Ben & Jerry's founder unveils new 'Bernie's Yearning' ice cream flavor

Politico ^ | 01/25/2016 | Kenneth P. Vogel

[ScottWalkerForPresident2016]

Ben Cohen, one of the co-founders of Ben & Jerry‘s ice cream and a longtime Sanders supporter, has for months talked about making a special flavor for his home-state senator. Earlier this month, Cohen told MSNBC that he would call the ice cream "Bernie‘s Yearning," featuring a milk chocolate disk covering the top of plain mint ice cream. The disc is meant to represent "the huge majority of economic gains that have gone to the top 1% since the end of the recession. Beneath it, the rest of us," reads the description on the back of the pint posted on the website.

[tbpiper]

Tastes like the mid 60’s.

[CincyRichieRich]

Truly would have to be an idiot, commie wanna-be to buy any of their stuff.

[Savage Beast]

Are they going to give it away free?

[Kit cat]

OMG!! Great Reply my coffee is all over my IPAD!! VERY FUNNY!!

[Bigg Red]

Thanks for posting this. I just stopped in hoping for FReeper clever comments. And I was not disappointed.

On a technical note, I seemed to recall that these multimillionaires sold Ben and Jerry’s to some major corporation some years back.

Looked it up, This is from the NYT in April of 2000:

Ending a four-month process that had some twists and turns, Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, the quirky ice cream company that made social consciousness central to its strategy, said yesterday that it had agreed to be acquired by Unilever, the global giant that owns the Breyer’s and Good Humor brands, for about $326 million in cash, or $43.60 a share.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/13/business/ben-jerry-s-to-unilever-with-attitude.html

[RckyRaCoCo]

Made with Real Mad Cow disease.

[SoFloFreeper]

[Trillian]

I told my daughter about this and she said, "Why didn't they go with Brownie Sanders?"
You know, that would have at least appealed to brownie lovers. They've come out with a lot of gross sounding names over the years. One of them being Chubby Hubby, which was packed with fudge.

[Carthego delenda est]

“They’ve come out with a lot of gross sounding names over the years.”

Your post inspired me to look at their list of current and discontinued names of their flavors. Like a typical liberal hypocrite, specifically regarding how libtards loved to call Tea Party members “Tea Baggers”, they had/have a flavor that sure seems to sanction the homosexual act of “tea bagging” to all who would stick it in their mouth. Wonder how many libtards and sodomites enjoyed using the name of this flavor in a sentence about eating ice cream?

“Schweddy Balls”

[clearcarbon]

"Gulag Dreams"

Siberian snow flavored with cabbage.

[hoagy62]

In the ‘eating instructions’, it says to take the back of your spoon, bust up that thick chocolate disc into bits, and stir it in completely so “everyone gets some”. It’s to symbolize the wealth getting redistributed.

If it were based in reality, the spoon hits the chocolate disc...and the thing either detonates in your face (violent reaction to those trying to steal the wealth) or vanishes completely (all the money and the people who have it go someplace the US government can’t touch them).

This would show what would REALLY happen should Bern try to take that wealth and re-distribute it.

[Trillian]

https://go.berniesanders.com/page/signup/pint-contest

I was reading on another site that people are unable to enter to win without making a contribution even though it says it’s not required in the rules. LOL, I’m not going to try..