Graters Ice Cream!

[wozzy]

I found out just the other day that the chocolate chips used in Graters ice cream are not ok.

Apparently, the chocolate chips are made from the chocolate that drips off of the chocolate-covered cones and cookie dough and whatever else they chocolate cover.

Just FYI.

I'm sad because those chocolate chips were good!

[CarlaB]

I can't eat dairy ... but this sounds strange. Who did you hear this from? Is it someone who would know?

[wozzy]

My sister has Celiac disease too, and I guess she found out from her friend the other day. I'm not sure how she found out, though.

[CarlaB]

My sister has Celiac disease too, and I guess she found out from her friend the other day. I'm not sure how she found out, though.

Sounds like hearsay to me. I'm trying to find out for sure, but I'd definately research more before I just wrote them off. I don't think a company that claims to be the best out there, even better than Haagen Dazs, would use drippings off cones for their chocolate chips. It doesn't even seem like the most practical way to do it. Plus, their chocolate chips are soft, which is what I always liked about them ... and they're frozen, I can't imagine that same chocolate would work for a chocolate covered cone. I can't have casein, so no ice cream for me anyway, but I'm looking into it because my daughter is gluten-free but can have ice cream. I'll let you know when I find out definitavely, please do the same for me!

[CarlaB]

Okay, finally heard back from my friend who was a district manager for them. Here's what he had to say:

Perhaps what the person meant was that the chocolate chips in the ice cream

are soft enough that they drip off the cone. I'm not sure exactly how the

chips in Cincinnati are made, since they also make chocolates down there,

but up in Columbus and in Dayton (the Dayton area ice cream is made in

Columbus) the chips were made by melting more or less equal parts chocolate

(either semi-sweet or milk) with corn oil. The liquid chocolate is then

poured onto the ice cream after the ice cream's reached a solid form. The

chocolate hardens when it hits the ice cream and forms a sort of sheet over

the surface of the ice cream. Once the chocolate's solidified enough (a

couple minutes), the chocolate coated ice cream is then mixed together

resulting in odd sized chips.