Star Wars Ice Cream Flavors from Ample Hills Hit Shelves in Advance of Movie Release

The Ample Hills Creamery partnered with Lucasfilm and Disney Consumer Products to create a pair of Star Wars-themed ice cream flavors in advance of The Force Awakens release. Here's the story.

Considering that everything that gets an official Star Wars stamp-of-approval automatically sells better than unstamped counterparts, this is a great move on the part of Brian Smith, co-owner of the Ample Hills Creamery. According to Smith, "As a sci-fi writer in my past professional life, and a longtime Star Wars fan, this is a dream collaboration. And to be able to work with Lucasfilm and Disney Consumer Products to create new ice cream flavors that represent the two sides of the Force... that might just be the coolest thing we've ever done."

So if you're one of those crazy people that actually like ice cream (technically, I believe it's frozen custard or so the containers say), Ample Hills has two flavors for you, which you can order here.

"The Light Side: a bright marshmallow ice cream with homemade crispie clusters, as well as a smattering of handmade cocoa crispies (to represent the dark side still lurking within the light)

The Dark Side: by contrast, is an ultra-dark chocolate ice cream with espresso fudge brownies, cocoa crispies, and white chocolate pearls (to represent the light still hiding in the dark, waiting to burst through)"

While I'm hesitant to spend nearly $10 on a pint of ice cream ($36 per four individual pints), the Dark Side flavor sounds really, really good.

Still, I want to . . . what is the phrase . . . pimp-slap them for contaminating my lascivious and delicious dark chocolate and espresso with white chocolate. When I go Dark, I go all the way. Forget the light, I want real chocolate, not that fake white stuff.

So will any of you be trying the Star Wars ice cream? If so, let us know what you think of it in the comments section below!