Flavor Graveyard

sawyers•about 2 hours ago

They were bought out by a unilever subsidiary. Most of their ingredients were replaced with cheaper, less healthy, less flavorful additives. It's funny to say the ice cream got less healthy, but it's true.

soulofmischief•about 1 hour ago

Re: healthy ice cream, I do enjoy Blue Bell's Natural Vanilla Bean.

> Milk, cream, sugar, skim milk, contains 1% or less of: vanilla extract, guar gum, carob bean gum, ground vanilla beans.

Still has a crapload of sugar and fat in it, eat in considerable moderation but at least it contains only relatively innocuous ingredients.

https://www.bluebell.com/product/natural-vanilla-bean/

colechristensen•42 minutes ago

I dislike the texture of various gums and food science additives in my ice cream, I'm there to eat sugar and fat. If you have to enhance those you're doing it wrong. I suspect my digestive system dislikes them as well feeding the wrong species of gut bacteria or triggering some kind of imbalance or another.

thehappypm•about 3 hours ago

I went there once and someone had left a bouquet of flowers on a flavor

nanolith•about 5 hours ago

If the flavors are permanently dead, it would be fitting if the grave markers included recipes for those mourning the loss of this flavor and who wish to recreate it at home.

MoonWalk•about 5 hours ago

"Content and/or functionality on this page requires you to accept cookies."

Fire the developer.

sheept•about 5 hours ago

It replaces the YouTube embed, so they're just doing you a favor

MoonWalk•about 3 hours ago

I agree, if they needed YouTube to show a list of defunct ice cream flavors.

thehappypm•about 3 hours ago

So true. This is an ice cream store dammit

fsckboy•29 minutes ago

you want to try Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, sorry, you need to accept cookies!

samtheDamned•about 5 hours ago

I think it's interesting that most of these were cancelled ages ago. The most recent cancellations seem to be in 2012.

amccollum•about 3 hours ago

Ben & Jerry's actually adds/discontinues like 5+ flavors / year. I was told that flavors don't go to the flavor graveyard unless they have an interesting story, but it seems like they just haven't been adding any for a good while now.

TurdF3rguson•about 5 hours ago

2012 isn't ages ago. It's one age ago tops.

cheschire•about 5 hours ago

So not Tolkien ages?

margalabargala•about 4 hours ago

It was decades ago!

1.4 decades.

dtagames•about 1 hour ago

I do love ice cream, but most of these flavors sound awful. I'm not surprised they're gone.

trey138•about 3 hours ago

I don't see Mint Chocolate Chunk in this list. Does this mean I can still get it somewhere?

TYPE_FASTER•about 1 hour ago

It looks like that flavor is still enabled: https://www.benjerry.com/flavors/mint-chocolate-chunk-ice-cr...

hyperific•about 4 hours ago

Millions of years from now when sentient machine swarms from now nascent civilizations descend upon the ruins of Earth, they'll stumble on this actual physical ice cream flavor graveyard and ponder our frivolous whimsicality.

Flavor Graveyard

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