Welcome Back Blue Bell

Today marks the first day in what seems like an eternity that Blue Bell ice cream will be available to the public. There are four flavors returning to store shelves this week, all announced by the ice cream company last week on Instagram. They are Homemade Vanilla, Dutch Chocolate, Cookies and Cream and the popular The Great Divide.

The ice cream will be sold in limited markets, including Houston, beginning today.

The ice cream that will make it to retail shelves is being produced at Blue Bell's Alabama facility. The Brenham plant remains closed to production. No word yet on when it will be cleared to resume making ice cream. Product imported from Alabama is being kept at the company's five distribution centers in the Houston area. A plant in Oklahoma remains closed as well.

According to local news stations out of Houston, customers were lined up waiting on the first delivery truck. Not sure I'd go that far for ice cream but to each his own.

Welcome back Blue Bell.