Ben & Jerry’s said its parent, Unilever (ULVR.L), decided to oust the ice cream maker’s chief executive, Dave Stever, escalating a battle over the subsidiary’s independence on social policy issues.
In a Tuesday night filing in Manhattan federal court, Ben & Jerry’s said Unilever advised on March 3 it was removing Stever without consulting directors because of his commitment to the ice cream maker’s social mission and brand integrity, not because of concerns about his job performance.
It said Unilever chastised Stever in a January performance review for “repeatedly acquiescing” to Ben & Jerry’s promotion of social goals, and has repeatedly warned personnel not to defy its efforts to “silence the social mission.”
Ben & Jerry’s also said Unilever’s attacks on its social mission have reached “new levels of oppressiveness.”
Ok, this is a dangerous idea. Make your own.
You get an ice cream maker/mixer that turns a frozen bowl.
In a separate bowl mix 1 quart of light cream, 1 can of condensed milk, 1/2 cup of sugar as the base (add vanilla for vanilla flavor, melt some real chocolate with enough cream that it’s liquid for chocolate, etc, play with it, nothing solid yet)
Pour half into your mixer, let it go for 28mins, add any solids you want (if you’re planning to add a lot, you could pour less base in). 2 more min, scope it out into some containers. Repeat for the rest of the base, you can do different flavors/mix ins if you want).
My bowls are good for 2 batches before they don’t freeze enough. If you need more, you can get and freeze more bowls, or just make batches up to like every other day or so, as the bowls need to freeze.
This is going to be very expensive and time consuming for a lot of people.
Same goes with brewing your own beer or making your own wine. It can’t compete with the cost at scale.
Also, not everyone has time for stuff like this. Making your own pickles/ice cream/beef jerky/beer/whatever is a luxury. So is having a vegetable garden or whatever other hipster idea people suggest in this vein. Like, I do a lot of those things, because I have a house (because space is often a requirement) and I work from home so I have time. But most people aren’t that fortunate and what free time they have should be spent on doing things they find fun.
Jerky isn’t too bad. Mostly you’re waiting on it to marinade or waiting on it to dry out. Very minimal actual work.
Space is another thing to consider.
Oh wait that was mentioned already. But yeah in a 1 bedroom apartment, it’s not easy to do all this stuff yourself. I don’t have a spare closet to install my own beer brewery and smoking case and jerky dryer.
One thing I’ve noticed since coming to Lemmy from Reddit. Damn if the most obnoxious, time intensive, expensive solutions aren’t the most upvoted like I actually am not living paycheck to paycheck and just trying to get my dopamine hit.