![]() Several of you said we should have tried H-E-B’s 1905 Vanilla, and another said Blue Bunny’s Homemade Vanilla is quite good. Last week, Texas Monthly’s Mimi Schwartz addressed this contrast of values in an aptly titled story “Rocky Road”: That we think of Blue Bell as a wholesome small-town treat, but in reality, it’s a $900-million-a-year food company that, despite continued protests from customers like Dorothea Vander Stoep of Houston, who also wrote in, switched from sugar to high fructose corn syrup because it costs less. One reader said that even though the company’s Homemade Vanilla had been her favorite, she stopped eating it when she learned about the possible health repercussions of high fructose corn syrup, which is in all of Blue Bell’s ice creams except Natural Vanilla Bean. Not everyone has been so enamored with Blue Bell in recent years, though. If you, too, are looking for a good custard recipe, check out the blueberry muffin ice cream recipe below that uses a custard base. Styles has been trying to recreate that flavor by making custard ice cream at home. “The reason I have always loved BB Homemade Vanilla ice cream (and no other will do) is because it tastes like the vanilla ice cream that my parents and their friends made out on the porch using the old turn handle wooden ice cream maker with rock salt back in the ’50s and ’60s. ![]() Amy’s is a good option, but now, I just do without.”Īnn Styles echoed the emotional connection that taste can inspire. “Sadly, there’s no ice cream in my freezer now. Nicki Noe Turman’s father-in-law, Jerry, was featured in a Blue Bell ad from the 1990s that used to air occasionally. Glenn Kelly of Leander said that although H-E-B makes the vanilla most similar to Blue Bell’s, “it’s a distant, distant second place.” And lest we think we are only talking about dessert, Kelly continued: “I’m so sad and disappointed I will not have Blue Bell for the first summer of my life, and I am so angry I have to look at ice cream differently now.” Others plugged their lesser-known favorites: Schwan’s, Talenti, Goldenbrook, Klondike, Skinny Cow, Whole Foods 365 Organic, Braum’s, Oak Farms, Sweet Ritual, Graeter’s, Three Twins and So Delicious. Ben & Jerry’s came in second, followed by the Austin-based and dairy-free Nada Moo. In an online poll of more than 600 readers, a third said that they are eating H-E-B’s Creamy Creations, but nearly 40 wrote in that they aren’t eating any ice cream right now and that they’ll just wait for Blue Bell to return. ![]() ![]() But for many of you, there is no alternative. history, I received more than two dozen emails from readers chiming in on their alternatives. Almost.Īfter last week’s taste test of vanilla ice creams that are not from the Brenham-based company, which is still reeling from the largest ice cream recall in U.S. ![]()
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