Schweddy Balls Ice Cream: Taste-Testing The Newest Ben & Jerry's Flavor

Ice cream and SNL enthusiasts were atwitter yesterday with the news that Ben & Jerry's was releasing Schweddy Balls ice cream. HuffPost Food just couldn't resist those schweddy balls, so we got our hands on a pint (okay, four actually). The flavor is a vanilla base with two kinds of balls: chocolate covered rum balls and chocolate covered milk balls.

Molly Shannon may have told Pete Schweddy that he had some beautiful balls, but our taste testers were decidedly more mixed:

• "Disappointed for all the hype."


• "Disappointing. Essentially just vanilla ice cream with some Whoppers in it. Not the flavor explosion I would expect out of Schweddy Balls."


• "Good vanilla ice cream, as is standard from Ben & Jerry, but I didn't think there were enough balls in the ice cream. Even when you open the carton, you can see, like, a single ball, and that's it."


• "The quality of the malt balls itself is pretty great -- they're crunchy and contrast nicely with the ice cream. Schweddy Balls suffers from the unfortunate problem of un-ballsyness. There just aren't enough balls to go around. Sad.


• "The flavor isn't nearly as exciting as the name. Not nearly as rummy as I expected, and the texture of the balls was a little on the soft side."


• "The ice cream itself is nice and vanilla-beany, but no hint of rum as described. Not enough balls for an ice cream whose main selling point is ballage, but the rum ball I tried was nice and rummy."


• "Not enough balls! And the freezing of a malt ball is sort of a weird texture."


• "It would be better if there were more balls."

Final grade: C. Sadly, maybe we can resist those Schweddy Balls after all.

Comments

[Boopsie2008]

05:11 PM on 09/22/2011

I don't get the "not enough balls" comments. My pint last night had over forty of them in it.

Yep, it was really ballsy.

(Sorry, couldnt resist!)

[Annette Hammond]

12:46 PM on 09/22/2011

I called walmart,asked if they had Ben & Jerrys "Schweddy Balls" in stock.They thought i was "NUTS"

[Boopsie2008]

05:12 PM on 09/22/2011

7-Eleven has it.

[thetxsndn]

11:20 PM on 09/21/2011

How about a flavour named Yellow Snow. It's about the same era.

[Apfhas Asdfkjdf]

04:09 AM on 09/22/2011

I would try a flavor named Yellow Snow. Same kind of humor as Schweddy Balls. And it would almost certainly be less of a train-wreck. Schweddy Balls will continue to shrink.

[thetxsndn]

08:41 AM on 09/22/2011

Yeah it could be a lemonade flavour. I think you're right about the Schweddy Balls. They tend to shrink in the freezer.

[Dan Dolan]

01:49 PM on 10/17/2011

"Cold shrinkage!" LOL

[RuralRoute1]

03:20 PM on 09/21/2011

I believe Michele Bachmann's Chubby Hubby loves a big mouthful of Schweddy Balls.

[TheWM]

03:14 PM on 09/21/2011

"It would be better if there were more balls."

Ain't that the truth, girlfriend! *snap snap snap*

WHAT?!

[jp321]

12:38 AM on 09/16/2011

funny blog post relevant to this ice cream announcement: blog.sponduu.com

[DrJohnnySkeptic]

07:53 AM on 09/15/2011

While it wouldn't be appealing, if there were the type of balls from the sketch in the ice cream (i.e., popcorn, cheese, rum), that would be funny.

Since from the sketch, they look like munchkins from Dunkin Donuts, maybe that would have worked better.

[The Revolving Diet]

11:44 AM on 09/14/2011

Are the balls connected or single? If they are double balls then they would be a mouthful and maybe easier to fit more in the container. After the comments above, maybe Ben & Jerry's will re-do and add more balls and more rum....maybe even a butterscotch or carmel swirl...........

[Apfhas Asdfkjdf]

04:12 AM on 09/22/2011

I got a container and opened it and saw nothing but white. Nothing but vanilla. I took a spoon and dug down deep and there was nothing but white vanilla ice cream. I scooped some out and then saw a ball. One. Small and very blah. In the whole container were perhaps 7 or so balls. Small and bland in bland vanilla ice cream. What the heck were they thinking? Put some effort into your work next time. Sure you are getting a buzz but people are gonna remember the sticker shock and the feeling that they got ripped off longer than the humor of the name.

[chas]

11:35 AM on 09/13/2011

Their newish clusterfluft flavor is totally awesome.

[craftycrow]

10:30 AM on 09/13/2011

Nothing beats Chunky Monkey, IMO.

[DrJohnnySkeptic]

07:54 AM on 09/15/2011

AGREED!!!

[thetxsndn]

11:19 PM on 09/21/2011

Yeah buddy ! I love that stuff. It's good with Cherry Garcia in it too.

[Rprod]

10:05 AM on 09/13/2011

I tried the flavor the other day and was disappointed. You can leave your review at http://www.consmr.com/p/ben-and-jerry-s-schweddy-balls

[minusjason]

08:47 AM on 09/13/2011

Some great quotes up there.

[JScott]

03:28 AM on 09/13/2011

Please make a flavor of Florence Dusty's Muffin!

[WarrenPease]

06:16 PM on 09/12/2011

Their next flavor will target 'tweens: Just In Beaver.

[ptrgamb]

04:04 PM on 09/12/2011

I may stick with Chocolate Macadamia and Stephen Colbert's Americone, two unabashed hits

[minusjason]

08:45 AM on 09/13/2011

Half Baked frozen yogurt

[minusjason]

08:46 AM on 09/13/2011

My post was supposed to have "< 3" at the end of it (without the space), but it somehow got deleted... HuffPo not down with the heart?

[Annette Hammond]

12:50 PM on 09/22/2011

"I HEART" half baked frozen yogert :) I've tried to do the heart thing,can't on these threads. :(