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u/ChainsawLeon 1d ago
Each bite is such a bizarre combination of flavors, it somehow works for me. Itās not something I would get all the time, but itās a fun novelty.
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u/SevenSixOne 12h ago
Yeah, I thought it was better than it sounded but not good enough to get again š¤·āāļø
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u/InvestigatorOld8695 22h ago
My husband bought some took a few bites and now itās been sitting in the freezer š I like the effort though!
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u/SinisterChef 1d ago
I liked it, I love shitty fake butter and spicy stuff. I will absolutely agree that it was spicier than I was ever expecting it to be for ice cream. But the texture of ice cream, swirls and pretzels is pleasant and the over all flavor profile together was good.
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u/zeppelinism Mt. Washington 1d ago
Spicy and sweet together doesnt bother me. I thought the flavor profile was horrendous. My gf took one bite and almost threw up. I took 1 bite and thought it was alright. 2 bites and thought ugh i dont know this is starting to taste like cold Ramen? 3 bites it went into the trash.
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u/Keregi 21h ago
You understand that taste is subjective and some people are more adventurous than you?
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u/zeppelinism Mt. Washington 20h ago edited 20h ago
You understand I wasnt saying it wasnt subjective? I was just saying the sweet and spicy part wasnt the problem and gave my experience. Also, if I wasn't adventurous I wouldn't have bought the ice cream to try it? I went on the adventure, I just didnt like it. Why does that seem to offend you?
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u/PreperationOuch Covington 1d ago
Elaborate
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u/MageOfFur 1d ago
I've tried it and can concur. Buttered popcorn flavor ice cream, with swirls that are flavored with Grippos spice- it's a strange combo and does not work at all to me. Also it has chocolate covered pretzels which is equally absurd
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u/zeppelinism Mt. Washington 1d ago
Really awful. The bad buttery popcorn taste doesnt translate well with ice cream. People are saying they didnt mind the spice, but i couldn't even taste any spice over the over powered artificial popcorn flavor. By the 2nd bite it weirdly tasted like cold Ramen, and by the 3rd bite it was in the trash. Look, im usually all for novelty type ice creams. The skyline one i could do and didnt think was awful. This one.... just no.
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u/salami_cheeks 15h ago
Thank you for elaborating! Fake popcorn butter flavoring is one of my least favorite things. Never will I ever. I'd rather just crush up a handful of Grippo's over vanilla ice cream.
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u/zeppelinism Mt. Washington 14h ago
Yeah, I would've much preferred that as well. I was curious about the popcorn flavoring and how it would taste and yeah im not a fan either.
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u/Repulsive_Rich_3820 Erlanger 1d ago
Interesting how these two posts lined up for me
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u/DecentFeedback2 13h ago
Oo I've got one, gits and shiggles (like shits and giggles)
In British slang, "git" is a mild insult used to describe an unpleasant, silly, incompetent, or annoying person. It is most frequently directed at men.
I make myself laugh if nothing else..
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u/Ill_Bodybuilder_1083 18h ago
Saw this the other day at Kroger and thought "Who TF would be brave enough to try this"
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u/anohioanredditer Ex-Cincinnatian 1d ago
Maybe im just different but I donāt think Iād have any problems eating a spicy sweet treat like this.
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u/zeppelinism Mt. Washington 1d ago
Its not that its spicy and sweet. Its that the flavor of it is horrendous.
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u/GzusWritesGzusWalks 1d ago
I did not think it was that bad; would not go out and get it again, but it def wasnāt a complete waste of time
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u/Wonderful-Shirt-9735 21h ago
I havenāt tried it, but there is a Grippos flavored Goetta, for those willing to try it.
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u/ThePensiveE 1d ago
I know. That's why I wasn't stupid enough to spend money on it.
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u/zeppelinism Mt. Washington 1d ago edited 20h ago
Same
Edit: woops I misread this comment last night. Was half asleep checking comments š Sorry that im stupid. I like to try new things and after the skyline ice cream not being too bad I thought id give this novelty a chance.
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u/catsofulthar Mt. Washington 16h ago
I'm trying to snag a pint or two for a taste test with my coworkers, but I can't find it anywhere...I just want to taste the cursed ice cream!
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u/EmoMillenial1 15h ago
At least the Skyline ice cream is good!
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u/Ecstatic-Narwhal-743 10h ago
All I can imagine is buying a tub of the frozen sauce and eating a scoop when I think of that ice cream. It sounds horrible to eat cold chili. Milk chili at that lol
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u/Nate1257 1d ago
I couldn't do it. 2 bites and the pint was tossed. It's spicy in a way that wasn't invited, and the pretzels taste bad along with the rest of the dessert. Genuinely horrendous.
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u/LadyInCrimson Westwood 1d ago
The taste as a sweet was not my favorite but I do give them credit for making ice cream taste like grippos. Definitely a fun experience!
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u/Trashacccount927 1d ago
It makes no sense to me. No one associates Grippos with popcorn or pretzels (though I believe they make both). So then they added these bizarre flavors for no reason.
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u/Keregi 21h ago
How is it that hard to understand? Lots of flavors work well with ice cream. Mixing sweet and salty is common and popular.
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u/Trashacccount927 14h ago
Itās not āhard to understandā. They made a novelty flavor of a brand known for barbecue potato chips and threw a bunch of seemingly unrelated things in there.
