The fact that they donât even meet the minimum criteria to call themselves ice cream and still have the nerve to slap âPremium Qualityâ right on the label pisses me off.
Every member of the armed forces has spent time sitting on the side of the road in a broken down military vehicle. I remember in Germany we would do these big convoys to our field training exercises. A few times when a vehicle would break down, we didn't have a way to tow it. Someone would toss the guys in the broken down vehicle a box of MREs and some water and say, "Someone will be here to recover you in a day or two." That shit is fucked up.
IDK where the comment you are replying to got its info from, but Turkey Hill ice creams contain 12%-13% (depending on the mixings it has in it) milk fat, meaning they are legally ice cream. In the US that's important, its a legally protected product classification.
The minimum to be considered ice cream is 10% milk fat.
Side note, Turkey Hill blows most other "premium" brands out of the water and they literally sell it at gas stations around here. Its cheap as shit, but the only other brand they sell in stores that holds a candle to it is Tillamook.
Turkey Hill sells actual ice cream right alongside their 'frozen dairy dessert'. Like literally side by side in the dessert aisle.
I'm also incredibly sad for you that it's one of your best ice cream options. Most places have a local favorite. WNY region is Perry's, which also makes a lot of the store-brand ice creams. When I lived in Texas it was Blue Bell.
Edit: I'm reading more of the thread and I'm wondering if Turkey Hill is your local favorite? And like they actually put in the effort there?
There seems to be a lot of Turkey Hill die-hards, and someone mentioned them being big in the PA area. Because around here, most of the Turkey Hill offerings on the shelf are 'frozen dairy dessert'.
Also, again, this specific carton is their ice cream. Itâs 12% milk fat. Turkey hill sells 1-2 sorbets, which are frozen dairy desserts, but all of their ice cream is actually ice cream.
You are talking out of your ass
Edit: I stand by my comment, Blue Bell is not good, at all. But it felt like we were talking past each other because we were talking past each other. Turkey Hill products sold in Central PA are (mostly) made in central PA and the overwhelming majority of them are actually ice cream. Turkey Hill products sold elsewhere are (mostly) not made in central PA and a great deal more of them use fats from non-milk sources, legally making them not ice cream. We were unintentionally talking about 2 different products owned by the same conglomerate but made entirely differently and thinking we were talking about the same thing.
This specific carton is their âfrozen dairy dessertâ
Anything they can legally sell as ice cream has a âPremium Ice Creamâ badge on it. The ones that donât meet the standards have a âPremium Qualityâ badge instead.
I just searched Turkey Hill at my nearest grocery store (a local chain) and here are the top results. https://imgur.com/a/n8Yd2Fn
Of the 5 Turkey Hill items listed, 3 are 'frozen dairy dessert' and not a single one of those are sorbet.
Like I said in my edit above:
I'm reading more of the thread and I'm wondering if Turkey Hill is your local favorite? And like they actually put in the effort there?
There seems to be a lot of Turkey Hill die-hards, and someone mentioned them being big in the PA area. Because around here, most of the Turkey Hill offerings on the shelf are 'frozen dairy dessert'.
Blue-bell is dogshit đ
You're allowed to not like something but it is objectively high quality ice cream and acting like a child isn't solving anything.
So it turns out "Turkey Hill" is only asctually made at Turkey Hill (an actual hill in Lancaster, PA that has a manufacturing facility and is surrounded by farms, from which they get the milk they use) in a very very small region. Around here ALL of their products are ice cream. You literally cannot buy the version you linked to, and the packaging is different.
A small selection of flavors made at this location are shipped nationally, including Vanilla Bean. The rest of the "Turkey Hill" products sold outside of central PA are licensed to the Kroger Co and made by subsidiaries.
So we are literally talking about 2 completely different products with different packaging, using the same brand name.
Where did you find this information? I'm in Philly and can definitely buy Turkey Hill that's frozen dairy dessert. Usually it's the flavors that have lots of mix ins, as that drops the percentage of milkfat. There's also Turkey Hill All Natural, formerly called Philadelphia Style, that mimics the way Breyers was made before it got bought by Unilever. All of those flavors are labeled ice cream. The All Natural is by far the best ice cream imo as it is made without any thickeners like guar gum or carrageenan.
right, so, it turns out they sell different products in different regions. All branded Turkey Hill, none made in the same facility, and only a tiny fraction of them are actually made *at* (or by) Turkey Hill (the company or the geographic location).
I didn't know this before.
The Turkey Hill products available to me are overwhelmingly actual ice cream. The Turkey Hill products available to commenters not located in a small region of Pennsylvania are overwhelmingly "frozen dairy dessert".
