Halo top ice cream is just as good as regular ice cream

[quote]I know some of us eating pints of ice cream every few days.

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Gurl, you definitely type fat.

I've never had it, though I've wanted to try it. It's SO American - no one could be satisfied with simply not eating an entire pint.

It tastes like shit. Omg this is just like Ben and Jerry's...if Ben shit in a cup and Jerry added sprinkles.

I don't agree. The reason you eat the whole pint is because you are craving the taste of REAL ice cream. It has no real flavor or taste. I'd rather buy regular ice cream and stick to a 1/2 cup serving.

They only have weird flavors (at least where I live) and I swear it made me break out. I'll never buy it again.

It has a very chemical flavor....I have tried a few and it is awful.

I’m addicted to the fucking halo top. The only bad ones are the pumpkin pie, which they don’t make anymore, and the oatmeal one. Everything else is amazing.

Last weekend I picked up a pint of Phish Food for old times sake and I literally almost threw up from eating a quarter of the pint. The second ingredient is liquid sugar, wtf?? Halo Top all the way. Don’t think I’ll eat real ice cream ever again, lest I shit myself.

Halo top tastes like chemicals. I think I'm going to switch to gelato for my ice cream fixes. Hopefully I'll end up a slightly smaller blimp after the quarantine lifts.

I recently discovered Halo, and you are correct. It’s almost too good to be true.

Gelato isn’t that much better for you. It still has sugar. It tastes better than the inedible Halo Top (I tried three flavors), but it’s not diet food.

I only like ice cream that has lots of stuff in it (cookie bits, cookie dough, flavor swirls, etc) because I'm trashy like that. Halo Top can't have lots of stuff because it would drive up the calorie count, so it gets a pass from me.

Plus it tastes awful, Sylvia. TRULY wasted calories, no matter how few they may be.

I think ice cream satisfies our deepest mammalian urges to lick and suck something milky and sweet. Make of that what you will. But I can't have it in the house. I either eat the whole container and feel terrible, or I eat part of it and make myself throw the rest away so I won't eat the whole thing, which makes me feel just as bad. I'll have it again after the pandemic is over when I can go out and order a single scoop.

Blows my mind that you all can eat entire pints of ice cream in a single sitting and not feel seriously ill.

I have a couple spoonfuls and it's enough.

Lucky fucking you, r14. You miserable cunt.

I’m not a fan of Halo. I’d rather not eat any ice cream. It’s that bad.

Lots of fat typing in tis thread. Have any of you lost 50 lbs tis munt? Tis is not a good situation.

R4, me too. It's just that I have my 1/2-cup servings one right after the other until the whole pint is gone.

Just can’t have ice cream in the house.

I love plain Häagen-Dazs vanilla. The ingredients are simply (in order): fresh cream (39%), milk, cane sugar, egg yolks, and vanilla extract. I haven't found another grocery store ice cream with as high cream percentage🥛 I don't even mind the lack of vanilla bean - it tastes absolutely perfect as is.

haggen daas, the best. a real fat gurl treat. I have halo top in the fridge,no desire to consume it. It's light literally to the touch. The weight of the container tells my brain that it will not satisfy.

I don't eat a pint of ice cream in one sitting. Maybe I'll have a few spoonfuls, a little treat after dinner but never the whole pint. HALO has good creative flavors.

This is HaloTops unbelievable commercial. Who tf would want this shit? I tasted it a few years ago - it was hummus as ice cream. Disgusting.

Enlightened is better.

commercial stinks, who though that was cute? methed out stanley kubrick film geeks.

[quote]Ingredients (Halo Top Vanilla): Skim Milk, Eggs, Milk Protein Concentrate, Cream, Erythritol, Organic Cane Sugar, Soluble Corn Fiber, Vegetable Glycerin, Whey Protein Concentrate, Natural Flavor, Acacia Gum, Sea Salt, Vanilla Beans, Organic Carob Gum, Organic Guar Gum, Caramel Color, Organic Stevia Leaf Extract.

No thanks. Why would you even willingly pay for this? Just get normal dairy ice cream, where you can count the ingredients on one hand, and have less of it if you're thinking about the calories.

Ben and Jerry's has a really good light line

i took a tiny taste of the halo top in my freezer. peanut buttercup is the flavor. it isn't bad but its not good either. it tastes"sweet", the texture is airy. this flavor is dairy free, many people can't eat dairy but love icecream. i guess this is one alternative.

r14 I haven’t seen a good humble brag in a while. Thanks for that.

Ice cream is one of the most hyper palatable foods available. It is cold, icy, sweet, creamy, tangy, chewy, and then you can add additional elements based on the flavors or mix ins. Food like that makes your brain (or most peoples brains) go haywire because evolution programmed the brain to go after as much of a calorically dense food as possible. For anyone who can really be satisfied by 4 ounces of ice cream, number one go fuck yourself, and number two congratulations you won the genetic lottery. I’m not sure why any person who could eat for ounces of ice cream and be satisfied would bother with halo top or writing about it on a message board.

I would say Halo Top tastes like shit—I’ve had it 3 or 4 times—but I am not of the rimming persuasion.

[quote]I love plain Häagen-Dazs vanilla.

IMHO the simple basic Häagen-Dazs flavors are still the best packaged ice-cream. Especially their vanilla. And their coffee flavor is excellent too,

It's actually the closest in concept to what Italian gelato is: few ingredients, milky not butter fatty, light not dense, melts fast, refreshing not filling, not too sweet.

