“Who doesn’t like ice cream? Lactose intolerant?” That is false, I’ve never met a lactose intolerant person who doesn’t go “screw my allergy, I want dairy”
There's ice cream for people who are lactose intolerant. There're just aren't as many flavor varieties as there are compared to regular ice cream, unfortunately.
My wife is lactose intolerant and sometimes I think she eats ice cream just get back at me for stuff. That little woman can make a big stink. I'd rather smell a roadkill skunk than walk in the bathroom after she has dairy.
Raise your hand if you remember that one summer where Blue Bell had a massive recall so you couldn't get ANY that year. All of Texas collectively lost their minds.
Oh there were hoarders...and some people probably still have some left over still down in the bottom of their freezers!!! And they are still eating it still in 2021..decades latter:)...
Where you went wrong was by getting the milk chocolate Blue Bell. You should have gotten the Dutch chocolate. I didn't even know they HAD a milk chocolate but, by definition, it's a lighter flavor of chocolate anyway.
I love blue bell! I live in Michigan though, so I can't get it...just another reason why the North stinks. Oh well, we can get that awesome blue bunny up here. 😁😥
Mayfield's cow's name was Rosebud. If you toured the dairy with your elementary class, they let you try to milk a cow and gave you a button that said, 'I milked Rosebud at Mayfield Dairy'.
I wonder if it depends on where it's shipped from. For example, here in Oregon, Tillamook brand is local and their ice cream is SO GOOD. It tastes really fresh and it's super creamy. But people elsewhere say it's bad ice cream. Maybe the trick is to get ice cream from the brand that has a manufacturing facility nearest to you (not where they're headquartered, but if they have a factory nearby)
We have Tillamook all the way here in Pennsylvania lol. When we first got this I bought it just because the packaging liked enticing lol. Anyways first bite I was in love, by far the best grocery store ice cream here!
I would love to see some of the old Bless Your Ranks recreated, but doing a blind taste test. Super interested if the rankings would still stand up if Matt couldn't see which brand was which.
I know that's some TOP journalism lol. I mean he almost trolled when he asked if she liked it but was nice enough to just change the subject lol. I wonder what he would have said if she was like 'truthfully no'. lol
Big tub of ice cream is what I was raised on. Vanilla flavored, because we mixed other flavors in if we wanted something special. It was cheaper than the smaller amounts and much more.
Fun fact, despite its name, Häagen-Dazs is an American brand. And it's something the owners just came up with because they thought it sounded Danish (the Jewish owners wanted a Danish-sounding name as tribute to Denmark's treatment of Jews during WWII). But ä and zs do not exist in Danish. However similar words in Danish, hagen and das means chin and outhouse respectively.
@@Pharaoh_Tutankhamen I rlly like the idea that if Kim jong un and king tut somehow met in a post time travel world, their main topic of conversation would be the naming process of a high end ice cream brand
@@micheal4127 Can you name something more importin? Ra was right when he said don't let the cream melt and still all Anubis did was sit around and brainstorm brand names for our ice-cream business. And now who is giving us credit? Surely not Kimmy Boy.
As a Texan I was sadly dissapointed to not see Tillamook. During the great ice cream famine when there was no bluebell we where forced to make hard choices. Tillamook filled a void thier Rocky road was on point and got us through some hard times.
Tillamook basically feels like the representation of the PNW. I have friends that make cross border trips just for tillamook cheese (or did pre pandemic when the border was open.)
Those were some dark days Red Drake. Dark days indeed. I am glad that you found something to pull you through. I just didn't eat any ice cream during that time. Was not too hard for me because I travel for work a LOT and even when I am in a state that has Blue Bell I probably do not have a hotel room that has a freezer so I cannot keep it. I seriously, do not eat Branded ice cream if it is not Blue Bell. I see no point in it. I will eat at local ice cream shops and such though.
Matt, you bought Blue Bell “Milk Chocolate” flavor. As a lifelong Texan, I have to say, that is not the go to chocolate flavor of Blue Bell. “Dutch Chocolate” is, in my opinion the true chocolate flavor of the Blue Bell brand.
Lets be honest, if he's letting Ben and Jerry's add all that extra flavoring, I think an argument could be made for allowing "the Great divide" blue bell.
Fun Fact Time: Häagen-Dazs ice cream was first made in Bronx New York in 1960 by Ruben and Rose Mattus. The name Häagen-Dazs means nothing they just put a lot of letters together until it sounded Swedish. Häagen-Dazs the first boojie ice cream.
IIRC (I'm not sure if it's this one or some different, but I know it was about ice cream brand), I heard a story by (I think) the daughter of the founder, that the founder was doing something in the kitchen and was constantly speaking out loud words as potential names for the brand until he stumbled upon something that sounded "foreign" enough. I'm not sure which story is true, yours, my or some different but yeah, the name was completely made up to sound bougie.
That reminds me of an old pace picante commercial where they're talking about another picante sauce made in New York , and ends with the Texan saying get a rope as in we're going to hang that Yankee
*Danish But you can be forgiven because the Danes don't use umlauts (the two dots above the ä) and usually only use z in borrowed words, so it doesn't actually look Danish, either.
Did he really say to Blue Bunny “if it was good ice cream, it wouldn’t be freezer burned” while Mayfield, with freezer burn, sat in first and won the thing in the end? 😅
There are different types of freezer burn. The blue bunny had been in so long that it had had the moisture sucked out of it. That’s what a ‘no frost’ freezer does
OMG! Really?! I can buy you plastic containers that has a snap on lid and has a handle on the lid. At no cost to you. OMG! I only pay $2.99. Ice cream container, really!
The thing about breyer's, you wont find the words "ice cream" anywhere on the package. Just says "frozen dairy dessert". They cut so many corners they're not even allowed to call it ice cream anymore.
