Posted on 05/15/2015 2:58:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
When I can get some Blue Bell, I am buying a bunch of it!
Best Ice Cream on the Planet!
TT
AWWWW that sucks!
TT
I don’t eat a lot of ice cream, myself, but it’s sad from the perspective that Blue Bell is a Texas institution.
“Best Ice Cream on the Planet!”
I’ve said those same words many times to everybody I know. Once I tasted Blue Bell’s Natural Vanilla Bean, I was hooked for life.
There's a reason for that. It's about the only ice cream you can buy (including the other Blue Bell flavors) made with real cane sugar. It's the only ice cream my wife will buy in Texas.
Another sad thing about this situation: just knowing it is not available right now makes you crave it all the more.
If you want to believe the feds, believe the feds!
“If you want to believe the feds, believe the feds!”
I hear you, but between what I’ve seen in the corporate world, versus the feds (especially when people get sick and die), it is not an easy call.
Contamination in all four plants? There is a colored gentleman in the woodpile.
Wouldn’t have anything to do with a Texas company that supports conservatives. Naw.... after the Pubby GM and Chrysler dealers purge, it’d never happen again...... Not nobama, no way.
That's what I don't understand....unless it was intentionally "planted." Or, it is originating with a supplier.
Sounds like sabotage to me too.
“Do you think it’s weird that the bacteria exists in plants in three different states?”
I have no inside information, but it could be a process thing...something like “steam-clean all vats and machinery for 10 minutes at the end of each shift”. Some new guy comes in at the head of the department that oversees that process - perhaps a Harvard-education Constitutional Scholar, for example, and has been taught to “think outside the box”. So he starts asking questions and no one can remember why they need to clean them out after each shift - so he changes the frequency to once per day, and for a long time they get away with it...and then they learn their lesson.
That’s one possibility. I think planting would be tougher because it was found at the 3 plants. Suppliers maybe, but there’s a good chance that suppliers work with more than one company.
This may, indeed, be Blue Bell’s Alamo.
Gives new meaning to *dying for an ice cream cone.*
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