Vanilla Ice Cream with gobs of chocolate chip cookie.
Ben Jerry's Homemade Inc. was founded in 1978 in a renovated gas station in Burlington, Vermont, USA, by childhood friends and dedicated hippies Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. The two friends started their ice cream careers with a $5 ice cream making correspondence course from Penn State University and a $12,000 investment ($4,000 of which was borrowed). They soon became popular in the local community for their innovative flavours, made from fresh Vermont milk and cream and large portions of whatever ingredients they felt tasted good on the day of making! While they both disagreed at times over flavour combinations, what they did both agree was that they were in this business to enjoy themselves as well as earn a living. As Jerry put it "If it's not fun, why do it?"
cream 27%, water, condensed skimmed milk, sugar, wheat flour, brown sugar, egg yolks (from free-range), butter (milk), vegetable oils (fully refined soybean, coconut), eggs, cocoa mass, cocoa powder, skimmed cocoa powder, molasses, vanilla extract, stabilisers (guar gum, carrageenan), salt, cocoa butter, natural vanilla and natural brown sugar flavouring with other natural flavourings, natural butter flavouring, emulsifier: soya lecithin, milk fat
milk, wheat, egg, soy
In one of Ben & Jerry's stores in Burlington, there was a board where you could write down new flavour suggestions. This chocolate chip cookie vanilla ice cream was one of those anonymous entries on the board. It has been an incredible success since its introduction in 1984.