You're talking about their frozen dairy desserts which are in the same type of container as their ice cream. They do still sell ice cream, though, which is printed on the bottom front of the container in small letters.
I didn’t notice that, but I will certainly take a look next time I’m at the supermarket. I typically buy whichever brand is on sale on any given week, but Breyers has been a consistent disappointment. That explains why.
I feel like Blue Bell’s Milk chocolate flavor is one of its weaker flavors (although not bad ofc). The one we always used to get was “Dutch Chocolate” which I think is a little richer. Most of Blue Bell’s other flavors are fantastic tho!
To be fair, the milk chocolate is a lighter chocolate ice cream and the Dutch chocolate is the rich chocolate you are looking for. I am an unofficial Texas Blue Bell expert.
Those big ol' tubs of ice cream (I have 4 kids, lots of parties!), once empty, hold 5 pounds of rice perfectly and last about 20 years before the plastic starts to crack. Good for tons of Legos, too! Good way to reuse!
As someone who is in fact lactose intolerant, I can say that we do in fact like ice cream. We’ve just gotten to a point where we don’t really care 🤷🏼♀️
Several years ago Brookshire's Grocery Stores in Texas dropped Blue Bell for thier store brand, and their Ice cream sales dropped by 60%. So they went back to selling Blue Bell.
Brookshire the town or brookshire brothers? The town doesn't even have a deli, meat department etc. They are considered a food desert because of the lack of options. The dollar general has blue bell though. The brookshire brothers in other towns are great though.
Blue Bell tastes better when it isn't melted like the one you had there. Also, go for the Dutch Chocolate hard frozen, or The Great Divide, where you can get some homemade vanilla on one side with the Dutch Chocolate too on the other side.
Can't stand Turkey Hill here in Oregon sorry... maybe it's because it has to come cross country and is better closser there, but it always tastes like ice crystals.
Although Häagen-Dazs is my favorite, I didn't understand why they got Milk Chocolate version of Blue Bell over the Dutch Chocolate (which I do like by the way). I either go for H-D and if that isn't there, I'll get BB Dutch Chocolate.
Dryer's is from the SF Bay Area. When they moved east Breyer's complained that the name sounded too much like theirs. Breyer's won so Dreyer's decided to use their original name east of the Mississippi.
Me too! I had to Google it because I knew I'd seen the packaging before, but I'd never heard of Edy's. Also, to me Dreyers is sort of middling-nice ice cream, so the fact that it ranked so low makes me think that maybe I need to rethink my ice cream buying.
I used have to get Blue Bell to ship ice cream to me in Tennessee. I grew up going to the factory as a kid. Their good stuff isn't their chocolate. It's their Vanilla Bean and Rocky Road. Their Butter Pecan is transcendent.
My dad was the manager at a dairy from the time I was a kid until he retired (I even worked for him when I was in college). Not a dairy with cows, but a distribution center of milk and ice cream. That tub looks identical to the ones I knew growing up. There was nothing better than going to see him at work and going into the ice cream freezer (a GIANT freezer filled with ice cream) and being allowed to get a treat from the "broken package" cart.
The company's two signature brands, Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream and Edy's Grand Ice Cream, are named after its founders, William Dreyer and Joseph Edy. The Dreyer's brand is sold in the Western United States and Texas, while the Edy's brand is sold in the Eastern and Midwestern United States. Adding to this so no one else makes the same comment. Dreyer's and Edy's are both owned by Nestle, and Breyers by Unilever, both huge European food corporations. Breyers started on the east coast and expanded west; Dreyer's - in the opposite direction.
@@aniE1869 Dreyer's and Edy's are both owned by Nestle, and Breyers by Unilever, both huge European food corporations. Breyers started on the east coast and expanded west; Dreyer's - in the opposite direction.
I saw a youtube channel that talks about this and the person who posted this is correct. Dryers was started in California and the reason the east and midwest use Edys is because in the East and Midwest Bryers is sold and they didn't want people to get confused because Dryers and Bryers might confuse someone
@@kimberlydawnryan6325 we have both Dreyer's and Breyer's sold right next to each other in the store. even though they may be sold by the same company, they are not the same thing.
I agree with your assessment of Breyers ice cream. It has become one of the worst name-brand ice creams out there. That being said, I remember Breyers back in the late 70s and early 80s. THAT was some reeaallyy good ice cream! However, the stock-holders wanted more profit, so the product went down the tubes.
When I was a child and we had birthday parties and other types of parties involving ice cream it would always be the clear bucket. My family used them as Tupperware.
Keep one in the car ever since my daughter vomited all over the car a few years back. It was awful, had to throw her booster seat in the garbage at the grocery store, buy her a new outfit, and clean the carpet like 10 times.🤢
And apricots and peaches and my favorite blackberries. My Grandma sent my brother, cousin and me to the creek with those tubs. Told us not to come back till they were full. Then she’d make us blackberry cobbler and put homemade vanilla ice cream on it. It’s my heaven. I now do that with my grandkids.
Come to Texas. HEB's Creamy Creations is top notch. Also, Blue Bell Dutch Chocolate is the way to go. I've never heard of their milk chocolate flavor before.
John Davis you're sure right about HEB creamy creations ice cream. It's less expensive than Blue Bell, and it gives it a run for it's money here in San Antonio Texas.
I was today years old when I learned that what we call Dreyers ice cream out here in California is called Edy’s East of the Rockies. 🤔 I saw that signature striped box and ran to the web to double check! This video is gold, as always. 😁
Thank you so much for putting this video up. LOL! My other half declared this morning after watching this, that we need to do some research on Mayfield Ice Cream to see weather it really is better than bluebells. That's my homework while he's at work...to find out where to get some Mayfield...
