IGA Brand Ice Cream - WARNING! Never, ever, ever buy!!!

GregMonarch on 07/09/2017 - 19:56

Due to car breakdown I was forced to buy overpriced food from IGA the other night instead of ColesWorths. Since there's no way in the world I'm paying $10 for 2L of vanilla ice cream, I bought the $6 IGA brand.

  • Got a neighbour's kid you really dislike? Promise them an ice-cream cone for mowing your lawn!
  • Know one of those people that never get the hint it's time to leave so you can sleep?
  • Know someone that owns an IGA? Who is more deserving to be forced to eat the rubbish they sell!

This is a warning to anyone brave (or foolish) enough to boldly go where no one should ever go again. IGA brand vanilla ice-cream is AWFUL. It was like frozen watered-down skim milk. i.e. The same taste AND consistency, with no air whipped through it at all.

And beware… It comes in Neapolitan too… So you can REALLY be cured of shopping there.

Side note: When I typed the title of this, a previous thread appeared about 400 IGA price matching ColesWorths. (Either they have more than 400 stores because mine sure isn't included, or it was temporary.)

Poll Options

  • 2
    Hahaha, they tricked you too!
  • 4
    I bought IGA food once. My family didn't speak 2me 4 a month. The dog ran if I opened the cupboard!
  • 5
    What's wrong with you!? It's my fav (and rats nest in my mouth when I sleep).
  • 30
    I knew SOMEONE must shop at IGA... Now I know who it is!
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Comments

  • dylanando on 07/09/2017 - 20:08

    Must be where they source the mcflurry icecream from

  • kipps on 07/09/2017 - 20:10
    +5

    You should invest $80,000 in a new car.

    • greyeye on 08/09/2017 - 09:31

      <sarcasm> You should invest $80000 in a bitcoin. </sarcasm>

  • Some Human on 07/09/2017 - 20:12

    Sounds like IGA Icecream is the Domino's of ice cream.

  • Savas on 07/09/2017 - 20:15
    +4

    Haven't tried IGA brand ice cream, but i always love Black and Gold.

    • altomic on 07/09/2017 - 20:38
      +3

      Black and gold (choc chip) is surprising decent

      • Savas on 07/09/2017 - 21:24
        +1

        Yummo !

    • FeRGan on 07/09/2017 - 23:24
      +1

      Yeah, Black and Gold's meat products are fantastic…

      • SupeNintendoChalmers on 08/09/2017 - 09:03
        +3

        +1. Nothing beats the combined meats of Possum and Pigeon

  • Cheeper on 07/09/2017 - 20:40
    +2

    Real ice cream costs more.. read the lable you will see it is called iced confection or some other tricky name.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/01/16/the-great-ice-cr…

    • scrimshaw on 07/09/2017 - 20:42
      +3

      Reminds me of the news story about Wal-Mart and Coles ice creams not melting when left in the sun
      https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/36566237/nsw-customer-discov…

    • Lady B on 08/09/2017 - 10:58

      Ice confection has been around for at least 35 years. My parents used to buy it from Franklin's. Seems like the OP has just stumbled across how the other half live.
      My local IGAs stock budget brands awa magnificent ice cream like LICK (if you've never had LICK, you've never had true icecream). The regular supermarket brands like Blue Ribbon are never more than 10-50c more than Coles etc. For me, the gourmet ranges are worth it.

  • scrimshaw on 07/09/2017 - 20:41
    +11

    The lack of air and fluffiness probably means the ice cream melted during storage and then was frozen again (possibly power outage or some other storage mistake).

    As for the taste… who knows, maybe you got too accustomed to eating Connoiseur ice cream?

    • GregMonarch on 08/09/2017 - 22:01
      +1

      Nope. $2.19 for 2L of WW or Coles brand is usually good enough for me - which goes to prove how bad this IGA/Black & Gold stuff is.

  • dingdong3000 on 07/09/2017 - 20:42

    Surely this helps you lose weight??

  • djones145 on 07/09/2017 - 20:52

    Best ice cream ever

  • JimmyF on 07/09/2017 - 21:21

    FWP

  • Wystri Warrick on 07/09/2017 - 21:46
    +1

    Need Bikies vote

  • [Deactivated] on 07/09/2017 - 21:49
    +4

    you spent $6 on crap ice cream, and you probably spent 30 min typing the post up to be perfect, i earn around $100 an hour, so if it was me i would've wasted $56 dollars on ice cream.
    its $6 ice cream let it go.

    • Diji1 on 07/09/2017 - 22:04
      +6

      Reading this thread has left you out of pocket to the tune of 5 bucks!

