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I happen to love and still eat BlueBell ice cream because I don't really think of listeria as being a real threat to my relatively healthy body. I also happen to have relatives who have milked cows and heard their stories of the good ole days of cows pooping while milking. They drank the milk anyway. I have another relative who did quality control tests for suppliers of brand and non-branded foods for a company that wasn't Bluebell. Guess what??? A certain level of bacterial contamination that can be present in foods and it will still pass the testing.
I toured the Oklahoma plant a few years back. They have public tours where they take you upstairs into a room with covered glass windows and you get to look out into the facility. The place looked really clean. I remember there being a lot of stainless steel equipment and piping. I saw some strong employee pride there. I'm guessing the contamination was from a trucked in source. To my knowledge, Bluebell has fixed the problem. They didn't take the cheap way out. I'm not sure what else they could have done. They've replaced equipment and also kept a place for these employees to come back to. I can and will support that.
People still drive Toyotas after it was learned that they knew about brake problems and hid it. There are other car manufacturers out there with similar problems. Brand loyalty I guess. I will say that during the great Blue Bell famine of 2015, I couldn't find a single ice cream that was as tasty.
Is the Justice Department going to look into the E. Coli at Chipotle?
However, I hope that those people who are afraid of Blue Bell realize they need to go cold turkey with their cold turkey and other deli meats so they don't suddenly drop dead.
However, I hope that those people who are afraid of Blue Bell realize they need to go cold turkey with their cold turkey and other deli meats so they don't suddenly drop dead.
Bagged salads are also a pretty reliable source of listeria.
I personally don't worry about it. I've had food poisoning before and I lived.
Yup...I'm in Texas, home of Blue Bell. It's very popular around here. People were LOSING. THEIR. MINDS. when it was pulled off store shelves and they RELOST their minds when it came back; my local grocery store sold out of it within a couple of hours. But I think people are over it. There are half a dozen flavors of Blue Bell ice cream in various sizes at my grocery store and they never seen to run out of any of it.
I personally won't eat it, but I wouldn't eat it before the listeria outbreak. I won't eat it because it's fattening and because it has garbage ingredients.
I am in Texas too (although I transplanted here in my late 30s), and I found the whole thing humorous and annoying at the same time, the way people think there is absolutely no good ice cream on the planet anywhere whatsoever except Blue Bell. Frankly, I consider that irrational, maybe downright stupid, and in such conversations I'd flat-out say as much. There is Breyer's (my personal favorite), Dryer's (I don't care for the name I think they stole it from Breyer's), Eddy's, Häagen-Dazs, Blue Bunny (play on name perhaps?), and ice cream parlors like Baskin Robbins, Dairy Queen or even better, Braum's. There is life outside Listeriaville.
People's blind loyalty to things sometimes is silly. It's either that, or it's as if they don't even realize there are other options. In this area, for instance, I bet you 97% of the phones I see are Straight Talk, as if Virgin Mobile, MetroPCS, T-Mobile, Cricket, and Boost Mobile don't even exist. It's as if they think Straight Talk is the ONLY phone carrier AT ALL besides paying an obscene amount to AT&T & Verizon on contract (never mind that contracts are going away, and that anymore even AT&T & Verizon's rates aren't as bad as they used to be). They're absolutely that way with respect to Blue Bell, and it's just silly.
I rarely eat ice cream but have good memories of my dad making ice cream when I was young. He used to used the hand churner that you put rock salt around the outside. I remember it being really good but maybe it was just the idea that it was home made.
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