Cedar Crest Blue Moon Ice Cream Sandwich Review

[By Nick] Blue Moon is definitely the “mystery” flavor of the ice cream world. Hell, there’s even a Wikipedia page for it. It seems as if everyone believes they know what it truly is, yet the discrepancy between flavors is astounding. I mean if one person thinks it tastes like Fruit Loops while another is definite it tastes like soda, there has to be something up with this flavor. Being that this had me very intrigued, I added a couple of Cedar Crest Blue Moon Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches to my Ice Cream Source order.

The description I got from the website is extremely vague. Simply put its blue moon ice cream in between two cookies. Now I have no idea what flavor the cookies are or if they’re more wafer like than cookie. The packaging it just a blank white wrapper, which is just disappointing for something that doesn’t come in its own box. Okay time to stop delaying, here goes nothing.

Well that’s a brighter blue than I expected. This is not a color you’ll be finding in nature any time soon.  These are the kind of ice cream sandwiches I’d imagine Gargamel eating (Smurfs reference ftw). So it looks as if it’s blue moon ice cream with vanilla wafers. Taking my first bite, I’m struck with a familiar flavor that I just can’t pinpoint. After a second it hit me, THESE TASTE LIKE FRUITY PEBBLES. Well more of a generic fruity pebbles with that “artificial this isn’t real fruit” taste. Now I’m not going to get into detail on how fruity pebbles taste seeing as I hope a majority of you already know what I’m talking about. If you don’t and were deprived as a child, go out and buy a box. It’ll broaden your horizons. The vanilla wafers on the other hand were practically a non-factor. There was a faint vanilla flavor in the after taste but other than that it seemed that their main purpose was to provide a support structure for the treat. That’s a shame because I feel if the vanilla was stronger, it would’ve complimented the ice cream and helped to mellowed out the predominate “fruit” flavor.

I felt like this was a nice change of pace when it comes to the basic vanilla/chocolate ice cream sandwich world. I can truly see why there is such devotion for this stuff in the Upper Midwest and the variation in people’s perception on what the true flavor is. If you’ve ever had Blue Moon, leave a comment and let me know what you think the flavor is. I’m interested on seeing what other people come up with.

On Second Scoop: Just had my other blue moon ice cream sandwich with a handful of fruit loops and they definitely taste more like fruity pebbles than fruit loops

Verdict?  A flavor truly deserving of the hype
Buy Again?  For a change of pace, sure