Desserts- Breyers Blasts!- Chips Ahoy

  So Breyer's has launched this new line of ice cream flavors called Blasts!. (exclamation mark included to assert its excitingness)  we've seen several of these super-chunk types of ice creams before, so despite the exclamation point I wasn't expecting to find anything too crazy.  The amount of flavors was a bit dizzying, I'll give them that much at least.  Each features a different candy or cookie, and although I was intrigues by the Whoppers, Mrs. Fields, waffle cone and Heath bar flavors, I decided to go with the Chips Ahoy.  The reason for this was actually that I found it to be the most precarious-sounding ice cream situation.  The carton indicated that it contained whole mini-Chips Ahoy cookies as opposed to your usual globs of cookie dough, and I was concerned about what the texture of the cookies would be.  If they were wet and mooshy the whole thing would be a dud, but if they were still crunchy and flavorful (which I felt was pretty unlikely) there was no way it could fail. 
     I'm happy to say these were on sale 2 for 1 when I discovered them, because even at their regular price of $5.99 I would have bought it for the sake of testing.  Unfortunately when I went back for a second flavor to test the sale was already over.  But I digress...
     The first thing I did when I began my test was taste the actual ice cream itself.  The carton refers to it as a "Cookie-Flavored Dairy Dessert", dairy dessert being a term used for ice cream varieties made primarily from milk instead of cream.   I've had some "dairy desserts" which could definitely have been mistaken for ice cream, and sometimes the difference is negligible.  But I'm sorry to say Breyer's let me down a little on this one.  While it did live up to its claim of being cookie-flavored, I found it to be kind of flat...sort of like it was missing a certain dimension of sweetness.  I guess the best way to describe it would be that the ice cream itself had a sort of diet-type of taste to it...or lack of taste, I should say. I guess it's better that this ice cream is primarily milk since it is filled with "chocolatey chunks", a sugary fudge swirl and calorie-laden cookies, but I think the addition of real cream would have made all the difference in the flavor.
     Moving past the slightly disappointing cookie-flavored ice cream, I'm happy to say that the cookies themselves were surprisingly firm and even a little crunchy!  I was having trouble imagining entire cookies surviving in such an atmosphere, but Breyer's pulled it off very nicely leaving the cookies with a dipped-in-milk sort of texture... nothing like the dreaded completely-saturated-with-milk situation I'd imagined as my worst-case scenario. 
   What I liked most about this ice cream is that the chocolate chips, oh wait I'm sorry, the chocolatey chunks, taste just like the actuall Chips Ahoy chocolate chips.  Between that and the fudge swirl there was a lot of chocolate going on in this ice cream, but somehow it still came nowhere near to being too much.  In fact, I could have stood even a few more chocolate chunks and fudge swirl to balance out the slightly funky ice cream.  The proportion of cookies was just right...you don't get one in every single bite, but thankfully there was not a single bite in which plain ice cream existed without anything else in it. 
    I'm not positive I would buy this again, although if it were half price again I would certainly consider it.  Definitely worth the money at half price, and a fun flavor when you want something a little out of the ordinary.  Four stars, would be five but the flavor of the ice cream really threw me off at the beginning.