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Safeway's New 'Easy Scoop' Ice Cream Easier To Scoop Because There's Less Of It
By Laura Northrup on May 14, 2012 11:30 AM
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Safeway's Lucerne house brand ice creams have been repackaged, and now come in a round container branded the "Easy-Scoop Package." That's a nice redesign, and round containers are easier to scoop from. Only, as reader Ryan points out, maybe the ice cream is easier to scoop now because there's now a half-quart less of it. More »
Ben & Jerry's Apologizes For Fortune Cookie "Taste the Lin-sanity" Frozen Yogurt
By Phil Villarreal on March 2, 2012 8:15 AM
90 Comments
Journalists aren't the only ones finding it difficult to deal with the success of New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin. Ben & Jerry's released a limited edition frozen yogurt dubbed "Taste the Lin-sanity" at a store in the Boston area, flavored with crumbled fortune cookies and lychee honey. Customers complained about the culturally insensitive choice of ingredients and quality of the product, and the company responded by pulling the flavor and apologizing. More »
Some Supermarkets Don't Want To Touch Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls
By Chris Morran on October 21, 2011 12:15 PM
104 Comments
Back when Ben & Jerry's announced its new Schweddy Balls flavor of ice cream, you might have guessed that some stores might balk at selling the product. And if so, then your prediction was spot-on. More »
Friendly's Files For Bankruptcy Protection, Closes 63 Restaurants
By Chris Morran on October 5, 2011 10:30 AM
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As we reported last week, the financial outlook at ice cream and burger chain Friendly's is bleak. Earlier today, the company confirmed rumors it would be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announced it has closed 63 shops around the country. More »
American Family Association Doesn't Want You To Taste Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls
By Chris Morran on September 22, 2011 10:30 AM
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The inaccurately named American Family Association — those not-at-all-absolutely-insane people who boycott stores for not associating Jesus' birthday with deep discounts — has a special "project" called One Million Moms, which is apparently the number of mothers the AFA would want us to believe are truly upset about Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls flavor of ice cream. More »
Ben & Jerry's Introduces "Schweddy Balls" Flavor Ice Cream
By Chris Morran on September 8, 2011 9:15 AM
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Don't know about you, but when we think about holiday treats, our minds veer toward a special snack created by Pete Schweddy, owner of Seasons Eatings. Apparently, the folks at Ben & Jerry's have heard about this delectable delight too and are introducing a Schweddy Balls flavor of ice cream. More »
The Strange Flavors People Give Ice Cream
By Phil Villarreal on August 31, 2011 11:30 AM
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Just as culinary mad scientists will attempt to fry just about anything, they will also make ice cream flavors out of the least expected stuff. More »
Hey, Where Are The Chocolate Chips In My Klondike Bar?
By Laura Northrup on August 18, 2011 9:00 AM
64 Comments
There's a new flavor of Klondike Bar on the block: mint chocolate chip. That's wonderful news for fans of mint chocolate chip ice cream, but also slightly confusing. Because there aren't actually any chocolate chips in the bars, even though they're pictured on the package and their ingredients listed on the product's ingredients list. Where did they go? More »
Government Wants Organic Small-Batch Ice Cream Maker To Stop Making Organic Small-Batch Ice Cream
By Laura Northrup on August 15, 2011 2:01 PM
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Nice Cream is a small ice cream company in Chicago that does something strange and daring in the modern food landscape: they make and sell ice cream using only ingredients with names that ordinary people can pronounce. Ingredients such as "cream," "eggs," and "pie." The tiny company was a classic recession success story: a laid-off teacher experiments at home with her Cuisinart ice cream maker, and with hard work and creativity creates a delicious product that's eventually sold at Whole Foods. But the state of Illinois doesn't really see it that way, and Nice Cream will have to shut down or make drastic changes to its products and process in order to stay legal. They're first, and other small-batch ice cream makers could be next. More »
Are These Really The 25-Best Ice Cream Shops In The Country?
