"Haagen Dazs" news and stories

Several weeks back, Max wrote about the launch of Haagen Dazs' new Five ice cream. Last week, Slashfood was surprised by 14 pints of the new recipe. That's right, 14 (2 pints each of the seven new flavors). Needless to say, everyone got a bite.

All of the Five offerings are made with milk, cream, sugar, eggs and one of the following ingredients to create the seven single-note flavors:

• Brown Sugar
• Coffee
• Ginger
• Milk Chocolate
• Mint
• Passion Fruit
• Vanilla Bean

Find out after the jump whether these clean ice cream flavors live up to their hype.

I must have been living in a hole, because until yesterday, I never knew that there was a difference between an American cup and a Canadian cup. It can't be all that much, since I've used the two interchangeably for years, but it has ruffled my feathers and made me wonder if all of my baking would've been just a little bit better had I known this earlier.

It all came on the heels of me trying to transcribe a recipe that had everything by weight. Personally, I like weighing my dry goods, but I like to throw in a cup here or there when it's a liquid. But now I have to watch my cups, and figure weight, and be sure that my calculations are for the right ingredients. I get the differences between measuring systems, and I grumble my way through density and volume, but this is something different. A cup can't be a cup if the two sizes are different! That's just silly -- especially in an age where we get recipes from all over the globe.

And I wasn't even going to write about it until I read that Haagen-Dazs was shrinking their pints from 16 ounces to 14 ounces. You can't shrink a unit of measurement! What's wrong with people!?

A pint is not a pint unless it's a pint! A cup is not a cup unless it's a cup!

[via Serious Eats]

If 40% of your products were dependent on berries, fruits and nuts, you'd fork over a cool quarter of a million dollars to make sure those things were still coming, too.

Haagen-Dazs, whose ice creams are flavored with fruits, nuts and berries, has launched a campaign to raise $250,000 for research into the loss of honeybees, which are crucial for cross-pollination of fruit and nut trees. According to the USDA, diseases and pests have caused a 30% loss of the approximately 2.5 million managed colonies.

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