@@TakemotoF Fernando I remember when Breyers used to come in more fruit flavors ... in other words chunks of real fruit the last of its type was the peach ice cream ... up until about two years ago ; now I can't seem to find it in any of the local stores which really is so disturbing because that was very good pure ice cream ... I'm not talkin about the low calorie vanilla Peach ... I'm talking about really delicious peach ice cream and it was wonderful ... their cherry vanilla was also really good but it had one preservative ... I can't remember what it was . They hardly have anything now that doesn't have a bunch of chemicals , except the standard vanilla chocolate and strawberry . Oh how I miss being able to have delicious real ice cream without paying a lot of money . Breyers really screwed themselves up by turning a lot of their ice creams into the candy bar types and turning them into junk food full of chemicals ... it makes me so angry how hard it is to get good quality food in America nowadays unless you want to spend a lot of money .
@@TakemotoF also flavored powder is not something they would have done back in the day ... I can't remember all the fruit flavors : they had strawberry , they had Peach , they had cherry , I think ( and then later came the cherry vanilla ) , they had chocolate , they had vanilla , then they had mint chocolate chip which I didn't care for as a kid ... I'm pretty sure they also used to have at one point coffee ice cream , some of my family loved it ... I think by the 1970s they had some sort of toffee swirl , maybe it was just chocolate swirl which was also good ... I think they also used to have pistachio way back in the 60s when I was a little kid ... it would be nice to actually find a list of their ice creams and when they were introduced . Real ice cream has real cream in it and it is such a wonderful texture .
@@TakemotoF The advertisement for Breyer's was "Made only with Milk, Sugar, Fruit and Natural Ingredients" back in the old days. Perhaps there were other less "natural" ingredients used....but were utilized for preservative purposes only.
I remember Breyer's ice cream from more than 70 years ago. My grandfather had a confectionery store during the 1930s, and proudly served Breyer's before it Borden acquired it. It was the best ice cream ever.
Correct! To prove your point....I remember discarding some frost bitten Breyer's from 10 years ago. I placed the contents in my sink, and ran hot water on it. It seemed like it had morphed into some glob of glistening chemicals, that didn't want to melt under the very hot water. That's when I switched to Ben & Jerry's...and Haagen-Daas pints. Sure,they are not pure the way Breyer's once was.....but they're definitely more delicious!
@@jamesperry2322 Don't know if you can get it, but Aldens Organic is great. Zero chemicals and always natural organic sugars. No corn syrup at all. I am 64 and it brings memory taste back to when I was a child.
Love these old periscope films. Love the narrators voice. This was when ice cream was real ice cream! Not dessert like Breyers make now! No fructose syrup but real pure cane sugar!
I HATE sugar and all varieties of corn syrup in sodas and snacks (but will gladly eat pounds and pounds of cookies and cake), but I’d totally eat fresh natural ice cream made with real sugar like they made here
This is another classic episode of how they made ice cream in the 1940s the people and the clothes they wore and the equipment they used in the process of making ice cream
Well up until a couple years ago they still had their peach ice cream which had no preservatives in it and was real ice cream ... then it became impossible to find that and I'm not talking about the one they call Vanilla Peach ; that is not the same thing , as it has much less Peaches in it plus a vanilla ice cream that has much less or no cream in it . Regretfully nowadays the only Breyers I can find occasionally is the Vanilla ,Chocolate and Strawberry , but at least the last time I looked , it did not have a bunch of chemicals and preservatives ... but even that is hard to find nowadays as it seems a lot of the stores only carry their shitty ones I won't eat , such as the ones that are candy bar flavors . For a while there I was able to get their cherry vanilla which was pretty good but it did have one chemical or preservative in it ... now I can't even find that . Plus the price used to be pretty damn reasonable . Now it's become pretty damn expensive to eat pure ice cream in America ... some days I wish I could turn back the clock .
@@gardensofthegods The last time I brought Breyers ice cream was years ago and because the reason I stopped buying it is because it didn't melt, let me phrase that differently, it melted like a wet sock that you can stick a spoon into and the spoon will still stand up. It was horrible. It was vanilla flavored with no fruit in it. I rather go to the neighborhood ice cream parlor, pay the extra cash and get something worth wild and if it's not up to par, I can complain to them instead of a corporation. But I must agree with you, food going back 30,40 years ago was a lot better than it is today.
