DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like? DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet. DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet.Jerry: We can get any flavor we want. My freezer is always full. DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet.Jerry: We can get any flavor we want. My freezer is always full.Ben: I'm living in temporary housing and my freezer's not working, so I just sort of pick out what I want. I like them all but I always migrate to my favorites. "English Toffee Crunch" is just a really good one. It's the all time favorite. It's the all time best seller. It's currently being usurped by "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough." But I think people will come back to "English Toffee Crunch." DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet.Jerry: We can get any flavor we want. My freezer is always full.Ben: I'm living in temporary housing and my freezer's not working, so I just sort of pick out what I want. I like them all but I always migrate to my favorites. "English Toffee Crunch" is just a really good one. It's the all time favorite. It's the all time best seller. It's currently being usurped by "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough." But I think people will come back to "English Toffee Crunch."Jerry: I think of it as the gold standard of ice cream. It's the flavor by which I measure all of the others. Don't you guys have the gold standard of writing? DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet.Jerry: We can get any flavor we want. My freezer is always full.Ben: I'm living in temporary housing and my freezer's not working, so I just sort of pick out what I want. I like them all but I always migrate to my favorites. "English Toffee Crunch" is just a really good one. It's the all time favorite. It's the all time best seller. It's currently being usurped by "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough." But I think people will come back to "English Toffee Crunch."Jerry: I think of it as the gold standard of ice cream. It's the flavor by which I measure all of the others. Don't you guys have the gold standard of writing?DP: How about the whole CEO search? What inspired that? Where did you come up with the idea? Why are you leaving? DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet.Jerry: We can get any flavor we want. My freezer is always full.Ben: I'm living in temporary housing and my freezer's not working, so I just sort of pick out what I want. I like them all but I always migrate to my favorites. "English Toffee Crunch" is just a really good one. It's the all time favorite. It's the all time best seller. It's currently being usurped by "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough." But I think people will come back to "English Toffee Crunch."Jerry: I think of it as the gold standard of ice cream. It's the flavor by which I measure all of the others. Don't you guys have the gold standard of writing?DP: How about the whole CEO search? What inspired that? Where did you come up with the idea? Why are you leaving?Jerry: Well, we're not leaving but it became clear to us that the company needed someone with more experience and more management skills beyond what we could do. DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet.Jerry: We can get any flavor we want. My freezer is always full.Ben: I'm living in temporary housing and my freezer's not working, so I just sort of pick out what I want. I like them all but I always migrate to my favorites. "English Toffee Crunch" is just a really good one. It's the all time favorite. It's the all time best seller. It's currently being usurped by "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough." But I think people will come back to "English Toffee Crunch."Jerry: I think of it as the gold standard of ice cream. It's the flavor by which I measure all of the others. Don't you guys have the gold standard of writing?DP: How about the whole CEO search? What inspired that? Where did you come up with the idea? Why are you leaving?Jerry: Well, we're not leaving but it became clear to us that the company needed someone with more experience and more management skills beyond what we could do.Ben: Yeah. I'm a failed potter and I was trying to make it with pottery?But the deal was that you had a cash crop they called it for things you could make or do by yourself -- my cash crop was pottery so I studied pottery for several years and became what I thought was a potter and then I tried to go out and sell my pottery at a craft fair but nobody wanted to buy my pottery so. What was your question? DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet.Jerry: We can get any flavor we want. My freezer is always full.Ben: I'm living in temporary housing and my freezer's not working, so I just sort of pick out what I want. I like them all but I always migrate to my favorites. "English Toffee Crunch" is just a really good one. It's the all time favorite. It's the all time best seller. It's currently being usurped by "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough." But I think people will come back to "English Toffee Crunch."Jerry: I think of it as the gold standard of ice cream. It's the flavor