Even OG ice cream makers make missteps every now and then. Ben & Jerry’s has always been beloved for its liberal use of mix-ins. Unlike other ice cream brands it doesn’t rely on an evergreen slate of standard flavors like vanilla and chocolate for its bottom line. Instead it keeps coming up with creative flavors though most of them are variations on the brand’s signature swirls and chunks. Many Ben & Jerry’s flavors have bucked the trend: Cherry Garcia Chubby Hubby and Half Baked have defined the brand for decades. But others failed to win over public opinion and were consigned to the brand’s “flavor graveyard” with no promise of return. This isn’t just a catchy name: the brand actually has a physical “graveyard” for past flavors at its Waterbury Vermont headquarters.
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But if you can’t make it fans can scroll through the vanished flavors online in the hopes that they might come back. And they are! Dublin Mudslide for example an Irish cream liqueur ice cream with coffee fudge was discontinued in 2007 but is now back in stock . But as the brand succinctly puts it “Even the best Ben & Jerry’s flavors eventually fade away.” The Flavor Graveyard doesn’t contain all the highlights of defunct flavors over the years. Some are hidden away existing only in the memories of serious fans (and occasionally in the hallowed halls of Twitter and Reddit).
A three-year reign from 1998 to 2001 was all this dairy-forward flavor got. Perhaps one of the cutest flavors in the pint was the combination of milk and white chocolate ice creams to create the “meadow” where miniature dairy and white fudge cows frolicked. Despite numerous calls from fans over the years to bring it back Ben & Jerry’s hasn’t budged from its stance. Instead the brand cryptically poses its own question: “When the heavens give the word where do all the cows go?” This pint is also special because no other existing pint meets the flavor profile.
Ben & Jerry's has sold plenty of "swirled" pints of chocolate and vanilla but none with the more unusual combination of white chocolate and milk chocolate. White chocolate was an elusive ingredient for the brand and rarely appeared (one failed launch was the now-retired Chocolate Comfort flavor which featured low-fat white chocolate ice cream with chocolate truffle ice cream) until it launched the "Topped" line which featured a chunky shell of chocolate — sometimes white — covering each pint. But you can also opt for one of the stalwarts the New York Super Fudge Chunk for a similar flavor to the white and milk chocolate fudge chunks albeit without the cute cow shape.