Häagen-Dazs · Desserts
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A sweet cream ice cream flavored with matcha, which is a meaningful distinction: the tea is what's added, and the dairy underneath is left plain to carry it. Matcha is whole leaf ground to powder rather than leaf steeped in water, so it goes in as a solid and ends up eaten. That's why it colors an ice cream so strongly and why it brings bitterness a brewed tea wouldn't. Shade-growing before harvest pushes that character further. The bitterness is the whole argument. Nearly everything else in a freezer aisle is sweet, and matcha is one of very few things there with an astringent edge that isn't cocoa. Häagen-Dazs launched green tea in Japan in 1996, where the brand is considerably larger than its American origins suggest.
