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We're the first ones to admit when we're wrong. Heck, we actually enjoy it because it just means that we've found something more delicious. Last week, we posted our Vanilla Ice Cream Taste Test and within 24 hours, we had hundreds of comments telling us we had missed a crucial brand of ice cream: Blue Bell.

We didn't leave Blue Bell out purposely. The Slashfood staff is located in New York City, therefore, we don't have access to many of the brands available in the south or even the west. But since there was such an outcry for Blue Bell, we immediately went to their website and ordered ourselves four half-gallon tubs. We focused on the Homemade Vanilla and Natural Vanilla Bean flavors.

We dug our ice cream scoop into both on Thursday afternoon -- along with our editor's pick, Breyers -- for a scoop-to-scoop match-up.

Round One: Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla vs. Blue Bell Natural Vanilla Bean
There wasn't much competition here. The Natural Vanilla Bean flavor reminded us of "ice milk." While it was speckled all over with vanilla bean, it lacked any real flavor and what we've come to realize is an important factor in ice cream: texture. It was extremely airy.

Round Two: Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla vs. Breyer's Natural Vanilla
The ultimate face-off. Upon first tasting the Homemade Vanilla, we found it was one of the most smooth and custard like ice creams we've ever had. In fact, it was so rich a velvety, you could actually taste the heavy cream. When compared with our original number one, we can admit that Blue Blue was a better blended experience -- milk, sugar, cream and all. However, we will say this. We still believe Breyer's has a stronger vanilla taste and we like that fact that it doesn't have high fructose corn syrup in it (Blue Bell does), but the sweet ending of the Homemade Vanilla brought us back to our childhood and we almost finished the container in one sitting.
Overall Winner: Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla

Ok, so we were wrong, we can admit it. Slashfood would like to thank all of our passionate readers who took the time to leave us a message urging us to try something even better.

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Originally posted by gbanger:
Yes, vanilla. You can eat it plain or jazz it up to suit you. Besides, if you top off a pie or cobbler with a different flavor of ice cream, you would be classified as a hog or at least baddly brought up.