Entries tagged with 'Ben and Jerry's'
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The folks at Vermont-based ice cream–maker Ben & Jerry's have renamed their signature Chubby Hubby flavor "Hubby Hubby" to mark today's enactment of the state's new law that allows same-sex marriage. A Hubby Hubby sundae will be available in Vermont Ben & Jerry's scoop shops during the month of September. The Chubby Hubby packaging in grocery stores nationwide will remain unchanged and as heteronormative as ever. Lesbians, sorry: No "Wifey Wifey" for you....
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"I've never tasted so many American cheeses in such a concentrated amount of time." Murray's Cheese successfully packed a group of 55 die-hard cheese fanatics from New York on a bus to Shelburne Farms outside of Burlington, Vermont, to the first-ever Vermont Cheesemaker's Festival this past Sunday. As one of the lucky passengers of this 24-hour fiesta, I have nothing but praise for the organizers of the trip, my fellow bus-riders, our bus driver John, and over fifty cheesemakers and artisan food producers at the festival. Though I've never considered myself a cheesehead, I've been known to attend a cheese tasting and class or two and am usually the one at the table to pick our cheese plate selections. I've...
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What bookish flavor combo would YOU fill it with? The New Yorker points us to the Facebook group People for a library-themed Ben & Jerry's flavor! As you'd imagine, word nerds can get pretty clever with the library-related puns: Gooey Decimal System: Dark fudge alphabet letters with caramel swirls in hazelnut ice cream.Writer’s Block: Coffee with fudge chunks and nicotine stains.Over-Goo Fudge: Chocolate with marshmallow and fudge.Sh-sh-sh-Sherbet! Key Lime or a chocolate/vanilla combination. Can you top those? I'll try my hand.... The Twoberry Medal: Strawberries, blueberries, and shortcake mixed into crème fraîche vanilla ice cream. It should be noted that Ben & Jerry's isn't considering a library-themed flavor at this point. It's simply a bunch of bookworms on Facebook...
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It's tougher than it looks. Open, flip over, push down on bottom, and finally, enjoy. Usually ice cream doesn't make people think this hard, but I actually had to watch a how-to video to understand the proper eating process of the new Ben & Jerry's Flipped Out sundae in a cup. You can easily pull back the wrapper and start spooning up layers of cookie dough, vanilla ice cream, and chocolate syrup (and save the next few seconds of your life) or you can go after the truth. The truth: Push down on the perforated circle underneath the cup. Following the Push-Up philosophy, you have to apply some pressure to release the good stuff. Out comes a hockey puck...
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"Is there such a thing as milk-flavored ice cream?" With summer pie season around the corner, it's important to have the right vanilla ice cream for proper scoopage on top. We conducted a blind tasting with six readily available nationwide brands: Häagen-Dazs, Ben and Jerry's, Blue Bunny, Breyers, Horizon, and Edy's (aka Dreyer's in the western states). They were judged on a scale of 1 to 5, according to texture, flavor richness, and overall vanilla-ness. The results, in descending order: Häagen-Dazs Score: 4.5 This was a unanimous crowd favorite. It had all the trademarks of a good vanilla ice cream: nice silky mouthfeel, major potential as an apple-pie buddy, and, hey, it actually tasted like vanilla. Keep up the good...
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Tomorrow (April 21) is Ben & Jerry’s annual Free Cone Day, celebrating 31 years of Chunky Monkey and Cherry Garcia. Stop by any participating shop between noon and 8 p.m. for a free scoop. Check the website for locations....
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A pint's not a pint, unless it's a pint, right? Häagen-Dazs will shrink its ice cream "pint" tub from 16 to 14 ounces, reports Advertising Age. Mini tub competitor Ben & Jerry's is very critical of the shrinkage, with this to say on their website: One of our competitors (think funny sounding European name) recently announced they will be downsizing their pints from 16 to 14 ounces to cover increased ingredient and manufacturing costs and help improve their bottom line. At Ben & Jerry’s we think downsizing pints is downright wrong. We understand that in today’s hard economic times businesses are feeling the pinch. We also understand that many of you are also feeling the same, and think now...
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As if you needed a reason to do your civic duty, but free ice cream don't hurt nothin'. "Come to participating scoop shops on November 4 from 5 to 8 p.m., show us you voted and you'll get a free scoop of ice cream. Show us your 'I Voted' sticker, a photo of you in front of your polling station, do the 'I Voted dance,' or just tell us you voted." Hmm. Those guidelines seem pretty lax. I predict a rampant amount of ice cream fraud the evening of the election....
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Here's a pop quiz from Mental Floss reminding us how much discontinued Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream flavors sound like MySpace band names. Or is it the other way around? Rumor has it Jerry himself only scored an eight out of ten on this tricky test. While "Apple Butter" might make a great autumnal flavor—mmm, cinnamon and roasted apple chunks—it's actually the name of an experimental rock group from Baton Rouge....
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Stephen Colbert must have read our post on Ben & Jerry's new Elton John-honoring Goodbye Yellow Brickle Road flavor. At first we didn't recognize the "brickle" part either, but Colbert made perfect sense of the word: "some sort of English treat made from candied lamb cartilage." Colbert demands an apt warning on his own flavor, Americone Dream, now that it will be produced and sold next to Sir Elton's brickle. "May contain traces of sequins." Watch the clip after the jump....
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