This week I reached out for a pint of Milkshake & Fries “awesome ice cream” from Coolhaus, Cali-based ice-cream artisans, available in supermarkets across the country.

Hold on, Milkshake & … what? Fries? OK, I’ll bite.

Here’s the Milkshake & Fries ice-cream breakdown: salted Tahitian vanilla-bean ice cream, shoestring French fries and chocolate malt balls.

Yes, there are real, actual McDonald’s-style skinny fries packed into the pint. In fact, “shoestring potatoes” are the No. 5 ingredient listed on the carton, behind milk, cream, sugar and nonfat milk. You get salty fries in every spoonful.

Total calories: 200 (per 1/4-cup serving). Fat grams: 11 g. Sodium: 60 mg. Carbs: 22 g. Dietary fiber: 0 g. Protein: 4 g. Manufacturer’s suggested retail price: $6.99. Expensive.

Coolhaus was founded in 2008 by Natasha Case and Freya Estreller, who baked cookies and made ice cream at home, bought a clunker van and hit the streets of Southern California. Yadda, yadda, yadda, a decade later Coolhaus pints and treats are in 6,000 grocery stores across the U.S., plus ice-cream trucks patrolling Los Angeles, Dallas and New York.

Vanilla? Chocolate? How ordinary. Coolhaus makes imaginative and unusual flavors like: Chocolate Molten Cake, Dirty Mint Chip, Campfire S’mores, Salted Caramel, Bananas Foster, Buttered French Toast and Street Cart Churro Dough. If you can’t find ’em in a local supermarket, click on eatcoolhaus.com and order online.

If “Milkshake & Fries” is a weird name for ice cream, consider that its original name was “Fast Food.” Coolhaus says the flavor was inspired by “the genius idea to dip a French fry in a milkshake” to achieve a “magical, ultimate sweet and savory moment.”

Yeah, I get it — salty and sweet is a big deal these days. I have seen people, mostly teens, dip fries into their Frosty at Wendy’s. But just because you have salty in one hand and sweet in the other, it’s not a guaranteed go-together. Bon bons stuffed with anchovies … Russell Stover isn’t interested.

Even so, dipping a freshly fried fry into a cool, creamy shake is not the same as digging a spoon into old, cold fries buried in hard ice cream.

But Coolhaus is trying — good for them. Next time, take home a pint of Chocolate Molten Cake. That’s your smart play. I found a piece of chocolate in my pint bigger than a Chunky Bar.