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'Ritzy' Flavor Takes Ben & Jerry's Win
Flavor Will Not Go Into Production
Posted: 8:59 am CDT October 6, 2006
Jacksonville, Fla. -- Do you think Ritz crackers belong in ice cream?
The makers of Ben and Jerry's ice cream apparently do, because they've awarded a Jacksonville, Fla., woman the top prize in their make-a-flavor contest for her cracker idea.
Tasha Callister's "Puttin' on a Ritz" features a mixture of crushed, chocolate-covered Ritz cracker sandwiches filled with caramel, then mixed in vanilla ice cream with caramel and Ritz cracker swirls.
A spokesman for the Vermont-based company said the contest judges especially liked the flavor's playful name. Ben and Jerry's will make enough "Puttin' on a Ritz" ice cream for an ice cream party for Callister, but they have no plans to put it into production.
The finalists in the "Do Us a Flavor" contest were:
The finalists:
Robin Thorneycroft, 25, of Richmond, B.C., who suggested a flavor she calls Italian Renaissance, made of amaretto liqueur ice cream, cherry chunks and sliced almonds.
Timothy Link, 36, of Troy, Idaho, whose suggestion was Mojito, a lime-based sherbet with mint, brown sugar and rum added in.
Kerstin Karlhuber, 25, of Boston, whose Wackie Chan would be sweet cream and ginger-flavored ice cream, with chocolate-covered fortune cookie bits and fudge swirl.
Tasha Callister, 26, of Jackson, Fla., whose Puttin' on a Ritz would consist of vanilla ice cream, caramel and Ritz crackers.
Reina Chilton, 26, of Tempe, Ariz., who recommended "ApricotAbra," a mix of apricot chunks, dark chocolate, vanilla ice cream and tart apricot preserves.
More than 40,000 people submitted ideas for the contest.
Distributed by Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved.
That doesn't sound appealing to me. I can't imagine putting crackers in ice cream and eating them, crushed or not. The other combinations didn't sound good either, imo.
'Ritzy' Flavor Takes Ben & Jerry's Win
Flavor Will Not Go Into Production
Posted: 8:59 am CDT October 6, 2006
Jacksonville, Fla. -- Do you think Ritz crackers belong in ice cream?
The makers of Ben and Jerry's ice cream apparently do, because they've awarded a Jacksonville, Fla., woman the top prize in their make-a-flavor contest for her cracker idea.
Tasha Callister's "Puttin' on a Ritz" features a mixture of crushed, chocolate-covered Ritz cracker sandwiches filled with caramel, then mixed in vanilla ice cream with caramel and Ritz cracker swirls.
A spokesman for the Vermont-based company said the contest judges especially liked the flavor's playful name. Ben and Jerry's will make enough "Puttin' on a Ritz" ice cream for an ice cream party for Callister, but they have no plans to put it into production.
The finalists in the "Do Us a Flavor" contest were:
The finalists:
Robin Thorneycroft, 25, of Richmond, B.C., who suggested a flavor she calls Italian Renaissance, made of amaretto liqueur ice cream, cherry chunks and sliced almonds.
Timothy Link, 36, of Troy, Idaho, whose suggestion was Mojito, a lime-based sherbet with mint, brown sugar and rum added in.
Kerstin Karlhuber, 25, of Boston, whose Wackie Chan would be sweet cream and ginger-flavored ice cream, with chocolate-covered fortune cookie bits and fudge swirl.
Tasha Callister, 26, of Jackson, Fla., whose Puttin' on a Ritz would consist of vanilla ice cream, caramel and Ritz crackers.
Reina Chilton, 26, of Tempe, Ariz., who recommended "ApricotAbra," a mix of apricot chunks, dark chocolate, vanilla ice cream and tart apricot preserves.
More than 40,000 people submitted ideas for the contest.
Distributed by Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved.
That doesn't sound appealing to me. I can't imagine putting crackers in ice cream and eating them, crushed or not. The other combinations didn't sound good either, imo.