by which I measure all of the others. Don't you guys have the gold standard of writing?DP: How about the whole CEO search? What inspired that? Where did you come up with the idea? Why are you leaving?Jerry: Well, we're not leaving but it became clear to us that the company needed someone with more experience and more management skills beyond what we could do.Ben: Yeah. I'm a failed potter and I was trying to make it with pottery?But the deal was that you had a cash crop they called it for things you could make or do by yourself -- my cash crop was pottery so I studied pottery for several years and became what I thought was a potter and then I tried to go out and sell my pottery at a craft fair but nobody wanted to buy my pottery so. What was your question?DP: The CEO search. DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet.Jerry: We can get any flavor we want. My freezer is always full.Ben: I'm living in temporary housing and my freezer's not working, so I just sort of pick out what I want. I like them all but I always migrate to my favorites. "English Toffee Crunch" is just a really good one. It's the all time favorite. It's the all time best seller. It's currently being usurped by "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough." But I think people will come back to "English Toffee Crunch."Jerry: I think of it as the gold standard of ice cream. It's the flavor by which I measure all of the others. Don't you guys have the gold standard of writing?DP: How about the whole CEO search? What inspired that? Where did you come up with the idea? Why are you leaving?Jerry: Well, we're not leaving but it became clear to us that the company needed someone with more experience and more management skills beyond what we could do.Ben: Yeah. I'm a failed potter and I was trying to make it with pottery?But the deal was that you had a cash crop they called it for things you could make or do by yourself -- my cash crop was pottery so I studied pottery for several years and became what I thought was a potter and then I tried to go out and sell my pottery at a craft fair but nobody wanted to buy my pottery so. What was your question?DP: The CEO search.Ben: So -- I'm not CEO material. I'm a failed potter?I didn't study CEO-manship?I dropped out of school. DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet.Jerry: We can get any flavor we want. My freezer is always full.Ben: I'm living in temporary housing and my freezer's not working, so I just sort of pick out what I want. I like them all but I always migrate to my favorites. "English Toffee Crunch" is just a really good one. It's the all time favorite. It's the all time best seller. It's currently being usurped by "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough." But I think people will come back to "English Toffee Crunch."Jerry: I think of it as the gold standard of ice cream. It's the flavor by which I measure all of the others. Don't you guys have the gold standard of writing?DP: How about the whole CEO search? What inspired that? Where did you come up with the idea? Why are you leaving?Jerry: Well, we're not leaving but it became clear to us that the company needed someone with more experience and more management skills beyond what we could do.Ben: Yeah. I'm a failed potter and I was trying to make it with pottery?But the deal was that you had a cash crop they called it for things you could make or do by yourself -- my cash crop was pottery so I studied pottery for several years and became what I thought was a potter and then I tried to go out and sell my pottery at a craft fair but nobody wanted to buy my pottery so. What was your question?DP: The CEO search.Ben: So -- I'm not CEO material. I'm a failed potter?I didn't study CEO-manship?I dropped out of school.Jerry: It definitely has reached a level of complexity where we need somebody who's got more experience?We have 600 people now, our sales are about $150 million, we have three different kinds of factories?It's just truly different than it was when we started. We need someone with some management instincts. So at one of our board meetings, somebody suggested this great idea to have an contest and we said cool, go with it. DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet.Jerry: We can get any flavor we want. My freezer is always full.Ben: I'm living in temporary housing and my freezer's not working, so I just sort of pick out what I want. I like them all but I always migrate to my favorites. "English Toffee Crunch" is just a really good one. It's the all time favorite. It's the all time best seller. It's currently being usurped by "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough." But I think people will come back to "English Toffee Crunch."Jerry: I think of it as the gold standard of ice cream. It's the flavor by which I measure all of the others. Don't you guys have the gold standard of writing?DP: How about the whole CEO search? What inspired that? Where did you come up with the idea? Why are you leaving?Jerry: Well, we're not leaving but it became clear to us that the company needed someone with more experience and more management skills beyond what we could do.Ben: Yeah. I'm a failed potter and I was trying to make it with pottery?But the deal was