Roots and Grubs

The cold stuff

Posted by mamster on Monday, August 7, 2006

You know Cold Stone Creamery, the place where they mash mediocre ice cream up with add-ins on a frozen marble slab? Wouldn’t it be great to have a scene in a book or movie where the villain works at Cold Stone and tortures an underling by mashing his face against the frozen slab?

In the same vein (that is, forcing frozen treats into my face), I recently tried two new blended coffee drinks and liked them both. Go figure.

First, there’s Nordstrom’s Ice Storm, as recommended by Moose on this post. I got the mocha, which I believe is the only coffee-flavored variant (this is pitched more as a dessert drink than a coffee replacement, not that a Frappuccino isn’t a dessert drink). It didn’t taste much like coffee, but it’s a very smooth drink with little chocolate crunchy bits, sweet but not as sweet as most of the competition.

Next, Anita and Cameron on their new blog were talking up the Scharffen-Berger Mocha Freddo from Peet’s. So naturally I had to try that, too. It’s the most chocolaty of the frozen drinks that I’ve tried, and it has actual blended coffee beans in it like a Black Tiger shake, but the one I had was marred by ice chunks. Something that combined the chocolate overload of the Mocha Freddo with the smoothness of the Ice Storm would be awesome.

Actually, the Cold Stone Creamery in Fremont is right next to Peet’s; they could send over an enforcer to say, “Blend it smooth or taste the slab.”