Blue Bell Ice Cream Back In Some Stores
Blue Bell Ice Cream returned to parts of Texas on Monday. Residents around Houston got out of bed early to welcome back a Lone Star State favorite.
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Blue Bell Ice Cream returned to parts of Texas on Monday. Residents around Houston got out of bed early to welcome back a Lone Star State favorite.
At 5:00 a.m. Monday, a truck with an unknown amount of Blue Bell ice cream is expected to arrive at a Kroger in Willis.
Blue Bell Ice Cream will be back on select store shelves next week, and the company has spent the past few days announcing which flavors would be among the first to reappear.
Blue Bell Ice Cream is coming back to store shelves with the company's top three fan favorite flavors, as Cookies 'n Cream was added to the list of returning varieties on Wednesday.
The world now knows two of the flavors -- Homemade Vanilla and Dutch Chocolate -- that will grace store shelves once again when Blue Bell Ice Cream returns on August 31.
Blue Bell Creameries announced on Monday that it will begin distributing ice cream to select Texas markets on Monday, Aug. 31.
The ice cream may be churning at Blue Bell, but it's not quite ready to hit store shelves and cool off the heated masses left sweltering in the Texas heat.
Blue Bell has started ice cream production trial runs in Alabama three months after a listeria scare halted all sales. The company has not said when sales will resume.
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Temperatures are rising and many people have been standing by, with bowl and spoon in hand, waiting for Blue Bell Creameries to resume production. Well, the wait is going to go on for a while longer.
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Blue Bell announced today that it will begin a trial production run at one of its four creameries later this month, though the Brenham-based ice cream company says there is no firm date for when its products will hit shelves for sale.
After a nearly four month absence from store shelves, Blue Bell ice cream could make a comeback before summer's end.
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A new Listeria claim, this one stemming from their Alabama plant: One Florida man claims to have fell ill after eating Blue Bell's Cookies 'n Cream ice cream. Blue Bell Creameries is reviewing a report from the private laboratory that found the evidence.
Once the company is ready to resume production, the voluntary agreement also calls for a trial production period before ice cream is distributed to consumers.
Some Texas children are praying for the quick return of Blue Bell Ice Cream; the children know their favorite ice cream brand is traveling a rocky road, and that the company recently had to lay off a lot of moms and dads.
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A former Houston resident said that he contracted listeria-related meningitis after eating Blue Bell ice cream. Now, he is suing the Texas company for negligence.
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Before Blue Bell is allowed back on store shelves in Texas and Oklahoma, health departments in both states will take several steps to make sure the ice cream is safe.
Federal health officials said Friday that they were never told of repeated findings of listeria at a Blue Bell Creameries facility before an outbreak linked to the ice cream turned deadly.
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