All flavours! Looks like from all the catalogue specials they've learnt people won't pay $6, but they love it at $4!
Flavours:
Peanut Butter
Caramel Popcorn
Liquorice Allsorts
Gooey Choc Brownie
Raspberry Cookie
Pistachio Honey
Banana Chocolate Sundae
Passionfruit Pavlova
Lemon Meringue
Mocha Crunch
Peanut butter and pistachio honey are quite good. Mocha crunch isn't too bad. I used to get them when they were 2 for $6 but I guess $4 a pop seems fine too.
Peanut butter is amazing. But it blocks me up like cement. #overshare
Hence paintoad
I only tried Pistachio Honey and I can tell you it is disgusting. It has really cheap bitter tasting nuts that leave a revolting taste in your mouth. The "pistachio" is an artificial flavour that tastes more like stale sponge cake. It isn't a bargain at $4. It isn't worth 4 cents.
6% almonds, 1% roasted pistachios
What it says on ingredients i'm tub eating now, and yeah a little mediocre for what it promises on the label. Contains figs as well, well 17% of the 15% that is the honey ripple supposedly, surprised they don't put that on the label its 'gourmet' too!
Not much of a bargain when the one litre tubs are $4.70, and the same quality (see ingredients, 30% cream etc)
BTW, most of the two litre tubs are not real ice-cream (and you can taste it!) Coles, Streets, Peters - all bad.
Some Bulla and Cadbury are still legally called ice-cream, I think. But they cheat - they are mostly air. I think "creamy" is the code-word for full of gas.
It is a cheat because they sell by volume, but list the ingredients by percentage weight, so avoid listing air as the #1 ingredient.
BREAKING NEWS: Some food is more dense than others.
Just like how they rip us off by charging watermelon by weight when you can only eat 10% of the mass.
Relax, just remember to yourself that you're morally superior to other people who buy this product.
Some food is more dense than others.
Yeah, and some ice creams are aerated more than others.
After having frozen custard in Canberra, regular commercial ice cream doesn't excite me as much as it used to. You can feel just how much air is in the stuff. Far less enjoyable experience, IMO.
Then what brands should we aim for?
In the end it is personal taste, but to me the butterfat is important, so avoid anything that does not legally qualify as ice-cream.
The Bulla and Cadbury are OK - I was just pointing out that 2-litre may not be much more than 1-litre, so not so much cheaper.
e.g. 1litre premium is 700g, 2 litre "extra creamy" is 940g - only a third more, not double. I think most people would be surprised at that.
I like Conniissuer (awesome spells), then Sara Lee, then Coles 2 litre but I avoid all barring Honey Macadamia and Rum n' Raisin. It's wierd to me that the 500ml are listed as a bargain when they're still more expensive than the 2L although I think they have more adventurous flavours.
Peter's, Bulla and Woolworths I avoid due to them tasting "watery".
then Sara Lee, then Coles 2 litre
I'm sure you mean "one litre". The 2l is the square plastic tubs, and all "Reduced Fat".
Nice theory but I think you'll find they do that because they don't add air as an ingredient. You wouldn't list "air" as an ingredient when you served whipped cream would you? Also air has no nutritional attributes that I know of.
Speaking for myself I have noticed the differences people are talking about: cheaper ice cream seems to taste "watery" and seemingly dissolves in the mouth to less (dunno how else to put that). I'd always assumed that it was a lack of cream or buttercream which was replaced with water but that's just my asumption.
Again, the point is, it looks like you are getting twice as much in a 2-litre tub, but you only get 1/3 more.
Yes, they replace butterfat (the essential component of cream) with water and emulsifier. Just like in reduced-fat "table spreads".
Those are catalogue specials. How much were they inbetween those dates?
Those are catalogue specials. How much were they inbetween those dates?
There are no snapshots between those dates, but our local Coles has been selling these for $4 for at least a couple of months now…
(Since they released these, they have been $4 more often than they have not…)
It's a typical Coolies ploy, they compare the "special" price against weeks when it was higher. Anyway a litre's worth for $8 is pretty ordinary.
