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I was eating some Breyers Ice Cream and bit down on something hard. It was a shard of glass and very sharp on both ends.

I have not yet contacted the company, doubting they will do anything about it. This notice is to to say: be careful! The specific product was called Breyers Blast - Malted Milk Balls. If I had swallowed this shard, I wouldn't be able to write this notice today!

Other complaints on line indicate Breyers is not particularly sensitive to customer complaints, even about *glass* in their products.

Advice from anyone? Please?

John E., in Miami, Florida

Location: Miami, Florida

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Guest

I can't believe there are this many other people. Mine was Breyers chocolate peanut butter.

The peanut butter wasn't even mixed in, just chocolate ice cream with two huge frozen globs of peanut butter in the middle. Trying to eat it anyway and bam, hard *** piece of glass. Luckily this piece wasn't sharp. But I've probably eaten ice cream like a thousand times, this is a first.

Not cool. I now eat it carefully like when you eat fish.

Guest
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It truly is amazing. And sincerely scary, because it is ON-GOING!

How can any company continue with this constant peril, sitting in the freezer compartments of our grocery stores??! Let's keep this "thread" or "threat warning" - going. NO ONE else seems able to do anything.

Thanks, John E. (yeah, the original guy).

Niteknight

I just had a bowl of Breyers, bit down on something hard, spit it out and sure enough it could only be described as glass...twice! Twice, only because I truly could not believe what I was experiencing

Guest

This is happening, with various ice cream companies - it's maybe time for a class action lawsuit. Well, in this case, it would be a GLASS ACTION LAWSUIT.

Yeah, a pun - but, we do need to keep communicating.

One way or the other, this must stop before somebody gets killed! -- John

Guest

We had this happen with a half gallon of Rocky Road last night!!! This is why I googled it!! I was wondering if we were the only folks to have this happen.

Guest

Friends, It just keeps happening! It is only pure luck that no one (to the best of my knowledge) hasn't been seriously injured or killed via this incredibly lax ice cream manufacturing process!

It's particularly bad since, in ice cream, there ARE, from time to time, *ice* chips that are hard and crunchy.

It's like a game of frozen roulette! John E.

Guest

Just bit some glass from Breyers Cookies and cream

Raiza Xov

It happened to a friend of mine on Saturday, she had bought Rocky Road. The store refused to take it off the shelf, they told her to call Breyers, who said they would call her back today.

Trevis Fiv

I just had the same thing happen to me last night something has to be done about this

Guest
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This happened last night to is in the 2 in 1 Reese's Ice cream, we contacted the company

Guest

get an attorney...this happened to a co-worker I know. He got a large settlement of half a million.

Jeanne Jgu
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You may be right - but,,, it's been six years now since it happened. And...

biggest problem of all re: litigation? I didn't swallow it, nor did I have superficial cuts of any kind. Pure luck. But - if it ever happens again, oh yeah -- got my atty.

on speed dial! Be careful out there friends... this is just one area of life - a nice area with a fun product we've all enjoyed since childhood. Every week, I hear about some "recall" or other...

grim stuff. --John

Guest

I found some glass in my Breyers Heath icecream today.

Guest

Iโ€™m kinda afraid to eat ice cream. I was eating and found something on my finger, it could have been glass or some kind of salt.

Iโ€™m not sure. But itโ€™s still be terrible if I were to swallow glass!

Guest
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Friend:

So far, there have not been any accounts of *crushed* glass -- all the incidents until now (including mine) involved

shards of glass that could be - ice. However when spitting out these shards - it is not ice.

The "salt" consistency you experienced is very strange.

You did the right things by NOT consuming

any of it.

Bottom line: BEWARE -- tell friends. John E.

Guest

I found a shard of sharp glass just now in my Carmel vanilla ice cream so I looked it up and found this thatโ€™s crazy I canโ€™t beleive so many others have found glass also! They need to recall the ice cream or investigate cause the peace I found was super sharp and couldโ€™ve killed me if I swallowed it

Guest
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It is amazing the problem has been allowed to continue for this length of time. I checked the records here at

Pissed Consumer:

I first published my complaint about glass-- 6 YEARS AGO!

Many, many others have added to the complaints since then.

Plus - another factor to keep in mind - most people do not write in and alert people.

How many others have found the same dangerous problem - and just let it go in silence?

Thank you for sharing your experience - so glad you are OK and did *not* swallow! John E., Miami Florida

Guest

I found glass in my Tillamook ice cream! They sent me free ice cream coupons lol.

The flavor was Banana Split.

Yeah, split your lip, tongue or intestines it should be called! I'll let you know but I'm getting a lawyer.

Guest
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I am glad I saw your post as I bought Tillamook ice cream and had chocolate syrup on it. I bit down on something, spit it out and took it to a pawn shop and the jeweler looked at it and said it was s piece of tempered glass. how does glass get in ice cream?

Guest

BREYERS & DREYERS

The 'glass shard' problem continues, alas. One caution, when notifying the company, be sure which one it is.

There is (original complaint) Breyers, and there is (here, recently) Dreyers.

Two completely different companies.

It is strange that two well known ice cream companies with very similar names both have problems with glass shards. Both have been in business for a very long time.

For history buffs, Breyers came first back in 1886.

Dreyers began in 1928. Keep the shards. Keep the remaining ice cream in the freezer.

If any proof is ever demanded, you'll need everything you can turn over. and...

notify us here! Be careful everyone...

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