Junk Food Nation, there are signs you’re brushing your teeth too hard.  Bleeding gums.  Worn down enamel.  Fading whiteness.  OR, you could do what I did this morning in my half-asleep daze and jam the toothbrush so fast/hard into your mouth you don’t actually run the bristles over your teeth but instead actually ram the blunt of the toothbrush into your gums and two front teeth so hard that you collapse to the ground, clutching your mouth, sobbing quietly for a good two minutes.  Luckily, I didn’t do any real damage.  THAT woke me up.

Anyways, let’s just get into the second part of our Battle for Girl Scout Cookie Ice Cream Supremacy: Edy’s Limited Edition Slow Churned Rich and Creamy Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookie Ice Cream! Presenting a semi-photolog (because two days of Girl Scout jokes in a row isn’t THAT amusing):

The Money Shot

Ah, Thin Mints, how I love thee. And the marriage of Thin Mints and ice cream? My love may soon become lust.

Thankful that the smallest container I could find was still 1.5 qts

Does "light ice cream" mean I get to have twice as much?

Love the broken cookie image

See? That’s what I’m talking about – make the ice cream reflect the cookie.  Here, white mint ice cream? AMAZING! Much better than just having a lightly caramel ice cream for the Samoas, which should’ve had a caramel swirl in it.

These flavors end in April; buy it now!

Thin Mints being the third ingredient = thumbs up

If you eat this whole tub, that's 1440 calories!

Like the surface of the moon.

When you peel back the lid, you’re presented with this: fluffy white ice cream with bits of cookie broken into it EVERYWHERE.  Sort of like cookies n’ cream ice cream, but less black and white and more…brown and white.

(Do you see the kind of stellar analysis I provide?)

Edy's Limited Edition Slow Churned Rich and Creamy Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookie Ice Cream

Besides the bits of chocolate from the cookie coating, the inner “cookie” part of the thin mints was actually broken apart and woven into the ice cream itself. I REALLY liked that choice. One of my faovrite things in the world is cake and ice cream, because of the textural juxtaposition of the dry/rough/moist cake bits with the cold smooth ice cream. This looked like it would replicate that sensation.

Edy's Limited Edition Slow Churned Rich and Creamy Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookie Ice Cream

One bite of this Edy’s Limited Edition Slow Churned Rich and Creamy Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookie Ice Cream, and the battle is over – Thin Mint ice cream is amazing.  Do I have a general bias towards Thin Mint cookies over Samoas?  Sure.  But this ice cream was clearly conceptualized, designed, and presented better.

First, the ice cream being white mint was tasty. Cold, biting, and very minty.  There didn’t need to be any neon green in the ice cream to get the distinct and uber refreshing taste of sweet mint.  Next the chocolate bits were perfect, soft, and not overwhelming.  Their bittersweetness matched the flavor of the ice cream well, providing choice tastes of dark chocolate int he sea of clear mint flavor.  If Edy’s had stopped there, it would’ve had an award winning mint chocolate ice cream on its hands.  But then you add in the cookie ribbon of the Thin Mint innards, and that put this over the top.  The cakey yet chocolatey flavor of the cookie really upped the ante.  I genuinely felt like I was eating a deconstructed Thin Mint cookie with each bite.

Great stuff, Edy’s.  A+ ……one of my favorite ice creams, from now on.

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Sincerely, Junk Food Guy

PS: Edy’s, I’m not sure why you discontinued the Tagalongs flavor, but if it was as good as the Thin Mint version, then you MUST BRING IT BACK!  Let’s lobby, Junk Food Nation.  One million strong for Tagalong ice cream.