stuff in the middle.
Yeah, it is really sweet though.
I feel like if there was no creaminess,
I would be upset about the sweetness
'cause I would feel like they're making it overly sweet
to make up for the fact that it's not creamy,
but that's not the case, so...
- Right. It's definitely balanced.
- Yes.
I'm going to wash this
because we're going into different ice cream.
Someone once told me that ice cream has a lot of salt in it.
Is that a thing?
- Mm-hmm. That's how they get it to freeze.
Haven't you made your own ice cream in science class?
- No.
- Yeah. If you make your own-
shout out to Mr. Sascabuche, or whatever his name was.
- I'm sorry?
- My grade 10 science teacher.
We'd put cream, salt and ice in a bag, like a Ziploc bag,
and then mush it around a bunch.
- Okay. - And it makes ice cream.
- I went to like a poor school.
So we didn't get to make that (laughing)
Yeah, me too. I went to a public school.
- He was not looking out for the lactose intolerant kids.
- No, I guess not.
- But cool science experiment.
- Oh, this one's really creamy right off the bat. Oh, my.
Yeah, we definitely didn't make the,
I make my own ice cream now, but I don't put salt in it.
I put salt in it, but not like a ton.
Creamiest so far.
Cashews are superior when it comes to ice cream.
- That's like the closest, I think, to milk-based ice cream.
- Mm-hmm. It has some coconut oil in it, but not a ton.
I also can't taste the pea protein.
Like I feel like I could taste the pea protein
in some of these.
- I don't know if it's like the vanilla like luxury flavor,
but it just is like velvety and rich,
like real like expensive real ice cream is.
- Yeah.
It kind of tastes like
the ice cream that they put in magnums, like in the middle.
I think so far that one's my favorite.
- Yeah. I love that.
- Peanut butter.
So the reason why I got peanut butter was
because I really, really wanted to try a Haagen-Dazs flavor,
but I hate chocolate ice cream
and it was either peanut butter
or like a double chocolate chocolate truffle situation,
which...
Do you feel like chocolate ice cream tastes burnt?
'Cause to me, chocolate ice cream tastes burnt.
- No, I love chocolate ice cream.
My dad always used to say,
it's not dessert if there's not chocolate in it.
- So I could have this and then have a second dessert.
- Yes. That with a side of brownies or something, yeah.
- Perfect. Perfect.
All right. Do you want to give that one a try?
There is fudge in it.
- Yes. So it's hard. - Brownie in it?
- See, the weird melting. What's- oh, Jesus.
- Yeah.
Somebody's got to figure out the melting situation
with the vegan ice cream.
I just feel like they all do this.
I already don't like the way this looks.
- It smells so peanut buttery.
I feel like we should off-camera
be scooping ice cream for Eric
(laughing)
And just be like, Hmm.
- I'm confused.
I feel like I'm eating a Reese's peanut butter cup.
I don't like the texture of the ice cream.
- It's like grainy.
- It's like just peanut butter flavored, but it's...
- Do you feel a graininess?
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah, I don't know that peanut butter
was the way to go with your base, Haagen Dazs.
- I like the fudge bits when you bite into them.
- When you, yeah, I do like the-
- It's so salty though.
- It's really salty.
I like the flavor of it. Like the flavor combination.
'Cause I love Reese's peanut butter cups
and anything Reese's, really.
But to me, the base is like, it's fine.
It's so salty. This ice cream is so salty. Like extremely.
- Yeah, they might've gone overboard with the salt on that
like, is it salted peanut butter chocolate, or?
- It's the Haagen Dazs bars, right, that we get?
Or is that Magnum? They're different.
Magnum's a different company.
Oh, okay. 'Cause I was going to say
that they make better ice cream bars,
but I don't like this one.
- Honestly, if it was in my freezer
and I wanted some dessert, I would eat it,
but I don't think that I would buy it specifically again.
- I just, I don't know how like a huge ice cream company...
I don't know, I feel like Ben and Jerry's
matched their vegan and non vegan ice creams.
And I feel like Haagen-Dazs just didn't match
the level of work they put into their non vegan ice cream.
- That's how I feel. Like you should own this.
You're the ice cream company.
- Yeah, everything you make should be perfect.
- Yeah. You're Dazs Haagen.
You have to make Dazs ice cream just the same way.
- Dazs not good.
Okay. Well just eating it like ice cream style,
which one is your favorite?
- I think my favorite is a toss up between
the So Delicious and the Ben and Jerry's.
Because I love them both.
But also if the Ben and Jerry's was just vanilla,
I think that the So Delicious would win.
- Yeah, I think so.
- But the flavor is spot on.
- Yeah, I think if we were going by
just what tastes the best vanilla, it's still this one.
All right.
- The vegans know how to make ice cream, I guess,
better than the ice cream people.
- Who woulda thunk it.
We've been doing this for a very long time.
- But vegan ice cream can be extremely expensive.
So Breyers is really hitting that market.
- Yeah. Honestly, I thought it was going to be like icy.
Have you ever had like..
- Old ice cream? - Yeah.
- Like back of the freezer ice cream?
- Yeah, I thought it was going to be like that,
but it's actually quite good.
So should we make some milkshakes?
Who's gonna drink all these milkshakes?
- I don't know.
I'm really glad there's no dairy in any of these ice creams.
Otherwise I'd have a tummy ache.
- I'm just gonna have a sugar headache later.
- Milkshake time.
- How much should I make?
I guess we only need a taste of each one, right?
Cheers.
- Mm. That's really good.
That's like perfect.
Like everything you'd want in a milkshake.
- Yeah. I think we can stop. (laughs)
- It's just like creamy.
It coats your mouth, but not in a gross oily way.
The vanilla flavor is just unsurpassed.
