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Floyd R. Turbo

(26,549 posts)
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 12:44 PM Jul 2019

Viral video shows woman licking a tub of Blue Bell ice cream, and then putting it back in freezer 🤮

A video of a woman appearing to lick a tub of Blue Bell ice cream before putting it back in a grocery store freezer has attracted the attention of millions, including Blue Bell Creameries. 

The video was posted Saturday by user "Optimus Primal," with the caption, "What kinda psychopathic behavior is this?!" has been viewed more than 10 million times as of Monday evening. It's been retweeted more than 25,000 times and liked more than 61,000 times.

Blue Bell Creameries said it is "monitoring the situation" and cooperating with law enforcement.

"This type of incident will not be tolerated," the Texas company said in a statement.

Viral video shows woman licking a tub of Blue Bell ice cream ... and then putting it back in the store freezer

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/01/blue-bell-viral-video-woman-licking-ice-cream/1624579001/

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Viral video shows woman licking a tub of Blue Bell ice cream, and then putting it back in freezer 🤮 (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Jul 2019 OP
Jail time Watchfoxheadexplodes Jul 2019 #1
Agree! 🤬 Floyd R. Turbo Jul 2019 #9
Food tampering is a felony in Texas Major Nikon Jul 2019 #34
For people asking, "where's the seal?" mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2019 #2
Apparently after the containers are filled, they are inverted in the freezing room creating a Floyd R. Turbo Jul 2019 #3
Unless they've changed.... mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2019 #4
Breyers has a protective seal Niagara Jul 2019 #22
Oh, I had forgotten. You're right. I'm wrong. Thanks. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2019 #23
I didn't want you to deprive yourself of ice cream Niagara Jul 2019 #24
I love it, but I can't digest it easily. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2019 #25
And she added some natural spittle Watchfoxheadexplodes Jul 2019 #5
I'm going to guess the lid will at least partially reattach to the product. Hassin Bin Sober Jul 2019 #8
I bet they will be sealed going forward genxlib Jul 2019 #14
The seal ate all the ice cream and swam away. The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2019 #31
Ariana Grande did that with donuts once: tblue37 Jul 2019 #6
Another asshole! 🤬 Floyd R. Turbo Jul 2019 #10
What the hell is wrong with some people? pandr32 Jul 2019 #7
Unfortunately I think you're right! 🤬 Floyd R. Turbo Jul 2019 #11
Video ProudLib72 Jul 2019 #12
🤮 Floyd R. Turbo Jul 2019 #13
I'm sure her knuckle dragging friends on fb are Watchfoxheadexplodes Jul 2019 #15
She is so proud, so gleeful. nt tblue37 Jul 2019 #16
She looks stoned or drunk. Merlot Jul 2019 #27
I think this is how the Zombie Apocalypse starts. Zoonart Jul 2019 #26
I watched a woman in one of our local... 3catwoman3 Jul 2019 #17
🤮 Floyd R. Turbo Jul 2019 #18
Working in health care... 3catwoman3 Jul 2019 #19
People can be such 🐷🐷! Floyd R. Turbo Jul 2019 #20
Don't get me started about people who plop their babies' butts on the counter The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2019 #32
If any food/ OCT product doesn't have a protective seal on it Niagara Jul 2019 #21
because nobody in a factory or behind a kitchen wall has ever done anything gross Kali Jul 2019 #28
Yes Niagara Jul 2019 #30
luckily in WI we have better options + ge resh frozen custard. local. better. pansypoo53219 Jul 2019 #29
this is why i boil my ice cream! n/t KayF Jul 2019 #33

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,573 posts)
2. For people asking, "where's the seal?"
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 12:48 PM
Jul 2019

the ice cream I buy doesn't have seals. Or, didn't, as I can't digest ice cream too well, so I don't buy it that often. Also, it melts on the way home in this weather.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,573 posts)
4. Unless they've changed....
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 12:55 PM
Jul 2019

Last edited Tue Jul 2, 2019, 04:32 PM - Edit history (1)

Breyers, no seal.

[edited: yes, they do]

Turkey Hill, no seal.

[edited: yes, they do.]

Belmont (Aldi house brand), no seal.

She should have worn a disguise. Someone will rat her out. I hope.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,335 posts)
8. I'm going to guess the lid will at least partially reattach to the product.
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 01:01 PM
Jul 2019

So I really don’t buy the statement the breach “should be noticeable”

Probably not noticeable by the average family throwing a gallon of ice cream in their fridge.

There should be plastic seals.

genxlib

(5,529 posts)
14. I bet they will be sealed going forward
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 01:29 PM
Jul 2019

What is needed for freshness is not always the same as what is needed to guarantee sanitary conditions. At the very least, it seems like they would need to put some kind of wrap or sticker that showed it was not opened since it was packaged.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,808 posts)
31. The seal ate all the ice cream and swam away.
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 06:49 PM
Jul 2019

But seriously, folks, all the ice cream I buy these days has a seal. I highly recommend Tillamook's Rocky Road.

pandr32

(11,601 posts)
7. What the hell is wrong with some people?
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 01:00 PM
Jul 2019

Now that this has gone viral how many other sickos out there will want to do the same?
We'll probably wind up with even more plastic packaging now.

3catwoman3

(24,026 posts)
17. I watched a woman in one of our local...
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 02:24 PM
Jul 2019

...grocery stores sit down in one of the lower height meat cases while she looked over her grocery list. I promptly notified the store management.

3catwoman3

(24,026 posts)
19. Working in health care...
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 02:36 PM
Jul 2019

...I am more than a little germ aware, and fairly easily grossed out.

At a health club we not longer belong to, I saw a different woman sit down on one of the wooden benches in the locker room while totally stalkers. No towel under her bare ass, nothing. Creepy for 2 reasons - she had no idea about whether or not someone else might have done the same thing before she sat there, and no one else who sat there after her would know that she had done that.

Yuck, yuck, yuck!

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,808 posts)
32. Don't get me started about people who plop their babies' butts on the counter
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 06:53 PM
Jul 2019

at coffee shops and restaurants where you get your food and pay at the counter. Of course I want to pick up my lunch right where some kid's diaper has leaked. Some people are so clueless.

Niagara

(7,646 posts)
21. If any food/ OCT product doesn't have a protective seal on it
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 04:12 PM
Jul 2019

I won't purchase it.

Sometime after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, I noticed an increase of food items that started to have protective seals on them that previously didn't have them before.

I was looking at ice cream and noticed that Edy's Ice Cream didn't have these seals. I had emailed Edy's and let them know that they should start putting protective seals on their ice cream containers and what the valid reasons were. They replied to me and pointed out what products they had that had protective seals on them. To this day, Edy's still doesn't put a protective seal on their regular ice cream containers.

This is the food that we buy and eat. It should come with a protection seal and unsanitary people like this woman in the video is another valid reason why we need them. Gross!

Kali

(55,019 posts)
28. because nobody in a factory or behind a kitchen wall has ever done anything gross
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 05:42 PM
Jul 2019

right? I don't disagree that a seal helps somewhat but I hope people don't think it is some kind of perfect protection.

Niagara

(7,646 posts)
30. Yes
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 06:45 PM
Jul 2019

I very aware gross and horrifying things can happen in the food manufacturing business.


It's just nice to know that food that's sitting in the store is protected from "consumers" who want to lick it and put it back on the shelf.

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