The leaf is because Breyers used to be all natural when it was still a family owned company. It used to be delicious then after it was sold by the family, the taste definitely changed 😒
That's because few of their flavors qualify as ice cream anymore, and are instead "frozen desserts". This means they don't have enough milkfat to be classified as ice cream and they use vegetable oil instead, which is why they're so flat and cardboard tasting. 😔
I'm old enough to remember when they used to brag on the carton that there was nothing in it that you couldn't pronounce...I think their vanilla ice cream only had milk, cream, sugar and vanilla.
"You know you've made it to adulthood when you get excited about a bucket." For some reason, that reminded me of the most valuable item in the Legend of Zelda--the empty bottle. Lol
Yay Matt! I can't believe you got through that many brands of Ice Cream! WOW the tub ice cream brings back childhood memories in Oklahoma for me--Chocolate Fudge Swirl. I miss that! I think that flavor would have ranked a bit better than last.
All through this video, I was thinking "where is the big tub of ice cream" and then you pulled it out and I was like "oh yeah" Every kid who has ever had a birthday party has had that ice cream.
My favorite is Friendly's, a brand that's surprisingly still around. But they're hardly in the South, they're all up here in the Northeast. If you go to a Friendly's restaurant, you gotta have dessert. Even if you don't have room or it's too early for dessert. I love their French vanilla and mint chocolate chip sold in markets.
I LOVE ice cream after years of buying many different brands I have to say that the absolute best is my homemade in my new ice cream maker. It was an expensive purchase, but I am now making my own every week.
My favorite ice cream brand is Mayfield. I am an expat and havent had it in 10 years. If you live where they sell Mayfield icecream please be sure to enjoy some. You are very lucky indeed!
Häagen-Dazs has the best ingredients. Their Chocolate Peanut Butter is soooo goood! I rarely get it anymore though, because of the price. Baskin-Robbins Chocolate Peanut Butter I sometimes settle for.
Try a Häagen-Dazs milk shake made with their vanilla ice cream, with real strawberries sliced up with some sugar blended into it. If you want put a cap full of a good rum in it. It's heavenly!
I used to work at B&J and the amount of free ice cream I used to take home would make you sick. Also, on a side note, Blue Bell had a huge listeria outbreak that killed a bunch of people and changed the standards of all ice cream factories.
Those buckets make pretty good canisters. I used to use one for cookies - no worries about the kids accidentally knocking it off and breaking the cookie jar.
We still collect those buckets. They're Great for Thanksgiving leftovers. And dog water bowls. The lids can be frisbees. Can also use them for Easter egg hunts, and the kids can personalize their own buckets. So many endless possibilities
I ate at Culver's yesterday. I live in Lexington, Kentucky. There are 2 Culver's in my hometown. Their milkshakes are amazing too. I had a raspberry milkshake yesterday. Also their cheese curds are great.
@@chef7734 According to the FDA. One key difference sets the two apart: It’s all about the yolks. Ice cream contains at least 10 percent milkfat and less than 1.4 percent egg yolk, while custard contains at least 10 percent milkfat but must have more than 1.4 percent egg yolk.
@@ashleydowney1222 from a chefs perspective and culinary instructor, cus·tard /ˈkəstərd/ noun a dessert or sweet sauce made with milk, eggs, and sugar. So technically any ice cream made with eggs are a custard, but yes most places use more egg yolks.
At this point, Bless Your Rank is just a way for Matt to confirm his beliefs or rethink his entire existance and for us to watch along.
Which is why these are so great.
I agree!
No complaints here.
I’m totally along for that ride!
Maybe that’s how he’s fed and hydrated too!
Don’t worry, I removed my brain before filming to keep it from freezing.
Good to know Matt 😂
Lol
Also you should try Tillamook
I kept waiting for the brain freeze.
I hate chocolate ice cream.
the thing i love about Bless Your Rank is he isn't afraid to change his mind if he discovers something better
“Who doesn’t like ice cream? Lactose intolerant?”
That is false, I’ve never met a lactose intolerant person who doesn’t go “screw my allergy, I want dairy”
My husband isn't lactose intolerant, but sensitive and he loves ice cream and eats it about once a week or once a week and a half
Maybe because it isn’t an allergy and just is an intolerance...
Yep, I’m lactose intolerant but I loooooove dairy 😭
There's ice cream for people who are lactose intolerant. There're just aren't as many flavor varieties as there are compared to regular ice cream, unfortunately.
My wife is lactose intolerant and sometimes I think she eats ice cream just get back at me for stuff. That little woman can make a big stink. I'd rather smell a roadkill skunk than walk in the bathroom after she has dairy.
Raise your hand if you remember that one summer where Blue Bell had a massive recall so you couldn't get ANY that year.
All of Texas collectively lost their minds.
I feel like that has happened more than once
🤚🏾
The whole south lost their minds. Lol. My dad was mad.
So did South Georgia. The first thing everyone did when it came back was grab a tub, it didn't even matter which one.
Oh there were hoarders...and some people probably still have some left over still down in the bottom of their freezers!!! And they are still eating it still in 2021..decades latter:)...
A wise person once told me, “Life is too short for cheap ice cream.” Words I have lived by ever since. Zero regrets.
Mine was life is too short for cheap beer!
Maybe, but it's not too short for a free bucket at least once
😂😂
that’s a factual statement
Where you went wrong was by getting the milk chocolate Blue Bell. You should have gotten the Dutch chocolate. I didn't even know they HAD a milk chocolate but, by definition, it's a lighter flavor of chocolate anyway.
Came here to say this. Dutch Chocolate is Blue Bell's default classic chocolate flavor. Start the competition over!
@@SalisburySnake Yes, Dutch Chocolate is the way to go. I've never seen a Milk Chocolate flavor.
100% this. He botched it by getting the wrong one.
Came here to say this as well!!!
Lol these where my thoughts exactly I was like milk chocolate wtf is that blue bell makes a milk chocolate ice cream I only eat Dutch chocolate
Does everyone else want to be friends with Matt? Lol. Seriously, though, Blue Bell is the best to me.