- And it blends perfectly with the oat milk.
It also doesn't have any toppings.
So like that might slow the rest of them down
because they have chunks. - Oh, right.
Or it'll elevate it.
- Hmm. Yeah. This is so good.
- Yeah.
- Which is fine.
Sometimes my tongue turns black, but it's fine. (laughing)
Just like one scoop, right?
Yeah.
- [Molly] Is this even...
- [Candice] I mean, it's coming slowly.
Very slowly. It's going to come in one big chunk.
- [Molly] Yep. - Here she comes.
Mm. A milkshake I have to eat with a spoon.
If you go to Starbucks and get a frap or something
and they have to put xanthan gum in it
to get like a creamy texture.
You almost need to add that to this.
No, not a good milkshake.
- It's like watery and also chunky.
- And it just tastes weird.
- I do like the big Oreo bits though.
- Yeah. It tastes weird.
There's a weird flavor. Not creamy.
- Like, watery.
- Very icy. Meh. Big meh on that one.
- Like I think it'll taste like a Reese's milkshake maybe?
I have high hopes.
(blender whirring)
(chilled music)
Less chunky than the last one.
But still that kind of like- Oop, shit.
- [Molly] (laughing) Not chunky.
And then a giant chunk falls in.
- But it still has that like liquidy consistency.
And I'm not even tasting it yet.
And that's not the Vitamix because it's a Vitamix.
- Uh-oh, I have hiccups. See? Pepto-Bismol. I need it.
(laughing)
- Mm. I like it.
- I don't like it.
- I like it more in milkshake form
than I like it in ice cream form.
- It tastes like if you made almond milk with peanuts
and it was just peanuts blended with water.
It's just like, you know those juice boxes, that like-
- And chocolate.
- Peach punch? Or no. Peach.
Peanuts punch?
- No.
- It's like a thing.
You can get peanut juice in a juice box.
- That's Caribbean, isn't it?
- Mm-hmm. Tastes like this. I'm not crazy about it, though.
And the bits are salty.
- Well, I like it.
- [Molly] Mm, melted ice cream.
- I need like a chunk of ice cream, not just Oreo.
There we go.
This one is the Ben and Jerry's.
I don't like chunky milkshakes.
- I don't have any chunks.
- I have like peanut chunks.
- I don't know if I like it. I can't tell.
- It's, like, pathetic.
- We've only liked one of the milkshakes.
- Like I think I'd drink all of them,
but if I was making it and I got to choose,
I would pick the So Delicious cashew.
- Yeah, me too.
If I was gonna order one and they had them all on the menu,
it would be the cashew for sure.
- All right. So let's rate them on one to five.
Creaminess, most like dairy ice cream, and taste.
- And milkshakeableness?
- And milkshakeableness.
(both laugh)
- So So Delicious will start.
Creaminess, five out of five.
- Yeah. Agree. Five out of five.
- Most like dairy ice cream.
I'd say probably four out of five.
I haven't had dairy ice cream in years,
but I'm sure that it tastes different.
- Yeah.
I'm gonna go with the same,
just because from what I remember, I think it's spot on,
but it's been a long-
- There's probably like a cashew flavor, though.
- Right. - Or something.
- Overall flavor?
- For the So Delicious? Five out of five. Love it.
Would buy all the time. - Yeah. Same.
And milkshakeableness?
- Five out of five also.
- Yeah.
- Perfect texture.
- I think we agree on that one completely.
I know that's going to change.
- Yep.
- Ben and Jerry's.
- Ben and Jerry's creaminess,
four and a half out of five.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- I'd go with like 3.85.
- Okay.
- (laughing) Just to be annoying.
Most like dairy ice cream.
- Oh, probably like three out of five.
- Yeah.
- I don't think it's that much like-
The texture, like the way it melts.
I don't think is as much like dairy ice cream.
- No, it's good, but it's not... It's different.
- It's not a dupe.
- It's not, definitely not a dupe.
It's like a cousin, not a sister.
- Yeah. It's frozen dessert for sure.
- Yes. Yeah. It's like miracle whip.
Nope. That's mayonnaise.
- Cool whip. It's like cool whip.
Milkshakeability. You kind of, you lose the flavor of it.
- It shakes like...
(laughing)
- Slowly. Two?
- Yeah, I- whatever.
- Like two and a half.
- The Breyers one? Creaminess?
Five out of five oiliness.
- Yeah, really.
I would go like two and a half. And that's generous.
- Like maybe a two, three.
- Yeah. Flavor?
It's fine. Like a three?
- It's good.
Especially if somebody like
knew I was coming to a picnic or whatever,
and they brought some for me.
Yeah.
You wouldn't be like, this is trash and throw it at them.
- Right.
I would be like, thank you so much for buying me ice cream.
- Yeah. 'Cause we're polite.
Is it like dairy ice cream?
- It's like the Breyers dairy ice cream.
- I guess that's true.
Cause Breyers is very oily from what I remember,
it's like cheapy cheap ice cream.
- So it's similar in that way.
- So I guess it's a five out of five compared to Breyers.
- And milkshakeableness, I don't even remember.
- It was okay.
- Yeah. - It was fine. Three?
- Yeah. Like a three. - Yeah.
- And the Haagen Dazs, I did not like.
- Any of it.
(laughing)
- No. I just didn't
- So is it like a zero for you? Or like a one?
- I mean for most like ice cream,
it's probably like a three and a half,
it's just salty, which is why I didn't like it.
For creaminess, it's creamy. It's like a three for creamy.
Like a two for milkshakeableness.
I didn't really like that one at all.
- See, for me, it's like a four for milkshakeable ability.
Milkshakability. Milkshake-ology.
It's like a four.
I liked it because it tasted like a Reese's pieces.
(laughing)
There we go. That's it.