By Chris Morran on August 10, 2011 11:30 AM
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What's that dividing line between a good spot to pick up an ice cream cone and a place truly deserving of being called the best in the country? The folks at Food & Wine magazine think they know and have put together their list of the 25 best ice cream spots in the entire U.S. More »
Turkey Hill Ice Cream Is Somehow Both "New Flavor" And "Original Recipe"
By Ben Popken on July 5, 2011 3:00 PM
54 Comments
In a kind of weird labeling paradox, this Turkey Hill Homemade Vanilla ice cream is simultaneously "New Flavor" AND "Original Recipe." Reader GR scratched his head over it and sent it in using The Consumerist Tipster App. It's new, but it's original, but it's new, but it's the original... The logic loop continues ad infinatum until all worlds collapse and the universe reaches a state of perfect entropy. I'm afraid for GR to open it; he might find Schrödinger's cat inside.
Big Gay Ice Cream Truck Successful Enough To Open Big Gay Ice Cream Shop
By Chris Morran on May 20, 2011 2:30 PM
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It's Friday and we're getting a little exhausted after a week of sour news, so here's a small success story to get us through the afternoon. More »
Lil' Drums Ice Cream Cone Packages Now Even More Lil'
Fans of Nestle's perfectly dessert-sized mini Drumsticks will be disappointed this summer. While the individual cones have stayed the same size, there are now only ten to a box instead of the former twelve. Update: Nestle let us know that the change is actually the other way around: the package is becoming less lil', not more. More »
By Laura Northrup on May 12, 2011 9:00 AM
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Science Finds Way To Add Probiotics, Fiber & Antioxidants To Your Hot Fudge Sundae
By Chris Morran on April 26, 2011 2:30 PM
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The other night, while I was going hog-wild on a pint of something containing fudge, peanut butter, sprinkles and unicorn horn, I thought to myself, "If only there could be some health benefit to eating this." Now I find out that a food scientist at the University of Missouri is tantalizingly close to squeezing all sorts of goodness into the gobs of gluttony in my ice cream. More »
Caption This Cherry Garcia Frozen In A Chunk Of Ice
By Ben Popken on April 1, 2011 5:00 PM
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Anthropologists from the future were amazed to find perfectly preserved in a chunk of ice a carton of "ice cream" offering amazing clues to the secrets of a long-lost civilization. Apparently it was one where people who started out as countercultural antimaterialist icons could years later be used to market the products of multinational conglomerate, the all-powerful and feared "Unilever." Such wonders to behold!
Is Charging $17 For A Pint Of Ice Cream Ever Justified?
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 21, 2011 8:00 AM
179 Comments
If you're a one-woman ice cream company (chef, delivery gal, publicist, and more), there's nothing stopping you from charging whatever you want for your product. And if there's a 1,500-person waiting list of customers, you can probably get them for a lot of money. More »
Breast Milk Ice Cream Confiscated From London Shop
By Chris Morran on February 28, 2011 4:45 PM
66 Comments
When we wrote about the London ice cream shop that had made a frozen treat from human breast milk, some readers wondered about the legality and/or safety of such a product. Well, they weren't alone, as local authorities decided to confiscate the ice cream until those questions were resolved. More »
London Ice Cream Shop To Offer Scoops Of Frozen Breast Milk
By Chris Morran on February 24, 2011 4:15 PM
93 Comments
If you've ever wondered what ice cream made from human breast milk might taste like, a London shop will soon have the answer. More »
We Found Teeth Marks In Our Ice Cream, Kroger Hardly Seems To Care
By Phil Villarreal on November 3, 2010 10:30 AM
86 Comments
Bryan and his wife were about to sink their teeth into some ice cream when they opened up a container and say saw someone had already beat them to the punch. They noticed teeth marks in the product, then told a Kroger manager, whose response was alarmingly lax. More »
Ice Cream Truck Plays Christmas Creepy Jingle
By Ben Popken on October 4, 2010 3:00 PM
33 Comments
Reader Andrew snagged this phone camera video on September 29th of an ice cream truck enticing children with tinny renditions of Christmas carols. Ok, here's one industry where it's almost ok that they've been infected by the Christmas Creep. Ice cream trucks don't really get a lot of business in the winter so if they want to play along, they have to start early. More »
