Boulder Ice Cream
A chance to say something nice for a change: Boulder Ice Cream, a super-premium made in yes Boulder, Colo & sold at WF. Unlike the corporate elephants who’ve (dining pun alert) devoured the ice cream world and turned it into a vanilla dead zone (nothing against vanilla), Boulder's a small co. w/ creative flavors: Mexican choc, green tea, coffee n toffee, ginger cream, banana almond nugget, & pearl street malt. (Malt: pinnacle of flavors.) They make their ice cream using milk from cows not treated w/ rGBH
posted by TG @ 12:07 PM
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26 Comments:
Yippee, I'm first! Take that Captain!
Bastard!
*Quizzical dog face*
Anyway, ginger cream and banana almond both sound yummy.
YOU'RE THE UGLIEST DOG I'VE EVER SEEN.
Everyone's so hard on the Captain today! T.G., where is this ice cream sold?
WF = Whole Foods.
Gotta get that to go along with the Sazerac's at the Hurricane party tomorrow!
HURRICANE: Served in a 26 oz. hurricane glass, named after the shape of a hurricane lamp.
INGREDIENTS:
1 1/2 oz. each of light and dark rum
1oz. passion fruit syrup
3/4 oz. lime juice
Shake with ice and serve in a hurricane glass. Garnish with a flag.
Beam me up one of those!
Just how many Captains are there?
Oh, and ginger cream tastes great with sushi.
this is the first ice cream you have featured that actually sounds good! i plan to try it.
You won't have to hunt too long to find it. There's at least four Whole Foods markets around here.
TG,
Where do you buy this Boulder ice cream in Dallas?
TD
Does this ice cream come in a strawberry flavor?
This Whole Foods - does it also sell fish?
I live almost cattycorner from the whole foods on greenville so i shop there fairly often, though kroger's is my main grocery.
Whole Foods is an absolute treasure.
what up w/ all these captains?
hey so i spotted boulder ice cream out at market street in colleyville, the most awesome-est s'market i've ever been to. when it opened (over a yr ago), the DMN made it sound like another eatzi's. but instead it's like a combo of whole foods and a regular supermarket and eatzi's too. i always have to split my shopping between a couple of stores but this place is one-stop all the way. it's enough to make you want to move to colleyville
TG - Finally, we agree on something (mainly after our less than agreeable thoughts about JITB and Qudoba)...malt is the pinnacle of flavors, esp. for ice cream and...well, malts. I am a big fan of the green tea ice cream though. Thanks for the tip on Boulder IC. //DPG
My local Whole Foods (Lemmon & Lomo Alto) only had 3 flavors of Boulder Ice Cream when I dropped by last night. I picked up a pint of their chocolate, which they accurately describe as tasting like "chocolate pudding" (as in Jello-brand chocolate pudding). Texture-wise, it was competitive with the better premium pint brands, being fairly dense, smooth, and without much iciness. At $3.69 a pint, it was a bit pricier than the competition. For a straight chocolate, I'd prefer one of the Dreamery-made Godiva line (particularly the Belgian Dark) over Boulder's chocolate. That may mean taking in some trace amounts of recombinant bovine growth hormone, but I'll take my chances. (I would be interested to try their "Mexican Chocolate," if I can find it anywhere locally.)
Scott
scott - glad to hear you tried it. they had nearly all the flavors at the greenville store last time i was there (few wks ago).
for me, the excitement of this line was that they had UNUSUAL FLAVORS (which i thought i'd emphasized in my item). for that reason, going w/ basic chocolate would seem to be beside the point. but hey, thanks for the analysis on that texture situation. you know i'm a fan of dreamery.
as for the hormone issue, for me, it isn't just what i'm putting in my stomach - it's also about trying to make a decision on where i'm gonna spend my $$$. cows, pigs, and chicken are all harvested in horrible ways. so any time a company takes the humane route (and that includes no rGBH), i try to support their effort, even if it costs 15 cents more than the other brands
rBGH! i keep getting it backwards!
TG,
From what my wife (whose father is a dairy farmer) tells me, rBGH is used sparingly on most diary farms. First, because some evidence suggests it's associated with higher mortality for the cows; and (pace Moses) it's bad business to kill the golden cow. Second, I'm told the stuff is incredibly expensive, creating another disincentive for its use. But, used judiciously, it adds to the bottom line.
As far as I can tell, Boulder's concern for cows is limited to whether they're treated with rBGH (though they make much of that on their site and cartons). They don't use organic milk, which means (apart from the rBGH) other antibiotics and steroids are fair game, feeds have almost certainly been treated with pesticides, and the cows have not been allowed to freely graze. In other words, the cows supplying milk for Boulder Ice Cream are unlikely to be happier (to the extent bovines are capable of the sentiment) than the ones whose milk goes into Blue Bell or any other supermarket ice cream.
Scott
Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) -- the non-recombinant form -- has been in use (and controversial) for at least 25 years. Does anyone know if "rBGH-free" products can be made with bovine products treated with BGH?
By the way, TG, your previous use of "GBH" is apt in some ways. English law includes the charge of Grievous Bodily Harm (aka GBH), which is equivalent to aggravated assault and battery in the U.S.
TG, I don't know if I'd trust the word of a dairy farmer. Eeven if they do make possible the existence of cheese. Let's put it this way, I've known nsome dairy farmers.
Twisted Link asks, "The chemical makes [the cows] produce more [milk]. Why? Who needs it?"
That's not really the point. Even if there's no need to produce more milk, use of rBGH allows for the same amount of milk to be produced with fewer cows, which means lower production costs. Lower production costs are good for farmers' profits, such as they are (and, even if we tell enormo-agribusiness to sod off, isn't it still the fashion to care about the remaining small farmers who are already at a competitive disadvantage?), and ultimately mean lower costs to consumers. I won't lose any sleep over that.
Scott
i love a good rousing comment section
meanwhile i neglected to celebrate all that is malty with david. you MUST have a sophisticated palate to appreciate the greatness that is malt. that's one of the main reasons i wanted to write about boulder ice cream: malt is one of their new flavors. Dreamery (which i've mentioned once or twice) also has an excellent malt (tho i've not seen it in stores lately).
david, did you tell me that Qdoba had branches here? becuz i JUST discovered that there are four. i've never been (i'm really just a JITB enthusiast) but i vow to try one soon. i assume you saw that JITB shut down its JBX spinoff? sob i have a feeling i would've liked it
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