why is this newfangled "caramel & nuts" thing part of the magnum franchise?

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Don't get me wrong, it's quite tasty (I'm having one right now as a matter of fact), but it has nothing of the full, luxurious taste that I associate with magnum. I mean, it's a fun summer ice-cream, the sort of thing that you eat on the beach because it's yummy & practical, but I can't imagine cheesy commercials featuring ppl munching on this and squealing with faux-erotic delight, which is what magnum is all about.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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See? It has this energetic, We Are The Mods thing going on that just doesn't fit in with magnum's aesthetic of complacent majesty.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Y'know, when older guys say that a bit of combat would straighten out this generation I normally disagree

― buzz-harsher, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.taquitos.net/dbimages13/plantersnutpoppersranch.jpg

― Laura E (laurae55), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Buzz Harsher, rest confident that "really? Magnum caramel & nuts??" would be my last thought before taking part in the suicidal charge against the enemy, "Blackadder" style. And that my death would probably be brutal and painful. You big meanie.

Of course, there's those of us who think that we should just take an instinctive approach to ice cream - that the overintellectualization of consumer goods only leads to a lessening of the whole enjoyment factor in the ice cream eating experience, that we should "just taste it, maaaaan". Being an opponent of false binaries, however, I think that this body/mind dichotomy can only cause harm.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Using the word "dichotomy" in a post bemaoning overintellectualization - C/D?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

d00d Johnney if you'll re-read my post I wasn't bemoaning overintellectualization at all, I wuz saying how some ppl would do this but they're WRONG! In other words, I was applying an argument commonly brought up in discussions of music over at ILM and applying it to ice cream! In other words, I was being META and (not very) FUNNY and (certainly not) CLEVER!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Alas, perhaps the answer to this ever-so-important question must remain a mystery.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 1 July 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

See also the Magmun with a truffle invermiddle.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 1 July 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, I like that. And for fans of the covered crispy type peanut thing, there's a brandin Thailand with a coffee flavoured outer, and surprisingly, it's not bad at all. Our local Chinese supermarket does the plain ones but I've never seen the coffee ones over here

― chris (chris), Thursday, 1 July 2004 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The truffley Magnum seems more in-keeping with the brand-aesthetic than the peanut thing. Prefer a good old-fashioned Cornetto anyways.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 1 July 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I see that my depiction of the ill-fated magnum caramel & nuts has been replaced by some plonker holding a few cornettos. A BLATANT REWRITING OF HISTORY!

Anyway, this year's magnum opus is a "five senses" special. Rather ill-thought out, innit? I mean, think of what pressure "taste" must be under, while all "sight" has to do is look cool.

(Yes, I've tasted them all. I recommend sound and vision, ho ho ho.)

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― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 15 July 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

Smell and touch are lovely, too. Whichever the one with the coffee is great. Ditto the hazlenuts. Mmmmm.

OH GOD, I WANT ONE SO BADLY!!!

― MIS Information (kate), Friday, 15 July 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

what's up with the candyman eye in the background?

― the urban heat island effect (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 15 July 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

Kokos!

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 15 July 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

i read the title as why is this newfangled "camel & nuts" thing part of the magnum franchise?

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 15 July 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

i have eat the petrol station next door out of hagen dasz crispy wafer thingies and white malteasers lollys, soon all of the white mahnums will be mine (or they will restock which seems like something that they are not keen on doing).

― Ed (dali), Friday, 15 July 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

Haagen-Dasz crispy wafer thingies are the best ice cream on a stick.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 15 July 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

do they sell these in the u.s.? i thought magnum was a brand of condoms.

― the urban heat island effect (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 15 July 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

Things you can suck or lick, you know?

― MIS Information (kate), Friday, 15 July 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

No. Magnum, cornetto, etc. are pan-european, but haven't reached the U.S. Perhaps the best childhood experience americans miss out on, apart from maybe Kinder eggs and the Muskerhounds.

(xpost to Kate)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

A Magnum is kind of like a Dove bar... (if indeed, Dove Bar Ice Cream still exists?)

― MIS Information (kate), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

they still make dove bars. but i can't remember the last time i had one.

― the urban heat island effect (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

my prepackaged ice cream snack of choice was always the chipwich!

― the urban heat island effect (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Aaawwww... Chipwich! Or Chillichips as it was called, inexplicably, in Stewarts.

― MIS Information (kate), Friday, 15 July 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

the chipwich is still the best.

and yet... it is dying out.

it breaks my heart to tell you that deps in this town are INCREASINGLY turning to the greedy arms of nestle inc, which offers free freezers--on the condition that you only store nestle products in them. i know of only one holdout that ALSO carries chipwiches.

goodbye, fair chipwich.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 15 July 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

the chipwich really is one of the exemplars of salty/sweet, along with the reese's peanut butter cup.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 15 July 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

(it may not be obvious, but i've always found they add the EXACT right amount of salt to the cookie portion)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 15 July 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

i am going to have buy a chipwich this summer

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Saturday, 16 July 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

remember in the '80s when they sold those out of pushcarts in the summertime?

― the urban heat island effect (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 16 July 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

and what was that frozen lemon drink that used to be ubiquitous all over nyc? i'm blanking on the name, but i know anyone who lived there will be able to tell me.

― the urban heat island effect (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 16 July 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

they sold an orange version too.

― the urban heat island effect (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 16 July 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

Did they do the Magnum 7 deadly sins range anywhere cept Aus? Those were great. Also there was some rockstar range, with like, Candy Warhol and some er, Hendrix one, I forget now argh.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 16 July 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

i could never bring myself to buy a Magnum when they first came out because the ads were some chick rubbing herself all over the ice cream like 'hey im about to have the best sex of my life with this ice cream, sucka'. i remember the rockstar ones though, trayce. didnt one have pop rocks on it (the candy warhol, maybe? pop art?)

the single ice cream sitch here in the US south is kinda lame. nothing to recommend. the dessert/tub kinda icecream rocks though. esp: ben and jerrys 'phish food' (caramel + marshmallow mixed into chocolate ice cream w/ lil chocolate fishies)

still, id kill for a pine-lime split in the AR summer and nothing beats:

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ITS A BUBBLEGUM NOSE! GENIUS!!

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Saturday, 16 July 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

no magnums in n america

i knew a guy once who fell so in love with magnums he HAD to have a full-size poster, which he dragged across the negev, the israeli desert

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 17 July 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

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