I feel like he is my friend? He just doesn’t know it yet
And it’s absolutely Haagen Daaz
Same. I'm a server in Birmingham and i swear I'd love for him to walk in my restaurant!
Agreed, as a Texan I couldn’t agree more on Blue Bell.
I love blue bell! I live in Michigan though, so I can't get it...just another reason why the North stinks.
Oh well, we can get that awesome blue bunny up here. 😁😥
Ya'll I nearly lost it at the transition between his blood sugar crash and the sugar activation!! Trying to be quiet in the break room at work 😆 🤣 😂
Great job Matt. I had never heard of Mayfield before. Guess I have something to look forward to on my next trip down south.
I am shocked Mayfield is the best ice cream, I had no idea it was only a southern thing!
Mayfield is made in Tennessee
I have never heard of Mayfield either but now I need to try it lol :).
I love your channel! When you come back down to the south. You should visit the Mayfield factory if they still do tours.
I haven't either and I live in the South. Probably only available in a small amount of states.
Mayfield's cow's name was Rosebud. If you toured the dairy with your elementary class, they let you try to milk a cow and gave you a button that said, 'I milked Rosebud at Mayfield Dairy'.
Yes! I didn't grow up in Athens, but my mother did.
I used to live near Athens, and every class, Cub Scout pack, etc. went on that tour. So much fun!
I drove past the dairy in tn
This is the most wholesome thing I’ve read all day!
Okay I went there like 4 times and I never got a button I need a refund. Sad it’s gone :/
I wonder if it depends on where it's shipped from. For example, here in Oregon, Tillamook brand is local and their ice cream is SO GOOD. It tastes really fresh and it's super creamy. But people elsewhere say it's bad ice cream. Maybe the trick is to get ice cream from the brand that has a manufacturing facility nearest to you (not where they're headquartered, but if they have a factory nearby)
If someone says Tillamook is bad ice cream, they're simply wrong. Probably too attached to a specific brand or something. Ignore the haters LOL!
It did taste best at the factory back when we could go fun places.
We have Tillamook all the way here in Pennsylvania lol. When we first got this I bought it just because the packaging liked enticing lol. Anyways first bite I was in love, by far the best grocery store ice cream here!
It’s sold at Publix
We get it here in Illinois
I would love to see some of the old Bless Your Ranks recreated, but doing a blind taste test. Super interested if the rankings would still stand up if Matt couldn't see which brand was which.
Yes! They oughta do this!
Dutch chocolate is where it's at
Yes! That would be awesome!
The fact that he called city hall to ask about blue bunny🤣🤣 omg it had me crying from laughter
I really hope that somehow Katie finds this video.
I know that's some TOP journalism lol. I mean he almost trolled when he asked if she liked it but was nice enough to just change the subject lol. I wonder what he would have said if she was like 'truthfully no'. lol
Big tub of ice cream is what I was raised on. Vanilla flavored, because we mixed other flavors in if we wanted something special. It was cheaper than the smaller amounts and much more.
Fun fact, despite its name, Häagen-Dazs is an American brand. And it's something the owners just came up with because they thought it sounded Danish (the Jewish owners wanted a Danish-sounding name as tribute to Denmark's treatment of Jews during WWII). But ä and zs do not exist in Danish. However similar words in Danish, hagen and das means chin and outhouse respectively.
Right cuz it's totally not Egyptian
@@Pharaoh_Tutankhamen I rlly like the idea that if Kim jong un and king tut somehow met in a post time travel world, their main topic of conversation would be the naming process of a high end ice cream brand
Same as Keurig.
@@micheal4127 Can you name something more importin? Ra was right when he said don't let the cream melt and still all Anubis did was sit around and brainstorm brand names for our ice-cream business. And now who is giving us credit? Surely not Kimmy Boy.
That is an unfortunate combination of words...
As a Texan I was sadly dissapointed to not see Tillamook. During the great ice cream famine when there was no bluebell we where forced to make hard choices. Tillamook filled a void thier Rocky road was on point and got us through some hard times.
Tillamook basically feels like the representation of the PNW. I have friends that make cross border trips just for tillamook cheese (or did pre pandemic when the border was open.)
Those were some dark days Red Drake. Dark days indeed.
I am glad that you found something to pull you through. I just didn't eat any ice cream during that time.
Was not too hard for me because I travel for work a LOT and even when I am in a state that has Blue Bell I probably do not have a hotel room that has a freezer so I cannot keep it.
I seriously, do not eat Branded ice cream if it is not Blue Bell. I see no point in it.
I will eat at local ice cream shops and such though.
I get some Tillamook here by Tampa. Will have to look for ice cream!
Tillamook will change you life, trust me!
Tillamook also makes a damn fine sharp cheddar. Damn fine.
I’m just going to say it, Matt is the best TH-cam personality out there. There I said it. ❤️ you Matt!
Matt, you bought Blue Bell “Milk Chocolate” flavor. As a lifelong Texan, I have to say, that is not the go to chocolate flavor of Blue Bell. “Dutch Chocolate” is, in my opinion the true chocolate flavor of the Blue Bell brand.
Was looking for this, everyone knows to go for the Dutch chocolate.
Dutch chocolate Blue Bell is king!!!
Lets be honest, if he's letting Ben and Jerry's add all that extra flavoring, I think an argument could be made for allowing "the Great divide" blue bell.
@@clanc433agreed!
Buttered pecan and Homemade vanilla with peach are the best
Fun Fact Time: Häagen-Dazs ice cream was first made in Bronx New York in 1960 by Ruben and Rose Mattus.
The name Häagen-Dazs means nothing they just put a lot of letters together until it sounded Swedish.
Häagen-Dazs the first boojie ice cream.
