Scott B.
Yelp
A couple of people I normally trust recommended Laiterie de Coaticook to me, and so I had high expectations when I crossed the Canadian border from Vermont on a hot July afternoon.
Not only was I underwhelmed by the ice cream, but it didn't take long for me to decide it was just plain bad. I had banana, my go-to flavor, and my daughter had cookies and cream, which she described as "similar to a dairy-free frozen product," meaning it was watery, icy and cloying.
As for my banana ice cream... We all know the peels of bananas when underripe are green and that when overripe they are black. It goes without saying that when a banana is ripe the peel is yellow--but, that said, 99% of human beings over the age of say 2 years old know the edible fruit inside a banana is whitish in color, often with small black specks, but definitely not glow-in-the-dark yellow.
(Fun fact: the entire banana, itself, is a seed.)
The ice cream I received was practically luminous, as if enriched with gamma rays, and it tasted as artificial as it looked. If you ever had cheap banana-flavored candy like Laffy Taffy (maybe you tried it, pulled from the depths of your Halloween candy bag after all the good stuff was gone), well, the flavor of the ice cream I consumed was nearly identical. There was no hint of real banana, no chunks of frozen fruit, just a slick, sugary and watery drool that ran down the cardboard-like cone. Even my local Publix or Shaw's in-store brand is better than this stuff, a pint of Häagen-Dazs or Ben & Jerry's a hundred times better. Best to skip this stop and go to the IGA grocery a mile down the road and purchase something a bit more wholesome, satisfying and edible. The ice cream cones, btw, can be found in Aisle 7.