that you had a cash crop they called it for things you could make or do by yourself -- my cash crop was pottery so I studied pottery for several years and became what I thought was a potter and then I tried to go out and sell my pottery at a craft fair but nobody wanted to buy my pottery so. What was your question?DP: The CEO search.Ben: So -- I'm not CEO material. I'm a failed potter?I didn't study CEO-manship?I dropped out of school.Jerry: It definitely has reached a level of complexity where we need somebody who's got more experience?We have 600 people now, our sales are about $150 million, we have three different kinds of factories?It's just truly different than it was when we started. We need someone with some management instincts. So at one of our board meetings, somebody suggested this great idea to have an contest and we said cool, go with it.DP: So how did Ben get lucky enough to get his name first? DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet.Jerry: We can get any flavor we want. My freezer is always full.Ben: I'm living in temporary housing and my freezer's not working, so I just sort of pick out what I want. I like them all but I always migrate to my favorites. "English Toffee Crunch" is just a really good one. It's the all time favorite. It's the all time best seller. It's currently being usurped by "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough." But I think people will come back to "English Toffee Crunch."Jerry: I think of it as the gold standard of ice cream. It's the flavor by which I measure all of the others. Don't you guys have the gold standard of writing?DP: How about the whole CEO search? What inspired that? Where did you come up with the idea? Why are you leaving?Jerry: Well, we're not leaving but it became clear to us that the company needed someone with more experience and more management skills beyond what we could do.Ben: Yeah. I'm a failed potter and I was trying to make it with pottery?But the deal was that you had a cash crop they called it for things you could make or do by yourself -- my cash crop was pottery so I studied pottery for several years and became what I thought was a potter and then I tried to go out and sell my pottery at a craft fair but nobody wanted to buy my pottery so. What was your question?DP: The CEO search.Ben: So -- I'm not CEO material. I'm a failed potter?I didn't study CEO-manship?I dropped out of school.Jerry: It definitely has reached a level of complexity where we need somebody who's got more experience?We have 600 people now, our sales are about $150 million, we have three different kinds of factories?It's just truly different than it was when we started. We need someone with some management instincts. So at one of our board meetings, somebody suggested this great idea to have an contest and we said cool, go with it.DP: So how did Ben get lucky enough to get his name first?Jerry: It flows better. Ben and Jerry sounds better than Jerry and Ben. You know, a lot of names end in "e." DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet.Jerry: We can get any flavor we want. My freezer is always full.Ben: I'm living in temporary housing and my freezer's not working, so I just sort of pick out what I want. I like them all but I always migrate to my favorites. "English Toffee Crunch" is just a really good one. It's the all time favorite. It's the all time best seller. It's currently being usurped by "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough." But I think people will come back to "English Toffee Crunch."Jerry: I think of it as the gold standard of ice cream. It's the flavor by which I measure all of the others. Don't you guys have the gold standard of writing?DP: How about the whole CEO search? What inspired that? Where did you come up with the idea? Why are you leaving?Jerry: Well, we're not leaving but it became clear to us that the company needed someone with more experience and more management skills beyond what we could do.Ben: Yeah. I'm a failed potter and I was trying to make it with pottery?But the deal was that you had a cash crop they called it for things you could make or do by yourself -- my cash crop was pottery so I studied pottery for several years and became what I thought was a potter and then I tried to go out and sell my pottery at a craft fair but nobody wanted to buy my pottery so. What was your question?DP: The CEO search.Ben: So -- I'm not CEO material. I'm a failed potter?I didn't study CEO-manship?I dropped out of school.Jerry: It definitely has reached a level of complexity where we need somebody who's got more experience?We have 600 people now, our sales are about $150 million, we have three different kinds of factories?It's just truly different than it was when we started. We need someone with some management instincts. So at one of our board meetings, somebody suggested this great idea to have an contest and we said cool, go with it.DP: So how did Ben get lucky enough to get his name first?Jerry: It flows better. Ben and Jerry sounds better than Jerry and Ben. You know, a lot of names end in "e." DP: But you're not angry about that, Jerry? DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet.Jerry: We can get any flavor we want. My freezer is always full.Ben: I'm living