Both have the same brand slapped on them, but they have completely different nutritional information on their website.
I only knew because I tried Turkey Hill's Columbian Coffee flavor and it was "off". I looked up the reviews to see what other people thought and that was actually how I learned the difference between "ice cream" and "frozen dairy dessert".
That is a call to customer service I'd like to hear.
"No, I don't think you understand. I took a fucking core sample and it turned up Vanilla with zero traces of fudge and lacked any evidence of a ripple. Where the fuck is Jerry, me and him need to speak"
Oooooh so that what it is. I went, wtf with these new scoopers?! Whatâs wrong with a spoon / traditional scooper?? <steps back from the boomer platform>
My family went through at least 30 of those scoops with the little thumb lever to help scrape the ice cream out of the scoop itself. Pieces of shit kept snapping in half or the lever would break lol. We eventually just gave up and switched back to tablespoons.
"On inspection, no fudge ripples were visible.* Biopsy of the core confirmed total absence of fudge in the interior. (Reference range: 1-2 striations per cm2 ) X-ray and chromatography results are pending."
I have gotten so many cool funky coupons from emailing brands like "my twix had no cookie", "this is just canned beans water? You forgot the beans" they are always like "oops, our bad here's 15 free cans of beans and a coupon for free rice" i had a haunted instapot. Everytime you plugged it in it screamed. Just one long continuous beeeeeeeeeep. Costco and instapot both sent me stuff. instapot sent me a replacement and Costco sent me a air fryer (they didn't have anymore of the instapot so they gave me a comparable item) and took back the haunted one.
I wrote Stouffers about a factory error with some frozen mac and cheese. They sent me 50c off coupons for family sized dinners I've never eaten and don't intend to. I didn't even get a replacement for the mac and cheese I wrote about.
Or they didn't clear the nozzle between batches first, and the first couple containers got the vanilla they ran before the fudge mix. Sometimes the machine operators get overwhelmed and forget to run it a bit first, or they came in after a shift change and thought it was already done.
Another redditor posted nearly the same problem 5 months ago, so no, Turkey Hill's quality control has apparently just gone to shit:Â /r/icecream/comments/1m2h7os/my_container_of_turkey_hill_fudge_ripple_ice
This has been happening more and more, and I believe it is just companies putting less of things in their product. like how sodas switched to the mini cans but it costs the same. Ive gotten several brands of cookie dough ice cream in the last several months and there seems to be almost all vanilla with a few specks of cookie in them every time.
Username checking out. Definitely the most lethal kitchen utensil, have been in that boat as well đĽ˛
The one for tomatoes is less scary since itâs more scoop-like, but it still gives me flashbacks.
I bought cut proof gloves for when using mine. One day I slipped and forcefully ran my thumb into the blade. Terrified myself for a moment but the gloves worked
I lolâed.
Also funny because I came back thinking the guy from Black Sabbath lost his finger to one of those, but he worked in a metalworking factory (go figure) so something far more industrial than a kitchen mandolin.
Mate, I have one of these things and even in the middle of the day with kitchen lights on and 100% sober I still feel like Iâm going to amputate my thumb.
THIS HAPPENED TO ME WITH THIS EXACT FLAVOR! I wrote them an email to tell them that their Fudge Ripple was lacking fudge (and attached a photo for proof) and never heard back. I begrudgingly ate my container of Vanilla Ripple and moved on.
yeah I would expect a package after emailing about that within a week of at the very least a bunch of coupons. No reply is insane, and showing some massive issues with the company imo. A good idea not to buy their product.
Companies that ignore their customers, especially with valid complaints, do not deserve to be in business. Iâd never buy a single product from any of their affiliated brands again and tell everyone I know.
Companies that connect with you and try to correct mistakes are brands Iâll sing praises about. Itâs so fucking easy to email back with a sorry and a coupon. But to ghost you? Fuck them and everything they own.
turkey hill is cold garbage ice cream. hold a tub of it in one hand and a tub of anything else in the other, its noticably lighter because its packed with air. fine for some people but if your stomach can already only barely tolerate ice cream you're gonna have a Bad Time đŤĄ
Turkey Hill used to be the best. Their mint chocolate chip ice cream was FULL of thin, melt-in-your-mouth chips rippling through the entire container - now it's just frozen dairy dessert with one chunky chip every 10 bites. Diabolical
Was going to say the texture doesnât even look like ice cream. Also zoomed in on the carton and no mention of it being ice cream. This is definitely âfrozen dairy dessertâ.
