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

I was at a Grateful Dead concert with –

with the head of Greenpeace and this guy who was an ethnobotanist.

This ethnobotanist, Jason Clay, had discovered that the rainforest could be as profitable if you harvest it sustainably as when it's cut down and turned into cattle wrenches.

But, you know, because there's all this stuff that grows there.

There's the medicinal herbs, there's dyes, there's fruits, and there's nuts.

And what he needed was markets for the stuff that is sustainably harvested in the rainforest.

So we decided to make a Brazil nut-based ice cream for Wavy Gravy, and we made it into a butter.

We made it into Brazil nut butter, added it to the ice cream, and…

It didn't really taste that good.

Even your numb taste buds can tell you that.

So I said to Jason, what else you got in the rainforest?

And he said, well, in some of the areas where they've deforested, they've replanted cashew nut trees.

So if you buy those, that'll help as well.

So we added cashew nut butter to the Brazil nut butter, and that's the base.

It's a cashew Brazil nut butter base with a chocolate hazelnut swirl and –

chopped up hazelnuts in it as well.

And it developed a very, very loyal, small loyal following.

But the interesting thing about it is that people would say, oh, I love this flavor.

They couldn't tell you what flavor it was.

Well, yeah, when Jerry and I decided that we were going to do an ice cream shop, we wanted to live in a rural college town.

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