YO COLDSTONE HAS LOST THEY ***** MIND,” says Tik-Tokker

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Lobster, Red

Fabrics, JoAnn

Lobster, Red and Fabrics, JoAnn sell ice cream?

For the record, I'm in RI. There were CSC locations popping up everywhere (RI and nearby MA) about 25 years ago. You couldn't drive by a shopping center (high end or more middle-brow) without a CSC in one of the storefronts. I went a number of times back then at the different locations to see what I was missing - none of them impressed me, and they were expensive then !

I just checked on line for locations within 35 miles of me - one pops up in RI, all the rest in RI and nearby MA are gone. I think the one in my neighborhood was the first to go, lasting about 18 months.

The one that is left is about 15 miles from me. It's less expensive than what the Tik-Tokker posted (not sure where he is). A quart in my area is $13.49 ($3.50 less) and a 'triple pint' is $16.99 - five dollars less than his location.

Gristedes charges $11.50 for a pint of Van Leeuwen.

Get over it.

I remember going to CSC a couple times. Their little group “Tip Tip Hooray!” chant every time someone gave a tip totally turned me away. Give me Baskin Robbins any day.

OP, you are too fat anyway. These price hikes are a blessing in disguise for the likes of you.

R6 I agree ! Last time I had ice cream was at work last year the Friday of Labor Day Weekend. My boss hired a local ice cream company to come in and set up a 'make your own ice cream sundae' buffet. It was OK, but had my fill .

FAT WHORES DESPAIR!

Their base ice cream is tasteless.

I used to buy a galloon of Haagen Daaz Vanilla for my elderly father and my local grocery store just stopped carrying that size. I asked a stocker and he said it was so expensive ($17) that "too many people were stealing it." I replied, "Isn't it easier to steal he smaller size?" but the stocker just shrugged. Utter bullshit.

But you’re paying for several thousand calories worth of food. If you eat normal sized portions, I would think it could last a few days.

I can’t believe CSC is still around. It always gave my GI distress because it was so creamy

[quote]I can’t believe CSC is still around. It always gave my GI distress because it was so creamy

That happens to a lot of elderly who eat ice cream. You're not the only one.

Lol my mom can't eat ice cream anymore either.

Make your own ice cream. It's easy.

Didn't this chain start up during the mix-in craze?

I'll take "how do venture capital firms destroy a good thing?" for $400, Alex.

I’m glad I have a Handel’s.

Coldstone has always been absolute basic bitch level ice cream.

"You can feel good, good about Hood" $5.99 for a half-gallon (or whatever it is) box, can't beat the Fenway Fudge.

Been there once (with a coupon). No need to experience that again.

TJ's has great ice cream for $3.99. People are so stupid..

Is this brand of ice cream even any good? It looks unsanitary when they smear bits of old toppings (stale nuts, off label candies) into this glop, and charge a lot for it.

Ice cream can be delicious but I need to stay fit for my work, and I just don’t have the self control to have a small scoop.

I'm glad I'm not an ice cream fan. I did have some Cold Stone YEARS ago when they first became popular on a family outing, and it almost put me in a diabetic coma.

I'm a frozen yogurt person. And if I happened to be walking by a gelato establishment and someone said the place was good, I'd go in and get their smallest sized cup of something, probably.

However, I can't remember the last time I had ice cream, frozen yogurt OR gelato...several years, at least.

I’m in Houston. I went to a Mexican ice cream shop, got two scoops of great ice cream for $4.

They could be worse but I don’t like a lot of weird stuff mixed in my ice cream anyway. And creamy ice cream = lots of air and gums beat into it.

Im not crazy about ice cream but I only really eat it in the summer. And it's not necessary to pay 22 bucks for good ice cream. I guess they are going the way of Boston Market. The economy is about to hit the skids. Look for more chains to go under.

I remember in the mid-80s the biggest craze was 'the home ice-cream machine' for families to make ice-cream at home (Boomers were in their 30s and 40s, giving birth to their Millennial kids and wanting something 'fun' to do as a family). Every store had them displayed in their windows - Williams-Sonoma, Crate & Barrel, Lechter's (remember them?) , Gourmet Chef (remember them?) and in New England, we had Lechemere's (remember them?). You couldn't walk into one of these stores without falling over one on display. Every family was buying it.

By the late 80s, Walmart and Kmart started carrying them, and the craze ended. The craze turned to families making 'bread' in their over-priced bread machines. Same stores above started carrying 'the bread machines'.

You're not teacakes.

FAT WHORES REJOICE!!

Coldstone is such a racket. Subpar vanilla ice cream at high end outrageous prices. You're paying for the dumb theater act they put on where they add the mix-ins on the (wait for it) cold stone.

It's so dumb. I can't believe people spend their money on such obvious crap.

You can get the same thing at any Dairy Queen a lot quicker and a lot cheaper.

I’ve met Mrs. Coldstone and she’s delightful.

Be nice!

^ Have an egg roll Mrs. Coldstone...?

