ben_and_jerrys gay gizmo every night I walk across the street and buy 2 pints of ben & jerry's. One for me and one for amanda. I'm not so sure she appreciates this act as I do. If I eat a pint every night, how long will it take for me to get fat? Mint Chocolate Chip is my favorite!! What with the creamy mint ice cream and the small flakes of chocolate. and the best part is the big huge chunk of chocolate in the middle. God bless Ben. God Bless Jerry 021002 ... unhinged the last time i had ben and jerry's i didn't like it. not one bit. 021002 ... Ariadani mmm, from russia with buzz... *drool* 021002 ... devalis CHUNKY MONKEY! 021002 ... sweetheart of the song tra bong Here pints of Ben and Jerry's are referred to as BJs. Which makes for fun conversations. 021003 ... kingsuperspecial I grew up in Burlington, Vermont, where Ben and Jerry's started. First it was a little store, in an old gas station. You could only get cones or dishes, and only the flavors that had made - maybe 5 or 6 to choose from. When the moved to having their ice cream produced in a factory, the policy was to only use the middle of the batch that came off the packaging machine. The reason was that the start and the end of the batch did not have the right amount of "stuff" mixed into the ice cream. This meant that part of the "rejects" failed because they had TOO MANY chunks, or the chunks were TOO LARGE. Picture it; too many Oreos in the Oreo Mint, or GIANT pieces of Heath in the coffee heath bar. They would sell these factor seconds in the Burlington store for .75, then maybe $1.25 later on. Yes, kids, that's right - $1.25 for a pint of Ben and Jerry's where the bits of Heath bar were too many or two large to be sold in the grocery. Needless to say, I consumed a fair number of these as a kid. The routine was to get out of school, pound some Mt. Dew, throw a punk tape in the boom-box, and skateboard all over the city. This always included a stop at Ben and Jerry's for a pint of ice cream and some more Dew. Sharing a pint among us was out of the question, because too much "digging" would take place, leading to fights over the whole Oreo or 1/2 chocolate bar that someone had mined out of the ice cream. After filling our bellies with froze fat, sugar, and caffeine, we would skate the rest of the city, riding hard and taking chances, kings of our tiny little scene. It's a miracle I didn't die of a heart attack at age 15. As it is, I am diagnosed with high cholesterol, which might just mean my cholesterol is still coming down from those heady days as a wild, ice cream stuffing skate punk. 021003 ... Fire&Roses We'd park in the lot outside and we'd buy a pint of chocolate fudge brownie and we'd dig the plastic spoons out of my glove box and sit in the car sharing chocoalte kisses. 030722 ... carlita phish_food is my ultimate favorite ice_cream 030722 ... Sintina grew up around their hometown, i.e. where the company started.... good stuff. Can't afford it, yet. 050417 what's it to you? who go blather from