Someone here on the Turkey Hill Team – who shall remain anonymous to avoid further playful taunting by co-workers – has elected to give up ice cream for the annual 40 day and 40 night marathon of temptation known as Lent.
We don’t know about you, but if you work in an ice cream factory, giving up ice cream for a month-and-a-half can be, well, extremely difficult. Especially when you enjoy at least four bowls a week like this person does. (Voting in the Ultimate Flavor Tournament was pure torture for them.)
It’s also not easy when the Turkey Hill employee break room has a chest freezer full of free ice cream, including many of the newest flavors (some of which haven’t even been released yet). Yes, the next 25 days – or 2,160,000 seconds according to this person – aren’t going to be easy at all. Good luck brave soul. We’ll eat an extra bowl of Moose Tracks for you at lunch!
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If you’ve got a technical question about the ice cream making process or some other inquiry about the nuances of America’s favorite treat, chances are Ernie has the answer. He might not be able to answer all questions, but he’ll try his best and some may be featured on the Ice Cream Journal.
My 11 year old son is doing the same thing. This is especially hard since he eats constantly. Good luck.
He’ll get extra points from God, I bet
We gave up alcohol, which is cake compared to giving up this ice cream.
God bless you for the sacrifice!!!
nowadays Lent isn’t just about “giving up” something but about doing some good works for others-but I do admire him-it must be very hard
I don’t think I could ever give up Turkey Hill, I love it so much.
I don’t have much will power when it comes to food….I just exercise a lot!! Good luck!!!
Cheers to that brave soul! If you can do this – you’ll feel like you can conquer anything! I’m impressed-whoever you are.
Ernie. From prior blog is that picture of the chocolate ice cream real ice cream or colored mash potatoes?
With 4 different 1/2 gallons in my refrigerator, It would be the last thing I would give up. God bless him!
I give that person a lot of credit to give up ice cream. When I give up something, I just don’t buy it so I’m not tempted but to work in an ice cream factory and give it up is a real challenge and sacrifice.
I gave up all sugar and flour for Lent.
Since Sunday is a day to break the fast, ( the 40 days do not include Sunday’s ), I truly appreciate my Turkey Hill each and every Sunday throughout Lent. Oh yeah, no doughnut for me on Fat Tuesday…it was Turkey Hill Day for me! Blessings and praise to the entire Turkey Hill Team!
My father gives up desserts for lent as well. As a result the house does not have sweets in it for 40 days – I have to get my ice cream fix elsewhere!
I gave up brussel sprouts, lima beans and peas. Give up my Turkey hill…….NEVER!!!!!
When I was in high school, approximately one hundred years ago, my boyfriend’s mother suggested he give up ME for Lent!!!! Instead he gave up gum. Sadly, a couple years later he did give me up.
When lent is over they can eat the Turkey Hill Ice Cream that they didn’t to make up for lost time.
Bravo to the person who gave up ice cream for Lent! Its a tough decision but someone has to do it. You will be rewarded… you have all that ice cream to look forward to. God Bless You!!
So admire the person who gave up ice cream for Lent. I truly could not do it!
Ice cream, never!!!!!!!
I’ve given up a lot already. Just can’t part with my Turkey Hill.
Wow, what commitment! It’s a lot easier to give up something like meat because there are lots of others things to eat and still be satisfied. But nothing replaces a bowl of rich, creamy Turkey Hill. I can just see your employee now on Easter Monday trying to make up for lost time. BIG TIME BRAIN FREEZE!
WOW! that’s all i can say….
That is the ultimate sacrifice….I can’t imagine having it readily available for eight plus hours and not touching it.!! You are, whoever you are, my hero !!!!!!
I gave up artichokes for Lent. Why would anybody in their right mind give up good healthy ice cream?
To the person who gave up their Turkey Hill for Lent: Have a GLORIOUS Easter! God will bless you. And Robbin is right…Sundays are called “little Easters”.
Ice is the one thing I literally eat every day. I can’t imagine giving it up.
Lent a time of sacrifice – however, for my lent, I prefer not to “give up” something, but to “do something” special – so I have decided I will sacrifice and eat more Turkey Hill Ice cream during the 40 days. Alas, poor me:-)
Lent is a time of sacrifice – however, for my lent, I prefer not to “give up” something, but to “do something” special – so I have decided I will sacrifice and eat more Turkey Hill Ice cream during the 40 days. Poor me
I noticed that no mention was made if this person giving up ice cream was a man or woman. But I wish them well and I hope with all that temptation around they succeed. I wonder how they will celebrate Easter! Probably with many bowls of Turkey Hill ice cream.
I have an idea for a Turkey Hill sales promotion which will put Turkey Hill Ice Cream in every house’s freezer.
Who do I contact at Turkey Hill?
This offer is FREE!!!! All rights will be signed over to Turkey Hill.
I WOULD NEVER GIVE UP ICE CREAM ANYTHING BUT!
I gave up the 1/2 banana I put on the top of my nightly Turkey Hill ice cream. That’s sacrafice enough, never the ice cream.
God Bless You and good luck to the person who gave up ice cream for Lent.
You will be a better person for it. Come Holy Saturday, PIG OUT ON TURKEY HILL.
I feel your pain, Anonymous!!! To God be the Glory — we can endure with His strength!
