Posted on 12/01/2025 6:05:48 AM PST by Red Badger
I guess the fake name can be overlooked if the product itself is real!!
“ Blue Bell’s flagship flavors (e.g., Homemade Vanilla, Dutch Chocolate, Cookies ’n Cream, etc.) all meet or exceed these requirements—typically containing 12–15% butterfat and using real cream and milk as primary ingredients. Because of this, Blue Bell can and does legally label its core products as “ice cream.””
What about the Listeria?
bingo. fat good, sugar bad.
Good idea. We splurged and got an electric model about 40 years ago. Same product, but more user friendly.
I used to make the best cherry vanilla ice cream but lost the recipe a bazilion years ago. IIRC, it had raw egg in it.
Breyers is still expensive but now it’s just expensive Cool Whip. No taste, no dense rich flavor, just air and a few token add ins. The words SLO-churned are a warning label, stay away from. It’s difficult to find anything worthy of serving to grandchildren or guests!
Reminds me of when fast food restaurants were forced to change “milk shake” to simply “shake” - b/c there was no milk in the product.
Notice MacDonald’s sells “shakes” hoping you won’t notice that it’s a chemical concoction.
I buy real ice cream from a local dairy - expensive, but worth the price, certainly over “frozen desserts.”
Or Velveeta.
Wendy’s sells ‘Frostiest’...Burger King doesn’t sell any non-dairy products............
Butter Pecan! My favorite!
I had mono at 47 and Häagen-Dazs and Arby’s dry roast beef sandwiches kept me alive for 3 weeks. The doc said women in their late 40’s aren’t supposed to get mono! Horrible sleeping disease. But the butter pecan kept me waking up to have a few bites.
Still Piggly Wiggly here in east TN.
“Elsewhere on rhe container it says: 100% milk and cream”
I guess the cream is the miniscule amount in the butter. Otherwise ... milk as the main ingredient.
Yes. Customers picking product based on price alone without regard to the manufaturing lables. Market share plummeted for many American companies.
Try Tillamook.
Nope.
I remember seeing the big-box stores suddenly having ONLY Chinese tools — there was no period I recall where you had American and cheaper Chinesium side-by-side.
“talking about huge companies buying out smaller companies and ruining the products.”
Lands End. I still wear their products purchased in the mid-’90s, and they still look amazing.
After Sears bought them out I bought some Lands End items. They barely lasted a year or two, and were horribly cheesy.
You are right, I haven’t tried it yet. I’m trying to limit my emotional eating. But now that you have recommended it, I may just have to explore and expand my options. Thanks.
She should check out the Aldi’s Premium line of ice cream. It has a short ingredient list and very little whipped in air. You can tell by the weight of the container that you’re getting your money’s worth. They only sell it in two flavors — vanilla and chocolate — but it is excellent and the price is right.
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I will certainly suggest the brand. Thanks for the recommendation.
I knew that years ago when I ice-cream become unrecognizable after it melted. That substance was not melted milk/cream...
“...but when we do, we get the cheap stuff and yes, it says “ice cream” on the container.”
They lie you know. It is cream and it may be iced, but the grade may be just inside the legal limits of the FDA. There are seven different types of cream recognized each one containing a certain amount of fat:
Half-and-half, Light Cream, Whipping Cream, Heavy Cream (or Heavy Whipping Cream), Manufacturer’s Cream, Double Cream or Clotted Cream. All have specific uses except they can be substituted for another as the FDA doesn’t set the standard except for the makeup of it, not the use. Like Forest says about a box of chocolates...
wy69
Watch out for the lime ice cream.
wy69
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