WHAT: Love & Hate (root beer ice cream with ginger molasses bites throughout)
WHERE: Ice & Vice (Madison Square Eats)
Creativity: 😉😉😉😉😉
Presentation: 😎😎😎😎😎
Taste: 😋😋😋😋
Texture: 😜😜😜😜😜
Value: 😄😄😄😄
Overall Experience: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
THOUGHTS: Ice & Vice is known for their experimental take on ice cream (I had previously tried their popcorn flavored one last summer), so when I went with my friends to Madison Square Eats and saw their stand, I had to stop by! I asked what their special flavor was -
Them: "Root beer ice cream, with ginger molasses!" Me: "Sure! I'll definitely try it!"
I decided to get two scoops of it sitting pretty on a lovely 'Birthday Cake' ice cream cone by The Konery. My first taste of root beer ice cream was heaven.
My friends thought I was crazy. When I returned to them excitedly holding a giant ice cream cone, they initially thought from the brown shade it was coffee - nope! xD It's definitely root beer. Their reaction - "Ugh!". LOL.
I very much enjoyed root beer as the ice cream base - it was very lickable, and the ginger molasses chunks were swirled throughout. I didn't taste the ginger molasses very much until the second scoop - the molasses tasted fine, but texture-wise it felt like I was eating sand inside ice cream. I really didn't like that feeling. (Maybe that's why they named it Love & Hate?) Therefore, one icon off of Taste. Apart from that, I wouldn't hesitate to get it again.
Extremely happy with my un-root beer float ;D