new soya ice-cream, available in tesco!

sweet-rasmus

for any non-dairy eaters out there; Walls HB now have a tub of soya ice-cream for sale!!! strawberry and vanilla. i had a look on the net, but i couldn't find any links on it, so you'll have to believe me! available in tesco (dun laoghaire and stillorgan for sure ) but still as pricey as the sweedish glace stuff you get in the health food shops. ah well!

sweet-rasmus

oh, i also found a whipped soya cream in nourish on liffey street in dublin. i had never seen it before and it was a nice change from those little cartons of soya single creem went very well with sticky toffee puddings

Nature Boy

Ah! Very good, will keep a look out

sweet-rasmus

new ice-cream!!! i was just in tesco half an hour ago and picked up chocolate soya HB ice-cream! much tastier than the sweedish glace chocolate one, i have to say. Ate a little when it thawed somewhat on the way home and it was like eating chocolate mousse

the new ice-cream looks like: http://www.hbicecream.ie/ie_en/products/HB_Soya/HB_Soya/121/default.aspx

Nature Boy

You like your ice cream...

Tar.Aldarion

when you are a vegan I imagine you might start missing ice cream!

Your not a Vegan sweet?

I loves me dairy....I think I'll contemplate sucide if they start factory farming dairy cows in this country.

sweet-rasmus

i am vegan this ice-cream is such a treat!

flikflak

Thats great - will keep my eyes peeled for that one!1

Thanks for the heads up!

flikflak

Mmmm I bought the strawberry and vanilla one yesterday and kept going back to the freezer for a spoonful!! Its lovely!

sweet-rasmus

yey! i have to admit i have a tub of both in my freezer a treat indeed!

Tar.Aldarion

Ah you have seen the light, it is so goooood.

Strawberry and vanilla just sounds somehow wrong.

Tar.Aldarion

Eat it, be converted!

dynastygal

Although it looks nice, it wouldn't feel right giving to a company that profits mostly from exploitation of bovines.

sweet-rasmus

i'd imagine that would be the case for plenty of companies which supply food. e.g. your local supermarket.

dynastygal

My local supermarket aren't a market aimed at providing a particular item though. The supermarket supplies what is voted for with the buyers money. I.e. I buy lots of soya milk, so they'll see it's being sold so they'll stock it more. Things that don't sell well don't get stocked continuously. Whereas with this company, it makes solely ice cream products/ice lollie products. There is very little chance it'll change it's place in the ice cream market.

Tar.Aldarion

Could the same not be said, the more soya ice cream bought the more weight in manufacturing it will be given.

dynastygal

It could be said, but given this is a new brand, and the history of walls has always been dairy ice cream...I'm not sure much is gonna change as far as they're concerned. I'd rather put my money towards ethical companies who make the same sort've product; like swedish glace. That way you're giving money to an ethical company and encouraging their products to be stocked by supermarkets.

Tar.Aldarion

Ah buy both. hehe
It's nice to see somebody with a pure dairy background start having soya products and introducing new ones as time goes on.

Tar.Aldarion

Ah buy both. hehe
It's nice to see somebody with a pure dairy background start having soya products and introducing new ones as time goes on.

sweet-rasmus

Tara Le d'Arion wrote: »

Ah buy both. hehe
It's nice to see somebody with a pure dairy background start having soya products and introducing new ones as time goes on.

very good point they are accepting the demand and change.

che81

i had the strawberry one at my mum's and quite liked it. she finally gave up trying to get me to eat some "proper dairy filled dessert". Even though she's veggie, she can't understand how i don't eat dairy.

anyway I understand their reasonings behind entering the dairy free market, but it feels like a butcher selling Quorn.

dynastygal

Turns out Unilever owns Walls...another reason not to buy it.

Tara Le d'Arion

Tara Le d'Arion wrote: »

Eat it, be converted!

I don't know if I am converted but that was an expierence

Tar.Aldarion

Ah she has found it most appealing.

sweet-rasmus

it has been brought to my attention that tesco are selling the chocolate HB soya ice-cream at half-price! Only €2.49 a tub. Offer ends 5th of August. i picked up one sweetly priced one today...

cozmik

Ice cream made from a legume just doesn't seem right to me.

