What brand chocolate ice cream do you buy?

[Terabyte]

I'm a real man, not some pussy bitch.
I suck on big black titty's and call it a day.

That's chocolate milk

 

[Tristicus]

Breyers or Eddys

Pet tastes like the fucking box it comes in. Blue Bunny is alright, but don't necessarily like the taste. Store brands are hit and miss.

 

[IronWing]

I have to read the ingredients every time I buy ice cream as so many brands are switching to whey and HFCS.

Edit: Breyer's adds whey to their chocolate ice cream now.

 

[guyver01]

Best flavor ever is Baskin' Robbins Peanut Butter & Chocolate:

I'll buy it when they have the hand packed quarts on sale.

 

[Vette73]

The store brand, Giant, is actually really good.

I don;t like bryers as they cut back on the milk fat so its more ice milk then cream now. Edys is still ok, but only onsale.
Oh costco has really good ice cream.

 

[Perknose]

I don;t like bryers as they cut back on the milk fat so its more ice milk then cream now.

No, Breyers (ahem) doesn't cut back on the milk fat. It's just that, almost alone amongst the non-premium brands, they don't use guar gum, xanthan gum and carageenan as "mouth feel" additives.

What you're tasting in those other brands -- what you think is more milk fat -- is just yummy industrial additives. You may as well pop some double-bubble chewing gum in your mouth when you indulge, you'll get roughly the same effect.

By federal law, ice cream must have at least 10% milk fat, and you can bet all the "standard" brands, Breyers included, hit exactly that mark, basically no more, no less.

if you eat chocolate ice cream, what brand?

for me, its Breyers. i think all it has is milk, cocoa, sugar.

Lol, that ingredients list on the package makes it look so pure, doesn't it? And they don't add those bubble gum like additives, 'tis true, but . . .

Breyers does contain preservatives like BHA and BHT et al, they just put them in the packaging.

Due to a glitch in the USDA regulations, ice cream makers don't have to state this FACT in their ingredients list, whereas cereal makers, for instance, do.

The above fact is why you'll see things like "BHA and BHT added to packaging" on cereal boxes but not on ice cream containers.

Caveat Emptor.

Amongst standard brands, I chose Breyers, fwiw.

 

[Possessed Freak]

When I buy ice cream, it is Turkey Hill brand. I prefer orange sherbet though.

 

[IronWing]

No, Breyers (ahem) doesn't cut back on the milk fat. It's just that, almost alone amongst the non-premium brands, they don't use guar gum, xanthan gum and carageenan as "mouth feel" additives.

What you're tasting in those other brands -- what you think is more milk fat -- is just yummy industrial additives. You may as well pop some double-bubble chewing gum in your mouth when you indulge, you'll get roughly the same effect.

By federal law, ice cream must have at least 10% milk fat, and you can bet all the "standard" brands, Breyers included, hit exactly that mark, basically no more, no less.



Lol, that ingredients list on the package makes it look so pure, doesn't it? And they don't add those bubble gum like additives, 'tis true, but . . .

Breyers does contain preservatives like BHA and BHT et al, they just put them in the packaging.

Due to a glitch in the USDA regulations, ice cream makers don't have to state this FACT in their ingredients list, whereas cereal makers, for instance, do.

The above fact is why you'll see things like "BHA and BHT added to packaging" on cereal boxes but not on ice cream containers.

Caveat Emptor.

Amongst standard brands, I chose Breyers, fwiw.

Breyers also contains tara gum in addition to whey.

 

[Imp]

Chapman's, I think, and the pre-made sundaes.

I like the Haagen-Daz and Ben & Jerry's, but damn that stuff is expensive.

 

[seemingly random]

Graeters, Blue Bell, UDF Homemade.

Used to like Breyers but no more.

 

[edro]

http://www.graeters.com/

 

[Vette73]

No, Breyers (ahem) doesn't cut back on the milk fat. It's just that, almost alone amongst the non-premium brands, they don't use guar gum, xanthan gum and carageenan as "mouth feel" additives.

What you're tasting in those other brands -- what you think is more milk fat -- is just yummy industrial additives. You may as well pop some double-bubble chewing gum in your mouth when you indulge, you'll get roughly the same effect.

By federal law, ice cream must have at least 10% milk fat, and you can bet all the "standard" brands, Breyers included, hit exactly that mark, basically no more, no less.



Lol, that ingredients list on the package makes it look so pure, doesn't it? And they don't add those bubble gum like additives, 'tis true, but . . .

Breyers does contain preservatives like BHA and BHT et al, they just put them in the packaging.

Due to a glitch in the USDA regulations, ice cream makers don't have to state this FACT in their ingredients list, whereas cereal makers, for instance, do.

The above fact is why you'll see things like "BHA and BHT added to packaging" on cereal boxes but not on ice cream containers.

Caveat Emptor.

Amongst standard brands, I chose Breyers, fwiw.

Bryers use to have MORE milk fat than they do now. And as already pointed out they do have Tara gum in it now. Tara gum is there to add creminess where the milk fat once did. Without that even a very light ice eater would notice the drop in milk fat.

I am a hugh ice cream eater and notice when they change the milk fat amount and other ingredients. Bryers use to be one of my Favs but I rarly, if ever, buy it now.

 

[JEDI]

"Cost Cutting

As these products now consist mainly of milk and skim milk rather than milk and cream they can no longer legally be called 'ice cream' and are instead labeled as 'frozen dairy dessert'."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breyers

i just noticed that with Eddys
are any of their ice creams really ice creams anymore?

Which Breyers are still ice cream?
vanilla, choclate. what else?

 

[KeypoX]

ben and jerry s

 

[Zebo]

I don't like sweets but Breyers pwns in all flavors. I like the light & fluffier type ice creams.

 

[quikah]

i just noticed that with Eddys
are any of their ice creams really ice creams anymore?

Which Breyers are still ice cream?
vanilla, choclate. what else?

All of the all natural line. I have no idea where they pulled that "Frozen Dairy Desert" nonsense from. Maybe it is from another country? All the Breyers containers I checked are labeled Ice Cream. Even the fat-free ones.

Just check the ingredients.

 

[vshah]

i always buy 2 ben and jerry's:

chocolate fudge brownie
and coffee heath bar crunch

the two go together amazingly well

 

[JEDI]

just read the ingridents of breyers chocolate:
milk, cream, sugar, cocoa, WHEY, natural tara gum, natural flavor

i remember when it was just:
cream, sugar, cocoa

Christ! thats alot of change.

the new company that took them over (unilever) killed decades of product branding