My elementary school took my 2nd grade class to the Breyer's plant at 43rd & Woodland Avenue in West Philadelphia. They showed us this film. Later ,they gave each of us a slice of Neapolitan (vanilla chocolate & strawberry) ice cream. Breyer's was the best. Then they sold the plant to outsiders who gradually changed the ingredients to the artificially flavored glop that is sold today. I really miss Breyer's as it was....along with other once famous foods ,that switched from natural to chemical means to make a profit...while shortchanging their loyal customers.
Well I was still getting their Vanilla , chocolate , and Strawberry and it did not really seem to have any chemicals or preservatives in it but I haven't been able to find that recently ... and I also was eating their peach ice cream up until several years ago when it vanished from the stores (but don't confuse it with their Vanilla Peach which is not the same and is not real ice cream ) . Can you please tell me where you're from ? ... did you grow up in the Philadelphia area ? I did
@@gardensofthegods Hey GOTG! Yes ,I was born, raised ,and still live in Philadelphia. Originally from South Philly...I now reside in West Philly, in the University of Pennsylvania area. I have been an avid student of Philadelphia's commercial and cultural history all my life. The Breyer's plant is a good example of the quality companies that used to reside here. Originating in Philadelphia...Breyer's was the best ice cream in a city with many quality ice cream brands. Currently to my knowledge...the only Philadelphia manufactured edible that has continued to be made here.... is Goldberg's Peanut Chews. And while never one of my favorites...I wouldn't be surprised if they're not made the same way they used to be either! In any case....it's good to hear from a fellow Philadelphian. Best Wishes!
@@jamesperry2322 Goldenberg is now owned by First Born, maker of Peeps, in Bethlehem PA, but last I heard they were manufacturing the Peanut Chews at the Philadelphia plant. The sweetener used in Peanut Chews is molasses, btw.
I love ice cream, I really love frozen custard. Then there was home made ice cream- rock salt and you had to hand crank it? Now they have electric. Spent a lot of time cranking on that ice cream machine!
Breyer's is still around, but is now a Unilever brand. Many of their products are now called "Frozen Dairy Desserts" because they do not contain enough milk or cream to legally be called ice cream.
At this point very few of their ice creams are real ice cream and pure without a bunch of chemicals : vanilla chocolate and strawberry is one of them .
How the mighty have fallen. Breyer's is unrecognizable as ice cream, today. A shame, because it once was so good. And the only brand I know of which still packs its products in half gallons is Blue Bell. Their ice cream is excellent.
In the early 1980s my uncle told me don't eat ice cream it's unhealthy --now I know why when I look at the ingredients. I wish I had listen to him earlier.
Chris it was only up till maybe two or three years ago I was still eating their peach ice cream ( not to be confused with their vanilla Peach which isn't the same ) . Yes it had real fruit and was pure without a bunch of chemicals and preservatives ... last time I looked their vanilla , chocolate , strawberry was still pretty pure ... real strawberries and delicious .
@@gardensofthegods I believe Unilever..(or whoever owns the name now)..may have started using more "natural" ingredients, due to the clamoring for more "natural" ingredients. In any event...it's not the same anymore.
Was it really fresh fruit used for ice cream? And fruit was harvested when it was RIPE? Instead of greenish-white strawberries and rock-hard peaches we find in the stores today?? Maybe in the past things WERE better.
Well I used to love their peach ice cream and I'm not talking about the one that is now called vanilla Peach . It was always delicious and pure but I have not been able to get that in the past 2 years and I'm pretty sure the only one with fruit left that is decent is the standard Vanilla , Chocolate and Strawberry ... but the strawberries in it seem fine . Up until recently they did have a cherry vanilla but it wasn't as pure as it did have some stuff in it ...I think it had carrageenan and one or two other preservatives but it was still superior to most ice creams out there .
And yes I'm telling you they had other flavors when I was growing up and the prices were reasonable and they did not have a bunch of preservatives and chemicals ... it was delicious real ice cream
It depends on which kind of Breyers you're eating as they still have a few that were all natural such as their Vanilla , Chocolate and Strawberry ... most of their other ones are not real ice cream
@@gardensofthegods I gotta go with ASBESTOS FIBERS on this one. I suffered intense gas pains too, from the Good Humor brand of Breyer's when I used to eat it...after they sold the Breyer's name.
Breyer's was completely destroyed when Unilever bought the brand. Today, Breyer's is overpriced and full of chemicals. And its black-label, formerly All Natural line became "naturally flavoured", but is otherwise the same mass of chemicals as the blue-label line. And Unilever made it "churned". In fact, all "churned" means is that it's full of air, which costs nothing.
Too bad Breyer's doesn't make ice cream like this any longer, they stopped in the naught's if I recall correctly. Ice cream is for children though, if you eat it as an adult, it's well past time to grow up.