I've paid $6 a tub a couple of times recently JV.
You're right in that is frequently $4 a tub, but then they have always gone back to trying it on at $6.
perhaps, but they've been $4 longer than $6, and our local one has had them at $4 for quite a while now…
How many days difference? Which stores?
How can that be? Coles has had national pricing on most items since 2010. The only expceptions to this rule maybe F+V or Deli or Meat if competing with a smaller retailer, so they can do their best to kill them off
http://ausfoodnews.com.au/2010/01/27/coles-commits-to-nation…
@MelbBargainChaser77: I haven't read that article but it's complete BS. Most days I visit 2 Coles supermarkets and just amongst the limited numbers of items I buy there are differences.
The story was probably created by their public relations team which then goes out as a press release where it gets picked up and repeated repeated over and over by various publications that fail to do any checking. It's a win/win: Coles gets it's message out, the publications don't have to pay much at all for content.
This is the same area of the company that puts out other feel good gems like there's no job losses caused by automatic checkouts and other idiocy.
Yeah the peanut butter one is good, but they were definitely dreaming at $6.
I'll probably still hold out for discounts below $4 myself…
Peanut Butter and Caramel Popcorn are great. Gooey Choc Brownie is normal.
Havent seen any of these though..
Raspberry Cookie
Pistachio Honey
Passionfruit Pavlova
Lemon Meringue
Mocha Crunch
The banana choc is ok too for $4 a pop. Sure, it's no Ben and Jerry's, but they're bloody $12.50 a tub at Coles…….
Raspberry Cookie is very underrated flavor.
Where are they made?
probably China.
only until Coles negotiate a cheaper deal elsewhere, that's why they are moving towards their own labels…
don't be surprised if they are imported before you know it… in fact, they'll probably go out of their was so that you don't know it… (eg. 'freshly' baked bread)
Edit: A discussion on importing icecream in 2013
Now we just need to wait for $2/tub special
true ozbargainer lol
Great Deal!
On a side note, any idea where to find rainbow icecream though? Have been looking for a long time.
Check near a pot of gold somewhere.
+1 for creativity
Rainbow Paddle Pop ice cream by the tub would be incredible. I'd be fat in no time.
Now we won't get them for $3. Where's the deal?
But there might be days where they hit $2
Bought 5 of these to try when they were $3 a tub. Agree that pistachio and the peanut butter flavours are the best. I had high hopes for lemon meringue but it's was kinda odd to me.
I'm an ice cream aficionado and struggling to find the good stuff in supermarkets without paying through the nose.
I've noticed most brands of vanilla now list fat-reduced cream or milk as their primary ingredient. Even the Bulla and new Cadbury range do this, which, by the way, are exactly the same ice cream, right down to the plastic tub.
The best affordable ice cream these days seems to be at Aldi. A 1L tub of their good stuff is a little over $4.
No Aldi in WA, so that leaves Coles/harrylarry. Except no proper plain vanilla in their brand. That leaves Bulla/Cadbury (I'd not noticed they were identical) , which at least has minimum required butterfat.
Even the expensive brands use skim milk concentrate.
I agree the good stuff sold in supermarket are really expensive. Best ice cream I ever bought was the movenpick tiramisu. And it cost a crazy amount just for a tiny tub. It was worth it though just that one time. Pure orgasm eating that lol
I hope cadbury and bulla aren't the same now, Cadbury used to be way better than that bulla rubbish (…OK, the cookies and cream was alright, but it was no Cadbury's).
Pretty sure the vanilla Cadbury and Bulla are exactly the same. The Cadbury packaging even says "Made by Regal Cream Products", which is Bulla.
G5, I am interested to try the ALDI "good stuff" out. What is the name of the type you meant?
They have some nice flavours (peanut butter, raspberry and white choc, and more) in 1L tubs at my local store for $4.29/tub. Can't remember the Aldi brand name.
The chocolate banana Monarc brand in 2L tub is also good and even cheaper than the 1L tubs.
Thanks, will check it out.
Are these any good?