exactly! It’s high protein, sugar free (Splenda). The 30s are all excited.
I found this of interest: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/food/2017/08/halo_top_s_appeal_is_a_delicious_lie.html
Halo is not for me - I dislike the flavor of stevia (except as fresh leaves). I have some lactose issues but can eat small portions of full fat ice creams. Skim milk ice creams have too much lactose for me.
It’s funny - years ago the full fat premium ice creams available as a grocery product were such a revelation after decades of air whipped stuff. Now it’s back to paying for air. I swear, society is just constantly on a reactionary pendulum swing.
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So true (abut the pendulum swing). I remember when steakhouses IN TEXAS were few and far between because people stopped eating beef. Now they are back and on every corner it seems.
I like ice cream, but apparently, I really missed this ship. I saw them, but have never tried it. Now, I just did a search, and it is the number 1 selling brand?!?
I have really missed this ship.
I do honestly think the “low fat” and “low sugar” movement is driving this. This is not a bad thing from a society point of view. We as a society can eat a little less fat and less sugar…etc. I am just not sure we are focusing the correct approach.
It seems… instead of eating less ice cream and exercise more, we want to eat more and not gain weight. In this case, people haven’t changed much at all. We still want “magic pills”. – which we may find one day, but probably not now.
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Let us know what you think. My young friends are overjoyed with it. I once tried Ben & Jerry’s dairy free ice cream, it was wicked bad. And I had to go to Walmart to buy it, against my better judgment.
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That is the funny thing. I have seen the Halo Top ice cream all the time. I always like to try new brands. I literally took the ice cream out, read the label… It was the “low calories” which turned me off because I thought it would taste bad, and I put it back into the grocery freezer.
Maybe I will give it a try since it claims to taste just like normal ice cream. I will keep you updated.
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Halo Top tastes vile… my little nephew picked up a pint at the store by mistake (it was the only cookies & cream available) and went and spat it out yelling “COCONUT!” - we read the label, no coconut… but lots of other non-ice cream ingredients.
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Choices killed the king of condiments nothing more.
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This made me think about the rice cake fad in the '80’s. My personal take-away was that I become satiated with less of a quality ingredient. The empty stuff just doesn’t satisfy me so I eat more of it. I’d rather have a small amount of the real thing than eat lots of the low fat/cal/whatever.
I’m happy the choices are there for those who want or need them. I do choose low sodium with some frequency since there is so much that is hard to avoid. In doing so I have found my desire for salt has decreased. I find my body tends to “need” whatever it is getting with frequency.
When I drank a lot of caffeinated drinks I was exhausted all the time. So I’d drink another and so on. Now that I have 1 cup of coffee a day I have more energy and wake up fine without it. I now drink it because I like the flavor and the ritual.
Same with sugar, same with fats. The more I have the more my body seems to desire. These days I’m all about moderation and eating a wide variety of foods over a given week. It works for me.
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The dairy free ben and jerry’s is hit or miss- the almond milk based ice creams are always terrible. I had the coconut seven layer bar with coconut milk base ice cream and it was very rich and quite good
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So I’ve been told, so not yucking your yum. And I believe the canned tuna used in a salad Nicoise has to be packed in olive oil, which makes a huge difference.
Oh let me think, I do use tartar sauce and remoulade on fried seafood, so there’s a mayo use I forgot about.
It is awful.
I do not buy it for the taste.
Actually, I had an entire freezer full, and I have finished two cartons all summer. I don’t know how I’m going to eat all of it.
Why would you have an entire freezer full of something you hate? (did you purchase a house, and they left you a freezer full of Halo Top?)
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Must have knocked over a tuna truck.
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I eat it straight out of the can, a little salt, a lot of pepper and nothing else.
Long story, really boring.
Short version: I was starving, it tasted good.
Everything tastes good when you’re starving!
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In the store? So those samples work?
Why I was a failure at marketing.
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I don’t buy the premise at all. There might be a decrease in retail sales of jarred mayo, but it’s an ingredient in SO many prepared foods. Deli staples everywhere in America include mayo in tuna, chicken, and ham salad, not to mention coleslaw and potato and pasta salads. If they weren’t selling, they wouldn’t be there. Deviled eggs, ranch dressing, and BLTs are ubiquitous. The South seems to be particularly partial to mayo.
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I can handle the taste of Halo Top but regardless of calories, I’m pretty sure you brain produces an insulin spike just due to the sweetness even if it’s low cal
This should read .How mayonnaise killed the millennials. Lol .
I love mayonnaise. Making it is the best ever. But for store bought I like best foods out here on the west coast .
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