Just weeks before the sale of Blue Bell is set to resume in the Lone Star State comes news that Americans are once again enjoying higher-fat dairy products like ice cream.
According to Bloomberg News, surging demand for ice cream and other dairy fats is tightening supply of cream and butter.
Americans are finally falling in love with dairy fat again, Ted Galloway, vice president of Galloway Co., the nation’s largest producer of sweetened condensed milk, said.
U.S. consumption of ice cream has been on the decline for decades, according to Bloomberg. In 2011, consumption was 12.8 pounds per person. That’s the lowest ice cream consumption has been since 1940.
The return of ice cream love is good for Texas dairymen who provide milk for creameries like Blue Bell’s in Brenham.