What ever happened to Fudge Ripple?
If you look closely, the edge says "Fudge Royale". While at another store, I looked for Fudge Ripple in the handy dandy 5 qt tub complete with convenient carrying handle. Nope, this time it was Fudge Swirl.
See, when I was a child, we weren't poor, but we were exactly well to do either. We got by and didn't know any better. We were happy. We had ice cream. We had fudge ripple ice cream. Well, I wasn't happy about the fudge ripple. As a matter of fact, I can't stand fudge ripple. Give me plain vanilla, plain chocolate, neapolitan, anything but fudge ripple. Yet, that always seemed to be what was in the freezer. I think my mother thought it was a compromise between vanilla and chocolate. Oh, how I longed for anything but fudge ripple. Sometimes as a special surprise, my mom would buy chocolate marshmallow or tin roof sundae. Honestly, I hated these even more than fudge ripple. Not that I ever turned any of these down. Ice cream in a flavor I dislike is definitely better than not having ice cream at all.
So I posted that picture for my sister, Nicole. We were eating Ben & Jerry's...ok, I was eating Ben & Jerry's and discussing ice cream flavors of our childhood. We were reminiscing about eating cheap fudge ripple ice cream out of an economy sized tub. Ah, those were the days.
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I think she didn't want to buy chocolate syrup to go over the ice cream. Come to think of it, fudge ripple is like the equivalent of that weird peanut butter with the jelly swirled through it! Which is just wrong.
But I can still hack fudge ripple in a pinch.
I was concerned that maybe we had run into a Momism or Mom-Momism - you know, how they made up the name of something or made a weird dish, like putting fake bacon bits in scrambled eggs (ewwwww). But there is actually fudge ripples out there. I think the cheapy folks are trying to make it sound better than it is by changing the name to "Fudge Royale" *wink*.