Posted on 12/01/2025 6:05:48 AM PST by Red Badger
True; however, they no longer make an ice cream that only contains cream, milk, sugar, vanilla.
Haven’t eaten it in a number of years bc they added fillers, thickeners, egg yolk, etc. Taste is not the same.
Believe they are owned by Unilever now. (Netherlands)
“The scam is simple: charge the same, deliver less.”
Keeping cattle is much more expensive than it was only a few years ago. So companies have to make a choice, charge more or deliver less.
I’m not surprised they’re making the exact same corporate decision that consumers have favored. It’s the Chinese product model. Consumers picked products based on price and put many American companies out of business by purchasing cheaper Chinese knockoffs. Then when the American companies were out of the picture the Chinese companies cheapened the product. It’s called “quality drift”.
This may be true but I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for soft-serve ice cream since Margaret Thatcher helped invent it.
It sounds like what the writer is describing is a dairy product that used to be known as Ice Milk vs Ice Cream.
For myself, I stay with either Orange Sherbet or if when I can find it, Lemon Sherbet made from Meyers Lemons, this flavor has only been found at Lucky Grocery. FYI, Lucky is owned by Albertsons.
Grandkids are learning this. About two years ago while shopping bought this “ice cream” that was not and complained to me.
Did you read the label?
But it looks like ice cream.
Did you read on the package what it says it is?
But it was in the ice cream section.
Look in our pantry and you will see a can of a Crisco with a picture of fried chicken on the label. Do you think there is fried chicken in that can?
No.
Well, some people will and a sale is made.
Uh...what?
I mean, if Breyer's sells "both" ice cream and frozen dairy desserts, then to say Breyer's ice cream is no longer ice cream is just false.
I usedto love breyers, but it doesnt taste like it used to- i wait till hagendaz goes on sale now, prefere it.
We used to have Albertson’s in Florida until Publix bought them out.................
Thanks for that. Will keep an eye out for it
We just make our own using an American made Immergood ice cream maker. We have a book of recipes that include white chocolate raspberry, cookies and cream, banana pudding, praline pecan, etc. My wife cooks up the mixture, and I make sure the ice and salt are layered in the churn throughout the process. We make it from scratch and never have worry about some company sneaking in some GMO garbage or harmful chemical.
Van Luween
This article is kind of whiney
There used to be ice milk and air soft like Dairy Queen which I like
Check butterfat
High grade ice cream like weed should be in the 20% range
That was a deft convergence !
Just wait til they learn about “peanut spread.”
I consider my wife an ice cream connoisseur since she loves real ice cream, but for years now when we go shopping together in the grocery store I would find her in the frozen food isle examining the ice cream container ingredients with disgust and rejection. It’s now gotten to the point where she can’t find one product that passes her scrutiny in large chain grocery stores. Real ice cream is extremely hard to find except in rural creameries and it would surely be a booming business for anyone who would start making and marketing it in scale. Real ice cream is the simplest of products to make at home but the big names in the field can’t seem to stop dreaming up ways to cheat and fool the customer on this product.
Was just thinking abkut dairy queen. Used to go there every sunday as a treat. Got the vanilla with red glaze. I liked i5 back then, no5 sure if i wou,d today though.
RE:McDonalds. Yep. Though I stopped eating fast food in 1997, I stopped McDonalds Ice cream way before that. It is still thick even when warm.
We rarely have ice cream any more at my house, but when we do, we get the cheap stuff and yes, it says “ice cream” on the container.
When I lived in seattle (moved away in 2011), my favorite ice cream was Safeway’s Snow Star brand, and vanilla.
The answer is to stop shopping at big box stores. Buy higher quality goods—whether food, clothing, or otherwise—and buy less of it.
Apparently most of the cheapening of the ingredients happened in the early 2000’s after Breyers was bought by Unilever. They still use the “original recipe” in their upmarket Pledge line but it costs more.
That’s a baldfaced lie.
When the offshoring craze to China started, it was nearly impossible to FIND made-in-America: the stores quit stocking those items.
The industry then used the low sales as retroactive justification for the offshoring.
(Remember Ross Perot and his “giant sucking sound” ? Even though he was talking about Mexico, he was right.)
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