SKOWHEGAN, Maine — A Maine ice cream company has taken home the top ice cream prize at a national dairy product contest for the third straight year.
Gifford’s Ice Cream was named the Ice Cream Grand Champion at the 2012 World Dairy Expo, held earlier this month in Madison, Wis.
The Skowhegan company won the grand champion award for its vanilla bean ice cream, while also taking home awards for its French vanilla and toasted coconut ice creams, its orange sherbet and it s black raspberry chocolate chip frozen yogurt.
The expo each year holds contests for a number of dairy products, including ice cream, cheese, butter, yogurt and milk.
Giffords , The Very Best.
The Vanilla Bean is truly blue ribbon stuff.
Congrats.
Now…. Im off the store for a bucket of the good stuff.
Congratulations to Giffords. You make the very best!
Just a few of Gifford’s “quality ingredients”:
high fructose corn syrup
partially hydrogenated soybean oil
hydrogenated soybean oil
partially hydrogenated palm oil
hydrogenated cottonseed oil
partially hydrogenated coconut oil
polysorbate 80
Splenda artificial sweetener
red 40, red lake 40, green 3, yellow 6, and blue 1 artificial food colorings
artificial butter flavor
sodium benzoate
http://giffordsicecream.com/flavors/ice-cream-stands/
nobody said it was good for you! like with so many things if you don’t want to eat it don’t, nobody’s making you.
Right on!! ;) Sounds like one unhappy dude. Needs to lighten up, brighten up and carpe diem; or the Gifford’s.
I never said it was good or bad for you, either. I was just pointing out the disconnect between Gifford’s claims of “quality” and their decidedly low-quality, artificial ingredients.
He never said “healthy”, these are not “quality” ingredients. High Fructose corn syrup is used because it’s cheap, hydrogenated oils are used because they are cheap and can stabilize the product for a long shelf life. Dyes and artificial flavorings are just a crutch. Try ice cream made from scratch without these ingredients if you want quality and great flavor.
that is the store brand i wish they sold the same thing in the market as in the stands. totaly different not even close to the same quality.they would never win an award for that junk in the grocery stores.
Plus you have to have a small business loan to get ice there.
On T.V they says Giffords has a coconut ice cream– who in the Ellsworth area carries this elusive delight ??? thanks…..
Congrats. Winning in Wisconsin no less.
Gifford’s Vanilla Ice Cream is wicked good. Congratulations to Giffords.