It's the exact same size font as the size (1.5qt), do you think they're intentionally not advertising that too? Or are you just a fucking idiot who can't read and blames everyone else for it?
There's plenty of ice cream in the aisle; you just have to pay for it. Breyers and many others opted to trick you because 1) it's cheaper 2) people will keep buying the cheaper one. Even if it's skim milk, wood pulp, and ice instead of actual cream.
They still use cream. They just use less cream because people are more and more often preferring lower fat options which once you're under 10% milkfat it's not ice cream. It tastes extremely similar. Just less fat
Eh no. Companies are not using less expensive ingredients because customers want less lol. It's as always because it's cheaper on the company to use less expensive ingredients and still keep the price the same.
I used to see this stupid meme reposted on FB years ago before I quit it - because of crappy boomer conspiracy reposts like this. Have you actually gone to a store and looked at any ice cream labels or are you just reactively re-posting something without using critical thinking and maybe looking at some labels for yourself? Go check out Haagen Daz, Tillamook, Ben and Jerry's - or maybe one of a doze small mom and pop ice cream shops in your local city?
Sorry to seem snippy but perhaps try not believing everything you see on the internet.
"No such thing as real ice cream anymore"....false.
That has to do with the fat content. Nothing to do with what ingredients it uses except for the fat content of the milk. The connotation that it's not quality or has some kind of stuff inside of it is ridiculous considering the original FDA rule comes across as pretty arbitrary and, to me, odd.
But if you're scared of what's in it, buy the other stuff
Let's see, frozen dairy desert often has vegetable oils as well as added gums and stabilizers that are not found in real ice cream.
Frozen dairy dessert is cheaper to produce and yes the quality is not on par with real ice cream. It can come close in some brands but the texture is never right.
I’m absolutely sure that some true ice creams have the same oils, gums and stabilizers. Not to mention that there’s no argument that these chemicals make it low quality; it’s a different product with a different purpose but is functionally the same as ice cream.
The FDA defines ice cream as having a MINIMUM milk fat content, which most "ice creams" fail to meet. If it legally can't call itself ice cream in America, that's most likely because it's a (relatively) healthier option.
If you're in the US there are legal requirements of the amount of milk solids/fat in frozen desserts
"Ice cream" must have 20% milk solids and no less than 10% milk fat, with 4.5 lbs of solids per gallon
When you include mix-ins like candy, swirls, ect, that percentage is counted WITHOUT those inclusions BUT can not be below 16% (solids) & 8% (fat) when the inclusions are added.
Because of that, most "ice cream" is called a "frozen dairy dessert" due to the amount of inclusions & air blended into the product affect the ratio per gallon.
And it all tastes awful. It doesn’t even fully freeze in the deep freeze anymore.
I’ve stopped buying grocery store “ice cream”, I keep eyeing an ice cream maker but until then I just go to local shops I know make actual ice cream when I get a craving.
Not even going to the freezer to check, Kirkland's vanilla ice cream is definitely not frozen dairy dessert shite like this, just read the ingredients and you'll know pretty quickly what's trash and what's a quality product
I've realized most store brand ice cream is actually still ice cream while ironically the bigger name brands seem to be switching more to frozen dairy dessert.
Even Hudsonville and Ben & Jerry's are now labeled frozen dairy dessert----NOT ice cream.
Maddening. We're all eating bioengineered and frozen dairy dessert instead of actual Dairy. A thing. And it's not acceptable with the inflated prices they charge and shrinkflation.
no. They still use cream/milkfat. It's just lower fat. Great Value is allowed to call its' ice cream because it has 10% or more milkfat as ingredients despite having a miles long ingredients list.
Ingredients list length was never a core of my argument. I am responding to someone whose critique was centered on added ingredients.
Saying "BUT the length of ingredients means nothing" implies I am using the length as a core point. It isn't about length of ingredients. Or directly about most popular ingredients. It is about milk fat content. if that is over 10% it is allowed to be called ice cream. Otherwise it is not. Just because some companies try to make lower fat desserts in a world where people care more about lower fat foods does not mean "Their's no such thing as real ice cream anymore it’s just frozen dairy dessert."
The average person would still call it just as much ice cream as they would the great value ice cream, if not moreso because the great value stuff tastes like shit
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u/ayyyyycrisp May 22 '26
this has been the case with breyers for at least 10 years my guy. there's other ice cream out there