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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.