in temporary housing and my freezer's not working, so I just sort of pick out what I want. I like them all but I always migrate to my favorites. "English Toffee Crunch" is just a really good one. It's the all time favorite. It's the all time best seller. It's currently being usurped by "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough." But I think people will come back to "English Toffee Crunch."Jerry: I think of it as the gold standard of ice cream. It's the flavor by which I measure all of the others. Don't you guys have the gold standard of writing?DP: How about the whole CEO search? What inspired that? Where did you come up with the idea? Why are you leaving?Jerry: Well, we're not leaving but it became clear to us that the company needed someone with more experience and more management skills beyond what we could do.Ben: Yeah. I'm a failed potter and I was trying to make it with pottery?But the deal was that you had a cash crop they called it for things you could make or do by yourself -- my cash crop was pottery so I studied pottery for several years and became what I thought was a potter and then I tried to go out and sell my pottery at a craft fair but nobody wanted to buy my pottery so. What was your question?DP: The CEO search.Ben: So -- I'm not CEO material. I'm a failed potter?I didn't study CEO-manship?I dropped out of school.Jerry: It definitely has reached a level of complexity where we need somebody who's got more experience?We have 600 people now, our sales are about $150 million, we have three different kinds of factories?It's just truly different than it was when we started. We need someone with some management instincts. So at one of our board meetings, somebody suggested this great idea to have an contest and we said cool, go with it.DP: So how did Ben get lucky enough to get his name first?Jerry: It flows better. Ben and Jerry sounds better than Jerry and Ben. You know, a lot of names end in "e." DP: But you're not angry about that, Jerry?Jerry: No, I got to be president of the company. DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet.Jerry: We can get any flavor we want. My freezer is always full.Ben: I'm living in temporary housing and my freezer's not working, so I just sort of pick out what I want. I like them all but I always migrate to my favorites. "English Toffee Crunch" is just a really good one. It's the all time favorite. It's the all time best seller. It's currently being usurped by "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough." But I think people will come back to "English Toffee Crunch."Jerry: I think of it as the gold standard of ice cream. It's the flavor by which I measure all of the others. Don't you guys have the gold standard of writing?DP: How about the whole CEO search? What inspired that? Where did you come up with the idea? Why are you leaving?Jerry: Well, we're not leaving but it became clear to us that the company needed someone with more experience and more management skills beyond what we could do.Ben: Yeah. I'm a failed potter and I was trying to make it with pottery?But the deal was that you had a cash crop they called it for things you could make or do by yourself -- my cash crop was pottery so I studied pottery for several years and became what I thought was a potter and then I tried to go out and sell my pottery at a craft fair but nobody wanted to buy my pottery so. What was your question?DP: The CEO search.Ben: So -- I'm not CEO material. I'm a failed potter?I didn't study CEO-manship?I dropped out of school.Jerry: It definitely has reached a level of complexity where we need somebody who's got more experience?We have 600 people now, our sales are about $150 million, we have three different kinds of factories?It's just truly different than it was when we started. We need someone with some management instincts. So at one of our board meetings, somebody suggested this great idea to have an contest and we said cool, go with it.DP: So how did Ben get lucky enough to get his name first?Jerry: It flows better. Ben and Jerry sounds better than Jerry and Ben. You know, a lot of names end in "e." DP: But you're not angry about that, Jerry?Jerry: No, I got to be president of the company.DP: What role do you each have in the company? DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet.Jerry: We can get any flavor we want. My freezer is always full.Ben: I'm living in temporary housing and my freezer's not working, so I just sort of pick out what I want. I like them all but I always migrate to my favorites. "English Toffee Crunch" is just a really good one. It's the all time favorite. It's the all time best seller. It's currently being usurped by "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough." But I think people will come back to "English Toffee Crunch."Jerry: I think of it as the gold standard of ice cream. It's the flavor by which I measure all of the others. Don't you guys have the gold standard of writing?DP: How about the whole CEO search? What inspired that? Where did you come up with the idea? Why are you leaving?Jerry: Well, we're not leaving but it became clear to us that the company needed someone with more experience and more management skills beyond what we could do.Ben: Yeah. I'm a failed