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Magnolia ice cream and San Miguel beer

post #1 of 13
7/11/09 at 5:00am
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No, this is not an example of two things that go together surprisingly well. Nor is it about the NYC cupcake place. It's about two Filipino products I recently bought at a local Chinese grocery store. San Miguel beer is pretty well known and well respected, here and elsewhere, but I haven't heard much about Magnolia ice cream. Has anyone else? I just bought the Buko Pandan flavor. It is incredible. Buko is coconut, and pandan is apparently a kind of SE Asian plant used for all kinds of things, including flavoring very tasty ice cream. I highly recommend it. I'm looking forward to trying their other flavors, like Mango and Dulce de Leche. Mmm mmm! Other flavors, like corn and cheese, I don't think I'll get. I remember eating all kinds of unusual things my first time in the Phils, like fish lip soup, tripe, balut, green mangoes w/ shrimp paste, stuffed whole frogs, etc. But I thought the corn and the cheese ice cream were the weirdest. Not a fan. I'd eat it if I was given it, and enjoy it to some degree. But I wouldn't buy it. Anyone else like Magnolia? Have a favorite flavor? Maybe a favorite competitor? Oh, btw, apparently San Miguel owns Magnolia ice cream among other things. I wonder if the other products are as good.
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post #2 of 13
7/11/09 at 5:54am
the corn is ok, the avocado is kind of weird. i stick with mango. they also have an ube flavored one for halo halo.
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post #3 of 13
7/11/09 at 6:41am
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Originally Posted by emptym View Post
San Miguel beer is pretty well known and well respected, here and elsewhere, but I haven't heard much about Magnolia ice cream. Has anyone else?

Anyone else like Magnolia? Have a favorite flavor? Maybe a favorite competitor?

Oh, btw, apparently San Miguel owns Magnolia ice cream among other things. I wonder if the other products are as good.

I used to work for San Miguel back in 1996-97, in the packaging division.

I don't know if you can get it in the states, but Selecta is another Filipino ice cream brand. They are superior to Magnolia.
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post #4 of 13
7/11/09 at 7:09am
a pilipino told me the hot dogs in the phillipines are made of worms. is this true?
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post #5 of 13
7/11/09 at 8:52am
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a pilipino told me the hot dogs in the phillipines are made of worms. is this true?

Hamburgers not hotdogs.
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post #6 of 13
7/11/09 at 9:35am
Macapuno!

"I'd heard of Macapuno before, but never ordered it. It's young coconut, also a Fillipino flavor, if I'm not mistaken. This stuff was out of this world. I was in utter ecstasy eating this scoop. It was so creamy and perfectly sweet and every lick was like French kissing the inside of a coconut. There was coconut flavor in the ice cream base itself, plus there were little chunks of coconut in there. Unlike the gelato, the stuff was lickable, and not all stretchy. Eating ice cream is much more satisfying to me than gelato when licking it from a cone. I could see enjoying gelato with a spoon, where it would be more like cold pudding, but in a cone, I have no use for it. The vanilla scoop had the same creamy consistency as the macapuno, with even more vanilla flavor than the Marco Polo scoop. Strangely, the vanilla-ness seemed to increase with every lick. It's true that the cone here costs almost twice as much as the Cinco de Mayo cone, but they also give you almost twice as much ice cream. Not only that, there's a bathroom in this place. Three of my favorite things on Earth are the Outer Sunset, huge ice cream cones filled with awesome flavors, and a clean public bathroom. Poly Ann is for real."
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post #7 of 13
7/11/09 at 1:18pm
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^wow, thanks! And it's in San Francisco. I'm going to try it.
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Originally Posted by bbaquiran View Post
Hamburgers not hotdogs.
you're not serious, are you?

I'll look for Selecta. Thanks B. They did have a few other Fil brands. I was impressed by how much Filipino food they had. They even had balut!
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post #8 of 13
7/11/09 at 1:35pm
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you're not serious, are you?

I do recall seeing several TV news segments about a guy who was cultivating earthworms for food. This was in the Marcos-era 80's though.

Earthworms as extenders for hamburger is probably an urban legend, but I heard it a lot when I was a kid (again, in the 80's).
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post #9 of 13
7/12/09 at 3:26am
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I heard that as a kid about McDonalds in the US.
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post #10 of 13
7/12/09 at 5:04am
Have you been to Mitchell's Ice Cream in the Mission? They carry several Phillipino flavors. I believe all the ice cream is made on the premises.
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post #11 of 13
7/13/09 at 4:00am
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No, I haven't. Thanks for letting me know about it. THey do have a lot of Filipino flavors. I wonder if that Mitchell boy in the "about us" section married a Filipina. The place everyone goes to is that one on 18th and Dolores, I think. Never been there either.
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post #12 of 13
7/14/09 at 3:13am
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I'll look for Selecta. Thanks B. They did have a few other Fil brands. I was impressed by how much Filipino food they had. They even had balut!

Selecta was sold by the original owners a few years back and is now just Wall's ice cream with a different brand. The family who owned the brand, after the no-compete clause, came out with another brand- Arce's. I remember they used to pride themselves in using water buffalo milk in their ice cream before, I'm not sure if that's still true today.

Magnolia was also bought out by Nestle in the 90s as a stepping stone into the ice cream industry. But now the name has gone back to San Miguel and they're trying to catch up on lost market share. As for San Miguel, gimme Cerveza Negra anytime. (no racist )

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post #13 of 13
7/14/09 at 3:24pm
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Interesting, F. Thanks.
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