Walmart Great Value Ice Cream=Blue Bunny?

Someone has to make it...

I once looked at a gallon jug of Great Value purified drinking water to see where it was from, and it was listed as being bottled from the municipal water supply of the city that I live in... :ROFLMAO:
 
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I doubt they change recipes from one owned brand to another.

Interesting though.

https://www.chowhound.com/1905718/who-really-makes-great-value-ice-cream/

Manufacturers make all sorts of products to spec for other brand names and retailers, and ice cream is no exception.

A quick check of the ingredient list between Blue Bunny Vanilla and Great Value Vanilla will very quickly tell you they are not the same recipe.

FWIW, the plant in LeMars IA is huge - you can see it from a very, very long ways off...
 
Someone has to make it...

I once looked at a gallon jug of Great Value purified drinking water to see where it was from, and it was listed as being bottled from the municipal water supply of the city that I live in... :ROFLMAO:

there are local bottlers everywhere, folks just dont notice.
 
Manufacturers make all sorts of products to spec for other brand names and retailers, and ice cream is no exception.

A quick check of the ingredient list between Blue Bunny Vanilla and Great Value Vanilla will very quickly tell you they are not the same recipe.

FWIW, the plant in LeMars IA is huge - you can see it from a very, very long ways off...
No. They blow the whistle and change the cartons and the 4-12 shift packs the same product into different containers...that's all.
 
No. They blow the whistle and change the cartons and the 4-12 shift packs the same product into different containers...that's all.

Go look up ingredients for the same ice cream flavors - Great Value vs. Blue Bunny and let the board know what you find... (Hint: They aren't the same, and they are available online).

If you don't think a manufacturer will make a food product to meet a spec for the largest retailer in the US, then I don't know what to tell you...
 
I doubt they change recipes from one owned brand to another.
Yes and no, but no one will ever admit it. Walmart is obviously big enough that they could contract with Blue Bell (or any ice cream maker) to make their branded ice cream. Then they factor in what ingredients they have readily available and how much they want to deviate, if anything. Walmart probably uses ice cream producers all across the country as well. I wouldn't be surprised if the same flavor bought in FL tastes a little different than one bought in Oregon, for example.
 
I bought Great Value ice cream sandwiches for the 4th when families over. Real ice cream and family was surprised. The Kroger ones don’t say ice cream on theirs. I live in central, Ohio, your region might differ
 
Worked at a Bordens pasta plant as a outside contractor years ago. New plant 8 pasta press's they were hoping to produce 8 million lbs and had 23- 28 different labels. From store, plain to name brands. The difference between kraft mac and cheese 100% semolina and the others % of regrind in it. Regrind comes from pasta that isn't up to spec from being under or over cooked. Raw, burnt or hits the floor is sold for pig feed. 0% waist.
 
10% milkfat is needed to be legally ice cream + most have unhealthy junk ingredients like high frutose corn syrup etc. haagen -dazs has only a few ingredients but contains a LOT of sugar 2/3 cup serving has 7 TEASPOONS!! tasty but only eat sparingly!!!wheat aka modern wheat is prolly worse containing amaloypectin A, a starch that SKYROCKETS insulin!!!! all depends on your metabolic health + a quick look around will quickly show a LOT of unhealthy people young + old!!!
 
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Go look up ingredients for the same ice cream flavors - Great Value vs. Blue Bunny and let the board know what you find... (Hint: They aren't the same, and they are available online).

If you don't think a manufacturer will make a food product to meet a spec for the largest retailer in the US, then I don't know what to tell you...
You're wrong. I'm right.
 
You're wrong. I'm right.
Lots of backup data on that I see.

By law, the food manufacturers have to list the ingredients, by weight, on their products. Below is Blue Bunny Vanilla and the Great Value Vanilla ingredients.

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But hey, someone on the internet says they are right and they are the same thing. Don't think so...

And as someone else stated, Blue Bunny isn't all that in many ways (as the ingredient list shows...)
 
Lots of backup data on that I see.

By law, the food manufacturers have to list the ingredients, by weight, on their products. Below is Blue Bunny Vanilla and the Great Value Vanilla ingredients.

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But hey, someone on the internet says they are right and they are the same thing. Don't think so...

And as someone else stated, Blue Bunny isn't all that in many ways (as the ingredient list shows...)
This chart is irrevellavnt. It doesn't show how them different ice creams are simular. What's are you trying to shows?
 
Blue Bunny is a premium brand and if you try it you'll understand.
Great Value is a value brand, as the name would imply.
Simple common sense would tell you that they aren't the same thing with different labels.
I'll add that Kroger's house brand ice cream is very good and is often priced on special at $1.99/carton, which kinda trumps Great Value and the everyday so called low price, which is all of .02 less than Kroger's everyday low price.
We do not shop for any food items at Walmart and rarely for anything else.
The store experience alone is enough to avoid the chain.
 
Can't recall if I've ever had Blue Bunny ice cream and I'm not sure it's available in the greater Philadelphia region. I found this article interesting.
I doubt they change recipes from one owned brand to another.

Interesting though.

https://www.chowhound.com/1905718/who-really-makes-great-value-ice-cream/
I rarely eat ice cream but when I do it's Hagen Dazs. Their vanilla ice cream has four ingredients like there should be. Milk, cream, sugar, eggs, and vanilla bean and thats it. No guar gum, high fructose corn syrup, locust bean gum or emulsifiers.
 
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