ICYMI: Why is Trader Joe's Ice Cream So Good?
Inside Trader Joe's
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🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
We get a lot of questions at Trader Joe’s. And we really love answering them. Especially when it means we get to eat ice cream. For research. To all those who ask what makes Trader Joe’s ice cream so special, we say, all the things! It starts with high quality ingredients, and a dedication to making ice cream that over-delivers on all of your expectations – it’s rich, it’s creamy, it’s incredibly flavorful, and you may be surprised by how it stacks up next to other so-called “premium” ice creams out there. Tune in to the latest in our series of bite-sized episodes, ITJ ICYMI, to really get the scoop on Trader Joe’s ice cream.
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| 0:00.0 | Our crew members love to answer your questions. |
| 0:03.6 | They're really good at it. |
| 0:05.2 | They especially love questions about ice cream. |
| 0:07.7 | I mean, who doesn't? |
| 0:08.5 | This might sound self-serving, but they do get asked. |
| 0:11.6 | Why is Trader Joe's ice cream so good? |
| 0:13.6 | It's another I see why am I, in case you missed it, mini episode of Inside Trader Joe's. |
| 0:29.6 | I see why am I? Why is Trader Joe's ice cream so good? There's a good answer to that question because Trader Joe's ice cream is different from a lot of other ice creams out there. Mostly in how much of it |
| 0:40.8 | you get. There are times when more is more and you get more ice cream with Trader Joe's |
| 0:46.5 | ice cream. So I went shopping. Okay? I bought three quarts of ice cream from Trader Joe's. I bought |
| 0:53.2 | vanilla mint chip and coffee, three of our |
| 0:55.6 | most popular flavors. And I went to another grocery store and I bought a major national brand, |
| 1:03.2 | vanilla, mint chip, and coffee. Okay? Here's some differences right out of the gate. Trader Joe's |
| 1:10.0 | is a quart. There are no quartz in the other grocery store. There are what I thought out of the gate. Trader Joe's is a quart. |
| 1:13.1 | There are no quartz in the other grocery store. |
| 1:15.1 | There are what I thought were half gallons. |
| 1:16.9 | Oh, but let's take a look. |
| 1:20.0 | But a closer look in there, not half gallons, they're 1.5 quarts. |
| 1:22.4 | In my mind, that's a little cheater pack, |
| 1:26.7 | because the last time I bought ice cream like this in a other grocery store, |
| 1:29.5 | this container was a half gallon, but they shrunk the container and they made it a quart and a half. So it's missing half |
| 1:35.6 | a quart to become a half gallon, but it is bigger than our quart. Yeah, physically larger. Let's |
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