Ben & Jerry: A Dessert Buffet & Perfect Fruit

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are the ice cream equivalent of Cher or Madonna: they need only be introduced by their first names. The boyhood buddies are just as well known for their activism as they are for flavors like Cherry Garcia and Chubby Hubby, unabashedly seeking equality for all on their own time and through Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors.

It seems social justice + ice cream go together like hot fudge + whipped cream: host Rachel Belle chats with Madison, Wisconsin's Katrina Ervin, founder of Ice Cream Social, who started selling ice cream for a cause after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor's murders.

Ben reveals why Ben & Jerry's ice creams are famously studded with so many delicious chunks & Rachel interviews two doctors who have collectively been studying smell and taste for decades, Dr. Sandeep Robert Datta and Dr. Pamela Dalton. They say suddenly losing these senses to Covid can have serious psychological effects. And, we are all familiar with the fifth taste, umami, but Dr. Datta says there is also a secret sixth taste!

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.8	Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.
0:11.6	Cairo, Seattle.
0:31.0	I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.
0:37.9	Today on the program, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, more commonly known as Ben and Jerry.
0:41.4	Ben and Jerry's is famous for ice cream flavors like fish food,
0:43.0	Cherry Garcia, and Chubby Hubby.
0:46.4	But back in 1984, when they had their scoop shop in Vermont,
0:50.5	they are believed to be the first to sell chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.
0:55.5	After somebody anonymously suggested it on their flavor suggestion board. Ben and Jerry opened their very first scoop shop in Vermont in 1978, but today they are just as well known for
1:01.4	their activism that sometimes takes them out to rallies and protests. How many arrests? Oh, I don't know.
1:07.6	Not that many. Three or four. Ice cream and activism seem to go together like hot fudge and whipped cream.
1:14.5	I chat with Katrina Irvin, who created ice cream social to raise money for good during the pandemic.
1:19.8	And later in the show, we'll talk about anosmia.
1:22.8	That is the medical term for not being able to smell or taste, which is a very common COVID symptom.
1:29.0	But first, my conversation with Ben and Jerry.
1:34.9	Were you guys ready to get started and tell the same stories you've told a million times,
1:38.5	but pretend like you've never told them before, so it sounds fresh on my show?
1:42.0	No problem.
1:42.9	Okay.
1:47.3	I understand that you met in seventh grade in gym class.
1:47.8	Is that right?
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