Location: 403 Jane Street, Toronto
Website: https://www.erniesicebox.com/

Fact: there is no such thing as a bad ice cream sandwich.  Cookies + ice cream = delicious.  That’s just science.

Which is to say that Ernie’s Icebox specializes in ice cream sandwiches, and they are, of course, good.

Unlike a place like Bang Bang that makes everything to order, the sandwiches are pre-made and kept frozen.  This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but holy moly do they ever freeze the hell out of these things.  When they serve it to you, it’s the most frozen thing you’ve ever seen.  It’s an impenetrable brick; basically impossible to eat.

I let it stand for about 15 minutes, and it was still rock hard.  So I waited yet another 15 minutes, which was probably five to ten minutes too long; it was a bit drippy.

I ordered the peanut butter and jam, which features raspberry (I think?) jam-infused ice cream with chewy peanut butter cookies.

And again, it was good — scientifically, it was an inevitability — but I can’t say anything about it jumped out at me.  The ice cream was a bit thin, and nothing about the PB and J combo particularly popped.  It was tasty, but both the peanut butter and jam flavours were a bit too muted.