Bon is expensive and quite low quality.
I would love to get good ice cream here.
I bought some Häagen-Dazs en Playero and it was so old it had melted refrozen and was all ice crystals - was even worse than Bon
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The country will finally be able to get good ice cream and beef
I would love to get good ice cream here.
I bought some Häagen-Dazs en Playero and it was so old it had melted refrozen and was all ice crystals - was even worse than Bon
I'm not surprised. Haagen Daz is fairly expensive in the US. Here, it's almost double the US price. Probably don't sell much of it.
Look what happen to Dos Pinos. It was a milk brand from Costa Rica. Once DR-CAFTA was in effect for that type of product, they entered the Dominican market to compete with Rica, etc. Everything was made in Costa Rica and imported into the DR. Business was good, but the Corripio's, who were their Dominican partners in the DR, bought more than a few shares of the brand to the point they became the owners of most of the shares of Dos Pinos. Guess what they did after that?
Well, essentially they moved the entire production of Dos Pinos to the DR. Now everything is made in the DR and whatever is sold in Costa Rica is imported from the DR.
That's how a Costa Ricsan brand becomes Dominicans. Without DR-CAFTA this would had been very unlikely. I'm aure the Costa Rican founders may not be too happy with that move after they becsme owners of most shares, but oh well.
One down, many more Latin American brands that entered the DR due to DR-CAFTA to go...
That's an example of taking a free trade agreement that you know is only better to not having it, but the agreement itself isn't much to your benefit and then making it work. You're given lemons, make lemonade!
Haagen Daz is another brand I never liked because of its taste and how it is overpriced anywhere it is sold.
McDonalds ice cream is soft serve. That's the reason they have so many problems with their machines
Not following the logic, JD. I was under the impression it was just shoddy maintenance.
Correct. Soft serve machines require a ton of maintenance on a daily basis. As soon as they're short on employees that's the first thing that gets ignored.
Super Pola had a soft ice cream store inside for a while. It was pretty good and really reasonably priced. Not sure why they didn't make it(?).
Wendy's has Frosties. I consider that to be soft ice cream.
Wendy's has Frosties. I consider that to be soft ice cream.
True, but it's gotten so expensive even in the US that, by the time you add DR import duties, almost nobody could afford to buy it.
It might happen.
People (including myself) were saying the same thing about Presidente 3 or 4 years ago.
3 or 4? Huh. AmBev came to the country with quality beers (lol) like Brahma back in 2008. 3 for 100 peso grandes. The issue with beer and other alcoholic bevs is the tax is commensurate with the %alcohol by volume and this includes the CND. Quite different than ice cream.