Posts Tagged ‘TV’

TURKEY HILL ON TV

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Last week, Lancaster County’s local NBC affiliate, WGAL-TV, stopped by the Dairy to tape a story for the nightly news about how it’s “business as usual” for Turkey Hill despite the current economic times. That’s right, as you’ll see in the story, we’re still hiring and doing quite well thanks to our great customers.

The story shows a lot of behind-the-scenes action at the Dairy, including the production of our newest Limited Edition holiday ice cream, Ginger Snap. You might also notice in the story that the names below some of the people are incorrect. The man they say is Ernie Pinckney is really Eric Rotz, and the man they call Eric Rotz is, of course, Ernie Pinckney. That’s a shot of Ernie below from the story (check out the full video here). He loves this kind of stuff!

TRK TV

P.S. – Some of you are asking how we’re judging the recipes in our Ultimate Holiday Recipe Contest. It’s a good question. Here’s how it’ll work:

We’ll review all the entries and determine four finalists (two from each category) based on the creativity of the recipe, simplicity (not too easy, not too hard) and the overall appetite appeal of the recipe. Once we have our four finalists, we will personally prepare the finalist recipes in order to take photographs. Then each finalist recipe and photo will be published on the Ice Cream Journal in its own blog entry from December 7-10. On December 11, we’ll open a poll on the blog and readers will have one week to vote for their favorite recipe. On December 18, we’ll announce our winner!

WHEN DO YOU EAT ICE CREAM?

Friday, September 25th, 2009

TVI was talking to someone the other day about ice cream (of course), and they explained that they have very specific ice cream eating habits. It turns out, they eat a bowl of ice cream three times each week, and always while they’re watching the same three television shows.

During the summer, they’d always have a bowl of ice cream on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday night while they watched the reality TV show, Big Brother. Now that Big Brother has concluded, they’ve switched their ice cream schedule to coincide with The Biggest Loser on Tuesday nights, The Office on Thursday nights and Desperate Housewives on Sundays.

At first I thought the strict schedule was kind of odd, but the more I thought about it, the more it made sense to me. I mean, why shouldn’t you combine something you love (ice cream) with something else you love? Does anyone else have any quirky ice cream eating habits, either related to television or not?

P.S. – The fake news story in our last “Wild and Wacky Ice Cream News” entry was #2 (the one about the study which found that people eat more ice cream while standing than they do when sitting or lying down).