True Quality Revival And Ice-Cream [OT]

Give it up. People on this forum will rush to tell you "it's obviously what people want" (since they still buy it). Never mind that most people seldom if ever experience quality in much of anything to know the difference.

-Amy

Ya I know... a little soap-boxy of me... It's just that I had a kind of thought-process yesterday that went along the lines of about wanting old stuff, or heritage, or replications/repro's-- that kind of thing-- and how the gist of the responses are usually that it's too, or very, expensive or no longer feasible or possible... and then wondering why-- I mean, if we're so technologically advanced-- and how could they then do it in the old days, and what happened since then, and so on...

A culture, double-churned, airy, fluffy, syrupy, chemical tracts and tracts of souless emptiness... The profit-motive may eat itself for breakfast, but drag the rest of us down with it. 'The costs of doing business.'

I've said that people are a necessary evil in the pursuit of profit... I sense a paradox, but I can't put my finger on it.

That's the rub, though, isn't it? It's both a cause and an effect.

There was a similar debate in the pre-modernist period about industrial technology and craft, which led to the 'Arts and Crafts Movement' (my personal favorite), that you are retracing in a way.

We filled our own... homemade. Costs about $8.00 / gallon made that way.

One thing Breyers did in the repackaging was to change the 16 oz container to a 15 oz container at a higher price point.

What's actually in your ice creams? Heavenly Hash and Tin Roof sounds all hunky-chunky-dory, until you look at the ingredients in some brandz.

Good cases aren't built on whether I'd like them or not. IOW, I don't have to like a good case to agree with it.

Like some on the blog-in-question, I was one of those who did so immediately when it happened. I didn't even have to buy it or eat a bite though. I simply noticed the design-change, and then took a look at the ingredients. That was enough to put it back. (The thought had crossed my mind to open it and leave it melt somewhere in the store in protest.) I was annoyed when-- and how-- they changed it. It seemed deceptive or dishonest. (Is that a competitive market-strategy, Don?) If memory serves, I think they also changed Haagen Dazs' ingredients, as well as B&J's (or perhaps the owners of both companies).

Some of you may recall my home-made online coffee ice cream pics... Well, I don't have time to do that all the time, and don't think I should have to.

But this is only one small example, Michael, for the the purpose of illustration. There are many such examples... For another; just last night when I bought my toothbrush... They keep morphing and I'm unable to find the one I just replaced... They keep morphing on the shelf; and the Queen's label is not on my Pears soap box anymore (and also an apparent change in the ingredients and company to boot)

I can't keep changing what I buy all the time. It's getting ridiculous, bewildering, disorienting, frustrating. Life is complicated enough without having an amusement-park-in-outer-space for a market. Change and choice for the sake of themselves or competition defeats its own purpose: People. I've said it before and I'll say it again; People over markets-- always. If 'community' is now the raison d'etre trend of the corporations, that should be interesting. In any case, I want to be consulted.

You're starting to talk like and old person.

Sigh

Well, there's food, junk food, and then there's "Frankenfood".

To be living with/within a system that gets sufficiently out of whack (and I'm "beginning" to see it all around me) is like using anything that's already in a serious state of disrepair. It's just plain dangerous and wreckless. Try that with your car, power tools or guns and see how far you go, or how long you last. Ideally, you don't wait until something fixes itself. You recognize problems if there are any and then you fix them, replace them, or they potentially kill or replace you (maybe not literally, just gradually, spiritually) and others you might love.

"They're making Soilent Green out of people!"

(getting closer)

I'm talking about having a little inconvenience for the sake of a greater good. Like doing without a little extra warmth in the home and having to work in the living room if it meant greater energy savings.

I'm also not suggesting you trade in your truck just yet either. :)

Breyer's Lactose Free Natural Vanilla: Milk, sugar, cream, natural=20 vanilla flavor, carob bean gum, lactase enzyme. Nutrition Information: (Half cup, 65g) Calories 130, calories from fat=20

Check out this letter:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Breanna Wagner GolinHarris

Breyers=92 All Natural Ice Cream Goes Green! New Line of Organic Ice Crea= m=20 to Hit Supermarkets Nationwide

Green Bay, WI (Aug. 28, 2006) =97 This September, the company with a=20 heritage for making ice cream with all-natural ingredients is going=20 organic with the introduction of Breyers=AE All Natural Organic Ice Cream= =2E

The new line of Breyers USDA-certified organic ice cream has been=20 developed in response to consumers=92 growing interest in organic foods. According to the Organic =

Trade Association, organic foods are becoming an increasingly popular trend in the U.S., with=20 organic food sales nearly tripling since 1997, growing between 17 and 21 percent each year. In the same=20 period the organic ice cream segment has grown nearly 55 percent.

=93We know people want natural and organic food options in more than just= =20 the produce section of the grocery store,=94 says Dan Hammer, vice president of marketing for=20 Unilever Ice Cream. =93The introduction of Breyers Organic Ice Cream demonstrates our continued=20 commitment to offer our customers the widest variety of options to fit their ever-changing needs =

and lifestyles.=94 Breyers Organic Ice Cream will be offered in Vanilla Bean, Chocolate,=20 Coffee and Vanilla Fudge Swirl flavors. The products will be available nationwide beginning this=20 September and can be found in either the freezer section or organic freezer section at=20 supermarkets. A one-quart container sells for a suggested retail price of $4.99-$5.99.

Another option for people with specific health interests is Breyers=20 Lactose Free Vanilla ice cream, which is also available in supermarkets nationwide. Breyers created the=20 Lactose Free Vanilla ice cream as a product offering for the 30 to 50 million consumers=20 nationwide who are lactose intolerant2 and it has become one of Breyers most complimented product in the line.=20 Breyers Lactose Free Vanilla ice cream sells for the suggested retail price of $5.29 for a 56 =

oz container.

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I learned to make ricotta because I looked at the label of the stuff in the store. It's fairly easy, and takes less time than a trip to town.

Do you like Dr. Bonner's? It's nice stuff, and it gives you something to read in the shower.

Now, Don. People obviously want companies to use sneaky marketing tricks on them. Who are you to protest what "the market" wants?

Careful Don, they might taser you for that.

Sounds like fun . Post directions here.