# Ben & Jerry's facts for kids

Kids Encyclopedia Facts

Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Holdings, Inc.
Type | Subsidiary
Industry | Food Processing
Founded | Burlington, Vermont (1978)
Founder | Ben Cohen Jerry Greenfield

Ben and Jerry’s is an American ice cream company. Burlington, Vermont . In 2000, Ben and Jerry's was sold to Unilever , a British-Dutch company.

## History

In 1977, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield completed a course on ice cream making at Pennsylvania State University. On May 5, 1978, they opened a first ice cream shop in a gas station in Burlington, Vermont . Ronald Reagan .

## Flavors and Sizes

Ben & Jerry's display freezer at a local Dominos .

You can get Ben and Jerry's ice cream in pints, pint slices, non-dairy pints, scoop shop flavors, frozen yogurt pints, mini cups and quarts. Top ten flavors:

1. Half Baked
2. Cherry Garcia
3. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
4. Chocolate Fudge Brownie

## Flavor Graveyard

- Schweedy balls
- Wavy Gravvy
- Fossil Fuel
- Turtle Soup

REST IN PEACE MY FRIENDS :)

## Locations

Ben & Jerry’s has their shops all over the world, in places like Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom,and the United States.

## Resources

"Ben & Jerry’s" Ben & Jerry’s. Ben & Jerry’s. < http://www.benjerry.co.uk/ourflavours/ >. (2010)

## Images for kids

- Jerry Greenfield (left) and Ben Cohen (right) in 2010

- Woman in cow costume promoting Free Cone Day outside a Ben & Jerry's shop in Stockholm , Sweden

## See also

In Spanish: Ben & Jerry's para niños