Wal-Mart ice cream doesn't melt

[Bufkin]

"THIS FAT-LACED ICE CREAM DIDN'T TURN OUT TO BE HEALTHY?! HOW DARE YOU, WALMART!"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...usaolp00000592

The discovery was made by a local mom, Christie Watson, who noticed that a Great Value ice cream sandwich her son left out on their patio table hadn't fully melted -- even though it had been sitting out for 12 hours on an 80-degree day. Watson left a second ice cream sandwich out overnight with the same results, WCPO reports.
"What am I feeding to my children?" she asked, appalled.

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by Stewie

Haagen Dazs is the only mainstream ice cream manufacturer that uses eggs and it's a very small percentage of the product. In large dairy production, eggs add too many unwanted headaches for ice cream, so they are avoided.

For the plain ice creams (vanilla, etc.) you can get away with milk, cream, sweetener, thickeners and flavoring. For the more popular flavors (i.e. cookies and cream) it's much more difficult to produce a decent product without stabilizers, emulsifiers, etc.

I'll use Breyer's as an example.

Here's their vanilla ice cream:

MILK, CREAM, SUGAR, TARA GUM, NATURAL FLAVOR. Ingredients and Nutrition Facts are current as of 3/1/13.

Here's their Rocky Road, which is very popular:

FROZEN DAIRY DESSERT [MILK, SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, CREAM, COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), WHEY, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, GUAR GUM, CAROB BEAN GUM, CARRAGEENAN, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, TARA GUM, NATURAL FLAVOR], MARSHMALLOW SWIRL [MILK, CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, CREAM, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, GUAR GUM, CARRAGEENEN, NATURAL FLAVOR], CHOCOLATEY COATED ALMONDS [CHOCOLATE FLAVORED COATING (SUGAR, COCONUT OIL, NATURAL COCOA, NONFAT MILK, WHOLE MILK POWDER, BUTTER OIL, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVOR), DRY ROASTED ALMONDS]. Ingredients and Nutrition Facts are current as of 3/1/13

I worked in an ice cream plant during my college years. Making ice cream in high volume is quite a science. If it doesn't taste good and have good "mouth feel" it will rot in the grocers freezer.

Ben and Jerry's is a mainstream ice cream manufacturer.

Ben and Jerry's uses eggs.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by kchero

It's crap ice cream that you paid $1.99 for. What did you expect lady!

did you not click the article??!

we paid $1.99 for that, not her!

/racist

[Cannibal]

Corporations,

Put weird chemicals in our food and hormones in our meat products all you want, just make sure you limit these to the really cheap food that only poor people buy.

We trust you with this.

Thanks in advance.

[MahiMike]

Originally Posted by Stewie

They claim to be of the "pure" ice cream guild. BS! They don't put their ingredient list on their website. They say, "Check the package for ingredients!" OK, that seems suspicious until you see a picture of the carton. "Made with loving care" and a bunch of other stuff.

Damn. That box was made in 1998! Good preservatives.

[C3HIEF3S]

Skip to 1:35 to get to the actual video, around 2:30 for actual experiment with Wal-mart brand, Klondike, and Weight Watchers.