Jenis Ice Cream of Columbus and Everything Bagel Ice Cream, a review

[irisblue]

https://www.columbusalive.com/foodanddining/20210126/jew-reviews-jenis-everything-bagel-ice-cream?template=ampart&__twitter_impression=true
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snip-"It's schmear! The flavor you never knew you wanted," Jeni's announced on Monday at noon, the temporal boundary where most respectable people agree it's acceptable to start eating ice cream. (Bagels, on the other hand: appropriate for every meal.) Here's how the company described the new flavor: "Buttery streusel laden with sesame, poppy seeds — and yes, onions and garlic — woven throughout cream cheese ice cream."

On first taste, you may briefly think, "This doesn't taste much like bagel at all." The cream cheese ice cream is delicately textured but subtly flavored, not unlike Jeni's other non-vanilla flavors such as Cream Puff or Sweet Corn. More New York cheesecake than New York bagel, lacking the light twinge of sourness that awakens cream cheese. The crumbling pebbles of streusel, much like dust from a cheesecake crust, agrees.

Then everything else arrives, crisp flecks of onion and garlic urgently pushing against the palate. A moment of cognitive dissonance: What are these spices doing in ice cream? What am I doing eating this?"


snip-"Next time, I might even try it with lox."

[in2herbs]

1. Living on the west coast I'd never heard of Jenis Ice Cream until I saw a PBS show that

interviewed the mayor of Columbus and he told the interviewer that they had to go for some Jenis Ice Cream. Since then I've seen it in the more up scale grocery stores around here. Haven't tried it yet but intend to. Never developed a taste for bagels.

[irisblue]

2. I had her ice cream in her first booth in the North Market pre 2000

It is very good ice cream, and I made it a point to take out of towners there.

If you get the chance, it is worth the price of a pint or a cone in my opinion.

If I am around in 'the after times', I will go and eat a cone and sit in the sunshine.

[C_U_L8R]

3. I'd say Jeni's is the best packaged ice cream I've ever had

I don't think I'll be trying the Everything Bagel Ice Cream any time soon, but her other flavors are amazing.

[Retrograde]

4. I've had their sweet corn ice cream

on a visit to Columbus in 2016: it was pretty good. Overall, I was impressed with the Columbus food scene - it's the first time I've had sauerkraut balls.