10 Grateful Dead Inspired Ice Cream Flavors No One Asked For (2024)

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About this Flavor

Our euphorically edible tribute to guitarist Jerry Garcia & Grateful Dead fans everywhere, it's the first ice cream named for a rock legend and the most famous of our fan-suggested flavors. Certified Gluten-Free.

Cherry ice cream with cherries and fudge flakes. It's our tribute to guitarist Jerry Garcia and his fans everywhere, and it all started with a piece of fan mail. Cherry Garcia debuted in 1987 and quickly became one of our top three most popular flavors.

So a ton of fudge, peanut butter, and pretzels mixed into malt ice cream—it's pretty clear how this ice cream accumulates so much saturated fat, carbs, and sugar, yes? There's a reason it's one of their most popular pints. And finally, the most unhealthy ice cream pint of them all is Ben & Jerry's Peanut Butter Cup.

After Garcia's death in 1995, former members of the band, along with other musicians, toured as The Other Ones in 1998, 2000, and 2002, and as The Dead in 2003, 2004, and 2009.

According to her suit, Stephens persuaded Garcia to take legal action against Ben & Jerry's after the Vermont company began selling Cherry Garcia in 1987 without Garcia's approval.

Consumer goods giant Unilever said Tuesday that it is separating its ice cream unit, which includes Ben & Jerry's and Magnum, as part of a restructuring plan. The restructuring will begin immediately and is expected to be completed by the end of 2025.

Fan-favourite Chunky Monkey is back!! Banana ice cream with chocolatey bananas and walnuts: the nuttiest chocolatey-chunkiest banana-iest concoction you'll ever go ape for.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough / Cookie Dough is by far the world's most favourite Ben & Jerry's flavour. If you're in Europe, it's just called Cookie Dough, but in the Americas, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, it goes by Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough.

What was Jerry Garcia's favorite food? ›

Take a walk in Jerry's shoes and pick up a hot dog (Garcia's favorite food) from Ray's Red Hots in Ann Arbor before starting out on your Jerry-week celebrations.

Caramel and chocolate ice creams with crunchy chocolate cookie swirls and gobs of chocolate chip cookie dough and peanut butter cookie dough. Its indulgence is simply over the top, but there's more to this story than chunks and swirls.

August 3, 2000: Ben & Jerry's becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unilever. Through a unique acquisition agreement, an independent Board of Directors is created to provide leadership focused on preserving and expanding Ben & Jerry's social mission, brand integrity, and product quality.

The ice cream, called “Byakuya,” is a combination of white truffles imported from Alba, Italy; Parmigiano Reggiano cheese; and sake lees, a byproduct of the sake production process. The resulting frozen dessert costs an absolutely eye-watering ¥873,400 ($6,696) for a single 130 mL (4.4 ounce) serving.

It appears, from the Wikipedia article, that the first flavors were Rosewater and Grape along with Honey, various Nuts. The first recipes for what we know as Ice Cream date from the early 18th century and are flavored with Lemonade.

Vanilla, the most popular ice cream flavor in the world, is often considered as America's favorite flavor due to its simplicity and compatibility with a wide range of desserts and toppings.

What was once a selection of 31 flavors—Baskin-Robbins "31^®" stands for a different ice cream flavor for each day of the month—has grown to more than 1,400 in its flavor library.