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Title: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: ghouck on July 29, 2009, 03:59:46 PM
Well, do you? I've been bouncing between 'Ameri-Cone Dream' and 'Phish Food', but tried 'Smores' last night and liked that quite a bit.


Title: Re: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on July 29, 2009, 05:47:47 PM
It's my sister's favorite ice cream, but I don't know what flavor. The one and first time I tried it, we were on a tour together in New England, and there was a Ben & Jerry's in the town, where the tour group had stopped for lunch. My sister and I went in and ordered ice cream. I don't know now what flavors, but whatever mine was, I couldn't eat it. It was too rich for my taste.


Title: Re: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: Bmeansgood on July 29, 2009, 08:05:35 PM
Oatmeal Cookie Chunk.  It is one of their more rare flavors.  It is awesome.   


Title: Re: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: HappyGilmore on July 29, 2009, 08:06:24 PM
I've never actually had it.  They have a rather big selection to choose from, but quite honestly, hippie's scare me and all I can think of when I think of Ben and Jerry is hippies.  And the cutesy names for stuff.  "Cherry Garcia", "Ameri-Cone Dream", etc.  Turns me off to trying them.


Title: Re: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: The Burgomaster on July 30, 2009, 05:37:28 AM
"Americone-Dream" is good.  I also enjoy "Karamel Sutra", "Pistachio, Pistachio", "Butter Pecan", "Vanilla Heath Bar Crunch", and "Peanut Butter Cup".  They used to have "Wavy Gravy" (named after the Woodstock icon).  They discontinued it, then it got voted back in by consumers . . . but was soon discontinued again.  I can't remember what was in it, but I'm sure I bought it several times and enjoyed it.


Title: Re: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: Rev. Powell on July 30, 2009, 12:27:57 PM
I haven't eaten Ben & Jerry's in ages, but I went through a phase where I craved that peanut butter cup ice cream... SO good.


Title: Re: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: 3mnkids on July 30, 2009, 01:21:43 PM
I cant eat ice cream it gives me a migraine   :bluesad:


Title: Re: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: Psycho Circus on July 30, 2009, 02:16:53 PM
The cookie dough one, yeah. My ex-girlfriend/best friend/worst enemy loves Ben & Jerry's.  :smile:


Title: Re: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: meQal on July 30, 2009, 02:17:19 PM
I got three favorites that I cycle through when buying Ben and Jerry's. Those are Phish Food, Chunky Monkey, and Strawberry Cheesecake.  Only problem is if I get a pint of Phish Food, I have to hide it from my youngest daughter because she will eat the whole pint in one sitting before I can even get a taste of it.


Title: Re: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on July 30, 2009, 02:37:57 PM
Coffee Heath Bar Crunch.


Title: Re: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: Ash on July 30, 2009, 03:28:34 PM
I've never actually had Ben & Jerry's ice cream either.   :lookingup:
The next time I go to the grocery store I'll pick up a pint.


Title: Re: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: Allhallowsday on July 30, 2009, 09:03:02 PM
I try to avoid "poisonous" foods like ice cream...  :bluesad:  BUT, have recently been way off my self-imposed diet and have indulged absurdly in Ben & Jerry's like Karamel Sutra, New York Super Fudge Chunk, Vanilla Heath Bar Crunch, Coffee Heath Bar Crunch... oh I am so bad... but that ice cream is so good!   :smile:


Title: Re: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: Hammock Rider on August 03, 2009, 10:24:16 AM
For me it begins and ends with Phish Food and Cherry Garcia


Title: Re: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: Paquita on August 03, 2009, 10:56:08 AM
The hippiness of Ben & Jerry's also scares me off.  I don't think I've ever tried it, I'm afraid it would taste like drugs and birkenstocks.  Also, the few times I've been in a Ben & Jerry's store, I noticed they don't have the big tubs of ice cream out where you can see like other ice cream places.  That's just shady.


Title: Re: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: The Burgomaster on August 04, 2009, 12:00:25 PM
Actually, I just had my first bad experience with Ben & Jerry's.  A few days ago, my wife bought a container of Cherry Garcia.  When we opened it, the ice cream had freezer burn all the way to the bottom of the container.  We checked the expiration date and it still had a long life ahead of it.  We ended up throwing it away rather than bringing it back to the supermarket.  I'm sure if I contacted Ben & Jerry's they'd at least send me a coupon for a replacement.


