More to the point, in America, the USDA regulations allow for hard pack ice cream to have up to 40% of its volume expanded with air.
WAAaaaay back in the early 2000’s after Unilever bought them, I bought a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Vanilla ice cream and got home and it sat on the counter and melted - much to my dismay - (It ended up under a towel and did not get put away.)
When I opened it, the level of ice cream in the container had dropped down by almost a quarter. What the hell? So I got another pint and at that time noticed that it was easier to scoop - a sign that there’s air being incorporated.
Yeah… nope. Done.
Haven’t bought Ben & Jerry’s in over 20 years. (besides, there’s a real homemade ice cream shop around the corner from my home - it’s what I get now and I support the woman that runs it.)
It would be very based if Ben & Jerry would name their ice cream “Israel is Committing Genocide”, “War Crimes by Israel”, and “Oh look! The World is Enabling Genocide of the Palestinian people”.
Nestle, Unilever, Mondelez, who else should i add to my boycott list?
Basically every corporation at this point. Buy local when you can, even if you disagree with the local person’s politics if your only alternative is a megacorp go with the local source.
They can be a shitty person, but they won’t have the capital to invest in overseas slavery and election interference like mega corps
I’ve met Jerry, he literally served me ice cream, lol. He’s a very nice man. That being said, my response to this controversy has basically been “then why did you sell your company?”…What, they thought Unilever would just be like “sure, use our brand to do a swan dive into the most controversial subject on the planet! Great idea guys!”…Of course they’re going to block it.
I would have sold too. I don’t know what he sold for, but it’s probably hard to even imagine having this much. He gave up all riscs and he can still make his new flavour under a new brand if he really wants to.
I’m totally behind the message, but honestly watermelon ice cream is a terrible idea. Taste of watermelon is very mid for ice cream, i wonder how Ben could pull it.
There’s a fast food chain the southeast US called Cook Out, and in the summer they have a seasonal watermelon milkshake that’s just watermelon and vanilla ice cream, and it is honestly SO GOOD. There are bits of watermelon in the shake that kinda freeze up a little and soak up some of the vanilla.
I think it could be done.
I make ice cream for a living, and watermelon is very difficult to pull off without artificial flavoring.
To start with, it has a lot of water in it, which is bad for making quality ice cream. You have to filter out as much as possible, and collect only the pulp. Since watermelon has a very mild taste, it takes a LOT of pulp, which still carries a lot of water in it.
Bottom line is that it is difficult to collect enough pulp to carry enough flavor, without adding too much water, and compromising the creaminess.
Of course, some artificial flavoring would do the job easily, but I am fundamentally opposed to that in my ice cream, and I would imagine Ben is as well.