      • [Deactivated] on 07/09/2017 - 22:12
        +3

        well worth $5.

        • PJC on 07/09/2017 - 22:14
          +4

          It cost me $30 but then you are with the wrong escort agency.

    • inconspicuous on 08/09/2017 - 12:21
      +1

      Don't we all OzBargain at work? I'm being paid to be on OzB right now.

    • lainey13 on 08/09/2017 - 22:37

      Now that's some slow typing :)

  • [Deactivated] on 07/09/2017 - 21:58

    Not covered by their home brand guarantee?

    https://www.iga.com.au/our-brands/

  • Irate Monk on 07/09/2017 - 22:02
    +1

    Can't agree with OP more!

    IGA is lower than scum.

    They not only overprice insanely, but also stock perished stuff, with no qualms whatsoever.
    One close look at the veggies section is all it takes, for anyone sane, to see this.
    The refuse bin from the last week's farmers' market may yield fresher stuff.

    Stinking chicken, wilted greens, over-ripe bananas, mushy apples, oozing meat, tepid milk…
    Don't get me started!

    I have an IGA sitting smack opposite my place.
    I avoid it like the plague.

    Barring life-threatening starvation, I wont'd wish IGA on my worst enemy.
    And, I too would want the IGA franchise owner made to eat their own stuff.

    • spackbace on 07/09/2017 - 23:44
      +2

      Meh, I go about 3 suburbs over to go to an IGA just for their meat department. Good shit at prices far lower than Coles/WW/Aldi.

      • SupeNintendoChalmers on 08/09/2017 - 09:08

        Ritchies Aspendale Gardens FTW

      • Jalif on 08/09/2017 - 15:29

        They mustn't be supplied by Metcash.

        Metcash - The lowest quality at a premium price.

      • PissLUR on 08/09/2017 - 16:40
        +1

        which IGA?

        • spackbace on 08/09/2017 - 16:52
          +1

          Canning Vale

        • PissLUR on 08/09/2017 - 16:53
          +1

          @Spackbace:
          ta

        • spackbace on 08/09/2017 - 16:58
          +1

          @PissLUR:

          Get some cheap chicken stuff mainly but depends whats on special. Pretty common to find like marinaded chicken wings/wingettes for under $4/kg and stuff :)

  • PJC on 07/09/2017 - 22:04

    Did the ingredients list include cream?

    • [Deactivated] on 07/09/2017 - 22:12
      +3

      shaving cream maybe

  • spackbace on 07/09/2017 - 23:42
    +6

    Did you really need to have the ice cream, isn't that the question? "Sorry family, the good stuff was too expensive, I'll get it tomorrow when I'm near a Coles/WW"

    So much rant, so little substance

    • Dibbers on 08/09/2017 - 09:01
      +1

      Isn't the idea of Ozbargain to make sure you are getting more for yr buck? Seems to me that's all he/she was trying to do.

      • spackbace on 08/09/2017 - 12:10
        +3

        But getting more for your buck means waiting a day or 2 for a non-essential item

    • jackspratt on 08/09/2017 - 11:37

      So much rant, so little substance

      +10

  • iforgotmysocks on 08/09/2017 - 08:59
    +2

    Your poll options are bad and you should feel bad.

  • Speckled Jim on 08/09/2017 - 09:16

    Whippy's.

  • accountant4Jesus on 08/09/2017 - 13:42
    +1

    Ranting just because you can is a worthless exercise and only paints you as a spoilt brat who wasn't able to get what you wanted at the price you wanted.

    • GregMonarch on 08/09/2017 - 22:06

      You mean something edible… for 3x the price of WW or Coles brand ice-cream!? Yeah sure.

      • accountant4Jesus on 10/09/2017 - 09:30

        Nobody forced you to buy from there instead of waiting a day or two to buy from Coles or Woolworths. And ice cream is a luxury item, not a staple. This kind of thread makes my blood boil because there are people living below the poverty line that can barely afford to feed themselves and that would treat ice cream as a special treat the way it's supposed to be viewed. Yet when you don't like the luxury good you chose to buy you chuck a tantrum like a 6-year-old. Sometimes I hate this country, and this is one of those times.

        • GregMonarch on 10/09/2017 - 10:36
          +2
          • It was go there, or not eat for two weeks actually. Car parts are coming from the USA because my car is so old no-one in Australia has parts.
          • It's my first ice cream in 4, maybe 6 months - forgive me!
          • As for 'poverty line' and 'special treats', I'm on disability, get about $500 a week, and pay $345 a week for rent alone.
          • I might buy ColesWorths brand ice cream 2-3 times a year, and have NEVER bought 'luxury' anything for a couple of DECADES. I bought my first tomato the other day in about 18 months, because I saw them at $2.99/kg instead of $7+ a kg. Same with broccoli, cauliflower, bananas… for about 3 years. Usually it's potatoes, carrots, and oranges at $1-$2/kg.

