Blue Bell cranking up production (2015, how much, buy)

[Rakin]

Just announced they have started the production lines again and hopefully be back in stock soon.

I'm going to go buy 2 gallons and eat it all over the weekend.

https://www.yahoo.com/health/after-l...017785647.html


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1:13 PM - 5 Aug 2015

[gtt99]

Overrated

[westhou]

It's just ice cream. I don't get the fascination with Blue Bell.

[Mark Senior]

Originally Posted by westhou

It's just ice cream. I don't get the fascination with Blue Bell.

Just better than most, with the exception of homemade ice cream.

[joqua]

Yesterday, while shopping in Walmart's freezer section, an employee was restocking the Blue Bunny ice cream in the freezer case. I mentioned to him how much better Blue Bell flavors are than Blue Bunny, and hoped Blue Bell becomes available again soon.

He told me that the STATE of New Mexico is not going to permit Blue Bell to distribute and sell in the state again. I have no idea if he knows what he's talking about. Time will tell, I suppose. We were one of the more recent areas to begin seeing Blue Bell on store shelves after not having it available for many years.

[Texas Ag 93]

Originally Posted by westhou

It's just ice cream. I don't get the fascination with Blue Bell.

Me either. I think it's better than the average mass produced ice cream, but not worth going out of the way for.

I also made my first visit ever to a Buc-ees last weekend (two different ones in the same day, no less) and was underwhelmed. Nothing I hadn't ever seen before, just more of it. They did have really cheap gas, though.

I hope I am not required to turn in my official Texan card for thinking the above are overrated.....

[Trainwreck20]

Originally Posted by joqua

Yesterday, while shopping in Walmart's freezer section, an employee was restocking the Blue Bunny ice cream in the freezer case. I mentioned to him how much better Blue Bell flavors are than Blue Bunny, and hoped Blue Bell becomes available again soon.

He told me that the STATE of New Mexico is not going to permit Blue Bell to distribute and sell in the state again. I have no idea if he knows what he's talking about. Time will tell, I suppose. We were one of the more recent areas to begin seeing Blue Bell on store shelves after not having it available for many years.

Not sure that NM can regulate interstate commerce to that extent.

[wxf848]

It isn't just ice cream; it's Texas in ice cream form. For some people, state pride turns a product that's better than most of the cheap brands into the best in the world.

I'm not a big ice cream consumer, but I've taken a liking to H-E-B's in-house brand. It's more like real ice cream and less like a chemical plant than Blue Bell. It also costs quite a bit less. I do look forward to Blue Bell's ice cream sandwiches; even though they're more chemical plant than ice cream, I've always liked them.

[shyguylh]

Originally Posted by westhou

It's just ice cream. I don't get the fascination with Blue Bell.

Amen. Frankly, I think it's kind of stupid. I think it's state pride gone overboard. I even saw where one person wrote "you losers can have your yankee cream." I've always thought that "darn yankee" response to things not necessarily native to a southern state was stupid, and I'm from the south.

It's fine to like the state you live in and like the particulars of it, but to be that blindly loyal to one's region and that hostile to anything else is silly to me. I've just eaten Breyer's or ice cream in a restaurant and done just fine. (On a side note, I think Dreyer's should be forced to change its name, perhaps to Eddy's, to prevent confusion with Breyer's.)

I am happy for the COMPANY ITSELF in terms of that you don't want to see a company go bankrupt or see its employees suffer, so am I happy for them in that respect.

[kidicarus89]

Blue Bell vanilla ice cream is heaven to me.