Have Blue Bell ice cream return to your grocery freeze shelves ? No Blue Bell ice cream in Virginia grocery stores.
Have Blue Bell ice cream return to your grocery freeze shelves ? No Blue Bell ice cream in Virginia grocery stores.
All good, I have discovered Tillamook.
Ssshh! Don't tell anyone. The best ice cream ever. It's our secret!
Dave
I have seen their TV ads and always wondered how it tastes![]()
I have seen their TV ads and always wondered how it tastes![]()
Tillamook is a town on the Oregon coast, in an area of open countryside, with a cooperative dairy operation. They have a cheese factory that is open for tours, and free samples.Their ice cream is rich and creamy, but isn't too sweet. Comes in many flavors, and it's awfully good. I think I have three flavors in my freezer right now. Yum!
Dave
Nope, and we had just gotten it in Vegas with much fanfare. All good, I have discovered Tillamook.
Based on the irresponsible way they handled the contamination issue Blue Bell should be banned forever. What they did is criminal.
George
Here's the story from the Wall Street Journal.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/ice-cream-recall-sends-chill-through-food-industry-1438437781
Based on the irresponsible way they handled the contamination issue Blue Bell should be banned forever. What they did is criminal.
George
By the way, if you call up the link to see the title of the article, then Google the title, you can read the entire article without being a subscriber.
Some people might say that doing so is unethical, but it's WSJ's choice to let the search engines see the article, so they must see a benefit to leaving it open for some folks to see without subscribing.
Can you please explain your comments. I for one do not live in the state of Texas and do not know all the details how Blue Bell top management handled the contamination issues. What did they do that was so criminal ?
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They clearly had serious problems - but I don't see what was criminal?
They knew about the problem and waited almost 3 years to come clean. In the interim people died. To me that is criminal.
George
This past July my son and his family and my wife and I spent a long weekend at a cabin in Rockaway Beach, Oregon.
We did a day-trip a few miles south to Tillamook, OR and visited the Tillamook Cheese Factory. What an amazing experience!
It was fun to learn about the 4 varieties of cows used in the Tillamook Valley to produce milk and I was fascinated by the tour of the Cheese Factory and seeing the automated machinery that is used to make and package the different types of cheeses and Ice Creams.
Tillamook has a large store in the factory and they have a sample-station set up for you to sample many varieties of cheeses (some with multiple "Age" dates). Truly a taste-bud treat.
One of the highlights of the tour was buying some fresh ice cream, made that day from fresh cream and never frozen. I tried Marion Berry for the first time and loved the flavor. Wow, what a difference to taste Fresh Ice Cream!
If you visit the Oregon Coast, and you like cheese and Ice Cream, I highly recommend doing a tour of the Tillamook Cheese Factory. For more info see,
https://www.tillamook.com/cheese-factory/index.html
Richard
It might be sacrilegious for a Texan to say this in a thread about Blue Bell, but NOTHING beats Lappert's Kauai Pie. One of the highlights of our trips to Hawaii. It's expensive, but it's worth it.
Andy's Frozen Custard and Ted Drewes in St. Louis are both awesome, too.
Of course I like Blue Bell, too. I'll definitely have to try Tillamook if I see it anywhere.
Ohhh...Tillamook. Marionberry Pie is where I got my start. It's a gateway ice cream. Next thing you know, you will be eating Salted Butterscotch and Chocolate Peanut Butter. Cost be damned! Lucky I live in California and near a Winco. I can get my fix whenever I am willing to drive there. Mmmm.
Adding I've never felt this way about over the counter ice cream before...it's honestly spectacular and everything you expect if you are gong to sit down and belly up to a bowl of ice cream. It better be worth it. and it is! When they say creamy...they mean it.