Australia Scoops Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
This spring Ben & Jerry's will break the ice Down Under. So get your spoons ready, their signature chunks & swirls are heading this way!
Those partial to a scoop or two will soon be able to tuck into Ben & Jerry's famous flavours such as Phish Food, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, and Chunky Monkey.
The range is based on the original recipes of ethical ice cream gurus and company founders, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield.
While Ben & Jerry's has extremely popular around the globe for more than 30 years, this spring marks the first appearance of the ice cream on our Aussie turf.
Ben & Jerry's flavours
For ice cream die-hards, five flavours will be available in 458ml pint tubs and 100ml 'shorties' in select delis around Sydney and Melbourne from October 2009:
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough: vanilla ice cream collides with chunks of chocolate chip cookie dough
- Chocolate Fudge Brownie: chocolate ice cream laden with chunks of chocolate brownie
- Chunky Monkey: banana ice cream packed with chocolatey chunks and walnuts
- Strawberry Cheesecake: strawberry cheesecake ice cream with strawberries and thick cookie swirls
- Vanilla: decadent vanilla ice cream, a classic
In addition to the five flavours available in pints, the following flavours will be available in the flagship Scoop Shop in Sydney in September and cinema Scoop Shops in Melbourne from mid Oct:
- Strawberry: strawberry ice cream
- Lemonade Stand Sorbet: lemon sorbet
- Phish Food: chocolate ice cream with marshmallow, caramel and chocolatey shaped fish
- Cherry Garcia: cherry ice cream with cherries and fudge flakes
- Coffee Coffee BuzzBuzzBuzz: coffee ice cream with espresso bean fudge chunks
- New York Super Fudge Chunk: chocolate ice cream with white and dark fudge chunks, pecans, walnuts and fudge covered almonds
- Triple Caramel Chunk: caramel ice cream with a swirl of caramel and fudge covered caramel chunks
- Chocolate Macadamia: chocolate ice cream with vanilla ice cream with chocolatey covered macadamia nuts
- Sweet Cream & Cookies: sweet cream ice cream with whole and broken chocolate sandwich cookies
- Mint Chocolate Chunk: peppermint ice cream with cream cookies
- Chocolate Therapy: chocolate ice cream with chocolate cookies and swirls of chocolate pudding
- Berry Berry Extraordinary: swirls of blueberry fruit sorbet and raspberry fruit sorbet
- The final flavour remains to be given an Aussie 'twang' in a flavour naming contest but will comprise of malt ice cream with globs of peanut butter cookie dough and a peanut butter swirl
The full range of 18 flavours will be available at Ben & Jerry's 'Scoop Shops.'
A Scoop-a-thon of free ice cream will mark the opening of the flagship store in Manly, Sydney in September.
Back in 1966, in a school gym class, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield found they hated running but loved food. Years later in 1978, armed with a $5 correspondence course in ice cream making, they opened their first scoop shop in a dilapidated gas station in Burlington, Vermont. The duo soon became popular in the local community for the finest all natural ice cream.
Ben had no sense of taste so he relied on what he called 'mouth feel', so big chunks of chocolate, fruit and nut became their signature. While they disagreed at times over the chunk size, they did agree that they wanted to enjoy themselves - as Jerry put it "If it's not fun, why do it?"
In the early days the boys were pretty bad at bookkeeping. After two months they closed the store and hung a sign that said 'we're closed to figure out whether we're making any money'. And they weren't. But they learned a lot and by 1979, began wholesaling pints of ice cream out of Ben's VW campervan.
The rest, as they say, is history.
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