IIRC (I'm not sure if it's this one or some different, but I know it was about ice cream brand), I heard a story by (I think) the daughter of the founder, that the founder was doing something in the kitchen and was constantly speaking out loud words as potential names for the brand until he stumbled upon something that sounded "foreign" enough.
I'm not sure which story is true, yours, my or some different but yeah, the name was completely made up to sound bougie.
Danish not Swedish
That reminds me of an old pace picante commercial where they're talking about another picante sauce made in New York , and ends with the Texan saying get a rope as in we're going to hang that Yankee
*Danish
But you can be forgiven because the Danes don't use umlauts (the two dots above the ä) and usually only use z in borrowed words, so it doesn't actually look Danish, either.
Haagen Das Rum Raisin Heavenly!
Did he really say to Blue Bunny “if it was good ice cream, it wouldn’t be freezer burned” while Mayfield, with freezer burn, sat in first and won the thing in the end? 😅
😏
There are different types of freezer burn. The blue bunny had been in so long that it had had the moisture sucked out of it. That’s what a ‘no frost’ freezer does
LeMars is such a small little town - visiting the Blue Bunny place is awesome. But I don't choose it for my "basic" flavors.
“Good enough to put a “coexist” sticker on a Subaru.” 😂😂😂
Vermont loves this comment.
🤣😂🤣😂
Buncha Vermont hippies, and it kills me that their ice cream is as good as it is.
Was searching for this😂😂😂
I felt that in my Forester
Don't knock the containers for blue bunny. I use them to store nuts and bolts in my shop. Should be added to your southern Tupperware set
OMG! Really?! I can buy you plastic containers that has a snap on lid and has a handle on the lid. At no cost to you. OMG! I only pay $2.99. Ice cream container, really!
Eat ice cream too.
I use planters peanut containers. I don’t eat the peanuts, my father in law does.
@@eva5601 You ain’t from the south I see lol.
@@carryeveryday910 it’s not just the South. I was born and raised in New York and my dad’s entire garage was food containers everywhere as storage 😂
The thing about breyer's, you wont find the words "ice cream" anywhere on the package. Just says "frozen dairy dessert". They cut so many corners they're not even allowed to call it ice cream anymore.
You're talking about their frozen dairy desserts which are in the same type of container as their ice cream. They do still sell ice cream, though, which is printed on the bottom front of the container in small letters.
@@annabellebeckwith9283 maybe it identifies as an ice cream.ben and jerry would approve 😂
I quit breyers when the started adding xanthum gum. It was gross. Homemade is best!
I didn’t notice that, but I will certainly take a look next time I’m at the supermarket. I typically buy whichever brand is on sale on any given week, but Breyers has been a consistent disappointment. That explains why.
Breyers is one of the only REAL ice cream brands…only has the ingredients it needs..like 5 ingredients
I feel like Blue Bell’s Milk chocolate flavor is one of its weaker flavors (although not bad ofc). The one we always used to get was “Dutch Chocolate” which I think is a little richer. Most of Blue Bell’s other flavors are fantastic tho!
To be fair, the milk chocolate is a lighter chocolate ice cream and the Dutch chocolate is the rich chocolate you are looking for. I am an unofficial Texas Blue Bell expert.
Came👏here👏 to👏 say👏 this👏
Yes, when I saw that it was Milk Chocolate I thought he got the wrong flavor. Love me some Blue Bell.
Blue Bell Rocky Road. ‘Nuff said.
Their wedding cake flavor is pretty blah, too.
We call the big tub of ice cream, birthday party ice cream.
Right us low middle class people go cheap plus kids don't care what brand it is at a birthday party lol
@@Jamessmith-xk3fh I feel the same way.
Lol
It’s usually junk ingredients so I pass.
Lenna yep absolutely
Matt: "It tastes like cardboard!"
Also Matt: eats like seven more spoonfuls
Those big ol' tubs of ice cream (I have 4 kids, lots of parties!), once empty, hold 5 pounds of rice perfectly and last about 20 years before the plastic starts to crack. Good for tons of Legos, too! Good way to reuse!
As someone who is in fact lactose intolerant, I can say that we do in fact like ice cream. We’ve just gotten to a point where we don’t really care 🤷🏼♀️
As another person who is lactose intolerant I always want ice cream cause I just don't care
Same 😂
Literally same tho
Actually, lactose intolerant people love ice cream, we just have to deal with extra consequences 😂
I'm from Texas....never heard of Mayfield Ice Cream. Grew up on Blue Bell and have been to the factory in Brenham a few times.
Several years ago Brookshire's Grocery Stores in Texas dropped Blue Bell for thier store brand, and their Ice cream sales dropped by 60%. So they went back to selling Blue Bell.
I thought it was due to the listeria outbreak? The entire state went without.
The entire country had to drop blue bell due to listeria... they had to shut down for a long time but now they are back.
Brookshire the town or brookshire brothers? The town doesn't even have a deli, meat department etc. They are considered a food desert because of the lack of options. The dollar general has blue bell though. The brookshire brothers in other towns are great though.
I'm not going to lie. Brookshire's store brand is really good.
@@Leshay5 This was 15 years before that.
Blue Bell tastes better when it isn't melted like the one you had there. Also, go for the Dutch Chocolate hard frozen, or The Great Divide, where you can get some homemade vanilla on one side with the Dutch Chocolate too on the other side.
Tillamook's selection has been growing in my local store, and dang do they make some good ice cream. Definitely give them a try if you haven't before!
I'm a recent convert to Tillamook,
Their icecream is incredible.
Good cheese as well
you got to visit the Tillamook factory!
Yes!!! Tillamook's is the absolute best!! 🤤🤤
I went to the factory, and I've loved it my entire life
@@davidscott5903 me, too
People still ate Blue Bell when they had a chance of getting listeria from it. That's all you need to know right there.
Yeah that people are dumb lol. Blue Bell isn’t that good.
