Les fondateurs de Ben & Jerry's aimeraient un jour créer une crème glacée à la marijuana
Un nouveau projet éclaté pour Ben & Jerry's?
Chris Branch— The Huffington Post
La réputation de Ben & Jerry’s comme étant une compagnie de crème glacée aux goûts excentriques n’est plus à faire. Leurs diverses sortes de crème glacée sortent bien souvent de l’ordinaire.
En entrevue avec le HuffPost États-Unis — entrevue que vous trouverez, en anglais, ci-haut — Ben Cohen et Jerry Greenfield ont avoué qu’ils seraient prêts à pousser l’expérimentation à un autre niveau dans le futur — plus précisément, en inventant une crème glacée à la marijuana, si les barrières légales deviennent inexistantes.
C’est une idée sensée, selon Cohen, qui parle de « combiner ses passions »,
Son collègue a semblé plus hésitant — ou prudent —, mais n’a pas exclu l’idée.
« Je crois que légaliser la marijuana est une excellente idée », a révélé Greenfield. « Ce n’est pas ma décision. Si ce l’était, je la décriminaliserais. »
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Cet article initialement publié sur le HuffPost États-Unis est une traduction de l'anglais.
The original concept Ben and Jerry had was to open a bagel company.
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We\'d probably love Ben & Jerry\'s Bagels too.
Ben wanted to call the company “Josephine’s Flying Machine.”
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Jerry wasn\'t a fan.
The company started with a 12,000 dollar investment.
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And a $5 correspondence course in ice cream-making from Penn State.
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The only thing Ben and Jerry ever fought about was the size of the chunks.
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Ben wanted big chunks and eventually got his way.
There's a real flavor graveyard.
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Where discontinued flavors like Oatmeal Cookie Chunk (RIP) go to die.
Ben & Jerry's employees make the waffle cones fresh in stores.
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They even make the batter from scratch. That\'s why they taste so good!
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On average, there are 259 little squares on a waffle cone.
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(Or 259 crevices for the ice cream to fill.)
The Ben & Jerry's headquarters is a dog-friendly office.
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Because of course it is.
The first pint flavors were...
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Oreo Mint, French Vanilla, Chocolate Fudge, Wild Blueberry, Mocha Walnut, Maple Walnut, Honey Coffee and Honey Orange.
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The worst-selling flavors of all time were...
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1) Sugar Plum: In the first three weeks it was on store shelves it sold ONE pint! And 2) Mocha Walnut: According to Ben, “Mocha Walnut is my all-time favorite flavor, but when we packed it in pints, it turned out to be our all-time worst-selling ice cream. Jerry is fond of saying that there is no accounting for personal taste.”
There's a special name for someone who mines through a pint for the big chunks:
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A Chunk Spelunker!
There is a slide in the Ben & Jerry's office lobby.
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It sounds like a real-life Willy Wonka\'s Chocolate Factory.
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Ben & Jerry’s employees can take home 3 pints a day.
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The machinery used to create the Core flavors is based on a German sausage maker.
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The core flavors taste nothing like sausage, however. At least not yet.
Ben & Jerry's receives 13,000 flavor suggestions every year.
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That\'s a lot of flavors.
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New Core flavors are in the works.
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THANK GOD!
Ben and Jerry have been friends since they were little kids.
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Ben explains, \"We were the two slowest, fattest kids in gym class. There was the whole class running around the track, and then half a lap behind there were two guys. So we were connected from the beginning.\"
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