Ben and Jerry's

Holy ice-cream Batman! I forgot that the Ben and Jerry's ice-cream factory is in Vermont. That alone would be worth the plane ticket. The factory offers tours and samples. I know of at least one Make-a-Wish child whose wish was to visit the factory and make his own flavor.

Most fun of all I think, is the flavor graveyard, in honor of the "dearly de-pinted." All flavors get their own tombstone with an individual epitaph. In the winter there are even snowshoe tours of the graveyard. Because about 300,000 people visit the graveyard each year, Ben and Jerry's is slowly replacing the resin tombstones with granite.

The epitaphs are:

Sugar Plum

It swirled in our heads,
it danced in our dreams,
it proved not to be though,
The best of ice-creams.

This is Nuts
The name was meant to say it all
without the pompous prose,
Was it nuts we chose to say so
or was it nuts we chose?

Wild Maine Blueberry

Wild Maine Blueberry
from the land of puffin,
Now when we crave you
we turn to the muffin.

In honor of Ben and Jerry's, I've declared Friday, Jan 15 as my official Ben and Jerry's day at work. I'm excited about this! I never eat Ben and Jerry's because it's sooooo calorie loaded and expensive, but on Jan 15th bring on the Chunky Monkey!