Give up your Turkey Hill AND Give what you would normailly buy to someone who doesn’t ever get such a treat! Praise God!
What will power….to be able to be tempted everyday with all that great TH and not take a taste…God has truly blessed you.
that takes pride to do some thing like that ,with the whole frezeer, fulllof wonderful tukey hill ice cream
We’ll pass along everyone’s praise to our brave Lent participant. As for Caroline’s question about whether the chocolate ice cream pictured in this entry is real or mashed potatoes (in reference to an earlier entry about food stylists), we’re not sure, but it sure looks real! The meltiness is a sure sign that it’s authentic.
Good luck to you, you must be a very strong person! I decided to give instead of giving up something for Lent..I couldn’t last without my ice cream! I have a friend who gave up ice cream FOREVER because of a favor she asked God for, and she has three kids that she buys ice cream for! I wish I had that kind of willpower.
I was told not to have any dairy products for a week and I’m having TH withdrawalls!!!!!!
Who started all this stuff? Probably the same guy who declared eating meat on friday was a sin. It did help his hometown fishing village!
No way would I give up ice cream.
As abhorrent, abominable, and appalling as this act is, I have also crossed paths with many who share the same goal this lent. However, many of my friends, family, and co-workers reasons for giving up this tasty treat and delectable delight is not for religious means, or canonical, spiritual cleansing, but rather for selfish, secular reasons. You see, giving up ice cream, or other desserts is a way for them to cut calories, and restrict their intake for the sole purpose of losing weight or controlling their shape. Their sacrifice to do without ice cream is not so that they can empathize with Jesus’ starvation in the wilderness, and symbolic of his martyrdom, but so that they can boost their own self esteem and feel powerful and superior by resisting their “gluttonous temptations,” as some may refer to them as. For this reason, I will declare one goal I have for myself during this Lenten period. And that is to give up GUILT. Give up the guilt I feel when eating dessert with every meal, or having ice cream for breakfast instead of oatmeal. Giving up my second guessing and self-criticism when I scoop myself a second bowl or eat right out of the carton because I know I am going to finish it all. By giving up the guilt that I am committing a crime by satisfying my urges, going against the paternalistic, misogynistic societal structured ideals of white femininity, I am making a statement that I am worth it, and above the influence of my peers and what magazines tell me I should look like. I give up regret, and remorse, no longer feeling sinful in my acts, and feeling no stigma with my choice to indulge. And you know what, my self-esteem is better…and my mood is better too. My friends who are dieting or restricting dessert are very prone to emotional outbursts and irritable because they are starving themselves. I can concentrate on my work, fall asleep with a full belly at night, and you know what, I’m not gaining any weight. So it may not be a religious endeavor, or spiritual journey with my self proclamation that I am giving up guilt, but it sure does improve my outlook on life. And I’m going for more than 40 days so bring on the ice cream!
Props to the co-worker though. You have more will-power and strength then I do. I can’t imagine going without ice cream so long. I would so cheat at night when no one was looking and steal a spoonful out of the freezer. And at work too, how do you escape it all?
I think that Turkey Hill should track the progress of this coworker, and give us updates each week along with the tournament. It will be interesting to see…and all us readers can make bets as to how long this individual will last. Oh so exciting.
I will be praying for anyone who can give up ice cream for that long!
I’ve given up ice cream as well . When I do eat Ice cream I don’t fool around . I get myself a spoon and eat it right from the carton ! I generally finish it in one sitting . And lucky me , I’m 53 years old 5’11″and weigh 157 pounds . And yes I exercise daily !!
I hope he can keep his Lent Promise. Don’t be mean to him. I know he has it hard because I gave up chocolate and my favorite flavors are chocolate peanut butter cup and chocolate marshmallow.
God Bless him.
Many, many years ago, I also gave up ice cream for Lent…..it was the hardest 40 days of my life.
can i have a job with you. that ice cream in the lunchroom sounds really good!
I love ice cream so I gave it up for Lent last year. It was really hard. I almost gave in and ate some the day before Easter but I held out. I had a carton of Turkey Hill Chocolate in my freezer waiting for me on Easter morning. Boy, did it ever taste good!
Now I call that SACRIFICE!!
We have been to six birthday parties so far during lent……and it is SOOOOO hard to say no to ice cream….but
I did it!!!! (self control)
We have been to six birthday parties so far during lent……and it is SOOOOO hard to say no to ice cream….but
I did it!!!! (self control practice)
Free Turkey Hill ice cream in the lunchroom??????????????? That’s the greatest perk I’ve ever heard!!!!
I wandered over to the Turkey Hill Ice Cream at Gerritys promising myself I was just going to look at the flavors they had. Two other women I did know did the same thing and we discussed flavors like we knew each other. Turns out they do the same thing I do, Start with a custard cup of ice cream and go back for seconds. Now I dont feel so guilty knowing I am not alone. Nothing like ice cream to bring people together.
We all bought ice cream that night.
my brother in law always gives up ice cream, it is a sacrifice that I cannot handle. if there is ice cream offered, then I am taking some. Lent will have to accept my other sacrifices, how small they are.
Giving up ice cream for Lent? Don’t give it “up” give it away. I mean, find a deserving soul to give your share to.
Thanks for having the tournament–please keep having Kroger carrying your products!!!!