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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: tallgerman on August 18, 2010, 03:52:19 PM
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these fuckers is small
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GH making your hands bigger, making them appear smaller.
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Haagan Das has been owned by Nestle for the last 5+ years.
Having worked for Dreyer's Ice Cream for 5.5yrs, till August of last year, I can tell you that everything is being downsized. Haagan Das pints, bars, Dreyer's "half gallons", fruit bars, drumsticks...everything.
Most of it isn't even ice cream any more.
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Hardly eat those but thought the same - the package and the thing itself is way smaller than it used to be.
Miss the good ol days...
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I have an ice cream maker. Never seem to get around to using it.
There isn't too much I miss about the US but I miss Ben & Jerry's A LOT OMFG!!!
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Yea ive notived that....fuckers are downsizing everything on the market nowadays. the crisis you see ::)
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Yea ive notived that....fuckers are downsizing everything on the market nowadays. the crisis you see ::)
everything but prices.
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everything but prices.
prices are going up... >:(
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All food is downsized these days but not the prices.... :-\
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these fuckers is small
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As I get older and fatter, they do seem a smaller portion? :-\
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Yea ive notived that....fuckers are downsizing everything on the market nowadays. the crisis you see ::)
Hagen daz is luxury ice cream. That's there branding just count the price per pound, most people are unable to do this if they did they'd see there paying atleast twice as much compared to local made icecream.
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ive noticed in a quite a few american grocery stores, that they are downsizing quantity while maintaing or increasing prices, a lot of ice cream makers dont sell gallons any more, now its like .85 or .90 gallon
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Haagan Das has been owned by Nestle for the last 5+ years.
Having worked for Dreyer's Ice Cream for 5.5yrs, till August of last year, I can tell you that everything is being downsized. Haagan Das pints, bars, Dreyer's "half gallons", fruit bars, drumsticks...everything.
Most of it isn't even ice cream any more.
Amazingly a lot of "ice cream" in this country just isn't that. If you look at the real name on the label they call it "frozen treat" or some variation of it. That's because there is nothing cream about it.
I still to organic and love Aiden's Organic Ice Cream. Their Butter Toffee flavor is sick!
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I love the chocolate over vanilla with nuts, how come there are no imitators? I bet hagendaz has soem puke patent.
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As I get older and fatter, they do seem a smaller portion? :-\
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I noticed the same thing with Big Mac's, I swear in America and North America they're getting smaller, yet every time I'm in Europe or the Carribbean or any other part of the world I have trouble finishing one, yet here at home I can eat 3
The biggest one's I've come across were in Panama, holy christ they were like small plates over there
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I noticed the same thing with Big Mac's, I swear in America and North America they're getting smaller, yet every time I'm in Europe or the Carribbean or any other part of the world I have trouble finishing one, yet here at home I can eat 3
The biggest one's I've come across were in Panama, holy christ they were like small plates over there
Lol... thought I was the only one that noticed that. I know here in Canada, a big mac is about the size of the palm of my hand. 3 bites and its done!
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Lol... thought I was the only one that noticed that. I know here in Canada, a big mac is about the size of the palm of my hand. 3 bites and its done!
I seriously thought I was going crazy over the last 10 years but it's like they kept shrinking, you remember how big they were in the early 90's !??!
same with Tim Hortons donuts, they're like half the size.
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I seriously thought I was going crazy over the last 10 years but it's like they kept shrinking, you remember how big they were in the early 90's !??!
same with Tim Hortons donuts, they're like half the size.
Not to mention a fucking Big Mac combo now is like 7 bucks + tax.
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Lol... thought I was the only one that noticed that. I know here in Canada, a big mac is about the size of the palm of my hand. 3 bites and its done!
I love how its called "big mac" ::) theres nothing big about it.
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Fucking criminals
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Amazingly a lot of "ice cream" in this country just isn't that. If you look at the real name on the label they call it "frozen treat" or some variation of it. That's because there is nothing cream about it.
I still to organic and love Aiden's Organic Ice Cream. Their Butter Toffee flavor is sick!
Not many people "get it." They don't understand that it's not ice cream.
Next time you're in the market, do this: look at Nestle Drumsticks. Then look at Dreyer's Peanut Butter Cup or Cookie Dough Ice Cream (any of the "Fun Flavors" as they're called...Cookies and Cream included), pick up the Dreyer's Dibs...
...you will notice something. They ALL say Dreyer's on them. Then you read in little fine print somewhere on the label and you will find the words "Frozen dairy dessert" somewhere to be found.
Now, go to the Dreyer's "half gallons" and pick up rocky road (in select areas), vanilla or chocolate and/or strawberry. You will now read the label and find it says "Dreyer's Grand ICE CREAM" under the Dreyer's name. This is real ice cream.
