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It’s been a long while since I’ve done the side by side but I believe I liked Vanilla Bean by a fair margin. As mentioned above, I believe the french vanilla is slightly sweeter and vanilla bean has more of the authentic vanilla flavor. Speaking of, I need to grab a pint of vanilla ice cream on Sunday because I plan on having apple pie and perhaps a slice of peach pie for my Masters dessert.
I know this is blasphemy but I’m not a huge Blue Bell guy. I much prefer Breyers, especially their mint chocolate chip which is hands down 10x better than Blue Bell. It has more of a real mint flaor and they use decent sized chunks of dark chocolate for the chips as opposed to BB which uses little specks of somewhat flavorless chocolate.
As for other flavors, Blue Bell did have a Pecos cantaloupe flavor for a year or two about 15 years ago but it’s been long since discontinued. If you’re not familiar, Pecos is in far west Texas and has the sweetest, best cantaloupe I’ve ever had in my life. Apparently it has something do do with the climate and soil which is higher in salt IIRC that gives that extra sweetness. They used to be easy to find but a bunch of farmers sold their land to oil companies so now there’s just a handful of people that still grow them. I have to go to a local independent fruit stand to get the ones not mass produced by one of the bigger companies. Anyways, I assume the lac of production is why Blue Bell doesn’t make it anymore. I know the flavor sounds gross but it was incredible and I know a lot of people that weren’t even big cantaloupe fans but loved that ice cream.
Other flavors I enjoy would be any kind of chocolate or double chocolate, butter pecan, chocolate peanut butter, etc. I rarely eat ice cream but I pretty much love every flavor but vanilla (unless with pie or cake) and vanilla based ice creams.
