Quick reviews

Want to get these out of the way before I start making some lists. I will keep these short.

First thing I tried was some of the new Pieces line. Seems like these took a loooooooooooong time to be released, they should have jumped on this train years ago. Expanding the line that started with Reese's Pieces, they've now taken and made pieces out of other candy bars. They've done it so far with York Peppermint Patties, Almond Joys, and Hershey's Special Dark. I bought the Yorks and the Almond Joys. The Yorks are delicious, they're pretty much what you'd expect. They taste like little crunchy peppermint patties in M&M-like form. Cram them. In a good way. The Almond Joys are a little more interesting. I wasn't sure how these were going to work out, trying to cram coconut AND almonds into a little M&M-size candy. How is that possible?!? When M&M wants to put even one of those ingredients in they have to double or triple the size. Well, I didn't really notice the almond so much, but the coconut is dominant on these. Not just in flavor like the coconut M&Ms, and you don't really notice it if you just have one, but if you cram a handful in your mouth and start chewing, you get the sensation of the exact texture of a coconut candy bar. There's real coconut in there, so all the people who found a reason to be angry about there being no real coconut in the M&Ms can shut up AND have a miniature candy now. Not my favorite flavor, but I could see them being really addictive.

Last review. Turkey Hill Ginger Snap ice cream. "Spiced ice cream swirled with ginger snap cookies." The ice cream was not way out there spiced but definitely off vanilla. You could detect ginger and cinnamon in there, but it wasn't an overwhelming flavor. The ginger snap cookies were more solid and crunchy than the Ben & Jerry's version, which was more like dough. More like what you'd expect if you had a bag of ginger snap cookies. And there was no caramel swirl in this, which was fine with me. Glop is fun sometimes, but after the debacle of the sweetness of Maple Blondie I just wanted some rather straightforward ice cream.