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Edy’s/Dreyer’s frozen custard was awesome during its brief existence Edy’s (or Dreyer’s, depending on where you live) started selling a line of frozen custard in supermarkets about two and a half years ago. It may have been the best supermarket ice cream I’ve ever had. But recently, it’s no longer available at Giant Eagle (Pittsburgh supermarket chain where I shop) or at Target (which used to have it too). A google search shows that Wal-Mart is always out of stock. I guess they stopped making it. Which is a shame. My guess is that some people who had never actually...

Custard Customer Won't Return Finger Friday, May 06, 2005 RALEIGH, N.C. — To a dessert shop customer, the severed fingertip found in a pint of frozen custard could be worth big dollars in a potential lawsuit. To the shop worker who lost it, the value is far more than monetary. But Clarence Stowers (search) still has the digit, refusing to return the evidence so it could be reattached. And now it's too late for doctors to do anything for 23-year-old Brandon Fizer (search). "I'm not saying who has it, but somebody has it," Stowers said this week in a telephone...

Man Finds Worker's Finger in Custard Monday, May 02, 2005 WILMINGTON, N.C. — A man who ordered a pint of frozen chocolate custard in a dessert shop got a nasty surprise inside — a piece of severed finger lost by an employee in an accident. Unlike a recent incident at a Wendy's (search) restaurant in California, no questions of truth have been raised about the finger found in a package from Kohl's Frozen Custard. State officials went to the shop Monday, and the owner confirmed one of his employees lost part of a finger in an accident with a food-processing...