potter and I was trying to make it with pottery?But the deal was that you had a cash crop they called it for things you could make or do by yourself -- my cash crop was pottery so I studied pottery for several years and became what I thought was a potter and then I tried to go out and sell my pottery at a craft fair but nobody wanted to buy my pottery so. What was your question?DP: The CEO search.Ben: So -- I'm not CEO material. I'm a failed potter?I didn't study CEO-manship?I dropped out of school.Jerry: It definitely has reached a level of complexity where we need somebody who's got more experience?We have 600 people now, our sales are about $150 million, we have three different kinds of factories?It's just truly different than it was when we started. We need someone with some management instincts. So at one of our board meetings, somebody suggested this great idea to have an contest and we said cool, go with it.DP: So how did Ben get lucky enough to get his name first?Jerry: It flows better. Ben and Jerry sounds better than Jerry and Ben. You know, a lot of names end in "e." DP: But you're not angry about that, Jerry?Jerry: No, I got to be president of the company.DP: What role do you each have in the company?Ben: I contribute a lack of taste. I have weak taste buds so everything I taste has to have real strong flavor and a lot of mouth-feel. DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet.Jerry: We can get any flavor we want. My freezer is always full.Ben: I'm living in temporary housing and my freezer's not working, so I just sort of pick out what I want. I like them all but I always migrate to my favorites. "English Toffee Crunch" is just a really good one. It's the all time favorite. It's the all time best seller. It's currently being usurped by "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough." But I think people will come back to "English Toffee Crunch."Jerry: I think of it as the gold standard of ice cream. It's the flavor by which I measure all of the others. Don't you guys have the gold standard of writing?DP: How about the whole CEO search? What inspired that? Where did you come up with the idea? Why are you leaving?Jerry: Well, we're not leaving but it became clear to us that the company needed someone with more experience and more management skills beyond what we could do.Ben: Yeah. I'm a failed potter and I was trying to make it with pottery?But the deal was that you had a cash crop they called it for things you could make or do by yourself -- my cash crop was pottery so I studied pottery for several years and became what I thought was a potter and then I tried to go out and sell my pottery at a craft fair but nobody wanted to buy my pottery so. What was your question?DP: The CEO search.Ben: So -- I'm not CEO material. I'm a failed potter?I didn't study CEO-manship?I dropped out of school.Jerry: It definitely has reached a level of complexity where we need somebody who's got more experience?We have 600 people now, our sales are about $150 million, we have three different kinds of factories?It's just truly different than it was when we started. We need someone with some management instincts. So at one of our board meetings, somebody suggested this great idea to have an contest and we said cool, go with it.DP: So how did Ben get lucky enough to get his name first?Jerry: It flows better. Ben and Jerry sounds better than Jerry and Ben. You know, a lot of names end in "e." DP: But you're not angry about that, Jerry?Jerry: No, I got to be president of the company.DP: What role do you each have in the company?Ben: I contribute a lack of taste. I have weak taste buds so everything I taste has to have real strong flavor and a lot of mouth-feel.Jerry: Texture, Ben. He gets technical sometimes. DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet.Jerry: We can get any flavor we want. My freezer is always full.Ben: I'm living in temporary housing and my freezer's not working, so I just sort of pick out what I want. I like them all but I always migrate to my favorites. "English Toffee Crunch" is just a really good one. It's the all time favorite. It's the all time best seller. It's currently being usurped by "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough." But I think people will come back to "English Toffee Crunch."Jerry: I think of it as the gold standard of ice cream. It's the flavor by which I measure all of the others. Don't you guys have the gold standard of writing?DP: How about the whole CEO search? What inspired that? Where did you come up with the idea? Why are you leaving?Jerry: Well, we're not leaving but it became clear to us that the company needed someone with more experience and more management skills beyond what we could do.Ben: Yeah. I'm a failed potter and I was trying to make it with pottery?But the deal was that you had a cash crop they called it for things you could make or do by yourself -- my cash crop was pottery so I studied pottery for several years and became what I thought was a potter and then I tried to go out and sell my pottery at a craft fair but nobody wanted to buy my pottery so. What was your question?DP: The CEO search.Ben: So -- I'm not CEO material. I'm a failed potter?I didn't study CEO-manship?I dropped out of school.Jerry: