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Originally posted by reloader-1:
Is everyone here seriously supporting Tillamook instead of Ben & Jerry’s?

One is super left, the other is super super left. Perhaps research a bit?

https://www.tillamook.com/news...-from-tillamooks-ceo

Didn't know that but honestly in my area ice cream not made with junk ingredients is pretty limited to only a few brands, many at super premium prices. Less expensive but with the same quality ingredients is Tillamook, so....

And yeah B&J would be the super super radical shit-fer-brains leftists.

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Originally posted by reloader-1:
Is everyone here seriously supporting Tillamook instead of Ben & Jerry’s?

One is super left, the other is super super left. Perhaps research a bit?

https://www.tillamook.com/news...-from-tillamooks-ceo

At this point, I really just don’t give a crap. I’m not going to research every company to ensure the CEO properly sorts (or doesn’t) his recycling. Make a product I need for a good price, and I’ll buy it. Now, use your company as a podium to preach your bullshit, like AHB or B&J? Then I’ll make the effort to avoid your products. This is why I’ll buy Tillamook but not B&J.

quote:

Originally posted by reloader-1:
Is everyone here seriously supporting Tillamook instead of Ben & Jerry’s?

Yup.

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Originally posted by reloader-1:
One is super left, the other is super super left. Perhaps research a bit?

So a creamery in Oregon made a commitment to DEI and a generic "system racism = bad" statement because of George Floyd.



It bothers me far less than Dan Cathey getting down on his fucking knees on television and saying white people should shine black people's shoes. I'll never eat at CFA again, and you won't see my piping up with that in the threads about whatever Current Thing forum members are loving there lately. I'll let them draw their own lines.

A quick search doesn't come up with anything else besides their other commitment to DEI page, which every other corporation has had for at least the last five years. If you can show me that an Oregon dairy collective that made a brand off of trying to keep independent farmers from disappearing is involved in activism to the scope and breadth that Ben & Jerrys has been proud and vocal about for decades, I'll give this more than the passing thought it deserves. It definitely isn't the gotcha you think it is, at least not for me. Besides, Tillamook medium cheddar is superior to everything else I've tried and it isn't even close, while the few times I had Ben & Jerry's because it was what was being served never struck me as anything better or worse than Safeway Select.

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Originally posted by sigcrazy7:
At this point, I really just don’t give a crap. I’m not going to research every company to ensure the CEO properly sorts (or doesn’t) his recycling. Make a product I need for a good price, and I’ll buy it. Now, use your company as a podium to preach your bullshit, like AHB or B&J? Then I’ll make the effort to avoid your products. This is why I’ll buy Tillamook but not B&J.

Bingo.

P220, that was kind of my point (writ large).

If you are going to choose your ice cream to avoid a political statement, which is something I support, then don’t half-ass it. You’ve already removed one choice, take a peek at the various ice cream manufacturers and find one that matches your taste and ideally values.

Blue Bell is one, for example. But just from Vermont to Oregon, as you so eloquently put it, isn’t achieving the same result

The only big national ice cream brand I'll support is Talenti, mainly for their variety of chocolates and IMHO their best flavor, Raspberry Sorbet. Otherwise, I like supporting local operations, for me, its:
Swenson's (SF original location on Union St.)
Mitchell's
Fiorello's
McConnell's