are hagen daz ice cream bars getting smaller or is it me?

[tallgerman]

these fuckers is small

[Ursus]

GH making your hands bigger, making them appear smaller.

[YoungBlood]

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.

[_bruce_]

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...

[Tapeworm]

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!!!

[Meso_z]

Yea ive notived that....fuckers are downsizing everything on the market nowadays. the crisis you see 

[phreak]

Yea ive notived that....fuckers are downsizing everything on the market nowadays. the crisis you see 

everything but prices.

[Meso_z]

everything but prices.

prices are going up...

[Bad News Brown]

All food is downsized these days but not the prices.... 

[Howard]

these fuckers is small

As I get older and fatter, they do seem a smaller portion?

[Lundgren]

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.

[brent2741]

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

[El Diablo Blanco]

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!

[tallgerman]

I love the chocolate over vanilla with nuts, how come there are no imitators?  I bet hagendaz has soem puke patent.

[Silverback Gorilla]

As I get older and fatter, they do seem a smaller portion?

[Captain Equipoise]

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

[Playboy]

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!

[Captain Equipoise]

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.

[Playboy]

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.

[Meso_z]

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.

[American Muscle]

Fucking criminals

[YoungBlood]

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.

[American Muscle]

Dreyer's is garbage.

[Tapeworm]

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.

[YoungBlood]

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.