Title: Re: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: ghouck on August 04, 2009, 12:14:05 PM
Actually, I just had my first bad experience with Ben & Jerry's.  A few days ago, my wife bought a container of Cherry Garcia.  When we opened it, the ice cream had freezer burn all the way to the bottom of the container.  We checked the expiration date and it still had a long life ahead of it.  We ended up throwing it away rather than bringing it back to the supermarket.  I'm sure if I contacted Ben & Jerry's they'd at least send me a coupon for a replacement.

Perhaps it got thawed/re-frozen, that makes ice cream all weird. I'd try and contact them see if you can't get some help.

On a vaguely related note, I had a friend in gradeschool that would write to all kinds of companies with a BS sob story in order to get things sent to him for free. He's say he got a box of pancake mix with bugs in it, and they'd send him a couple of free boxes a coupon for free syrup. He'd write to one that he bought a box of pop-tarts and it only had 4 in it instead of 6, and he'd get a couple of free boxes, and some samples of new flavors. I was surprised at how much stuff he got, just by making up a good sob story and asking.


Title: Re: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: Ash on August 04, 2009, 04:23:07 PM
I've had experiences where I've bought something and it was messed up.
For example:  I bought a 24 pack can of Slim Jims and 5 of them hadn't been packaged right.  They were open and had become rock hard due to being exposed to air.
I called the company and they sent me a coupon for any size Slim Jim pack.
Naturally, I bought the biggest one they offered.  A huge box with something like 36 Slim Jims in it.

A friend of mine bought a box of "Chicken In a Biscuit" crackers and he pulled out a line of 5-6 of them that had a foot long length of industrial twine baked into them.
They sent him a coupon.

I've also bought a 6 pack of bottled Icehouse beer, pulled the first one out and it had about 2 fingers worth of beer in it.  Same thing happened with a 12 pack of the same brand.  Three of the bottles had 2-3 fingers worth of beer and one didn't have any in it at all.  I can't believe I used to drink that s**t.  Icehouse makes me cringe whenever I think about drinking it.

By the way, I finally got a pint of Ben & Jerry's Americone Dream.
It was pretty good!
Had a little more waffle cone in it than I like, but it was very good.  :thumbup:



Title: Re: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: The Burgomaster on August 04, 2009, 04:37:45 PM
I had a friend in gradeschool that would write to all kinds of companies with a BS sob story in order to get things sent to him for free. He's say he got a box of pancake mix with bugs in it, and they'd send him a couple of free boxes a coupon for free syrup. He'd write to one that he bought a box of pop-tarts and it only had 4 in it instead of 6, and he'd get a couple of free boxes, and some samples of new flavors. I was surprised at how much stuff he got, just by making up a good sob story and asking.

One of my co-workers couldn't even get a replacement for a REAL problem!  She bought a CD at Best Buy and when she got home and opened it, there was no CD in the jewel case.  She brought the empty case to Best Buy and told Customer Service it was empty when she bought it.  They told her, "that's impossible" and wouldn't give her a refund or a replacement CD.  She got NOTHING!


Title: Re: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: The Burgomaster on August 04, 2009, 04:41:39 PM
I've had experiences where I've bought something and it was messed up.
For example:  I bought a 24 pack can of Slim Jims and 5 of them hadn't been packaged right.  They were open and had become rock hard due to being exposed to air.

I was working at a client's office a couple year ago.  The client is about a 2 1/2 hour drive from my house, and I was getting ready to go home on a Friday afternoon.  I figured I'd work through lunch and try to get on the road no later than 3:00 p.m.  So, I grabbed a Slim Jim out of a vending machine instead of going out to buy lunch.  I bit into it and it just sort of crumbled and fell apart, like biting into a piece of chalk.  I looked at the wrapper and it was almost a year past the expiration date.


Title: Re: Ben & Jerry's ice cream, do you have a favorite?
Post by: ghouck on August 04, 2009, 04:56:51 PM
  I looked at the wrapper and it was almost a year past the expiration date.

They have an expiration date? I'm kinda surprised.

As for the CD, What I've done and has worked, and I did it with a movie, a game, and a CD at different times: Write to the manufacturer, and even send them a picture/copy of the box and the receipt. It actually work BETTER if you've bought it from Best Buy, because then they believe you when you say they won't exchange it or refund your money.
Also, and I know this is unethical, but if you get one where the disc is THERE, but won't work, you'll have MUCH better luck if you tell them it wasn't there at all. If you say it won't work, they may try and blame your hardware. I know this because a friend told me, all three of my issues were a missing disc.