Default User wrote:
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> Pete C. wrote:
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> > Default User wrote:
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> > > Pete C. wrote:
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> > > > The half gallon of Blue Bell I got yesterday at my local
> > > > Albertson's is a half gallon, and the half gallon I got at Shady
> > > > Glen when in CT a few months back was also gasp a half gallon.
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> > > What's in it? Ingredient-wise that is.
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> > Which brand and which flavor?
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> What do you have? Vanilla is always a good benchmark. I was pretty
> irritated with Breyer's when "natural tara gum" showed up as an
> ingredient.

Breyer's is one of the brands I'd consider to be crap. I've tried their
product and to my assessment at least, it is barely above the quality
level of generic store brands. I believe Breyer's is also one of the
brands playing the shrinking package game.

Blue Bell is vastly better, but it too has some vegetable gums as
stabilizer. You have to realize that some sort of stabilizer is
necessary in any ice cream that will be distributed much beyond the
place where it is produced.

I'll have to look at a tub of Braum's ice cream to see it's ingredients.
I normally just get stuff at their drive through, vs. buying a tub to
take home. Since they say they deliver from their plant to their stores
every other day, they may be able to avoid the stabilizers. Certainly
their product is very good.