@@roji556 most def is i'm willing to risk it
@@mourka01 Tillamook. I've discovered it since if came to my area and it's the best bar none. Well except your local dairy.
@@roji556 “that people are dumb”. Do you realize oxymoronic that is…
@@NoThankUBeQuiet love Tillamook.
I miss my Southern roots but gotta tell y'all: Turkey Hill ice cream from Lancaster County PA is the best.
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Turkey Hill "Birthday Cake" ice cream is pretty great.
Can't stand Turkey Hill here in Oregon sorry... maybe it's because it has to come cross country and is better closser there, but it always tastes like ice crystals.
Ugh!
Babcock ice cream from the UW in Madison Wisconsin is very yummy!
This Texas girl loves Blue Bell. Dutch chocolate is the way to go.
AMEN!!! But I do also love a Big Red Float made with Homemade Vanilla.
@@khathaway414 yummy!
Yes! Matt needs to start this competition over since he messed up and got the incorrect Blue Bell ice cream.
Although Häagen-Dazs is my favorite, I didn't understand why they got Milk Chocolate version of Blue Bell over the Dutch Chocolate (which I do like by the way). I either go for H-D and if that isn't there, I'll get BB Dutch Chocolate.
Vanilla with chocolate sauce. Then *I* control how much chocolate that shit gets!
Bless your rank has kind of become “let’s see how close we can get to killing Matt”...
Lol I think they almost killed him with the bottled sweet tea
@@madiemadthebookworm That’s because no one should drink sweet tea out of a bottle...period. 🤣
@@peabodymartin5201 accept for 1st and 2nd place those sweet teas are GOOD
Can’t do it. All bottled sweet tea tastes like it’s been sitting at room temp for about a week...like the tea at Hardee’s every day after about 2 pm.
@@peabodymartin5201 lol
Matt: I feel like the cow’s name is Betsy
Twitter: how come they have to be female
Me: I, like most people, have no desire to consume “bull milk”
LMAO!!!! You win the internet sir!
I saw the Edy’s ice cream and said “isn’t that Dryer’s ice cream?” I’m from Utah.
Im from Utah too!!! and its just like the Carls Jr. / Hardees Same company just named different for different locations
Yes!
Dryer's is from the SF Bay Area. When they moved east Breyer's complained that the name sounded too much like theirs. Breyer's won so Dreyer's decided to use their original name east of the Mississippi.
@@Mondo762 Good to know! Or rather, interesting bit of info.
Me too! I had to Google it because I knew I'd seen the packaging before, but I'd never heard of Edy's. Also, to me Dreyers is sort of middling-nice ice cream, so the fact that it ranked so low makes me think that maybe I need to rethink my ice cream buying.
I used have to get Blue Bell to ship ice cream to me in Tennessee. I grew up going to the factory as a kid. Their good stuff isn't their chocolate. It's their Vanilla Bean and Rocky Road. Their Butter Pecan is transcendent.
I loved their banana pudding ice cream
Made on Brenham, Tx
I love their vanilla!!
I have several tubs of Blue Bell. And yes, the Butter Pecan is legendary.
Visited the blue bell factory many times as a child. Dutch chocolate and cookies and cream. ❤️
My dad was the manager at a dairy from the time I was a kid until he retired (I even worked for him when I was in college). Not a dairy with cows, but a distribution center of milk and ice cream. That tub looks identical to the ones I knew growing up. There was nothing better than going to see him at work and going into the ice cream freezer (a GIANT freezer filled with ice cream) and being allowed to get a treat from the "broken package" cart.
"You know you've made it to adulthood, when you get excited about a bucket". No truer words have ever been spoken in a Bless Your Rank video.
The company's two signature brands, Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream and Edy's Grand Ice Cream, are named after its founders, William Dreyer and Joseph Edy. The Dreyer's brand is sold in the Western United States and Texas, while the Edy's brand is sold in the Eastern and Midwestern United States.
Adding to this so no one else makes the same comment.
Dreyer's and Edy's are both owned by Nestle, and Breyers by Unilever, both huge European food corporations. Breyers started on the east coast and expanded west; Dreyer's - in the opposite direction.
Dryers is a different company than Edy's. Edy's is sold as Bryer's west of the Mississippi.
@@aniE1869 actually, what I posted came directly from Dreyer's customer rep..
@@aniE1869 Dreyer's and Edy's are both owned by Nestle, and Breyers by Unilever, both huge European food corporations. Breyers started on the east coast and expanded west; Dreyer's - in the opposite direction.
I saw a youtube channel that talks about this and the person who posted this is correct. Dryers was started in California and the reason the east and midwest use Edys is because in the East and Midwest Bryers is sold and they didn't want people to get confused because Dryers and Bryers might confuse someone
@@kimberlydawnryan6325 we have both Dreyer's and Breyer's sold right next to each other in the store. even though they may be sold by the same company, they are not the same thing.
I agree with your assessment of Breyers ice cream. It has become one of the worst name-brand ice creams out there. That being said, I remember Breyers back in the late 70s and early 80s. THAT was some reeaallyy good ice cream! However, the stock-holders wanted more profit, so the product went down the tubes.
That makes sense. I loved Breyer's in the 70s and 80s. Haven't tried it recently.
When I was a child and we had birthday parties and other types of parties involving ice cream it would always be the clear bucket. My family used them as Tupperware.
We also used empty Bill Miller’s buckets as Tupperware
Keep one in the car ever since my daughter vomited all over the car a few years back. It was awful, had to throw her booster seat in the garbage at the grocery store, buy her a new outfit, and clean the carpet like 10 times.🤢
Exactly!!! It's strictly for children.
Good to know that my family wasn’t the only family that did that.
The party Pail is universal
I was today years old when I learned that Dreyer’s Ice Cream is called Edy’s in the South
its edys in ohio too
It’s edy’s in iowa, and I think it’s edy’s here in WI
It’s Edy’s in Connecticut
Wait WHAT?