Tar.Aldarion

Just got the strawberry and vanilla one for half price, soooo nyom.

cozmik

cozmik wrote: »

Ice cream made from a legume just doesn't seem right to me.

Ah go on try it. It is only 2.49 at the minute in tesco. I'll brand you a coaward of you don't!


I tried chocolate yesterday, it was really good. I usually hate chocolate ice-cream.

So what is the consenus...strawberry and vanilla ftw?

flikflak

I too got me a tub of the choc one on Saturday - I just wish I had a bigger freezer instead of that excuse for one that is at the top of my fridge!!

I am going to be struggling to get into my clothes with all this new yummy ice cream around!!!

Tar.Aldarion

Moonbaby wrote: »

Ah go on try it. It is only 2.49 at the minute in tesco. I'll brand you a coaward of you don't!


I tried chocolate yesterday, it was really good. I usually hate chocolate ice-cream.

So what is the consenus...strawberry and vanilla ftw?

I musch prefer the strawberry and vanilla, I think I can't eat any chocolate ice cream after eating ben and jerrys chocolate fudge brownie, it makes the rest seem so bad.

sweet-rasmus

woohoo! the love for ice-cream in this thread is unstoppable!

Our lust for ice-cream is insatiable!

When I was living in europe they had these sachets of stuff. You mix it with milk and whatever flvouring you wanted. Usually fresh fruit, and then you had fab ice-cream.

Why don't we have that stuff.

t-ha

Cheers for the info guys - I was missing my ice-cream. Got it at half price too (I hope that doesn't mean that it's not shifting and they're going to stop stocking it?!). I also ate the whole lot on my way back from the shop.

sweet-rasmus

t-ha wrote: »

Cheers for the info guys - I was missing my ice-cream. Got it at half price too (I hope that doesn't mean that it's not shifting and they're going to stop stocking it?!). I also ate the whole lot on my way back from the shop.

I share your worries for half price, but hope it's just to attract attention to the product. Glad you enjoyed

flikflak

Yey, another convert!!

I actually filled in their comment thingy on the website and told them it was great that they were now doing soya ice cream so they hopefully wont pull it!!!

sweet-rasmus

flikflak wrote: »

Yey, another convert!!

I actually filled in their comment thingy on the website and told them it was great that they were now doing soya ice cream so they hopefully wont pull it!!!

TBH we should all do that. My sister has decided that their next step is mint choc chip, but personally I doubt there will be more flavors anytime soon. Either way, I will add a comment myself in a while.

dynastygal

Does nobody give a hoot that walls is owned by an animal testing giant?

sweet-rasmus

dynastygal wrote: »

Does nobody give a hoot that walls is owned by an animal testing giant?

You got your point across before. Everyone has a different set of rules to stick to, what they will and won't accept as a veggie/vegan; you must respect the individual's choice.

Perhaps more of us appreciate the availably of non-dairy ice-cream. Don't spoil the love!

dynastygal

But you can get dairy free ice cream from other companies who don't test? Why would any ethically minded person choose tested over non tested?

Tar.Aldarion

I assume you use alternative medicine over real medicine of any kind?
There is no point boycotting one of the only companies to make a product like ice cream vegan friendly, what will that achieve?
Increasing the market for alternatives increases the amount of alternatives there are. Eat from both companies?
Nothing people wear could be worn and so on in all areas if you went by squeaky clean standards. It's good to live the best you can but it's good to promote vegan products as well.

cozmik

dynastygal wrote: »

Does nobody give a hoot that walls is owned by an animal testing giant?

Well good on YOU for caring, dynastygal. Keep up the good efforts!

Tar.Aldarion

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I have converted more people to strawberry and vanillia!

Tar.Aldarion

I have no qualms with the real stuff, this just tastes better. Soya is great stuff.

sweet-rasmus

Moonbaby wrote: »

I have converted more people to strawberry and vanillia!

nice one

cheesemonger

Tesco in Merrion Road has the Walls HB Soy ice-cream for 1/2 price (2.59€ if I remember correctly).