Wal-Mart Ice Cream doesn't melt, apparently

Wal-Mart responded that their ice cream contains a lot of cream, and therefore melta at a slower rate.
Yeah

See – THIS is why I miss the old Breyer’s Ice Cream. I refuse to buy it since the new management started adding gums.
I didn’t realize that Haagen Dazs still doesn’t. I’ll have to try some again. Pepper Mill claims that Turkey Hill doesn’t, either. She wasn’t surprised about the Wal-Mart stuff though.

“Sea weed doesn’t melt” she said.

Right you are! The other day, I bought some ice cream on a whim; I hardly ever do. It was Breyer’s Cookies & Cream, formerly a delicious treat. I noticed the sad difference right away – it felt completely wrong in my mouth. I didn’t eat any more of it.

Did she think ice cream sandwiches were health food?

[cheap shot] No, just that they were food. [/cheap shot]

Hey, they call it a sandwich. It’s gotta be good for you.

I couldn’t agree more. The mouthfeel is all wrong. My favorite growing up was the vanilla bean with fudge swirl. It’s also weirdly whipped or something, or maybe that’s partly the gum additive. Gross.

Gotta read the packaging. It says it’s a (IIRC) “frozen dairy dessert,” not “ice cream.” That’s how you tell.

There are formal rules for what you can call “ice cream.” Presumably the Breyer’s product doesn’t qualify.

this was done at the urging of parents. ice cream drips on clothes and furniture by kids creates a mess. give the kids a sugary treat that looks like ice cream and they are happy.

I suspect that it has more to do with whipping the stuff as it’s frozen so that it looks like more than it is than it does with any ingredients which are in it.

But that’s not nearly as interesting as, “OMG! My food is made of chemicals!”
I’d make a lousy HuffPo editor.

And in defence of gums, they are soluble fiber and good for you, making a box of WalMart ice “creme” sandwiches good for you.

I’ve ranted about this before. It’s not ice cream, it’s “frozen dairy dessert”, and it’s gross. It doesn’t melt, it tastes oily, and it’s nothing at all like ice cream.

I will pay more for ice cream that has cream, milk, sugar, eggs, vanilla and those alone. it’s worth it to me.

Shoulda read the thread… yes, exactly. My husband likes it fine; I think it’s disgusting.

I like how the mom in the article asks “What am I feeding my children?” in response to two experiments with leaving the food outside.

Instead of, you know, checking out the ingredients list. Here is what you are feeding your children.

Now you know!

Well yes, how could you grow up, have kids, and still be surprised that cheap ‘Ice Cream’ is frozen marshmallow?

Around here, they’ve done the same thing to ‘flavoured milk’. Which was milk with added suger syrup when I was a kid (post-mix), then pre-mix (carton), and now is no longer called ‘flavoured milk’ on the carton - although the retailers and the public still use that term.

What I can get now is called “Chocolate <brand name>” (note the clever way <brand name> is substituted for term “milk”), and the difference is that Gum has been used to replace the Milk Fat. You can buy a ‘light’ version as well as a non-light version: both are effectively fat-free, but the gum recipe is different.

Quiescently frozen dairy confection

For all you folks saying “Well, what did they EXPECT to be in them?” or “this is why they don’t actually call it Ice Cream”, I’d like to say that:

1.) They DO call it “Ice Cream” on the Wal-Mart “Great Value” package:

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2.) The original outrage was not over there being adulterants in the ice cream, but that IT DIDN’T MELT. This suggests that, rather than having adulterants in the ice cream, the “ice cream” seems to be mainly made out of adulterants.

Yet more proof Walmart cant win. Willie Wonka was worshiped for doing the same thing. :smiley:

It’d be more interesting if the WalMart ice cream made you turn blue and blow up, or float, or something.

The Walmart Lifting Fizzy Drinks are made in China and you barely clear the countertop.