Anything from Nestle that has anything added to the mix like chocolate chips, cookie dough or cookies etc...will be frozen dairy dessert. Same goes for drumsticks and dibs.
Now pick up Haagan Das, also owned by Nestle, and you will see it's still actually ice cream. But they still charge more for it.
In the last 6yrs, Nestle has downsized the containers from "half gallons" to 1.75's, and currently to 1.5's.
They have raised the price.
Haagan Das no longer produces pints. They are 14oz containers.
At one time about 3yrs ago, and this is when Nestle just began to lose customers left and right, they did what I dubbed "the triple play"-
1) raised prices not once but TWICE in a 3mo time span
2) made a majority of the product frozen dairy dessert
3) decreased container sized AND raised prices yet again to 6.49.
I went from working stores with 3-4 pallet loads, to having one good size pallet.
Nestle has killed the Dreyer's name, product and work ethic/culture as I knew it.
A parting note, when I say Dreyer's, you can interchange Edy's with that for the folks East of the Rockies.
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Dreyer's is garbage.
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Not many people "get it." They don't understand that it's not ice cream.
Next time you're in the market, do this: look at Nestle Drumsticks. Then look at Dreyer's Peanut Butter Cup or Cookie Dough Ice Cream (any of the "Fun Flavors" as they're called...Cookies and Cream included), pick up the Dreyer's Dibs...
...you will notice something. They ALL say Dreyer's on them. Then you read in little fine print somewhere on the label and you will find the words "Frozen dairy dessert" somewhere to be found.
Now, go to the Dreyer's "half gallons" and pick up rocky road (in select areas), vanilla or chocolate and/or strawberry. You will now read the label and find it says "Dreyer's Grand ICE CREAM" under the Dreyer's name. This is real ice cream.
Anything from Nestle that has anything added to the mix like chocolate chips, cookie dough or cookies etc...will be frozen dairy dessert. Same goes for drumsticks and dibs.
Now pick up Haagan Das, also owned by Nestle, and you will see it's still actually ice cream. But they still charge more for it.
In the last 6yrs, Nestle has downsized the containers from "half gallons" to 1.75's, and currently to 1.5's.
They have raised the price.
Haagan Das no longer produces pints. They are 14oz containers.
At one time about 3yrs ago, and this is when Nestle just began to lose customers left and right, they did what I dubbed "the triple play"-
1) raised prices not once but TWICE in a 3mo time span
2) made a majority of the product frozen dairy dessert
3) decreased container sized AND raised prices yet again to 6.49.
I went from working stores with 3-4 pallet loads, to having one good size pallet.
Nestle has killed the Dreyer's name, product and work ethic/culture as I knew it.
A parting note, when I say Dreyer's, you can interchange Edy's with that for the folks East of the Rockies.
YB have you got any tips for stopping ice crystalization in homemade ice cream? I've only made it a couple times but the texture is always a little grainy.
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YB have you got any tips for stopping ice crystalization in homemade ice cream? I've only made it a couple times but the texture is always a little grainy.
Not too sure about homemade ice cream, but usually crystallization is the result of the freezer being too cold.
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Not too sure about homemade ice cream, but usually crystallization is the result of the freezer being too cold.
Not true. The slower you bring the ice cream to a freeze the more gritty it will be. Also instead of sugar use glucose. it reduces the chance of getting ice crystals.
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Interesting. Coffee ice cream this weekend!
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My fiancee got me hooked on Haagen Dazs Green Tea ice cream...OMG that shit is addictive
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Not too sure about homemade ice cream, but usually crystallization is the result of the freezer being too cold.
Back in my day , guys like me and Vince Basille used the old hand crank to make our homemade ice cream .
It was hard work and the ice cream tasted like shit, but it was a good arm pump.
We lifted rocks at a real rock quary , ate real ice cream and didn't need steroids.
Those were the days 8)
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Not true. The slower you bring the ice cream to a freeze the more gritty it will be. Also instead of sugar use glucose. it reduces the chance of getting ice crystals.
Considering I said I wasn't sure about homemade ice cream, and I've dealt with ice cream that's already been cured by Dreyer's, Haagan Das, Silhouette/Skinny Cow, Healthy Choice, Ben and Jerry's, Good Humor and Breyer's...I would say that my original answer still stands.
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Our ice cream flavor took 3rd place at some International Ice Cream Competition in New York in 1993 or 94. I had nothing to do with the process. We licensed out my name to Dave's Ice Cream in Hawaii. Jack Leong owned it at the time. He has died since. He owned the largest distribution company in Hawaii. He came up with a flavor which was Macadamia based ice cream mixed with a little banana and bits of mac nuts and pineapple. Very high butterfat which makes the ice cream taste really good. Other than that I have no idea about anything except it tasted great and we never took it to market cause he ended up dying. Niot even sure if there is Dave's Ice cream anymore