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u/roastedcoyote 22h ago
UDF used to have praline pecan. Why they discontinued that and create these Frankenstein mash ups has to be pure economics.
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u/The-D-O-Z 23h ago
If it had "Graeters" name attached to it, fancy-fart sniffing Andersonites would be lining up out the door for it.
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u/Odd-Independent4640 20h ago
Howās it compare to Graeterās Skyline Chili?
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u/zeppelinism Mt. Washington 20h ago
I actually very much enjoyed the Skyline Ice Cream. I think Grippos just tried to do the novelty thing like them and didnt really nail it. I dont really understand going with the popcorn flavor?
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u/RedfordStrypington 20h ago
I prefer the Grippos. The oyster crackers in the skyline kinda put me off.
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u/KaioKenshin 18h ago edited 18h ago
I wanted to try it but it seems too off. I had the skyline addition it was bizarre, like eating spaghetti in melted ice cream in some bites, others surprisingly good.
So I figured this would be like eating chips in melted ice, which I can see it as a pregnancy craving or stoned out of your mind food.
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u/PhatTuna 17h ago
Not a fan of the skyline graeters one either. It's not terrible, but also not that good. And im not trying to pay $7/pint of mid ice cream.
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u/BreezySAM 16h ago
Don't plan on trying Grippos flavor, but the Reds Grand Slam flavor is def worth mentioning, buying and eating if it's still in stores. Wish they would make it a yearly flavor!
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u/absolutelyjiggs Northside 13h ago
I like it, it's not the best ice cream I've bought but it's fun. I really like the spiced caramel I wish they leaned more on that.
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u/Ecstatic-Narwhal-743 10h ago
This is one of those times I'm ok with being a little picky. We don't turn hot dishes into ice cream. Not savory ones.
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u/J_Zephyr 10h ago
I would've ventured a guess to say the barbecue-ice cream market was saturated at zero attempts.
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u/don_keydick_42069 8h ago
Im just happy to live somewhere they can do stuff like this. I mean what other cities have such a variety of regional staples like cincy? Cant wait for goldstar and grippos to come out with a grippos 3 way or chili dip with grippos chips or something. Gripppos flavored seasoning on a penn station sub š m. Goetta flavored cookies and ice cream from busken/graeters
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u/YogurtclosetHuman866 6h ago
I must have gotten a dud one cause it just tasted like salted caramel vanilla ice cream to me.
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u/onestopvtg Newport š§ 1d ago
Whatās it taste like
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u/zeppelinism Mt. Washington 1d ago
Its weirdly tastes like ramen
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u/MeeseeksSerotonin 21h ago
Thatās what I said too! Literally almost like they dropped a ramen packet in there. Didnāt help I had already had ramen earlier that day so I felt like I was going crazy lol
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u/Keregi 21h ago
It doesn't taste anything like ramen and maybe something is wrong with your taste buds.
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u/zeppelinism Mt. Washington 20h ago
You realize taste is subjective right? Not everyone has the same palette.
Edit: didnt realize you were the same person from the last comment. You contradicted yourself by saying taste is subjective and then turn around and tell me theres something wrong with my taste buds because I thought it tasted weirdly like Ramen? Its not EXACTLY the taste of Ramen, its just the closest description I could get to it. Thats why I put "weirdly" in front of it.
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u/OldSoulCreativity 1d ago
I mean it looks like it would be bad lol. There is zero chance I would consider buying that in a store.
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u/Keregi 21h ago
I liked it, but wouldn't go out of my way to get it again. For all of you "I took one bite and threw it out" people, it does get better after a few bites. The crunch was good and the spice flavor worked well with the caramel. I tasted Grippos the rest of the night though.
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u/zeppelinism Mt. Washington 20h ago
I thought it got worse the more I ate it. To each their own š¤·āāļø
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u/UserProv_Minotaur 20h ago
The chocolate pretzels are solid, but everything else is disappointing.
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u/Grammarhole 17h ago
āChocolateyā coated pretzels. You know what that means? No fuckinā chocolate.
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u/marmotgrl 10h ago
Excellent point!
Commercially, words are very much chosen for āreasonsā, not just to be āadorable!ā
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u/HecKentucky 23h ago edited 23h ago
is that shit even ice cream? what are the ingredients? looks nasty
well well well!!!
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u/MeeseeksSerotonin 21h ago
Surprisingly most of UDF is actually ice cream and not the āfrozen dairy dessertā.
Source: I know someone whoās a UDF manager
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u/lizfromthebronx Madisonville 21h ago
It was $2.50 so I bought it. But the BBQ flavor is soooo overpowering and not at all a complement to the popcorn or the pretzels. I donāt like BBQ that much, though.
I took 4 bites and am just waiting for trash day to toss it.
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u/Mahakala137 19h ago
I liked it. It was pretty tame to me as I eat habaneros and things like aged durian fruit(that twist it throws at you from the sulfur compounds (that are the same released from dead things) in the fruit aren't for the weak). I think I'll try it with some raspberry rum or some such next time. š¤£š
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u/PreOpTransCentaur 1d ago
Saw a dude buying 3 of them from a UDF the other night. The cashier was like, "Oh, do you like these?" The guy responds that he hasn't tried them yet and another cashier just goes, "..I wouldn't buy 3 of them.." š¤£