What’s with all the weird ice-cream flavours this year? It feels as if supermarkets and independent companies are vying to make the most novel alternatives to a good old scoop of vanilla. But which are actually worth having? I tried 99 varieties of ice-cream tubs and ranked them from sickeningly sweet to dinner party-worthy.99. Paxo sage and onion stuffing, Anya Hindmarch
(One scoop £4.50 or 500ml tub £16, The Ice Cream Project, London)Anya Hindmarch’s Ice Cream Project has become a yearly summer fixture, in which the fashion designer collaborates with well-known brands to create nostalgic novelty flavours (at designer prices) for which customers queue round the block. This year the flavours skew toward roast dinners, and include Oxo (which I couldn’t try, being vegetarian) and Paxo. It tastes exactly like the stuffing … which isn’t really what I want from an ice-cream. Taste 1/10, Value 1/10, Originality 7/10‘It tastes exactly like the stuffing’. Photograph: PR98. High protein chocolate brownie, Oppo
(240ml, £3.50, Ocado)
A disgraceful, claggy, protein bar-flavoured excuse for an ice-cream. Taste 1/10, Value 5/10, Originality 4/1097. Crunchie, Cadbury(425ml, £4.02, Asda)Sickly sweet; very, very orange in colour, with a weird, foamy, almost mousse-like texture. Taste 3/10, Value 5/10, Originality 2/1096. Hobnobs, McVitie’s(500ml, £4, Iceland)Grainy and overly sweet. Hobnob fans should stay away and avoid disappointment. Taste 3/10, Value 5/10, Originality 2/1095. Caramelised biscuit swirl, Oppo(475ml, £5.40, Ocado)
