#BlueBell is making ice cream again…...These are being made again, but they’re not for sale just yet. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)Good news, Blue Bell fans: The South’s beloved ice cream maker is, well, making ice cream again.The bad news: It’s not for sale yet.The company confirmed this week that one of its smaller factories had reopened, the first time Blue Bell has made ice cream since it shut down production in April. It was forced to throw out 8 million gallons after Listeria-tainted ice cream sickened people in four states, the first recall in its 108-year history.Blue Bell is only making a few flavors at the Alabama plant (it isn’t saying which), and instead of going on shelves now, the company is building up its inventory, spokeswoman Jenny Van Dorf said
Instead of traffic tickets, one Georgia police officer dished out something much sweeter to the people he pulled over — ice cream
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Instead of traffic tickets, one Georgia police officer dished out something much sweeter to the people he pulled over — ice cream.
When Officer Ed Smith of the Warner Robins Police Department stopped people for driving infractions last week, he gave them all a Dairy Queen Blizzard and let them go with a warning.
“Most of them were in complete disbelief,” Smith told TODAY.com. “One girl’s face, it was worth a thousand words. She thought she was in a lot of trouble.”
She could have been — Smith said he only pulled over people who were actually doing something wrong, per federal law.
“We can’t violate their Fourth Amendment rights, so there had to be probable cause for the stop to be made,” Smith said. “Failure to use a turn signal, burnt out taillights. We had one improper lane change.”
The sweet surprises were part of the police department’s “Traffic Stops for Blizzards,” program, their way to support “Miracle Treat Day,” in which $1 from every Dairy Queen Blizzard sold benefits Children’s Miracle Networks Hospitals
State Health officals OK production and sales of ice cream at Blue Bell’s Alabama Plant.The Alabama Department of Public Health has “no restrictions” on the sale of Blue Bell ice cream made at the company’s Sylacauga plant, a health official said early Wednesday.Related A step closer to returning, Blue Bell turns on the machines for test runs at Alabama plant Letter shows Fort Worth billionaire will lend up to $125 million in Blue Bell bailout Fort Worth billionaire Sid Bass makes ‘significant’ investment to bring back Blue Bell FDA releases findings at Blue Bell plants; CDC officially ends investigation Blue Bell plants in Alabama, Texas and Oklahoma have been shuttered since April, when the company launched a major clean-up and revamp effort.That move followed the discovery of Listeria in some product that has been linked to illnesses in at least 10 hospital patients. Three of them died.No Blue Bell product has been sold through regular retail channels since April.The Alabama plant, which is smaller than the main plant in Brenham, has been testing product since last month.
Soft-serve ice cream now available in bold new flavors
Keep it movin’, Mister Softee.This summer, soft-serve ice cream options in New York are anything but vanilla.Think intense, complex flavors like burrata cheese, gianduja chocolate, strawberry jalapeño and horchata.“I really love the texture of soft-serve, but I always wished it had more flavor,” says Cronut king Dominique Ansel, who last week launched an ice cream window at his West Village dessert shop Dominique Ansel Kitchen.“Most soft serve is made with a mix or powder, but I wanted to use fresh ingredients — simple, quality flavors that we all love,” he adds.
Here’s the scoop on five new irresistible soft-serve flavors
The best ice cream in NYC is from a new Chinatown shop.
The Hester Street Fair hosted its second annual Ice Cream Social yesterday afternoon, with eight frozen treat makers scooping up both their signature flavors as well as a few new experiments.
As Blue Bell Creameries prepares to resume production of its ice cream after a sweeping recall, its mistakes are fueling broader rethinking of how to keep ice cream and other foods free of deadly bacteria.
These are being made again, but they’re not for sale just yet. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)Good news, Blue Bell fans: The South’s beloved ice cream maker is, well, making ice cream again.The bad news: It’s not for sale yet.The company confirmed this week that one of its smaller factories had reopened, the first time Blue Bell has made ice cream since it shut down production in April. It was forced to throw out 8 million gallons after Listeria-tainted ice cream sickened people in four states, the first recall in its 108-year history.Blue Bell is only making a few flavors at the Alabama plant (it isn’t saying which), and instead of going on shelves now, the company is building up its inventory, spokeswoman Jenny Van Dorf said
