Blue Bell announces first returning flavor on Monday

In a tweet sent Friday afternoon on Blue Bell’s account, the company says “We’ll unveil our first flavor on Monday”.

Blue Bell Creameries plans to announce Monday which of their ice cream flavors will be the first to return to store shelves. “It’s rich, homemade tasting vanilla ice cream with a special hand-cranked flavor that’s the best in the country”.

After Blue Bell issued a recall of its products nationwide in April, followingthe discoery of a strain of listeria in its facilities. Blue Bell announced. Three of them died.

After Texas and Alabama, sales will resume in the following order: north central Texas and southern Oklahoma; southwest Texas and central Oklahoma; and the majority of Texas and southern Louisiana.

Diana Deleon, freshman advertising major and a resident in Duren residence hall, said she has been following the comeback of Blue Bell since it was revived earlier in August and said other brands will not be able to replace her favorite flavor, Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla ice cream. The facilities in Brenham and Broken Arrow, Oklahoma are still undergoing facility and production upgrades and are not yet producing products.

Only dates for phase one are known at this time, the company said, and it will enter each phase based on product availability and when it can service the customers in an area.