Mexican Hot Chocolate in July! mmm, frozen Mexican hot chocolate!

Well, almost.
I went to the corner store tonight, and when I ran back to the freezer case to grab some Haagen-Dazs Black Raspberry Chip, I saw something new: Mayan Chocolate. Even though I had a half-full pint of regular Haagen-Dazs Chocolate in the freezer, I couldn't resist---especially since my corner store is anything but consistent, and you can't rely on seeing the same products there all the time.
I came home and tried to go to the special site Haagen-Dazs set up for the Mayan Chocolate ice cream, but it went on trying to load until my browser simply gave up. I tried the Haagen-Dazs website to find out more, but that wouldn't load either. Now it refuses to let me into haagen-dazs.com at all! But I don't care. I looked up the description on a Canadian Nestlé site. I'm not a fan of cinnamon in most cases, but I am a fan of Mexican chocolate, which usually has cinnamon in it. I'm also a fan of Haagen-Dazs's regular chocolate ice cream. You get a lot of chocolate bang for your ice cream buck there. (Of course, nothing can quite edge out their heavenly strawberry, which tastes like someone blended strawberries into sweetened whipped cream and froze it.)
When I grabbed the pint, I didn't realize that it would be a swirled flavor, though. That often happens to me with Haagen-Dazs. Why isn't Mayan Chocolate just Mayan-chocolate-flavored ice cream? I don't know. (I'll point out that I'm also confused as to why the aforementioned Black Raspberry Chip is black raspberry and vanilla ice creams with chocolate chips. I like it that way, but I feel they should be a little more clear about it in the name.)
So what is the taste of "rich, chocolate ice cream with a fudge swirl and a hint of cinnamon"? Well, I'm not quite sure where the "hint of cinnamon" is supposed to be, because to me all of it tasted rather cinnamony. I thought that it would be in the swirl, and I think it is, but I also think it's throughout the ice cream. The rest of the swirl tastes like a darker chocolate than the ice cream, which is good, but the slightly more bitter taste has the strange effect of making the non-swirl chocolate taste a little too sweet. So if you have a very swirly bite, the chocolate ice cream tastes more candyish and cheap. But that's being highly critical. On the whole, this is quite a tasty treat here. The cinnamon gives the chocolate a nice peppery kick, but keeps it sweet and not too tingly. It's a powerful flavor, though. A single dip'll do ya. I often find myself wanting something lighter and creamier on hot days. Maybe even not-so-hot days. So I'm glad I still have most of a pint of Haagen-Dazs Strawberry left in the freezer. ;)