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What a savage freak. The ice cream maker isn't getting a pass on this either as it should have a plastic cover over the ice cream and under the lid like many others do. I'm always skeptical about buying things without such a seal where its not that easy to tell if its been tampered with.
It IS easy to tell if this ice cream has been tampered with. Blue Bell has been informing people ad nauseum, in response to this incident, that they pack their newly-churned ice cream, and stack it upside-down so that it freezes to the lid.
That makes tampering apparent. That doesnt, however, make it near-impossible for miscreants to do in a store setting, and that's what you can be certain they'll be working on. I bet a seal will be forthcoming.
That said, there's only ONE culprit here, so don't shift the blame onto on an ice cream company which had not one case of tampering until this idiot came along.
At first I felt badly for Blue Bell. But their packaging methods obviously are not the same as a plastic seal that would make this pretty easy to detect.
The lid frozen to the ice cream is not sufficient for preventing this. The lid was easily opened and clearly not sufficient to let other shoppers know the product was opened and tampered with. Nobody would buy it if the plastic was broken, with the Blue Bell method it's pretty close to impossible to detect that it has been opened or not.
It IS easy to tell if this ice cream has been tampered with. Blue Bell has been informing people ad nauseum, in response to this incident, that they pack their newly-churned ice cream, and stack it upside-down so that it freezes to the lid.
That makes tampering apparent. That doesnt, however, make it near-impossible for miscreants to do in a store setting, and that's what you can be certain they'll be working on. I bet a seal will be forthcoming.
That said, there's only ONE culprit here, so don't shift the blame onto on an ice cream company which had not one case of tampering until this idiot came along.
Oh that's the excuse given by Blue Bell. But it's actually not very apparent to the average person, especially if you dont know what you're looking for. Trust, I've eaten and bought similarly packaged products. That statement was nothing more than a PR stunt by BB to help stem any backlash against it.
At first I felt badly for Blue Bell. But their packaging methods obviously are not the same as a plastic seal that would make this pretty easy to detect.
The lid frozen to the ice cream is not sufficient for preventing this. The lid was easily opened and clearly not sufficient to let other shoppers know the product was opened and tampered with. Nobody would buy it if the plastic was broken, with the Blue Bell method it's pretty close to impossible to detect that it has been opened or not.
Agreed. And the statement given by BB about it being easy to tell if its ice cream has been tampered with might make for good PR, but it's pure BS! But let's say for argument's sake that it was easy to tell if the ice cream had been tempered with as BB says: most people at the store are just grabbing and going. Not checking to see if there is slight separation as they didn't think they had any reason to do so due to a misplaced trust in mankind . In the time that it takes to get that ice cream from store to home freezer, there is going to be some natural separation, which throws BB's statement out the window. It is not easy to tell tamper with these products, thus making the need for better food security in packaging all the more important.
My brother did that when we were kids so no one else would eat the stuff he liked.
That is similar to how I started drinking Dr Pepper..........Nobody else in my family liked it! Put a coke in there and it was gone by lunch, nobody owned up to drinking it. Dr Pepper was always left alone!
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. In the time that it takes to get that ice cream from store to home freezer, there is going to be some natural separation, which throws BB's statement out the window. It is not easy to tell tamper with these products, thus making the need for better food security in packaging all the more important.
