Originally Posted by
csufabel
If you still have a Winn-Dixie, their premium black box label is nice, but Blue Bell is still the ice cream of the South my family prefers over Tillamook, which had been my choice from 2006-20. Blue Bunny seems to have more candy than ice cream for years. I stay away from Publix as they're more expensive plus have lost racial and sexual discrimination cases for 40 years.
The local Winn Dixie shut down for renovations about 3 weeks ago and is being rebranded as an Aldi (apparently, about half of them are going this route).
I used to boycott Publix on moral grounds, but I dropped that policy after I discovered just how much nicer the nearby location is than the aforementioned Winn Dixie. It is extremely well run, has excellent seafood/produce/meats, and the prices honestly weren't appreciably higher than Winn Dixie...though, a lot of the specials evaporated almost immediately after Winn Dixie closed.
Originally Posted by
teddybear99
I thought this thread was about Grocery Store Brands, not major brands. I love Publix's product, they have Standard Ice Cream, Premium Ice Cream, Sherbet, Frozen Yogurt, and now a non-dairy type as well. Being in the South, we see Winn Dixie, Aldi's, Walmart, and Independent Grocer's brands besides Publix. Most of these brands are made by a major company who allows the Supermarket chains to put their name on it by a licensing agreement, but it is not published so the Name Brand doesn't lose sales that the consumer could buy at a lesser price than the name brand.
This thread can be about any ice cream we like, dislike, or simply find worthy of discussion, but when I started it, I was thinking about the 6-8 major brands that rotate through various grocery store chains as the weekly specials. And, I was curious to learn about what brands are popular in different parts of the US. The store brands are relevant to that conversation because some of them are better than some of the major brands (i.e. I'll buy pretty much any generic before I'll touch Blue Bunny, even if they're giving it away).