On the bright side, it had a good, pleasantly creamy texture. Wegmans' Madagascar vanilla ice cream came in the smallest container of the four. According to Wegmans' packaging, this ice cream is ...

You can tell whether a brand uses real vanilla pods (the majority of which come from Madagascar) in their ice cream by the presence of black flecks in the ice cream, which are the tiny little ...

The storm also destroyed large swathes of Madagascar’s plantations, prompting the cost of vanilla to rise by up to 500%. The sweet spice is now out of reach for many ice cream makers in the UK.