Everything but the...

Everything but the... is a Ben & Jerry's flavor that I have never tried, which is very exciting. As I was browsing the ice cream freezer I noticed a flavor that had chocolate and vanilla ice creams filled with Heath bar chunks, white chocolate chips, peanut butter cups, and chocolate covered almonds. I quickly decided that each of these things are components of other wonderful ice creams so Everything but the... sounded like a delightful selection. Plus, I didn't have to decided between vanilla or chocolate!
Name
Everything but the... has a positive connotation despite the lack of accuracy. This flavor is a combination of 6 different flavors. I don't know why that sounded appealing to me at first because that's fairly gross. Everything but the... implies that it is lacking something but in all seriousness, it isn't. I would have called it something like All the Good Stuff or something like that to maintain its deceivingly tasty sounding name. What I'm trying to say is that Everything but the... is a bad name.
Availability
I have rarely seen this flavor in supermarkets although it makes an appearance once in a while. To my understanding it is unavailable in scoop shops. I guess this is a hard to find flavor, and when it's in stock it comes in pints.
Flavor
High Notes
Everything but the... is quite the anomaly for my tastebuds because there is so much strong flavor, it's difficult to tell what is what. Just looking at the mix of the ice cream I would believe the vanilla to have some exceptional sweetness along with the white chocolate chips and the milk chocolate coating. I couldn't taste any of these. The chocolate is too dominant and completely washes the vanilla ice cream. The peanut butter cups and the almonds were too strong and salty to allow the high notes to be expressed. The white chocolate chips and the Heath bar are completely lost. When I first read the flavor description I was very excited because I love all the ingredients, but it was just too much. I would say that there are traces of the light, sweet high notes but they did not pull their weight in this mix.
Low Notes
The low end of this ice cream is just way, way too strong. It's not just heavy on the robust flavors, but the saltiness as well. The only things I taste in this ice cream are the chocolate ice cream, the peanut butter cups, and the salty chocolate covered almonds. I felt like this was an awful version of a Peanut Butter & Chocolate or Peanut Butter Cup ice cream. I cannot quite express how heavy and tasteless this ice cream was. I really hate to be so critical but I had high expectations for this ice cream, but I couldn't taste any of the flavors I was hoping for. I understand the vanilla being washed because it's subtle but then again, if it's not tasted, why leave it in to dilute the chocolate ice cream. Both white chocolate and Heath bar are strong high end flavors so there's no reason why they shouldn't be evident, especially if they're the flavors that keep the ice cream balanced. The low flavors were way too strong and completely dominated the ice cream.
Texture
Everything but the... is a smooth, creamy, super-premium ice cream. It has few air pockets and it's heavy. The mix is incredibly uneven and has far too many peanut butter cups. The toppings come in large chunks making it difficult to get a normal sized spoonful. When I pulled out a large piece of candy, the ice cream came out disproportionately. I think a lot of the balance issues could be solved by the mix of the ice cream and the size of the candy pieces.
Concluding Comments
The one and only criticism I have for Everything but the... is it has severe balance issues. I really had high hopes for an ice cream that has so many wonderful concepts but it was completely bottom heavy. I am really disappointed because a lot of these problems could have been alleviated by simply changing the proportions of the flavors. This ice cream doesn't do anything well except overload strong flavor.