There comes a time in the career of every fat, overweight food blogger’s career where a product will randomly remind them of some tangentially related product(s), and he or she will then drag their readers down a memory lane they didn’t ask to go down.
Well, you’re the reader, I’m the fat overweight food blogger, and that product is the new Hershey’s Kisses Strawberry Ice Cream Cone.
Hershey’s Kisses Strawberry Ice Cream Cone
You see, a few years ago Hershey’s did an entire LINEUP of limited-time offerings under the “Flavors of America” collection. They took classic Hershey’s products and gave them each a new flavor tied to a different state where the flavor was especially popular. This really sent me down some weird rabbit holes when it came time to review them, such as:
- Rattling off a bunch of honeybee facts for the Reese’s Honey Roasted (Flavor of Georgia).
- Providing an e-tour of New York City in Hershey’s Cherry Cheesecake (Flavor of New York).
- Eating a barbecue PayDay for BBQ PayDay (Flavor of Texas).
There were others, but you get the idea.
This time we’ve stripped the geography and gone with a whole MOOD, as the Hershey’s Strawberry Ice Cream Cone Kisses are being billed as the summertime edition. ☀️??
Legend has it that strawberry ice cream was invented by First Lady Dolley Madison, who served it at her husband, President James Madison’s, second inaugural banquet at the White House. Pretty cool stuff!
Hershey’s Kisses Strawberry Ice Cream Cone Kisses feature a pink, strawberry-flavored creme with little bits of cookies mixed in.
Hey, did you know that Dolley Madison once had to sue her brother-in-law for the money left to her by her husband? Crazy!
So far I’ve only seen the Strawberry Ice Cream Cone Kisses in share size.
Believe it or not, Dolley Madison was the first American AND the first First Lady to respond to a telegraph message. To respond!!
I have a bone to pick with these Hershey’s Strawberry Ice Cream Cone Kisses before I even try them. A few years ago (here we go again), we had a Hershey’s Waffle Layer Crunch in strawberry flavor. It literally used waffle cone pieces inside the candy, but for this Hershey’s Kiss ICE CREAM CONE flavor, we only get cookies and not waffle cone pieces. What’s up with that?
Dolley Madison and President John Tyler were both aboard the USS Princeton when a canon exploded and killed several people, but Dollie and the president escaped unharmed! Can’t get rid of ole’ “Good Golly, Miss Dolley” that easily!!
I don’t think there’s anything overly offensive about the Strawberry Ice Cream Cone Kisses, but they’re far from a favorite. The strawberry flavor is a little too much and a little too fake for me. It kind of tastes like concentrated Strawberry Nesquik, and it burns your throat a little with how sweet it is. I just feel like something designed with strawberry ice cream in mind should have more finesse than this.
The cookies offer crunch but no flavor, and they’re also not waffles when they very clearly should have been.
Dolley Madison died at the age of 81 in 1849.
Burning Questions:
- Did she really make enough strawberry ice cream for EVERYONE at the inauguration? If anyone could do it, it’s Dolley Madison.
- But like, didn’t they have chefs? Who knows!
- I don’t think this review should have focused so much on Dolley Madison. How dare you disrespect the first person to respond to a telegraph like that!!
Place of Purchase: Target
Rating: 6 out of 10
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