Tuesday 22 September 2009

Shake #20

Today's shake: Bakewell Tart

Taste: 9
Texture: 5
Synergy: 8
Scorn: 4
Total Score: 7

General Comments: Tastes like Cherry Garcia ice-cream. And I mean exactly. Since CG is my absolute favourite Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavour (which pretty much makes it my favourite ice cream flavour full stop, absent a time machine that can take me back to Robin Hood's Bay in the mid '80s), this results in a very high taste score (only the absence of black cherries prevents it from reaching the hallowed 10). Texture wise, it breaks even, as the irritating flecks of crust that occasionally surface are exactly cancelled out by the random slivers of delicious icing. A very satisfying shake; highly recommended.

8 comments:

Jamie said...

My family used to go to Robin Hood's Bay in the mid-eighties! I don't remember the ice-cream there that much though...

Haven't tried Cherry Garcia either, must hereby rectify this oversight.

SpaceSquid said...

It's so good I don't buy it anymore; the tubs never last more than 48 hours, and the effect on my weight was noticeable.

Chemie said...

So it's like a Mr Kipling Bakewell tart rather than a proper one?

SpaceSquid said...

Yep.

Chemie said...

Well that's just not proper.

SpaceSquid said...

I refer you to the Shake'a'Holic complaints department.

Chemie said...

They better not set up an outlet in Bakewell or the peak district. They might get 'tarted and limestone dusted'

SpaceSquid said...

I believe that's another shake flavour, actually. It's certainly a better idea than the marmite one.