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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

I Scream

Recalled:

Texas-based Blue Bell Creameries issued a voluntary recall Monday night for all of its products on the market after two samples of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream tested positive for listeriosis.

The company "can't say with certainty" how the bacteria was introduced to the manufacturing line, Blue Bell's chief executive Paul Kruse said in a statement.

"We're committed to doing the 100 percent right thing, and the best way to do that is to take all of our products off the market until we can be confident that they are all safe," Kruse said.

The first recall in the family-owned creamery's 108-year history was issued last month after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention linked ice cream contaminated with listeriosis to three deaths at a Kansas hospital. Five others in Kansas and Texas were sickened with the disease.


As a native Texan I'm likely to be burned at the stake for this, but I do not like Blue Bell ice cream. Well, that's not precisely true; it's ice cream, so it's good. However, I do not like it as well as most other brands. I know people who refuse to even TRY anything else except Blue Bell, having somehow magically divined that it's better through a complete absence of comparison. Or if they do agree to sample others, usually under duress of an armlock, they take one bite and immediately turn their noses up -- as if any ice cream actually tastes bad. Well, except for those oddball "designer" flavors like Mauve Mango Butterfly Coffee Yucca Plant, of course. Vanilla, chocolate, Neapolitan... I'll take Breyers or Haagen-Dazs any day.

Hell, I know people who refuse to eat at Marble Slab or Baskin Robbins because they don't serve Blue Bell. What the fuck? Only thing I can figure is that Blue Bell is actually some weird, cultish religion like scientology or something, because I just don't get it. I also don't get listeriosis, whatever the hell that is, so bonus.

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