Best Foods Mayo is Hellmans, and Carl's jr is Hardy's in the eastern half of the country too. There's lots of these crazy double branding things
Great video as they all are. You are a riot. Wanted to say, quitters and heathens, they don't finish a pint of Ben & Jerry's in one sitting.
Anyone else ever have an Easter egg hunt “basket” using that plastic bucket as a child? Or took it to the strawberry field?
The buckets are now 4 quarts, not 5. I was so upset when I made this discovery years ago. 😡😡🤬🤬🤬
Lol or a trick or treat bucket
And apricots and peaches and my favorite blackberries. My Grandma sent my brother, cousin and me to the creek with those tubs. Told us not to come back till they were full. Then she’d make us blackberry cobbler and put homemade vanilla ice cream on it. It’s my heaven. I now do that with my grandkids.
More like with the leftover plastic jackolantern pails
I have two one under the kitchen sink and one in the bathroom..
Come to Texas. HEB's Creamy Creations is top notch. Also, Blue Bell Dutch Chocolate is the way to go. I've never heard of their milk chocolate flavor before.
John Davis you're sure right about HEB creamy creations ice cream. It's less expensive than Blue Bell, and it gives it a run for it's money here in San Antonio Texas.
I swear, Matt must be one of the most fun dudes just to hang around with. He seems like the biggest teddy bear sometimes.
We get the old fashioned ice cream and then keep the buckets for when we bbq and put the cooked meats in them lol
Truth: "You know you've made it to adulthood when you get excited about a bucket."
Yep!
I was today years old when I learned that what we call Dreyers ice cream out here in California is called Edy’s East of the Rockies. 🤔 I saw that signature striped box and ran to the web to double check!
This video is gold, as always. 😁
Just wait until you find out your Best Foods mayonnaise is called Hellman's east of the Rockies, and your Carl's Jr. is called Hardee's.
I’m laughing so hard at “makes me wanna put a coexist sticker on a Subaru” 😂😂😂
I busted out laughing at that lol
Being 20 years older than you, Matt, what we had back in the day was the Good Humor man!
Thank you so much for putting this video up. LOL! My other half declared this morning after watching this, that we need to do some research on Mayfield Ice Cream to see weather it really is better than bluebells. That's my homework while he's at work...to find out where to get some Mayfield...
How do you get blue bell ice cream but not get the Dutch chocolate??? You got the milk chocolate and that just hurts my heart
I came here to say this
YES!!!! I always get the Dutch Chocolate, if I want chocolate ice cream.
RIGHT! I came here to say the same thing. Dutch Chocolate is far superior to the Milk Chocolate.
Right? I feel like he handicapped Blue Bell.
Omg yes. I had forgotten about dutch chocolate that was my favorite
The leaf is because Breyers used to be all natural when it was still a family owned company. It used to be delicious then after it was sold by the family, the taste definitely changed 😒
That's because few of their flavors qualify as ice cream anymore, and are instead "frozen desserts". This means they don't have enough milkfat to be classified as ice cream and they use vegetable oil instead, which is why they're so flat and cardboard tasting. 😔
Yes the taste has drastically changed
I'm old enough to remember when they used to brag on the carton that there was nothing in it that you couldn't pronounce...I think their vanilla ice cream only had milk, cream, sugar and vanilla.
Same thing happened with Klondike bars. Total trash now.
Made me wonder, "What is in the freezer?" Now I want ice cream and will have too accept what I have, no matter where it ranked. Good video Matt.
“Talking like Scrooge McDuck” 😂🤣
I love this series and Matt is perfection!
"You know you've made it to adulthood when you get excited about a bucket."
For some reason, that reminded me of the most valuable item in the Legend of Zelda--the empty bottle. Lol
And if you couldn't find the last one your whole freaking game was f*cked 🤣
seeing that brick style packaging was a major nostalgia trip. being 8 years old on summer break eating cheap icecream.
It's great how he loved blue bunny & then hated blue bunny within a span of 30 seconds. 😂😂
You should have tried HEB's Creamy Creations ice cream. As a native Texan, I do love Blue Bell but Creamy Creations is hella delish.
The 1904 vanilla & vanilla bean are so good!
Hebs creamy creations sherbet is good too. I like the strawberry one. ❤️
@@ravens6286 the orange sherbet is really good too. It's magic when you're high 😉
@@Melody_Loves_Music ohhh I don't about the high part but my 9 y/o granddaughter loves the orange. It's like an orangecicle (sp).
I myself can agree but also hygeia is my second besides blue bell
Remember that summer filled w/bitterness & No Blue Bell?
Never again. Now I know Mayfield is an option. 😍
We need Matt to rank things he wouldn't normally be into.. like the "not real" ice cream brands. 😄
NadaMoo blows Halo Top out of the water
That is what I was thinking, like rice ice cream.
@@Msubulldogs09 fActs
That would be amazing! 😂
Do they make one without sugar alcohols?
i love matts excitement every time he ranks desserts lol
You set my siri off. I thought a demon was casting spells behind me
“It’s enough to make you wanna put a coexist sticker on a Subaru...” 🤣🤣🤣 I literally laughed out loud. Hilarious
You have to try dutch chocolate Blue Bell. That was milk chocolate which is my favorite, but to fairly compare it you need "regular" chocolate.
Yay Matt! I can't believe you got through that many brands of Ice Cream! WOW the tub ice cream brings back childhood memories in Oklahoma for me--Chocolate Fudge Swirl. I miss that! I think that flavor would have ranked a bit better than last.
All through this video, I was thinking "where is the big tub of ice cream" and then you pulled it out and I was like "oh yeah" Every kid who has ever had a birthday party has had that ice cream.
