You got peanut butter in my chocolate!

And you better leave it there.

Okay, apparently this blog is about Rock Star: Supernova and ice cream, so we'll just have to go with that. In an episode quite similar to the Mayan Chocolate cornershop escapade, I picked up a pint of Haagen-Dazs Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream, and I have to say, it's got to be the most heavenly concoction ever. Now, as a kid, I was never a big fan of chocolate and peanut butter. Never really liked Reese's Peanut Butter Cups or anything, although I did like Reese's Pieces. Not many other people did, though. Do they still make them? I guess so. They just don't sell them anywhere. I also liked Mr. Goodbar, although since that's chocolate and peanuts, I don't know if it really counts.
But on occasion as an adult, I would crave the chocolate-peanut butter combo. Reese's Cups aren't really quite the real thing, and Reese's Pieces certainly aren't even close (no chocolate is a big reason). But last spring my mother sent me a jar of smooth peanut butter, which is not my peanut butter of choice when making a sandwich, and one night when left alone with some Hershey's Extra Special dark chocolate and the jar of sweet, smooth peanut butter, I decided to get my chocolate in my peanut butter and my peanut butter in my chocolate. And it was good. It was good that way for most of the jar and a couple more Hershey bars.

But this ice cream is so much better! The chocolate ice cream base is deliciously Dutch-y, cocoa-y creamy chocolate that tastes like it surpasses the regular Haagen-Dazs chocolate. And then the swirl spikes through, with almost crystalline peanut butter patches that flake and buckle but then melt saltily in your mouth, occasionally lingering in a nice peanutty flavor nugget you can keep there on your tongue as you start off the next chocolate bite. Don't misunderstand: there are no peanuts in here. And it would be a sacrilege if there were. The pairing of smooth textures here, the creamy smoothness of the chocolate ice cream and the rougher smoothness of the peanut butter, is a great bit of artistry in mouth feel.
I don't know how new this flavor is, but it should definitely become one of Haagen-Dazs's top sellers. It is the best non-traditional mass-market ice cream flavor I've tried since Dulce de Leche. I say: get some. Now. Get lots.