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It wasn't even plain vanilla

Karen Wise reports from the front lines of Newton's ice-cream wars: Coney Island Ice Cream Cafe serves up decent Oreo and mint chocolate chip ice cream, but its vanilla is decidedly lacking:

... It was the strangest thing. It was the right color, texture, temperature, everything — but there was absolutely no discernible vanilla flavor at all. Not an artificial flavor, mind you, but no flavor. ...

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That is very odd, I wonder

By ShadyMilkMan | Mon, 08/25/2008 - 2:26pm

That is very odd, I wonder what flavorless ice cream tastes like? Does it just just taste like forzen cream?

Speaking of Cold Stone, mentioned in the blog, you would expect a flavor called cake batter to taste a little better, but alas its quite aweful.

maybe their vanilla

By sheenaspleena | Mon, 08/25/2008 - 2:34pm

is really just sweet cream flavored? that has no flavor at all.

Sweet cream

By Gary McGath (not verified) | Mon, 08/25/2008 - 2:46pm

Sweet cream ice cream really isn't bad, but it's certainly not vanilla. Maybe someone just forgot to add the vanilla in that batch?

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