          Yet I managed to find something to laugh about with this IGA post.

          When you can live on $155 week for electricity, water, food, clothing (most of mine are 20 year old T-shirts that are literally rags with tattered necks and several holes), car rego, etc. for $155 a week - then your pompous lecturing might hold some value.

          Do you hunt down everyone else having a joke on here? Is your sense of humor so STUNTED you missed the tongue-in-cheek poll points?? Or do you just thrive on trawling online forums to find posts you can "chuck a tantrum like a 6-year old" over, "making this one of those times people with a developed one, hate this country" (or at least shake their head over some of the pompous asses within it)?

        • accountant4Jesus on 10/09/2017 - 11:51

          @GregMonarch: When I was younger my dad was retrenched from a full-time job, and even after buying a carpet cleaning business he ran it into the ground because he was a good worker but had no business sense. So for a time my family lived on Centrelink and my dad's credit card debt (he somehow got it up to $15,000 without defaulting during that time). My mum was a greedy woman who loved money so much that she would screw people over to get more of it, and so she charged me 2/3 of the wage I was getting from a cleaning job for board, and then complained that she didn't have enough for food even though she got board from 3 of 5 children at the time (roughly $700 per week). She would only buy the absolute bare minimum we needed to survive and just pocket the rest of the money and play all day on FarmVille. I did have the electricity, "rent" and food paid for, but I had $100-$150 per week left afterwards and still had to pay for car rego, fuel, etc for a car that wasn't even mine. During this time I think I had ice cream maybe once in a year. So I know what it's like to struggle financially and not have enough for treats.

          With regards to tongue in cheek things, if it's printed, no, I don't get it most of the time because I have Asperger's and 99% of the time take what is printed literally. I can tell if someone is saying something tongue in cheek if its verbal because I'm used to that now, but printed still gets me.

          I apologize for attacking you. Just with what happened with me in the past with that family situation it made me really angry that someone could complain about something as basic as food when they had more than enough for it, and I mistakenly believed you were in the same boat, that's why I got angry.

        • GregMonarch on 11/09/2017 - 01:31

          @accountant4Jesus: No prob. :-)

  • TransportPosters on 08/09/2017 - 14:10
    +1

    I don't know… ice cream is usually so particular for a lot of people. You must have reeeeeally needed ice cream to risk getting another private label version of it.

    • TransportPosters on 08/09/2017 - 15:51

      But thank you for the heads-up about the IGA stuff, appreciated. I haven't shopped there since I was a little boy in the 1980s.

      • GregMonarch on 08/09/2017 - 22:20

        Lucky you, LOL.

        Their entire meat section is the same length as a girls' hopscotch game - one one side of an aisle. Two day old cold BBQ sparro… um… chickens are $8 (what price are they hot!?). Forget buying any specials in their catalogue… They had plum sauce for $2 when I was there (Fountain brand I think), but so few spots on the shelf, three customers and it was all gone - and only gets restocked after the special ends. Then something else had no stock. So I paid more attention and realised EVERY item on sale had no stock on the shelf! On the rare occasion meat is a sensible price, I've gone in at opening time on the first morning of their new catalogue, and two hours later… Not only is there none on the shelf, there's no POSITION for it on the shelf. (It didn't sell out - it never existed.) You can pay using EFTPOS, but you can't withdraw cash - you're told to pay for the food then go use an ATM inside the store which of course charges something $5 (probably more by now) to withdraw. (The locals all withdraw cash from the Bottle Shop instead who doesn't charge.)

        • jackspratt on 08/09/2017 - 23:25
          -2

          For someone who

          …….was forced to buy overpriced food from IGA the other night…

          you seem to spend an inordinate amount of time reviewing their supply chain, and examining their prices and catalogues.

          Is that you, Queen Gertrude?

        • GregMonarch on 09/09/2017 - 10:11
          +1

          @jackspratt: Don't get the reference.

          I'm just frugal. And think, if it tastes filthy why even sell it!? Just delete it. Ppeople think Aldi/Colesworth has reasonable attempts, so IGA must too. When someone tries their cheapest attempt (because everything above it is at crackpipe-prices), it ingrains the kind of opinion of IGA as my OP. (Which was facetious for the humourless among us.) ;-p

  • [Deactivated] on 08/09/2017 - 17:05
    +4

    Ozbargain…The new website to whine about ice cream.

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