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brooklynite

(94,501 posts)
Wed Mar 22, 2023, 11:57 AM Mar 2023

This just in-Ben Cohen continues to have no involvement in the ownership or running of Ben & Jerry's

The ice cream company was sold to Unilever decades ago. So if you don't want to pay the extra cost for a premium brand, find; just don't think you're "boycotting" Cohen's opposition to US support for Ukraine by not buying it.

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This just in-Ben Cohen continues to have no involvement in the ownership or running of Ben & Jerry's (Original Post) brooklynite Mar 2023 OP
Remind me please, how long has it been since they sold to Uni? 7wo7rees Mar 2023 #1
They sold it in 2000. Ocelot II Mar 2023 #2
I already don't buy it Ritabert Mar 2023 #3
You won't have to see his face every time you open the freezer lame54 Mar 2023 #4
You wouldn't anyway. Chellee Mar 2023 #5
Kroger private label "private select" is pretty damn good harumph Mar 2023 #6

7wo7rees

(5,128 posts)
1. Remind me please, how long has it been since they sold to Uni?
Wed Mar 22, 2023, 12:01 PM
Mar 2023

Quality of Ice cream did go down.

Thanks for posting. Those that do not know need to be informed.

harumph

(1,898 posts)
6. Kroger private label "private select" is pretty damn good
Wed Mar 22, 2023, 02:37 PM
Mar 2023

and for much less. They have a bourbon toffee that's amazing and doesn't stint on the butter fat.
This summer I'm going to try to do our own homemade ice cream. Hand cranked of course.

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