Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Wagon

Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Wagon was more popular than ever during the Night Noodle Markets in March.
We lined up for about 15 minutes so that I could have my first taste of the famous icecream. The prices are steep but the ice cream is tasty. A single scoop will set you back $ 5.40 and a waffle cone is an extra $ 0.50.
There was only one chocolate option, so obviously I picked that one! New York Super Fudge Chunk is creamy rich chocolate ice cream, proper chunks of chocolate, plus a few almonds, walnuts and pecans. Yummm :)

At 933pm, told by an angry Russian ‘dont you see why are close’. No d. Booooo hiss. Here’s a thought, it’s Chinese New Year, the Fringe & Perth festivals on a Thursday and there’s 1000s of people in Perth. At $ 5 for one scoop, just stay open 5 minutes past your close!

Excellent place to put an ice cream van. With plenty of foot traffic passing by and lots of places nearby to sit down and watch the world pass by whilst eating ice cream Ben and Jerry’s certainly have got those location spot on.
The ice cream was nice and there were some interesting flavours but I expected a greater range of flavours on offer

Their Phish Food ice cream is awesome, the staff are very helpful (even at 7pm at night), and the wagon adds a little extra fun to the Perth Cultural Centre. A tad expensive, but what isn’t in Perth.

Interesting choice of season to open up an ice-​cream scoop wagon in winter, but yet all the cool cats are on about it.
I’m a bit confused about all the hype, especially as Ben and Jerry’s is so well known, especially in America and the U.K. Ohh okay, I do like the chunks and delicious mix of unexpected sensations, especially in the coconut seven layer bar.
But maybe it is just a trend passing through and as soon as everyone has tasted it and swallowed the mighty $ 5.40 price tag of one scoop.
Please hurry up and arrive at the supermarket!

Yummers! So glad they have a Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Van at the Perth Cultural Centre now!
Opened a few weeks ago w free ice cream from 12−8pm!!!
I love the Coconut one and the choc fudge brownie! Yum! Takes me back to my USA travels :)
My life is now complete :)

I scream, you scream we all scream for ice cream. There is something about this whimsical cold dessert that stirs your inner child. There were no musical trucks just a big Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Wagon in the middle of the Cultural Centre. Something made me quicken my pace, excited to peer inside this freezer of forbidden treats. I choice a double scoop of chocolate chip cookie dough and coconut seven layer bar and loved every moment. I have eaten ice cream all over the world and this little cup was pretty darn good. This little piece of sweet American history sitting here in little old Perth reminded me of one of my favourite films.
‘Ode to Ice Cream’ by Vada Sultenfuss (My Girl)
I like ice cream a whole lot
It tastes good on days that are hot
On a cone or in a dish
This will be my only wish
Vanilla, chocolate, rocky road
Even with pie, a la mode.

The cultural centre needed something like Ben & Jerry’s. People always sloon around here because it’s a cool place to sit and reflect, but there isn’t a hell of a lot to do. Cue the ice cream van.
Winter may be fast approaching but they still seem to be doing a roaring trade. I’m passing through on a Sunday morning and people are sitting around enjoying scoops in cones. It feels odd for a chilly morning, but I predict that come summer this place will be buzzing and I really look forward to it. No longer will it be necessary to go as far as the coast to get your fix of sun and sundaes.
For those who haven’t tried Ben & Jerry’s, I would liken it to Baskin Robins. Icecream, not gelato. And as much about the chunks and ripples as the flavor and texture of the actual icecream. However I probably prefer Ben & Jerry’s to Baskins, for the details like the mini chocolate bananas in the choc banana flavor.
You’ll do well here, Ben and Jerry. Good move.

I’m lactose intolerant but will suffer the consequences for good ice cream. After many reviews, by which I mean a Facebook feed of excited posts and photos of Ben & Jerry’s to the point where I thought Ben & Jerry’s had embarked on a mega sponsored posts drive, I tried it today.
Despite the many, «OMG THIS IS THE BEST ICE-​CREAM EVER TO GRACE EARTH!!!11!» reviews, it isn’t, especially at the current starting price point of $ 5.40 for 1 scoop, (12.95 for a tub to take home). To the lactose intolerant people wondering whether it’s worth the discomfort, it isn’t.
I went for the Phish Food with the description, «Chocolate Ice Cream with Gooey Marshmallow, Caramel Swirls & Fudge Fish», not because I needed a massive intake of calories but because during the course of my research before trying out Ben & Jerry’s I found out that part proceeds goes towards improving Lake Champlain’s ecosystem and surrounding communities in Vermont. Go partially privately funded community science project.
Anyway back to the ice cream. It wasn’t the smoothest ice cream in the world. It felt a little gritty. There were chocolate fish bits and caramel as promised. I found the marshmallow to be the smoothest part of the combination but there wasn’t a lot of it. Chocolate content was meh. There was chocolate but I wouldn’t say it was rich chocolate. I’m a chocoholic so I expect a lot of chocolate in my chocolate ice cream.
I think I’ll stick with Maggie Beer for «OMG THIS IS THE BEST ICE-​CREAM EVER TO GRACE EARTH!!!11!» ice cream.

I love ice-​cream and Perth isn’t exactly one to get good ice cream so when Ben and Jerry FINALLY arrived in Perth. YAY.
They have amazingly cool (sorry for the pun) flavours such as Phisy ice-​cream and this coconut ice cream with walnuts, chocolate pieces layered through it. They also have the usual verdicts like chocolate overload and cookies and cream with lots of cookie pieces through it.
Finally ice cream that tastes like ice cream and doesn’t melt within two seconds!
At the moment they have a scoop wagon in the Cultural Centre for at least 3 months then once that is done I’m hoping they will open up a proper ice creamery and have all the Ben and Jerry peace, love and ice cream selection there. If they don’t open one, major sad face. just have to contend with finding them in specialised stores. Hopefully that would not be the case.
If you get the chance or are around there check it out.
Be warned though, the prices aren’t cheap but then the quality of the ice cream and the love gone into creating the flavours and the fact that the flavours actually have huge pieces of what they say they are going to have aka cookies is all that you need.

So «Ben & Jerry’s» has come to town and from the people I’ve talked to about it — who are very much the «so Perth is FINALLY trying to be like Melbourne /​Sydney /​Queensland /​America» types — this ice cream place is apparently the best thing you will ever experienced.
My verdict — a solid, unequivocal «meh». The scoop wagon I understand is limited in the variety that it’s able to offer but I can’t claim to be an ice cream connoisseur or expert so I can’t feel as if I can get worked up about how it’s lacking accents or has undertones or whatever.
All I can say though is: Cookies and cream ice cream rocks. It’s got bits of cookies in it. It’s got ice cream in it. And it’s awesome.
The down side, for me — was the fact that it cost just under $ 6.00 for one scoop of ice cream. I don’t know if that’s a «normal» price for ice cream (cos I don’t get it that often) or if that’s the «Perth» price of ice cream. Either way — it’s something new in Perth and I can now say that I’ve tried it.
Bit of an awkward time to open an ice cream stand when we’re just about to head into winter BUT if this place is around in the summer time — particularly when you’ve got major events in the cultural centre area (like Fringe or Festival of Perth) I think they’re gonna need to have two scoop wagons out there because it is going to be BUSY!