The day after we arrived, Elaine, Beverly and I took a drive up to Brenham Texas where the Blue Bell Creamery is located. If you are from Texas or almost anywhere else, you know about Blue Bell Ice Cream. Blue Bell has been around since 1907 and started making ice cream in 1911.This was their first refrigerated delivery truck which is from 1936. It held 20 five-gallon cans of ice cream which were delivered to stores around Brenham.
Blue Bell expanded to deliveries in Houston in 1960 and then around Texas. In 1975 they crossed over to include Louisiana and have been expanding ever since. Here we are entering the main building.
There is an entry way with a few exhibits and then you take the elevator shown below or the stairs up to the second floor.
Stepping off the elevator the first thing you see is this beautiful Christmas display.
Next up is the showcase of all the different kinds of ice cream Blue Bell makes.
There is a gift store on this floor with many different Blue Bell related items for sale. This is also where you get to look out over the work floor below where employees are making ice cream and packaging it. You are accompanied by an employee and no pictures are allowed but you get a good overview of the process. We were told that the area we could see which was large was only one of four areas in the building where ice cream was being made.
Next up was the ice cream parlor where for $1.00, you could get a very large scoop of any kind of ice cream they had out. the choices were extensive and the ice cream was very good. It is probably a good thing I don't live in Brenham.
We also went to the Visitor's center next door where the displays were mostly pictures. I definitely recommend a visit to Brenham and a tour of the creamery which is free.
I have been there. It is definitely worth a visit!
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