They still use actual milk though? Like, one dude on this thread called it frozen dairy dessert and it just stuck for some reason as true. Their ice cream contains 11-13% milk fat depending on the flavor you buy, the legal definition of ice cream in the US is 10% or more.
Tillamook is also 11-13%
Ben and Jerry's is right at 10% basically across the board.
Love them or hate them, Turkey Hill ice creams are actual ice creams.
Edit: Long story short, and I did not know this when I made this comment; but this is literally a different product than what is labeled Turkey Hill here in central PA⌠where the actual hill, called Turkey Hill, that houses a dairy, is located.
If I walked to my local Weis the product I took a picture of would say Ice Cream. The product in this post is frozen dairy dessert.
This difference has caused confusion all up and down this thread, including to me. I did not know there had been a change. I heard about the brand getting bought and knew they were suddenly more broadly available, I didnât put 2 and 2 together and figure out that much of the production must have been outsourced.
The product in my local grocers that has packaging similar to this, but is actually ice cream would be labeled as âTurkey Hill Simply Naturalâ elsewhere.
Exploration geologist in the gold industry who has worked on a lot of drilling projects for core here:
A drill core isn't one sample point, it's hundreds to thousands of sample points taken along hundreds of meters of depth. After being inspected, having many measurements taken along it, and analyzed by geologists, the core is split into short sections and sent to an assay lab. A single drill core, while only representing a 1D view of the rock, provides a vast amount of data.
Of course you aren't going to build a mine based on a single drill result, but a single core might be enough to determine that a potential POI zone isn't worth pursuing further. This is less common for gold, since it can be pretty chaotic and erratic, we'd normally do a few holes at least to designate an area as not prospective, but it can be common for deposits like iron and coal.
Now I'm curious what the POI zone for fudge ripple is. And whether or not it's worth a couple seconds to create a new core sample of this frozen dessert.
There's something weird about that, because after seeing your comment, I looked online at pictures of Turkey Hill ice cream containers, and most do say ice cream, including this flavor (Fudge Ripple). But a few pictures I find don't say ice cream. So I'm not sure if they're making two different versions for sale in different stores or what.
They changed the recipe to enshittify it. On their website itâs all under âice creamâ (main header; sub header is âICE CREAM AND FROZEN DESSERTSâ), but if you go directly to Fudge Ripple itâs only âfrozen dairy dessertâ.
That could be, or it could be that theyâve recently changed the recipe to manufacture it more cheaply. Of course the most sinister possibility is that their website just shows it like itâs ice cream because who is going to stop them?
I'm officially done with Turkey hill and it's not because of this which I've seen before. It's because they don't sell ice cream anymore. They only sell frozen dairy dessert. Every single flavor has switched from ice cream too frozen dairy dessert at all of my local grocery stores.
I canât stand it. Breyers is just as bad. I have a hard time sometimes buying Kreiders because it is more expensive, but the higher quality and the fact that itâs actually ice cream makes it worth it from time to time
Kroger store brand gets my money but they're 87 miles away from where I live so it makes it a bit of a challenge. Otherwise that Black label chocolate and vanilla from Aldi is off the chain!
I work in an ice cream factory, please please PLEASE get a refund and make a customer complaint through the company. Idk about that specific company, but at mine we take them very seriously!! This should never have happened!! Makes me sad to see âšď¸
Turkey hill is nearly all âfrozen dairy dessertâ now and often disappoints. Whatâs the deal with the influx of frozen dairy desserts and lack of regular ice cream these days anyways
Core sample is fucking hilarious. 100% certain if you contact the company with this they will issue you manufacturer coupons for one or several free tubs of ice cream.
You should let them know. I took a tour of Turkey Hills ice cream experience in PA and they talked about the quality checks they do to make sure the flavors are consistently distributed throughout the ice cream. Iâm sure theyâd like to know that their quality control process failed on this one.
I had this happen over the summer for some Cow Tracks that contained like two pieces of chocolate cow in the whole tub.
I filled out their support form and they contacted me back to get the batch number and date off the container, then sent me a couple coupons for free ice cream.
Also contains no vanilla and possibly no ice cream as a lot of their products are 'Frozen Dairy Dessert' because they don't have enough milk fat to be classified as ice cream.
It's amazing that so many people complain about this exact ice cream and they are still selling it like this. At what point does it become flat out fake advertising and deception?
It has come to my attention that my fudge ripple ice cream is defective. -See attached photo
I would greatly appreciate if I could get the proper replacement for my ice cream. As I am in great need of the combination of vanilla, fudge, and said ripplesâ˘.
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u/Cee-Bee-DeeTypeThree 5h ago
Did you really just take an apple corer and sample the interior đ