Comments on: Blue Bell gets a lot of love from Texas

By: Archer

Archer — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:24:22 +0000

(Assuming I’m dealing with two different commenters with the name “Paul”:)

Marionberries are a local (Northwestern) variant of blackberries. The flavor’s slightly different, but “kinda like blackberries” is a decent enough starting point.

Tillamook (pronounced TILL-uh-muhk) Marion Berry Pie nails the perfect flavor balance between berry, pie crust, and vanilla ice cream. Marionberry pie a la mode is better in one aspect only: the pie is served warm.

Umpqua makes the best Cookies ‘n Cream ’round these parts, though.

By: healthguyfsu

healthguyfsu — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 02:48:48 +0000

Wow 4 downvotes for ice cream taste preferences (or lack thereof)….this blog is so political.

By: gettimothy

gettimothy — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:36:35 +0000

I love the stuff. Moo-llennium Crunch my favorite!

Here is their flavor list:
http://cdn.bluebell.com/what_were_crankin_out/our_ice_cream.html

I have some catching up to do!

By: MJN1957

MJN1957 — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:21:27 +0000

Heretic

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 17:05:56 +0000

So you think all ice creams taste the same? Poor guy, I guess you should just stick to your granola and the like then.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 17:04:01 +0000

Addictive as crack I presume. What sort of pie does it taste like?

By: tnxplant

tnxplant — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:24:58 +0000

I prefer Turkey Hill All Natural products. For example, their chocolate peanut butter ice cream ingredients are cream, nonfat milk, sugar, peanut butter (peanuts, sugar, salt), cocoa. In contrast, Blue Bell adds high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, cellulose gum, guar gum, carrageenan, and carob bean gum to their product.

By: JimMtnViewCaUSA

JimMtnViewCaUSA — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:04:37 +0000

I had not heard either but a buddy posted this on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/WeStandWithBlueBell/photos/a.1590356004565554.1073741828.1590029971264824/1591213617813126/?type=1

For those who don’t want to click through: “Let me break this down for Northerners who can’t understand the tragedy of recent events; The Blue Bell recall doesn’t mean we’re down a brand of ice cream. We don’t BUY other brands of ice cream.

The Blue Bell recall means WE ARE OUT OF ICE CREAM.”

By: Joe Miller

Joe Miller — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 12:30:40 +0000

As for whether or not the creamery tours still happen, yep. My youngest toured the place(again) on April 11th after the Blue Bell Fun Run was over. She had a blast.

By: anoNY

anoNY — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 12:18:04 +0000

Yeah, but how do they feel about the gays?

Just kidding, Blue Bell is good stuff…

By: pablo panadero

pablo panadero — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:38:41 +0000

I live in the Columbus, Ohio area, and we have a relatively new brand called “Jeni’s” which is sold mostly in their own shops. It is expensive, but highly creative (examples include Salted Goat Cheese, Brambleberry, and Lambic [made from a Belgian cherry beer]). They too have closed and pulled all stock from shelves over the past 4 days.

I know that the Jeni’s listeria test was done in a lab in Nebraska. I know enough about lab testing to be aware of false positives. Not making any accusations, but the test labs need to be thoroughly vetted.

By: healthguyfsu

healthguyfsu — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:06:39 +0000

Never seen anything special about Blue Bell. Tastes like any other ice cream to me.

By: sdharms

sdharms — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:18:58 +0000

one improvement they could make is to drop dyes from their ingredients.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 04:41:14 +0000

Out my way, it’s either Tillamook, Umpqua or Bust.

Tillamook Marion Berry Pie ice cream is amazing.

By: genes

genes — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 03:54:31 +0000

“For a regional brand to “sit as close to and be as highly held as Ben & Jerry’s or a Häagen-Dazs is a big deal,” Peacock said.”
Ben & Jerry’s has gone down hill since the sale. Häagen-Dazs is overpriced and overrated.

By: Old0311

Old0311 — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 02:52:45 +0000

White chocolate almond………..

By: Ragspierre

Ragspierre — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 02:09:50 +0000

If you ever get the chance, tour a Blue Bell plant.

Oh, and THIS is how you do crisis management. They’ll be back, strong as ever.

By: rabid wombat

rabid wombat — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 01:18:11 +0000

for cold cow sqeezings….these are right tasty……

Butter Pecan……mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

By: Anchovy

Anchovy — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 01:00:48 +0000

The 242,432,982,432 thing I liked best about living in Texas.

By: rso3

rso3 — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 00:45:07 +0000

When we first moved to NC from Texas we had family members send me a few half gallons packed in dry ice. BB finally made it here about 7 years ago – but still hasn’t taken the market, thanks mostly to the buyers at Harris Teeter. I’m just hoping this incident doesn’t result in their leaving this market. Gotta have their Cookies N Cream and Homemade Vanilla!