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July 23, 2014

Why We Need A Walmart

This is gonna bring everybody over to the pro-Walmart side: their ice cream sandwiches never melt. Never! Think of what a great relief that would be to the kids (and adults) of hot, hot Desert Hot Springs. (Didn't that 114° bring a smile to your face?!)

What I visualize is, after the Walmart has been approved, built and opened, we the residents of DHS celebrate summer by using Great Value Ice Cream Sandwiches to build a scale replica of the Washington Monument in the parking lot of the Walmart. Leave it for days. I think this would be good to do starting about July 1, so we could then blow it up with fireworks on July 4 (or 5 or whatever).

Ingredients for Great Value Chocolate & Vanilla Flavored Ice Cream Sandwiches from Walmart:

Ice Cream (Milk, Cream, Buttermilk, Sugar, Whey, Corn Syrup, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Cocoa Processed With Alkali, Contains 1% Or Less of Natural And Artificial Flavors, Mono & Diglycerides, Guar Gum, Calcium Sulfate, Carob Bean Gum, Cellulose Gum, Polysorbate 80, Carrageenan, Annatto (For Color). Wafers (Wheat Flour, Sugar, Soybean And Palm Oil, Cocoa, Dextrose, Caramel Color, Corn Syrup, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Flour, Food Starch-Modified, Salt, Soy Lecithin, Baking Soda, Artificial Flavor).

One customer tells us that besides not melting, they don't freeze either!

I am avid shopper for good deals and decided to get these instead of my usual, which is Mayfield. Now, granted that the name Great Value should mean just that, but by no stretch of the imagination or taste buds are they as great of a value than spending a little more to get your favorite. The ice cream was extremely soft, bland tasting and the cookies were bland as well. I mean I kept them in the freezer for about a day or two to see if the sandwiches would harden and I have to say, I was extremely disappointed with the ice cream still being soft and the cookie wafer did not improve the overall taste of the sandwich. I will not be purchasing these or any of the ice cream products from Great Value again. I have some right now that I have not touched.

Ingredients for their Great Value 97% Fat Free Sugar Free Vanilla Flavored Ice Cream Sandwiches:

Fat Free Ice Cream: Fat Free Milk, Sorbitol, Polydextrose, Maltodextrin, Whey Protein Concentrate, Contains 1% Or Less of Cellulose Gel, Cellulose Gum, Carrageenan, Mono-And Diglycerides*, Carob Bean Gum, Guar Gum, Polysorbate 80, Vanilla Extract, Vanillin, Sucralose, Calcium Sulfate, Vitamin A Palmitate. Wafers: Bleached Wheat Flour, Isomalt, Sorbitol, Caramel Color, Palm Oil, Cocoa, Corn Flour, Food Starch-Modified, Salt, Baking Soda, Soy Lecithin, Natural Flavor, Sucralose. *Adds A Dietarily Insignificant Amount of Fat.

A customer review makes me wonder if perhaps Walmart sells a vanilla flavored bleach.

Previously I purchased the Great Value Ice Cream Sandwich with both Chocolate and Vanilla ice cream mixed together. Now that one was really good.

However, the store sold out of that particular flavor, so I figured the original flavor would be just as good, right? Haha, NOPE.

Best I can describe the ice cream taste is Bleach. It literally tastes like frozen bleach cream, with no resemblance to vanilla whatsoever. What's worse is the chocolate wafers, which turned out to be completely tasteless, like cardboard. I could have asked for a small favor for the darn thing to actually taste like chocolate so that it can mask out the bleach taste, but oh well.

It's a shame I bought two boxes of this stuff, since the other flavor left a really good impression on me. If you want to get any ice cream sandwich, definitely don't get this one. Get the one with chocolate ice cream mixed in.

P.S. The packaging is shoddy, too. It takes a long time to peel off the wrapper.

Filed under Desert Hot Springs,Food and Drink | permalink | July 23, 2014 at 10:15 PM

Comments

Here's one for the Anti Wal-Mart group: their sales/profits are falling, so that means there are too few stores where the poor people are. Ergo, Desert Hot Springs is in the running to help their bottom line. It's the least we can do.

Posted by: Mike Picardi at Jul 24, 2014 3:08:52 PM

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