Do you know those awful store-bought birthday cakes that have the inch-thick frosting all around? Well Jeni has recreated the taste of those PERFECTLY here. My only gripe is there are so many sprinkles that they sort of overwhelm everything, including the tiny chunks of cake.
Crazy sweet and totally over the top, this is a great gimmick flavor — you’ll only need to eat one scoop one time. I’d never eat it again, but I’m glad I ate it once!
In German. 124 minute running time so at least 30 minutes too long … I did indeed shed bitter tears for renting this one and wasting an hour of my life on it (2x ffwd) … lesbian love has never looked so dull … Fassbinder apparently had the hots for some young boy who spurned him and this was his way of working that out … this could be the ultimate fag movie, do NOT miss it if you happen to be homosexual. Normies will find it just sort of ridiculous and can give it a miss.
Do you know what you are? A whore, Mother! A miserable little whore! [sounds even better in German]
This is the first flavor in this series where the pastry bit, chocolate covered waffle cone, actually works. It’s good! There is a problem though, and it is that the vanilla ice cream tastes mighty fancy, I don’t think anyone gets fancy vanilla bean ice cream in a waffle cone. I’m really nit-picking now.
Cutesy side story
It’s not a grand slam, but this is a winner, and definitely better than both Powdered Jelly Donut and Pineapple Upside Down Cake.
Next up in my series of reviews of Jeni’s ice cream is the Pineapple Upside Down Cake. I love pineapple upside down cake, which I fear is now Old People Food (Jeni was born in 1973, a fellow Gen-Xer (GenX = 1960-1975). Do kids even know what pineapple upside down cake is? (The key is to use fresh pineapple, never canned.)
The pineapple buttermilk ice cream ain’t bad (has a tang) and the cake works a lot better here than the Jelly Donut, but there are giant swirls of caramel in here that make it too sweet, though the sour cherry syrup sort of offsets it (I didn’t see a single cherry in there … correction, there were a few red cherries deeper down).
Cutesy side story
So once again this is a gimmicky flavor that should be tried once in a scoop shop, but it’s not a keeper or a re-order at $12 a pint (plus $15 for shipping) for me.
Previously:
147 minute running time, but it’s really six separate episodes … it’s goofy and sometimes funny (esp. the silly nature show voiceover guy) but you have to be in the mood for it … John Lurie, I have no idea who he is (born in 1952) but he was somehow buddies with Jim Jarmusch (born 1953), Tom Waits (born 1949), Matt Dillon (born 1964), Willem Dafoe (born 1955), and Dennis Hopper (born 1936). He’s contemporaries with Jarmusch, Waits, and Dafoe (all Boomers) … Dillon is a bit younger (solidly Gen-X (1960-1975) … Dennis Hopper is a generation younger (Depression era), but of course was always young at heart.
John Lurie has poor kid teeth
Lola Kirke … I like her gray eyes and horsey face and her voice of course, gives a little bit of a Trust Fund kid vibe, who knows though:
After making an obscene amount of money day trading the other day, I decided to splurge on some mail-order Jeni’s ice cream, getting a number of flavors which are not available to me in the backwoods of Appalachia. I will review all of them one by one.
The haul
First up is Powdered Jelly Donut.
The raspberry jelly is very good, very jelly doughnut like, but the "brown sugar donut crumble” is where this falls down. Sometimes Jeni nails the pastry bits of her ice cream, but here it just doesn’t work; there’s nothing doughnut like about it, it’s more like cookie dough, and heavily nutmeg’d at that.
Cutesy side story
It’s a good gimmick flavor though and you should try at least a scoop if you’re lucky enough to have a local scoop shop near you. But I wouldn’t order another $12 pint (plus $15 shipping).
Never seen this watch before, but I love it….
Dark Pool activity in the US Banana Republic stock market with its 14? exchanges plus these guys (sorted by average trade size):
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LEVEL ATS - EBXL - 36468122 - 5194480422 - 142
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124 minute running time so at least half an hour too long … this is Woody Allen imagining how awful upper class British people are and holy shit Scarlett Johansson can’t act to save her life … the reason she was so good in Under the Skin was because she was playing an alien, sort of like why Arnold Schwarzenegger was such a great Terminator … anyway this was pretty awful … Rex Reed in a rare misstep loved it. You can avoid or watch on fast forward with subtitles on.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers going for the pooper poke
