alt Hacker NewsThey were bought out by a unilever subsidiary. Most of their ingredients were replaced with cheaper, less healthy, less flavorful additives. It's funny to say the ice cream got less healthy, but it's true.
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wilg • today at 5:08 AM
Is it true? I looked into your claim here and it doesn't seem substantiated at all.
soulofmischief • today at 2:48 AM
Re: healthy ice cream, I do enjoy Blue Bell's Natural Vanilla Bean.
> Milk, cream, sugar, skim milk, contains 1% or less of: vanilla extract, guar gum, carob bean gum, ground vanilla beans.
Still has a crapload of sugar and fat in it, eat in considerable moderation but at least it contains only relatively innocuous ingredients.
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They are fighting to get it back:
https://time.com/7344796/ben-jerrys-ice-cream-magnum-unileve...
Also the shareholders overrode Ben and Jerry against their objections to sell. They didn’t want to. Of course they probably shouldn’t have gone public in the first place but if they hadn’t you never would have heard of them. Unless you grew up in Vermont. Like me. It was kinda weird seeing a beloved business become huge. Like watching Phish go from a local band to something giant.