We still have Ben & Jerry's but that's about it for really good ice cream. How sad.

Oh, the horror

Why isn't it owned by Ben & Jerry's any more.

Maybe I should buy ice cream and frozen yoghurt from small local shops that make their own. We have one in our area. They make their frozen yoghurt from yoghurt and fresh fruit. They cut up the fruit while you watch them do it.

I see that there are elements of the company, even now, that are supportive of the 99%.

But damn if a lot of my favorite food companies, like Bare Naked (or Bear Naked) granola haven't been bought up by General Foods or Nabisco.

I visited there.) Their website isn't working for me so I can't find out any more, but they do have a page about international parts of the company.

They come in Chocolate (or "brown" to chocolate lovers) White (no flavor) or "Red Velvet" (minor flavor)

Those are imported frozen from China.

That means they spent weeks in a refrigerated cargo container crossing the largest ocean in the world.

People forget the joy of licking the bowl....

I remember the homemade ice cream that he prepared with a small freezer -- hand-turned ice cream with milk from his own cows. MMMMMMMMMMM. That was real ice cream. My kids have never tasted anything that good. I'm so sorry that people can't have such a treat any more -- at least most people can't.

Saw one at sears the last time I was there.

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I was there for tools (insert Tim Allen grunt here)

They are not making their own ice cream anymore, but instead simply rebranding someone else's.

Article. He factory is at capacity and cant be expanded so another factory in the same country as the one closing will produce the product....

the Bush crowd and the Clinton crowd controlling Baskin-Robbins.

Doesn't seem to be any fighting where investments are concerned.

It's going to be a "rocky road" from here on out, as their power continues to centralize and
their incestuous relationship with powerful corporations intensifies.

Then along came the Internet,...and their website....

http://www.trilateral.org/

Their membership is full of a who who of scumbags like Negroponte, Cheney, and Kissinger but then you see Jimmy Carter and the Clintons and of course members of the media and CEOs schmoozing together....

Really makes ya wanna hit a reset button,....doesn't it....

They looked at it and saw it as a fifth column for International Communism.

It's real danger has been as an incubator and growth medium for cozy "elite" groupthink.

"International Communism". In either case to many it represents some type of international conspiracy. ("International communism" to some on the right and "international globalization" to other on the right and on the left.)

The nature of the conspiracy just differs.

Including his National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. (Who's daughter is now on Morning Joe.)

Just the idea that their stated goal is a linking of Europe, America and Asia creeps people out especially since their doing it through CEOs, politicians and media figures. It's like getting to the center of a tootsie pop, conspiracy candy wise...

I think a lot of the anti-intellectual stuff dates back to the 60's when people decided scientists were a danger because they came up with the bomb. There were movies back then where the villains were a bunch of scientists who decided mankind needed improvement so they decided to gather their own kind and the cream of the crop of humanity (like women with big kachangas) and blow up or flood or gas or SOMETHING to the rest of humanity in a modern day biblical purge so they could build a perfect utopian world in their image. Or scientists playing with genetics creating monsters.

Since then there's a reluctance for Presidents to proudly gather scientists or even smart people together to solve problems. Thus we have meetings of dimwits. The Trilateral Commission may be a way for smart people to meet on the side or just a status thing for a bunch of authoritarian dimwits who think they're smart. Still,....can you picture Carter and Cheney arguing? That would be worth a laugh or two.

Or of Bain's former holdings, now defunct?

We need to get a grip on the scope of this madness.

How many companies are they flipping and/or holding at any one time? And the companies that didn't survive, as you said. Bain's scope is a lot more broad than I realized, and it'd be nice to have an idea of how big they really are.

....so Poppy bu$h and his cronies are outsourcers too. Who's surprised?

Looters and grifters.

There oughta be a law.......

places close to me where I can buy really good ice cream.

However, the Nova Scotia plant isn't owned by Baskin-Robbins.

This isn't uncommon. The company is basically saying, "We're better at marketing and franchising than we are at production." So they're farming out the production to someone (Dean Foods and Scotsburn Dairy) who ARE good at it. It sucks for the workers in the town where the old plant is located, but it will likely create jobs in the new location.

BR isnt' the only consumer products company to do this. The main Ivory Soap factory in Cincinnati is not operated by Proctor and Gamble any more. The sold the plant to a Canadian company about (or aboot) ten years ago, and the new company now makes soap for P&G.

I will keep my short........WTF?

Business is expanding so quickly, that they need to close a factory.

Right?

But if the new location has the production capacity and the old location is, for one reason or another, unable to expand its operations, it might make sense to move.

Baskin Robins 31 Flavors. Obama worked for Rmoney.

But only in the future, not retroactively.

Mitt created Bain and the company is operating to the standards and ethics which he orchestrated! It's horrific!

Frommer's travel website recently ran a feature on 10 U.S. ice cream factories which offered tours, as a summer vacation idea.

http://www.frommers.com/slideshow/?group=586

Our local university, with a great ag department, makes and sells their own dairy products including 29 flavors of ice cream. Who need BR?

made locally including Turkey Hill - http://www.turkeyhill.com/

They even use "Imported from Lancaster County" as part of their branding. That's where the bulk of the Amish and some Mennonites reside.

I whole-heartedly support them, especially since they are local. Am hoping that they can resist the big corporate raiding of their product like what happened to Breyer's, which was originally a Philadelphia brand.

so the workers apparently still aren't working hard enough for the fucking Masters of Universe at Bain?

It's Bonnie Brae or any of the local yogurt shops.

It's better than the crap that BR makes - even though I liked their Strawberry Cheesecake, but they rotated it out.

its just that Baskin Robbins isn't going to be making their own brand anymore. They're going to have Dean foods manufacture it in Nova Scotia. So the Dean plant will hire more workers to take over that extra production.

If you actually read the story you can see that the manufacturing is still going on in Canada....

there are ****** 3 ******* Dunkin' Donut shops in my little town, but they all stop making new donuts early in the day. If you feel like a donut in the evening, you get to choose from maybe a dozen left-overs.

Not hard to understand why with cheap, greedy bosses like Bain/Carlyle/Lee

I will NOT support Bain or Carlyle