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We discovered not so long ago that our daughter Natalia is lactose intolerant. This has been an inconvenience because she seemed to develop this intolerance recently, and she loved dairy products. Since we figure out that she was lactose intolerant we’ve been buying soy based products for her. Tonite we bought soy ice cream. And I can’t be any more sorry for her that I am tonite. Soy based ice cream is likely the worse product I’ve ever tasted in my life. Maybe it is the brand or the actual flavor, but it was so terrible that it make me thinks it is just the way it is. The worst part is that Natalia ate it all and she seemed to like it. I didn’t have the heart to put it where it belongs: the trash can.
Thinking about it, at least I can understand why lactose intolerant people would eat it. Now, what in the world is going through the people that makes it a choice. I know likes and dislikes are subjective and sure, somebody must like it for there to be a product, but this is beyond any comprehension. This is an actual aberration. If there is any Vegan reader that can explain to me why they would turn down actual ice cream for soy based ice cream, I hope the answer is like: we don’t eat ice cream for that reason, that would make me respect them at least. But trying to justify that they actually eat it because they like it would be beyond any comprehension.
Since we are in the subject, I’ll give you another piece of information on modified ice cream. The writer of this blog has actually been on and off the south beach diet. As you may know this diet precludes eating ice cream both because of the sugar and because of the fat. So, my love for ice cream is so deep that I am forced to buy the sugar free versions of the ice cream. Agreed that at least this ice cream is eatable. The availability of splenda and the like have make it possible to create a version of ice cream that though doesn’t get to the actual full fat/sugar ice cream is ok. But don’t be fooled ice cream was meant to be tasty not healthy, and it should remain as such.
For those of us that have access to San Francisco and those that come to visit I must suggest Mitchell’s ice creams. Incredible ice creams - no sugar free or soy available… 
… Go and expect to be in line for about 30 minutes even in the middle of the winter.
I am not a Vegan but I love all kind of soy based food. I have tried soy ice cream and I think it’s a good idea. Why? It gives the joy of eating ice cream without taking too much fat and sugar into the body!
Yes, Mitchell’s rocks!
I am not a Vegan either, but I don’t think Soy ice cream is that bad tasting, it is quite decent.
I quite dislike anyone that goes on a diet. What in the world are they thinking, leaving out important food categories from what they eat. So there…if you don’t think twice about going on a diet and eating sugarless ice creams(blasphemy!! splenda and diet cokes are the worst products ever to happen to mankind), you cannot speak for or against soy ice cream.
Add Bud Light (or what the heck, Bud itself) to the list of “worst products ever to happen to mankind”.
I like the tofuti cuties http://www.tofutti.com/c-v.shtml and Double rainbow soy cream, http://www.doublerainbow.com/products/index.html.
I like their vanilla, mango vanilla, butter pecan and mint chocolate chip flavors. Quite yummy actually.
Both these brands are available at Trader Joe’s.
Here’s something to try for Natalia’s father-
http://www.kqed.org/weblog/food/2007/10/ghirardelli-square-love-story.jsp
When you go off of your south beach diet, try this out, a full fat full sugared normal ice cream, as it should be. Looks really good.
In my village, my friend baker he make sugar-free, egg-free, butter-free, flour-free cake. Cake not free, but very cheap. Also very good for health, but it taste like cardboard. One time I ask him why, he say it made of cardboard. No need keep in fridge, which is good. Is no fridge in my village.
I had the misfortune of tasting the ice cream in question at the author’s house last night and boy, is it bad. I have always hated Soy products but you really have to eat this crap to recognize how bad it is. What next? Soy chocolate?
Once I tried soy based hot dog. Believe me, I’m on the extreme end of being forgiving when it comes to the edibility of food, this was one of those rare instances where I spat out the first bite and dumped the whole thing.
So… here is where I go and say there has been a little mistake in my rant. Yesterday night while enjoying a wonderful dinner with anup and Eugenia (both rantlustees). We were discussing about the ice cream and this post. So we offered Eugenia to taste it. While going through the labels of the ice cream we uncovered that it wasn’t soy based, but rice based. So my apologies to the soy products. This rice based piece of $%#%$# was mixed among the soy ice creams.
Now I am compelled to go and buy a soy based ice cream, perhaps the one recommended earlier and report back.
In the meantime, and trust me on this one, rice based ice cream is an aberration!
So I guess nobody will ever say, “I scream, you scream, we all scream for rice cream.”
I’ve never tried soy or rice ice cream, but I have tried both soy and rice milk, and while I occasionally find soy milk palatable, I can not make any such claim regarding rice milk.
Actually banana nut cereal with soya milk is one of my favorite foods. The reason I got into that is the fear of fat in whole milk. With Soya milk, you have the thick creamy equivalent of the whole milk.
I am no vegan, I am in the cutting edge of the other end of the spectrum. Oh’ that is pushing it, but there is hardly any food that I don’t like. Like Napolean, if I saw it, I ate it. But the soya hot dog, is something even I can relate to.
The day you fear food with fat is the day you have stopped living.
Hi all, my 16 month old son is allergic to dairy, eggs and peanuts. We discovered it around 4 months, and I wanted to continue to breastfeed him instead of switching to soy formula, so I took the plunge and adopted a typical vegan diet (but included meat). I have tried so many soy products, and I can tell you after eating full fat /full sugar it is hard to stomach. But now after a year without the real stuff, I kindof like soy ice cream, the cutie sandwiches are nice, and Ben and Jerry’s makes a great selection of sorbets, which are vegan. I do have to cringe inside when I make a lasagna for baby and me with soy cheese, or make him a soy chocolate pudding treat, or serve him soy yogurt… I know how bad it is, but he doesn’t know any different (yet). Good luck!