This one is lovely, very heavy on the coffee-flavour.

It's OK as a frozen treat, but no, it's not as good as regular ice cream, in any way, shape or form.

Halo top is also great if you’re constipated! It had me running to the bathroom and cramping a few hours after ingested.

I heard the same about HT working as a laxative in some people.

Three Twins was better but sadly the company did a nosedive w/the pandemic.

I don't know if you have Picard in the US/outside of Europe but their ice creams are really good.

R31 It's probably very good, but I stay away from Häagen-Dazs' more complicated flavors.

They usually have corn syrup and so forth. If I want a coffee ice-cream, I don't need brownies mixed in or whatever. I'll take the clear uncomplicated taste of the simple version.

The American penchant for ice-cream mixed with brownies, cookie batter, cookies, pieces and chunks of this and swirls of that is just not my thing when it comes to ice cream.

ALL of that stuff called "gelato" in the US is far off the mark.

You say Halo, I see Muffin.

And you ain't no Top either.

All the fatty ice cream snobs are here and they are ready to rumble!

And what a shame no one makes a good pistachio. Ben&Jerry's pistachio has mostly the cloying taste of almond extract. Häagen-Dazs' has no pistachio flavor at all. Real pistachio ice-cream is made with ground pistachios (ground like peanut butter) that infuses the ice-cream with flavor. Not nuts sitting in plain ice-cream.

And no one makes a good almond, walnut, or one of the most classic Italian ice-cream flavors of all: hazelnut.

R14 sounds a sanctimonious fad-diet-follower.

all Haagan Daaz flavours are great, that is the problem!

What chemicals are in it. Is it a dessert of another lab experiment?

I’m not much of an ice cream eater. It just doesn’t tempt me much. I tried Halo Top when it first came out and threw it away after a single bite. That shit is vile and nothing like actual ice cream.

Just eat the real thing, you fat whore!

[quote] Blows my mind that you all can eat entire pints of ice cream in a single sitting and not feel seriously ill.

If you set your mind to it, and keep at it, you'll be able to eat like a pro fatty someday-- just like us.

Tried just about every flavor of regular halo top so far - either "good enough" or fucking terrible. All of the dairy free ones are DISGUSTING. The Peanut Butter and Jelly from the regular line is my favorite, followed by Red Velvet. Got the White Chocolate Macadamia keto version today and it's pretty good. One pint is about 3 servings for me (I'm not as fat as I type - yet).

It made my face tingle on one side.

The people who love Halo Top have palates accustomed to processed foods. Not trying to be a snob. I’ve fallen off the wagon and it’s easy to get used to things like Doritos and Crystal Light and Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing.

But once you start eating “clean” Whole Foods, your palate adjusts and those foods taste too salty or two sweet or really fake.

Bradley Cooper knows what's up!

Ice cream is made from milk. If you're too precious to eat dairy, you might as well kill yourself. Or eat something else.

No OP. I’ve tried Halo Top a few times and they have had an almost chemical flavor. I’ll stick to high end high fat content ice cream and eat only a spoonful. Yeah, that’s it. Just one spoonful.

Anyone know where I can buy a gallon-sized spoon?? Etsy?

Tried it once...hated it.

Haagen Dazs Vanilla Swiss Almond is my favorite ice cream. I can’t keep it in the house regularly but occasional buy it and devour it quickly. Halo top has been sitting in the freezer for months untouched except when nieces and nephews come over.

R49 in other words Halo is for The Poors

The coffee chip is the only one I actually liked . The rest were just bland.

R53, that’s how I am, too. Three spoonfuls of Haagen-Dazs is enough for me.

Plain Häagen-Dazs vanilla is the best but this one is pretty great too:

I love Breyers Neopolitan. Simple flavors and ingredients. Lite/Diet ice cream always lacks satiety!

But the red velvet and pistachio are good, but dont expect them to taste like red velvet and pistachio

Well it still tastes good to me.

Strange about the pistachio flavored ice cream. Maybe pistachios are too expensive to make it correctly.

Vanilla is not my favorite anything but Haagen Daaz makes a good plain vanilla, their strawberry flavor is better IMO.

I’m tastefully plump @R1

When it comes to store bought ice cream, I only used to eat Talenti. I’m not a huge fan of ice cream in general, and I don’t eat dairy anymore, so that’s that.

My favorite ice cream flavor is pistachio, but I’ve never found a store bought version that’s good.

Halo tastes like frozen cardboard with a splash of salt. It's the skinnygirl of frozen desserts.

R37 what about to Talenti? That’s not a decent gelato to you?

I was looking forward to trying Halo Top. It tasted like shit. I threw away the rest of the container.

[quote]what about to Talenti? That’s not a decent gelato to you?

It has none of the characteristics of gelato.

Furthermore: gelato is not made with dextrose and carob gum. Even their most simple flavor, vanilla has that stuff.

Häagen-Daz does not

I have a container of Häagen-Dazs vanilla in my freezer. It's been there for almost 3 years. Do you think it's still good? I'm not really into ice cream too much but it was on sale one summer day for $1.88 so I bought it. Now reading all this ice cream talk I'm kind of in the mood for it.

No if it were a bag of M&Ms it would have been gone in a week.