Justin Peters goes a bit overboard with a takedown of Cold Stone Creamery ice cream…but I'm linking to the piece because I wasn't impressed the few times I went to a Cold Stone. (This was before I pretty much gave up eating things like that at all, as I did around a hundred pounds of me ago.)
It seemed like such a good idea. You pick a flavor of ice cream, then you pick one or more items to have mixed into it and the counterperson does so. Every time I tried it, it was better in theory than it was in the dish before me. First off, even the smallest portion was too much and I quickly reached the stage where I was eating more out of obligation than delight. And secondly, even with my favorite ingredients blended in, it never tasted as good as it should have. I eventually came to the conclusion that if you have a scoop of ice cream and it can be substantially improved by adding more goodies, then it probably wasn't very good ice cream to begin with.