Talk:Breyers

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1 Breyers/Dreyers confusion
2 Stephen Breyer
3 "All Natural"
4 Reads like an Advertisement
5 Move

[edit] Breyers/Dreyers confusion

From the writing, it is not clear which brand is considered the knock-off of the other? As a Philadelphian, I know Breyer's much better, but this might not hold for the West Coast, so I cannot clarify! Hillsboro 16:11, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

I thought the same thing. Still confused. cdpanic 10:26, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stephen Breyer

, grandfather of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer [1],

I found this bit of information interesting, but then I was unable to find a source for it, or any mention of it anywhere. The "source" links to an amazon book on ice cream, but no actual quotation to verify it. Moving to the talk page until cited.

[edit] "All Natural"

Nothing about how since Breyers was purchased by Unilever they've started using emulsifiers in their "All Natural" ice cream? Carageenan, carob bean gum, something called "tara bean gum" ... and corn syrup instead of sugar. To my eye, it appears that they've been converting over, flavor by flavor, for a few years now. Now even their vanilla has gone to the dark side.

Check out carageenan in a google search. I find it scary stuff. And it's in literally almost everything.

This is, of course, the company that used to run commercials of a Mikey-like kid skeptically reading the ingredients on one of those *other* ice cream brands ("carageenan? Guar gum??") I'd add this information, but darn it, I can't find any decent sources on when they started doing it, what they've done, when their old "All Natural" ad campaign ran (70's-80's?)

Where's a corporate whistle-blower when you need one?

The ingredients you listed actually are all-natural. I'd be more concerned with mono- and di-glycerides. Vranak

[edit] Reads like an Advertisement

This article seems to read like an advertisement and looks like it was written by people working for the company... It's a good brand, but it needs to be less POV. I may get around to fixing it later if no one else is willing. --The Way 06:43, 12 November 2006 (UTC) It was good ice cream until recently. They say it is all natural because they put "natural tara gum" in it. Well what if they put natural MSG in it? That would be the same thing.````Fritz

I second this and have added a NPOV tag. --Inexplicable 00:36, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

What exactly sounds like an ad? The first section talks about how the "Pledge of Purity" is now obsolete. And the final section is about how many consumers are ticked off about the recent recipe changes. There are 2 links to anti-breyer's sites. To what, exactly, are you objecting?cdpanic 19:14, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

OK, people. I don't know what isn't neutral about this article or how it's written like an ad. I would agree that it's a stub and needs further development, but I think the sections to which you are referring would be appropriate for a "company background" section and are not necessarily biased. I think this page is tagged incorrectly so please explain, or I'm changing the tags.cdpanic 03:33, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Move

It has been proposed below that Breyers be renamed and moved to Breyer's Ice Cream.

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