Ben Cohen

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The Best One Yet · 🍦 “Banana Split” — Interview with Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder Ben Cohen · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

It's never going to work.

And we said, screw it.

If we can't do it this way, then we don't really want to grow the business.

We went to the Holiday Inn in Bennington, and we went to the hotel in Brattleboro, and we went to, you know, there was a hotel in Middlebury.

But the way Jerry and I worked it out is that

He was the guy making the ice cream, and I was the taster.

You can't have the same guy who's making it, tasting it.

It's a conflict of interest.

He would come to me with a flavor and give it to me, and I'd say, Jerry, it's a great flavor, but I can't tell what flavor it is.

So he put more flavoring in and brought it to me again, and I'd say –

Yeah, it still tastes really good, but I couldn't tell you what flavor it is.

And so he kept on putting in more flavoring.

And finally, when we were putting in two or three times as much as the manufacturer recommended, I could vaguely get an idea as to what it was.

You know, the other side of it is that, you know, for a guy who doesn't really have much of a sense of taste or smell, food is texture.

Yeah.

I mean, that's what it is to me.

I couldn't tell you what stuff tastes like, but I could tell you what it feels like.

And so I have a highly developed sense of mouth feel to make up for my other sense.

So that's why the ice cream has all these big, crunchy chunks in it, because that's what I like is the, you know, the contrast between the smooth, creamy ice cream and the

Big, crunchy chunks.

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