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05-09-2015, 10:28 AM | #1 |
I ♥ my Cookie Monster! Donating Member Join Date: May 2013 Location: South Texas
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| ARRGGGHHH Blue Bell So one of my favorite things about living in Texas was having access to Blue Bell ice cream, but now we come to find out they have known since March 2013 that they have had a problem with listeria. They killed three people with their ice cream, and I will never buy another product from that shady company again. But who else makes decent ice cream? I bought a package of Dreyers yesterday and that stuff is terrible. It tastes really fake in that it's still soft and smooth straight out the freezer. The HEB store brand must use Texas raspberries and Texas strawberries, because in any kind of fruit flavor the syrup they use is really tart. Breyers used to be my go to back when they were the most natural ice cream out there. Their ingredients list on their strawberry ice cream used to be "milk, sugar, cream, strawberries." Ever since Breyers got bought out by someone else they became the worst though, they can't even call it ice cream. Serious, Breyers "ice cream" is now officially called "Breyers Frozen Dairy Desert" and it won't melt supposedly. Ben & Jerry's and Haagen Dazs are only sold in pints here I think, so they're out.
__________________ Cookie ;;; RIP Minnie Last edited by yorkiefan_; 05-09-2015 at 10:29 AM. |
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05-09-2015, 11:13 AM | #2 |
Love my Boys Donating Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: w/ my boys
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| We only but Turkey Hill Natural, you can actually read and understand the ingredients. We didn't like Bryers either it had a strange taste and texture and i didn't care for the ingredient. This is what's in the vanilla in the Turkey Hill brand....Ingredients: NONFAT MILK, CREAM, SUGAR, VANILLA, VANILLA BEAN. download.jpg There is a Premium type made by Turkey Hill but that one has a lot of the ingredients I don't like so I only by the Natural one. You might like it...
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05-09-2015, 12:12 PM | #3 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| I love ice cream at times and Blue Bell was a favorite I could turn to as one of the best of the mass-produced ice creams that had several flavors I loved. Can't believe they knew of this problem so long before the closed down for inspection and cleaning and this makes me wonder just how many other food producers out there are dealing quietly with similar problems they've managed to keep secret. Seems like almost every year we have a food scares and deaths similar to this. My sister had a half gallon of Butter Pecan in her freezer when the news broke and as the initial recall didn't include the kind of product she had, she was silly enough to eat it and eventually ate it all instead of dumping it, even after they recalled all products and closed down all production! I'd have never taken another bite after the first news broke as recalls always seem to grow and grow in scope. It's been 3 or 4 weeks but she's still got a months or so to go. Hope Blue Bell can find the problem and get back to selling safe ice cream before too long though I wonder how long before I'm brave enough to try any more of it. Besides Ben & Jerry's, is there another good, fat rich ice cream out there for sale in North Texas anyone can vouch for? Neither Breyers or Dreyers are any good to me.
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05-09-2015, 12:15 PM | #4 | |
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__________________ Cookie ;;; RIP Minnie Last edited by yorkiefan_; 05-09-2015 at 12:19 PM. | |
05-09-2015, 12:20 PM | #5 | |
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__________________ Cookie ;;; RIP Minnie | |
05-09-2015, 12:33 PM | #6 | |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis | |
05-09-2015, 12:44 PM | #7 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Texas
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| I'm going to try this ice cream recipe (only 3 ingredients!), I'm not into coffee (hubby is), but it looks like it would be so easy to modify to other flavors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMMECm7Huhk
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05-09-2015, 12:57 PM | #8 |
Love my Boys Donating Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: w/ my boys
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| Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize this wasn't available nationally .....I'd have to be suffering from some serious ice cream withdrawals to go on that trip.
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05-09-2015, 01:09 PM | #9 | |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis | |
05-09-2015, 02:19 PM | #10 | |
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I haven't tried it, but a lot of people like blue bunny ice cream, some of their flavors don't have junk in them. I'd just go to the ice cream aisle and search for the brand with the least junk. | |
05-09-2015, 02:40 PM | #11 | |
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If we absolutely refused to ever touch another product that has sickened, injured, maimed, or killed people, we would have NOTHING left to eat, drink, drive, wear, clean with, strap kids in with, strap kids OUT with, etc, etc, etc. My brother also had Blue Bell in his freezer...he has enough self control (unlike myself, who can eat an entire carton by myself in one setting!!) that a half gallon lasts him for MONTHS....he has not gotten ill from it and this is stuff that he has had since Jan-Feb.....of course, he is essentially healthy and no way immune compromised, which is where listeria causes grave concern..... If people start dropping by the hundreds, I will reconsider, but THREE already sick people??? NAH! Last edited by Yorkiemom1; 05-09-2015 at 02:42 PM. | |
05-09-2015, 02:41 PM | #12 |
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| Braum's Dairy Stores always had nice ice cream? |
05-09-2015, 02:55 PM | #13 | |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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I got food poisoning years back, had an anaphylactic shock reaction as though I was severely allergic reaction to the toxin itself & that's what kept me in ICU for so long with severe hypotension. The hospital called my family to come to the hospital as soon as I was brought into the E.R. as they said I was near death. It was Honey Boy Pink Salmon that made me so sick and I ate some the week after I got out of the hospital on a dare! Now, I wouldn't be so anywhere near so brave - or foolish!
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis | |
05-09-2015, 03:22 PM | #14 |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
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| From the CDC: Up to 10 percent of the people in the world have an unwelcome guest in their intestinal tract: a bacteria called Listeria monocytogenes. The listeria germ can also be found in soil, water, and the digestive systems of many animals. Like many other common germs, it has an unfortunate habit of showing up in food. Most people who come into contact with the listeria germ never get sick. But when the germ hits the wrong person at the wrong time, it can be dangerous. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly 2,500 Americans get seriously ill from listeria infections -- also called listeriosis -- every year. About 500 of these people die. As with many other infections, the elderly and people with weak immune systems are especially vulnerable, especially those with AIDS. People with AIDS are almost 300 times more likely to get listeriosis than those whose immune systems are healthy. Pregnant women are another major target, thanks to changes in their immune system. In fact, listeria infections are 20 times more common in pregnant women than in other healthy adults. And when pregnant women get infected, their newborns can catch the germ, too. According to the CDC, people with cancer, diabetes, or kidney disease and those who take glucocorticosteroid medications (e.g. oral prednisone), such as those taking them for asthma or other autoimmune diseases, are also at risk for listeriosis. Most healthy people don't need to worry much about listeria." The people that died were already in the hospital with kidney issues and elderly.... |
05-09-2015, 05:09 PM | #15 |
www.yorkierescue.com Donating Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Las Vegas & Orange County
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| I never understood all the love for Blue Bell. We bought a small carton and never finished it. It wasn't that creamy to me. |
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