Fans Melt Down After Supply Of Blue Bell's Christmas Ice Cream Dries Up

KUT 90.5 | By Andrew Weber

Published November 28, 2017 at 4:41 PM CST

Blue Bell is in hot water again.

The Brenham-based creamery is getting a cold shoulder from fans looking for its newest, Yuletide-themed flavor. After an objectively early launch a week before Halloween, it seems Blue Bell鈥檚 Christmas Cookies Ice Cream won鈥檛 be home for the holidays for many rabid fans.

The company announced the flavor in a Facebook post on Oct. 23, touting the combination of sugar cookie, chocolate chip and snickerdoodle flavors paired with red sprinkles and a green icing swirl.

Then, , the supply dried up. Customers could no longer find it in stores, and while it was originally offered online, the flavor doesn't seem to be available .

So, naturally, people had a lot of problems with that and took to the internet for an especially lengthy . While a sprinkling of the 8,000-plus commenters on Facebook and Instagram clamored for revivals of flavors of Christmas past 鈥� like Gingerbread House and Hot Chocolate 鈥� many of them lamented the scarcity of the Christmas Cookies flavor in grocery aisles nationwide.

While in October shortly after posting on Facebook, there hasn't been much of a stir since.

This, of course, comes after a multi-state in 2015 after three people in Kansas died and 10 people across four states were hospitalized. Listeria was again found in Blue Bell cookie dough .