Blue Bell

So once we found out the home for Blue Bell ice cream was just a short 30 minute drive west of here on Hwy 290 I felt we were obligated to hop in the truck and take the tour. We drove to Brenham, Texas on our day off for a little site seeing. The building is very nondescript with only Blue Bell posted across the top.

Signs outside lead us to the tour entrance, inside the lobby where you pay $6.00 to take the tour is the history of Blue Bell in pictures. Pretty interesting. Just an FYI, no cameras are allowed on the tour. Every 15 minutes a new tour begins. Our guide was very knowledgeable and informative. She answered everybody's questions along the way.

It was interesting to see almost the entire operation automated, with humans there to do the most minimal of tasks. Like turning a box over after the machine fills it with 6 cartoons. The ice cream sandwich station moved along at quite a clip. The lady there only had to load the machine with cake slabs. Within seconds a completely wrapped ice cream sandwich zipped down the line to be boxed by another machine.

As the tour came to an end we all knew what was coming, a free scoop of ice cream.  We entered an old fashioned ice cream parlor and were treated to sixteen

different kinds of ice cream to choose from. Also part of the parlor was a gift shop with everything under the sun with Blue Bell stamped on it.  A little to much for me.  All in all, it was a very interesting tour and some really good ice cream,  I would recommend it to anybody who finds themselves in east Texas with about an hour on your hands.