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Each of 3 #10 Industrial sized cans of Dilly Bar Cherry Shell included is 6 pounds and 12 ounces! I kept thinking they would be small and overpriced, but this is an excellent value, and is really meant for an ice cream shop that is going through the shell coating quickly each day. For one person, this could take years to eat. At the under $40 price I paid, That's like $12 or so per giant can. Great deal I got.As far as the quality, this is Conagra Brand, the makers of top brands for the food industry who handles the Hungerford Smith brand. Just visit the Conagra Brand website, and you'll see all the famous products they make in addition to this brand. So the quality is there.The product arrived in a giant, long box. It's 18+ pounds in weight to give you an idea. The cans are giant. at 6+ pounds each. You could fit a gallon of water into them probably, though I haven't tried yet. The cans had some dents on top, so I washed the bottom and opened them from the bottom, for 1 can. The other 2 I'll keep in storage till ready for use in a year or two. Inside, there was a white layer of coconut oil solid, which I believe this is mostly made of, resulting in high fat content of saturated fat, so use sparingly.Under the quarter inch layer of white solid oil, is the bright red cherry product in solid form. I used a butter knife (not sharp) to break it up into chunks and drop it into my large crockpot set on very low heat, the "keep warm" temperature. Over an hour or two, it finally melted after mixing the chunks further down into the crockpot. Now it's all liquid and ready to have ice cream dipped into it or poured onto ice cream. It then freezes back to a solid in a few seconds, and you have a Dilly Bar Cherry shell! 95˚ Fahrenheit is the required temperature. Too hot and it would be like water and drip off and probably melt the ice cream too fast.I scooped a bunch of separate scoops of 1/2 gallon of vanilla ice cream in a round shape and put wooden flat sticks (rounded edges) into each one, put on a tray with parchment paper, and then took each one and dipped it into the lightly heated crockpot of Cherry Shell liquid. If it's too hot, it'll only have a very thin coat. Let it cool down more and it'll be a thick coat of Cherry shell to crunch through. After finishing, I put them back in the freezer and will wrap each one individually so they can last for a month or two in the freezer to enjoy along the way. I still have 75% of product left from one can, never mind the other two cans to open, so there is a ton of product for the 3 can pack.Accuracy to the DQ Dilly Bar flavor? 100%. This is absolutely the same flavor, taste and texture that I loved all those years I'd buy DQ Cherry Dilly Bars from my local DQ until they started only getting chocolate flavor which I can find anywhere really at the grocery store. So this is a great product and I'm thrilled to finally relive some ice cream enjoyment with the cherry shell that is extremely rare for me to find these days. I wish stores offered a cherry shell ice cream like this packaged, but it's always chocolate shells every time I go.Highly recommended for fans of DQ's Cherry classic Dilly Bars. If you remember the flavor, this is the stuff! 10/10
