Häagen-Dazs · Desserts
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Sweet cream infused with mint, not a mint base built from the start, and the tub is uncolored for it. Most American mint ice cream is green; this one isn't, which is the fastest way to tell it apart on a shelf. Mint is a sensation as much as a flavor. Menthol triggers the same cold receptors the freezer does, so a mint ice cream reads colder than a vanilla sitting at exactly the same temperature. That's a strange thing to want in something already cold, and it's precisely why it works. The chips are chocolaty rather than chocolate, so they're a compound coating that sets hard and snaps. Mint needs a partner more than most flavors do, and chocolate is the one that has stuck.