Imagine if they made ice cream on some shirtless guy, like they do with body sushi.

R34 Now that I'd pay top $ for if the guy was a college hunk and all muscled.

Cold Cocked Ice Cream

The price difference could be that CSC is ice cream, versus the cheaper brands that are 'dairy dessert'.

Don't go to Coldstone for ice cream. They haven't been good since they expanded beyond the Tempe area. And mix ins are overrated.

OP, you're in New England. You know you can get good ice cream for less than half that at any of the many independent ice cream shops around. It's no surprise to me that CSC didn't last.

OK, I didn't see he was buying large containers. Maybe not less than half that, but certainly at least a lil cheaper. And much higher quality.

Big plastic party size pail of vanilla is $3.99 at Kroger. A package of nuts and a sack of chocolate chips and you can have mix-in ice cream for days for pennies a serving.

R38 I agree - there are plenty of family-run homemade ice cream stands / shops in RI / MA. Really delicious and they were my downfall (I have three in my neighborhood). That's why I try to stay far away. You're right - it's no wonder why CSC failed in this area. They couldn't even survive the popular 'college neighborhoods'.

WTF is "party size?"

R39 Those containers aren't that 'large' - they're all less than a gallon. Maybe enough to share between three people with small appetites for ice cream ?

I went to a Coldstone once years ago and was weirded out by the staff wielding their spatulas over “mixing slabs”. As well, the ice cream was quite expensive and not great.

I wanted to try Boylan’s Ginger Ale. Picked up two small bottles (small like old-time Coke bottles)—almost $8.

I feel poor.

[Quote] I used to buy a galloon

Isn’t that a kind of pirate ship?????

The largish tubs of ice cream sold at supermarkets haven't been actual 1/2gallons since the Clinton administration. A half gallon is 64 oz. and those tubs are 48 oz. One of the more egregious examples of "shrinkflation."

I love the smell of salmonella in the morning!

That link is 20 years old.

R49, it's never a one-time thing, but either way it's demonstrative of poor quality control.

OP, you type fat, clearly *are* fat, and have appallingly terrible taste. Here's the ingredient list for your precious Cold Stone garbage, and no, "sodium acid pyrophosphate" isn't something any human should be consuming. But in all seriousness, it *is* garbage – period. It's equal in quality to Walmart store brand ice cream and other similarly shitty types: OP, this is how ice cream companies fatten their profits, by substituting "stabilizers" and using HFCS instead of solely sugar.

Oh, and it used to make the news on occasion for having the *least* healthy food items in the US. Its milkshake – which literally contains enough calories for a normal person's entire DAILY diet – has 2,010 calories, 68 grams of saturated fat, and 153 grams of sugar. The literal only reason it "tastes" premium is because they loaded all of it with "creamy" butterfat.

SWEET CREAM ICE CREAM [Cream, Nonfat Milk, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Whey, contains less than 1% of: Guar Gum, Cellulose Gum, Carrageenan, Mono and Diglycerides, Polysorbate 80, Annatto (color)], BANANA, CAKE BATTER MIX [Sugar, Enriched Bleached Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Canola or Soybean Oil, Corn Syrup Solids, Dextrose, less than 2% of Food Starch-Modified, Salt, Natural And Artificial Flavors (contains Milk Derivatives), Annatto (color), Turmeric (color)], GRAHAM CRACKER PIE CRUST [Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Thiamin Mononitrate {Vitamin B1}, Riboflavin {Vitamin B2, Folic Acid}, Vegetable Oil, Soybean, Palm and/ Palm Kernel Oil w/ TBHQ), Sugar, Graham Flour, Corn Syrup, Molasses, contains 2% or less of Salt, Leavening (Baking Soda, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate), Cornstarch, Malt Extract, Soy Lecithin], CARAMEL [Corn Syrup, Sweetened Condensed Skim Milk (Skim Milk, Sugar, Corn Syrup), Corn Syrup Solids, Water, Butter (Cream, Salt) Sugar, Disodium Phosphate, Salt, Pectin, Mono & Diglycerides, Xanthan Gum, Artificial Flavor], contains less than 2% of Ground Cinnamon, Ground Nutmeg, Kosher Salt.

R51 You really don't know how to post anything interesting, do you ?

Cuisinart describes its one-pint ice cream maker as "single serving."

R52 well I find it interesting, bc I care Abt my body & not a fatty like u

Cold Stone's ex-CEO was Doug Ducey - douchebag conservative to the core.

Fuck all them.

I'll spread my legs and you can sizzle. your ice cream on my pork chop for Five Fitty.

R55 Doug Douchey

This is all so rather silly. I simply sit on top of one of my glaciers for an hour, then lay and crack open a few of my own eggs, stir and add some sugar and vanilla: and, voilà, I have homemade gelato!! You should, also.

I make homemade in the freezer part of the Cuisinart ice cream maker. I just mix everything together and put it in the freezer. I threw the motor part out years ago.