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I Paid: $4.39 for four 2-ounce treats (prices may vary by region)
It's always fun to award points for originality. Q-Bees are—brace yourself, this gets weird—frozen Rice Krispies Treats–style bars that are filled with a core of ice cream.
The story (as featured on the treats' website) is unusual enough to retell, particularly as it's framed as "the simplest of ideas." It reads: "Danial [sic] Holzman (a four-star chef trained at Le Bernardin … and owner of the Meatball Shop in New York) set to work creating an all-natural, vegetarian, kosher recipe of only the finest ingredients that could be enjoyed by everyone. Project Runway creator, Eli Holzman [presumably a relative, who knows?], was inspired to combine two of his favorite desserts—crispy marshmallow treats and ice cream—into a seamless, delicious cube with a frosty surprise center."
Seamless they ain't. The texture is the most serious problem: soggy and crunchless. I would have preferred a thicker ratio of ice cream to crisped rice, too, but there are no doubt construction issues the producers had to contend with. (Gotta make it thick to contain the ice cream.)
The ice cream, at least, is fairly tasty. The smooth, rich vanilla complemented the not terribly marshmallowy rice treat better than the chocolate, which felt a little like it was fighting for its life. (Q-Bees also come in strawberry, which I did not try.)
If you're looking to blow some minds at a summer barbecue, vanilla Q-Bees are probably a fine way to go. Otherwise, you might consider doing everyone a favor and serving bowls of ice cream—Rice Krispies Treat topping optional.
These are nastily disappointing, sorry. I tried the chocolate ones and found them oddly flavorless but very sweet.
I got a box of these a few weeks back, spotted em in the overpriced natural foods freezer, but they looked too rad to pass up. I went through the whole box in one night. Stoner food indeed.
CommentI do these at home with chocolate rice crispies and rocky road ice cream. Press them into the bottom of a roasting pan so they are around 3/4 inch thick. Then smack the slab of crispy cake out onto the cutting board. Press rice crispy cake into the bottom again (3/4 inch thick) and also up the sides (about 2 inches up). Cut away the icecream packaging to semi defrosted - sorta soft ice...+READ
CommentI do these at home with chocolate rice crispies and rocky road ice cream. Press them into the bottom of a roasting pan so they are around 3/4 inch thick. Then smack the slab of crispy cake out onto the cutting board. Press rice crispy cake into the bottom again (3/4 inch thick) and also up the sides (about 2 inches up). Cut away the icecream packaging to semi defrosted - sorta soft ice cream. Cut into 2" thick slabs and lay them into the pan smooshing them together. Zap it in the freezer here if needed. Then when it is more set up lay on the top and firmly press into the icecream and really press into the sides. Throw some foil over the top and refreeze. About 20 minutes into freezing, pull it out and refirm. Cut and serve when solid.-COLLAPSE
stoner food?
They should have called it "crunchy frog"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy6uLfermPU
"those who do not understand UNIX will reinvent it badly"
jeez ... do what we used to do as kids, and later as UNIX geeks: ice cream with Capn Crunch cereal. The ice cream hardens up the Capn Crunch.
Eat it until the cereal rubs & scrapes the roof your mouth raw, and the ice cream gives you a screaming headache.
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I've been wanting to lose a couple of pounds. Going to www.thisiswhyourefat.com should help a lot. Except for the Jamie Oliver sandwich (which looked good, just oversized for anything less than an entire rugby team) everything else pictured was an appetite-suppressant on a plate.
has anyone seen these in chicago?...if so let me know..lol...i want to try these out.
what if you surrounded vanilla ice cream with crushed doritos? Well Doritos are low quality. Let's take chocolate ice cream and surround them with trader joe's mango flavored tortilla chips, if they still sell them.
This is on the wrong website: It should be published on www.thisiswhyyourefat.com
@Aramek amen!
I dunno, the essential Stoner Food has always been 3 whole bags of Doritos.
What if one just formed cubes of vanilla ice cream from a high quality brand and dipped them in marshmallow fluff and rice krispies?