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Rating new ice cream flavors, part 1 19.6.2026

Many delicious-looking ice cream ads have grabbed my attention on the streets this year, and I fell for their trap. Unfortunately, so far they have not lived up to the hype... So, I decided to write a little review of every new ice cream flavour I try this summer!

1. 3 Kaveria / 3 Friends - korvapuusti / cinnamon roll cone

• cinnamon ice cream with rich, sticky cinnamon roll sauce
• dark chocolate shell
• gluten free
• lactose free

I saw this in the store freezer at the start of the year, and made a mental note to try it this summer. I like cinnamon rolls, and I was curious how it would taste as an ice cream!

Disappointingly, the product wasn't as tasty as I hoped. It made me think more of gingerbread than cinnamon roll. Maybe it needed more cinnamon? It was a little bland, and the flavour of the core reminded me of those Christmas chocolates with Mauri Kunnas' illustration on the packaging.

  3/5  

2. Classic - white chocolate and South-Korean yuzu stick

• white chocolate shell with lemon bits
• vanilla cream ice-cream with Yuzu sorbet
• lactose free

Classic has rebranded, and their new adverts and packaging looks admittedly a lot more attracting than before. I was curious what yuzu might taste like, so I chose to test this new flavour out of the few other new releases they have.

The ice cream has a slightly citrussy taste, but it's overall rather plain... The lemon pieces on the white chocolate shell are very tart(?), and almost feel salty, and they give the ice-cream a bit of a spark, reminding me a bit of the powder on Swedish sour candies.

  2/5  

3. Magnum - Peach La Peche Stick

• some sort of milk ice-cream with peachy gelato core
• peach-flavored crust with sugar crumbs
• tipped with Magnum chocolate

An ad with Magnum's new peach and pistachio sticks have been in a few bus stops, and they look so yummy in those. Although I love pistachios, I've found that pistachio-flavoured products are most often disappointing, so I chose to test the peach one instead. Peach is a nice, fresh fruit that feels a bit underrated imo, and I enjoy peach candies and drinks sometimes. However... this was even more disappointing than I expected the pistachio one to be. The shell flavour was very artificial, and I could hardly find any peach flavour in the ice cream. It didn't taste bad per se, but it wasn't especially good either. The best part of it was the Magnum chocolate, and the stick only has it on the top half.

  1/5  

4. 3 Kaveria / 3 Friends - hazel nut and chocolate truffle

• lactose free cream ice-cream
• chocolate truffle core
• chocolate shell with hazelnut brittle
• lactose free
• gluten free

The latest one I tried. I was expecting this to be less disappointing, and it was! Still a little disappointing, though...

The chocolate shell is good! There's hazelnut bits in it, that taste a little salty, but not too salty to me. The truffle filling was sticky and thick, like a good choco truffle ought to be. However, the ice cream itself tasted a little weird. It was way less sweet than the shell and the filling, so it ended up tasting almost salty, and at the very least very underwhelming. Part of it might've been my fault, though, since I ate it pretty much straight from the freezer, and the day wasn't very warm, so it didn't get to thaw and melt much at all. If I had waited a bit longer before eating it, I'm sure the taste would have been improved.

  4/5  

Most of these might be somewhat... local? `:D I still hope you enjoyed this little review!

Official first journal entry! 30.10.2025

Welcome to read my absurd ramblings! Be warned: I’m very bad at putting anything concisely. Long texts ahead.

I’m not quite satisfied with the layout of this page, but it’ll suffice for now. I'm impatient and maybe I'll get the motivation to fiddle with everything once this journal is in use. Need to get the colors and shapes right, but I'm not entirely sure how or what I even want it to look like 🤔

Maybe it would be fun to make this look kinda like my physical journal? Maybe even take a photo of it and place the text boxes on the pages? That's an idea. If I'll have the energy I should try that.

What will I be writing here?

Anything that comes to mind that I want to share with strangers on the internet. Which is to say… I do need to think carefully what I do want to share, and what I should and shouldn’t share.

Though I tend to be fairly open and frank about myself and my interests, I am also a very private person, and distrustful of the internet. I know there are awesome people out here, but there are also some bad eggs with their bad intentions and a million trillion bots doing God Knows What. So, I don’t want to let out too much about myself. Even if it’s just so that the ever-hungry knowledge machines won’t be able to tell every last detail about me to an overly curious stalker or to impersonate me or something.

There are also some things I’m hesitant to write about just because of their sensitive and/or polarizing nature, such as identity, AI, and religion. I have a lot I’d like to talk about these things, in a respectful and thoughtful manner, but I worry topics like that might easily receive a backlash.

My intention is never to make anyone uncomfortable or offended, but I also understand how sensitive many people are about some things, and also how easy it is to get angry on the internet. Of course, I wish to prompt thoughts with any of my more serious texts, and it would be cool to have genuine conversations about them, buuut at the same time, I don’t usually even like talking about religion with other people because it makes me uncomfortable, so I get it if others don’t wanna read about it either 😅

So who knows if I’ll even bother to dive in the deep end. There are many much lighter topics I want to write about as well. Some of which are:

• Hoverflies ‒ I like them! I’ve wanted to write a little thing about them since last spring.
• Nod-Krai ‒ I have sooooo much to say about Genshin Impact’s newest region! I might have to make a series about Genshin commentary overall.
• Best characters to play in Genshin for someone with chronic arm pain. ‒ another Genshin Impact thing, yeah, haha… I promise this is not just a Genshin impact blog, but it sure is a special interest of mine at the moment `:D
• How different brushes/drawing tools affect our style ‒ an observation I made while trying different brushes in Clip Studio Paint.
• Dreams and lucid dreaming – dreams fascinate me and I have them a lot.

Oh and don't worry! I'll use warning tags etc. whenever I feel an entry might require some!

So yeah, that’s all for now, I think. I haven’t been writing in a long time. I wonder how I’ll do. I try not to take too much pressure over it. This is not an essay assignment after all. I gotta remember this is all for fun and to share thoughts, info and ideas with friends and strangers.