Ben & Jerry's Vanilla Toffee Bar Crunch Ice Cream

[By Nick] While Dubba was able to acquire all three new cookie cores from Ben & Jerry's, I couldn't find a single one. Wanting to add to my list of Ben & Jerry's flavors tried and not wanting to come up empty handed, I decided to grab the new heath-less...

Ben & Jerry's Vanilla Toffee Bar Crunch Ice Cream

Vanilla Ice Cream with Fudge-Covered Toffee Pieces

I originally had no plans of picking this up after my showdown between the new and old coffee versions. That was until one of my dad's coworkers asked me why it had changed. He sounded exactly like every comment that was left on my showdown as well. "I don't typically buy ice cream but when I do it would be heath bar crunch..." He literally ranted to me for a good 10 minutes over the change. After I explained it, he called them names that Dubba would censor if I was to list them.  So with that reinforcement, I decided to grab the new version just to see how many people are pissed off about it in these comments as well.

This is a simple flavor and it looks a lot like the new coffee version. Big chunks of toffee with little to no liquidation of the toffee. The base tastes like their normal vanilla so at least there's no big change like the coffee version. That said, Ben & Jerry's vanilla always tastes so bland to me. I'm still mad over the fact that they discontinued Jimmy Fallon's Late Night Snack. That vanilla bean base is 100x better than this.

The toffee is just as horrible as I remembered it in the coffee version. Hard, burnt and crumbly. Nothing about it is pleasant at all. I understand why so many people who enjoyed this flavor are outraged by Ben & Jerry's decision. If you were going to make such a major change, wouldn't you have done your research first? Maybe crowdsource opinions from true fans of the flavors? Heck, I'd at least expect some sort of taste test to have happened seeing as one of the toffee flavors are in Ben & Jerry's Top Ten for sales. If you want a toffee flavor, I suggest looking elsewhere. That or just make your own sundae with it. It'll be way better than this joke Ben & Jerry's has been playing for almost a year.

Verdict?  Toffee, for the people you hate
Buy Again?  Only if there's another formula change

Dubba's Scoop: Unbeknownst to Nick (wait, did I just really use that word?), my Market Basket cart seemed a bit light on the ice cream front last week and I picked this one up as well. I just had some about an hour ago and now I see why people are frustrated with this overly potent toffee replacement. It reminds me a bit of my frustrating experience with Gifford's Mount Katahdin Crunch. The only thing I would add is I felt like the toffee kind of negated any enjoyment I would have gotten from the vanilla base. Maybe it was a bum pint, but it was gritty and the vanilla flavoring felt hidden behind the toffee invasion.