My favorite is Friendly's, a brand that's surprisingly still around. But they're hardly in the South, they're all up here in the Northeast. If you go to a Friendly's restaurant, you gotta have dessert. Even if you don't have room or it's too early for dessert. I love their French vanilla and mint chocolate chip sold in markets.
Never tried their brand, my kids live in MA, when I visit will give it a try.
I'm so sad, they closed the Friendly's restaurant where I grew up in NH :(
I'm an Alabama native and I love Friendly's. I have heard they are struggling and are shutting down a lot of locations.
I miss Friendly’s... there used to be quite a few in Ohio... now I don’t see them anymore at least not close to where I live
When I was a kid, the Sunday evening, after church treat was Friendly’s for a patty melt and a hot fudge sundae. So good!
Edys owns Ben and Jerry's now. That's why they've had such a dip in quality.
Icecream is the reason I refuse to get in shape. I won't give up icecream. I can't do it.
The editor went really hard on this one and I love it
I LOVE ice cream after years of buying many different brands I have to say that the absolute best is my homemade in my new ice cream maker. It was an expensive purchase, but I am now making my own every week.
"Some of you may just want the clear bucket..." I feel attacked 😐
Criticizes Blue Bunny for being freezer burned, makes the freezer burned brick of Mayfield #1. C'mon Matt!
Blue bunny was always freezer burnt in our store that they stopped carrying the brand. 🤮
@@sassmacfru 😳
@@christophercrowder872 it was terrible, always gritty but it started out really good for the first year they carried it.
THANK YOU MATT!!! THANK YOU FOR NOT BITING DOWN ON THE ICE CREAM WITH YOUR FRONT TEETH!!! I was actually able to watch this!!!
My favorite ice cream brand is Mayfield. I am an expat and havent had it in 10 years. If you live where they sell Mayfield icecream please be sure to enjoy some. You are very lucky indeed!
Next we need a milkshake taste test from different fast food places!!!
Matt, thanks for taking one for the team!!
Blue Bell has a Dutch Chocolate flavor that's a lot more CHOCOLATE! 💕
Thank you! I was just about to say that!
Matt always learns something about himself.
This is some of the best content on TH-cam! Thanks. Just take care of yourself bud
Hey Matt, when you recover from this, rank different brand's versions of chocolate & peanut butter. The Haagen Dazs one is LIFE CHANGING!
My favorite! ❤️
Häagen-Dazs has the best ingredients.
Their Chocolate Peanut Butter is soooo goood!
I rarely get it anymore though, because of the price.
Baskin-Robbins Chocolate Peanut Butter I sometimes settle for.
Try a Häagen-Dazs milk shake made with their vanilla ice cream, with real strawberries sliced up with some sugar blended into it. If you want put a cap full of a good rum in it.
It's heavenly!
I used to work at B&J and the amount of free ice cream I used to take home would make you sick. Also, on a side note, Blue Bell had a huge listeria outbreak that killed a bunch of people and changed the standards of all ice cream factories.
But we love Blue Bell so much we still ate it.
@@samw8452 and still do 🤣
‘Makes you want to put a COEXIST sticker on a Subaru’. One of Matt’s best lines ever!!
Everyone is running to Piggly Wiggly for ice cream. We will run into a shortage like the toilet paper.
Lmao yessss
does anyone else remember having a stack of the empty buckets growing up?
We did!
Yep! We used them for picking berries.
We used them for leftovers!
Those buckets make pretty good canisters. I used to use one for cookies - no worries about the kids accidentally knocking it off and breaking the cookie jar.
We still collect those buckets. They're Great for Thanksgiving leftovers. And dog water bowls. The lids can be frisbees. Can also use them for Easter egg hunts, and the kids can personalize their own buckets. So many endless possibilities
"Makes you want to put a coexist sticker on a Subaru" 😂😂
Blue Bunny ice cream is good, but it's so expensive; so maybe that is why it sat in the store long enough to get freezer burn.
Ever since the ice cream licking incidents, I won’t buy ice cream that doesn’t have a safety seal around it.
I can confirm they were not accidents, all those idiots did that on purpose 😂
No seal, no sale.
Blue Bunny makes awesome cherry chocolate chunk and bunnytracks and fudge brownie. Their other flavors are delicious
Edy’s is called Dryer’s in Texas. Also, “nobody does it like you,” was Hoover’s slogan in the early-mid 90s.
Oh, that explains why I don't recognize that brand
Called Dryer’s in California also.
It's Dreyers in WA state as well
@@kimbarbeaureads I live in Washington too and I just checked Wal Mart. It’s now Edy’s here.
@@jessewilder3 makes sense why I recognize the packaging but not the company!
ICE CREAM! Ohhh Yeah... If Ice Cream cost 50 bucks, it better rub your feet and tell you a bed time story lol
Breyers Natural Vanilla with Hershey's Simply 5 syrup is the best thing since sliced bread.
They don’t serve ice cream but homemade frozen custard at Culver’s, it’s deliciously sinful.
We just got a Culver's here in Madison, AL. I heard it's great. Can't wait to try! 👍
If ice cream has eggs it is custard. Most of ice cream you eat is custard.
I ate at Culver's yesterday. I live in Lexington, Kentucky. There are 2 Culver's in my hometown. Their milkshakes are amazing too. I had a raspberry milkshake yesterday. Also their cheese curds are great.
@@chef7734 According to the FDA. One key difference sets the two apart: It’s all about the yolks. Ice cream contains at least 10 percent milkfat and less than 1.4 percent egg yolk, while custard contains at least 10 percent milkfat but must have more than 1.4 percent egg yolk.
@@ashleydowney1222 from a chefs perspective and culinary instructor, cus·tard
/ˈkəstərd/
noun
a dessert or sweet sauce made with milk, eggs, and sugar. So technically any ice cream made with eggs are a custard, but yes most places use more egg yolks.