AUDIO: COMPANY THAT MAKES COOKIE DOUGH FOR ICE CREAM SHUTS DOWN
Aspen Hills, a company in Iowa that sells frozen cookie dough to ice cream makers like Cedar Crest, Blue Bunny, Publix, Chocolate Shoppe and Blue Bell, has shut down. The shutdown comes after the Food and Drug Administration found the pathogen Listeria in the manufacturing facility, along with other cleanliness, equipment, and procedural problems that could cause food to become contaminated. Rather than fix things, the company decided to shut down, causing a shortage of cookie dough that goes into our ice cream.
* There were a bunch of problems with the factory, but let’s face it: They had us at Listeria.
* Have they tried scrubbing their equipment with Listerine?
* Listeria, cleanliness, equipment, and procedural problems, but to be fair, the sprinkler system is top-notch.
* This is an outrage! How are Americans supposed to survive on a dessert that doesn’t have a second dessert mixed in with it?
* I feel like such an idiot. At first I thought the company shut down because we aren’t eating as much as we used to.
* That could have been my dumbest analysis ever.
* Aspen Hills? I can see that name if you’re in Colorado, but Iowa?
* President Trump is furious saying it’s just another case of government regulations getting in the way of manufacturing jobs.
CLIP: Homer says “Dough!”
