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

And we thought that if it was going to be ice cream, it should be a warm rural college town.

You know, this was before the age of personal computers.

So we sat down at a table and Jerry had the guide to American colleges in front of him.

And I had the U.S.

Almanac in front of me.

So he would call out the names of college towns, and I would see what the temperature was in those towns.

And so we combined the lists.

We came up with the short list of warm, rural college towns and discovered that they all already had ice cream shops.

So then...

We ended up in Saratoga Springs.

We decided to open in Saratoga Springs.

And while we were preparing to open,

another ice cream shop called Afternoon Delight opened up and we didn't want to compete with them.

And I had known about, I had been to Burlington quite a bit because I used to work in the Adirondacks across the lake from Burlington.

And we went there on our days off and

and there was virtually no ice cream in, uh, Burlington, Vermont.

Vermont is the only state in the union that didn't have a Baskin Robbins.

And, um, the only ice cream you could get was either from the UVM dairy bar way up on the hill, or there was the Seward's guest, uh, bus station, which was a little sketchy.

Um, so, so yeah, we, uh,

We opened up in a very cold place.

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