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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis 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
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7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)1. Remind me please, how long has it been since they sold to Uni?
Quality of Ice cream did go down.
Thanks for posting. Those that do not know need to be informed.
Ocelot II
(115,670 posts)2. They sold it in 2000.
Ritabert
(667 posts)3. I already don't buy it
$5+ for a pint. Ridiculous.
lame54
(35,284 posts)4. You won't have to see his face every time you open the freezer
Chellee
(2,095 posts)5. You wouldn't anyway.
Their faces are no longer on the packaging.
harumph
(1,898 posts)6. Kroger private label "private select" is pretty damn good
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.