It definitely has reached a level of complexity where we need somebody who's got more experience?We have 600 people now, our sales are about $150 million, we have three different kinds of factories?It's just truly different than it was when we started. We need someone with some management instincts. So at one of our board meetings, somebody suggested this great idea to have an contest and we said cool, go with it.DP: So how did Ben get lucky enough to get his name first?Jerry: It flows better. Ben and Jerry sounds better than Jerry and Ben. You know, a lot of names end in "e." DP: But you're not angry about that, Jerry?Jerry: No, I got to be president of the company.DP: What role do you each have in the company?Ben: I contribute a lack of taste. I have weak taste buds so everything I taste has to have real strong flavor and a lot of mouth-feel.Jerry: Texture, Ben. He gets technical sometimes.Dominic: I too have a very bad sense of smell. Maybe that's why we decided to market these extra-thick socks. I mean, we all know that in adolescence growing up, foot odor is a really big deal. DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet.Jerry: We can get any flavor we want. My freezer is always full.Ben: I'm living in temporary housing and my freezer's not working, so I just sort of pick out what I want. I like them all but I always migrate to my favorites. "English Toffee Crunch" is just a really good one. It's the all time favorite. It's the all time best seller. It's currently being usurped by "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough." But I think people will come back to "English Toffee Crunch."Jerry: I think of it as the gold standard of ice cream. It's the flavor by which I measure all of the others. Don't you guys have the gold standard of writing?DP: How about the whole CEO search? What inspired that? Where did you come up with the idea? Why are you leaving?Jerry: Well, we're not leaving but it became clear to us that the company needed someone with more experience and more management skills beyond what we could do.Ben: Yeah. I'm a failed potter and I was trying to make it with pottery?But the deal was that you had a cash crop they called it for things you could make or do by yourself -- my cash crop was pottery so I studied pottery for several years and became what I thought was a potter and then I tried to go out and sell my pottery at a craft fair but nobody wanted to buy my pottery so. What was your question?DP: The CEO search.Ben: So -- I'm not CEO material. I'm a failed potter?I didn't study CEO-manship?I dropped out of school.Jerry: It definitely has reached a level of complexity where we need somebody who's got more experience?We have 600 people now, our sales are about $150 million, we have three different kinds of factories?It's just truly different than it was when we started. We need someone with some management instincts. So at one of our board meetings, somebody suggested this great idea to have an contest and we said cool, go with it.DP: So how did Ben get lucky enough to get his name first?Jerry: It flows better. Ben and Jerry sounds better than Jerry and Ben. You know, a lot of names end in "e." DP: But you're not angry about that, Jerry?Jerry: No, I got to be president of the company.DP: What role do you each have in the company?Ben: I contribute a lack of taste. I have weak taste buds so everything I taste has to have real strong flavor and a lot of mouth-feel.Jerry: Texture, Ben. He gets technical sometimes.Dominic: I too have a very bad sense of smell. Maybe that's why we decided to market these extra-thick socks. I mean, we all know that in adolescence growing up, foot odor is a really big deal.DP: So if [Ben's] the flavor tester, what are you, Jerry? DP: Is there a flavor that either of you don't like?Ben: Well, you know, on our travels, people will come to us with garlic ice cream or pickle ice cream or tuna fish ice cream -- But I really believe that ice cream should be sweet.Jerry: We can get any flavor we want. My freezer is always full.Ben: I'm living in temporary housing and my freezer's not working, so I just sort of pick out what I want. I like them all but I always migrate to my favorites. "English Toffee Crunch" is just a really good one. It's the all time favorite. It's the all time best seller. It's currently being usurped by "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough." But I think people will come back to "English Toffee Crunch."Jerry: I think of it as the gold standard of ice cream. It's the flavor by which I measure all of the others. Don't you guys have the gold standard of writing?DP: How about the whole CEO search? What inspired that? Where did you come up with the idea? Why are you leaving?Jerry: Well, we're not leaving but it became clear to us that the company needed someone with more experience and more management skills beyond what we could do.Ben: Yeah. I'm a failed potter and I was trying to make it with pottery?But the deal was that you had a cash crop they called it for things you could make or do by yourself -- my cash crop was pottery so I studied pottery for several years and became what I thought was a potter and then I tried to go out and sell my pottery at a craft fair but nobody wanted to buy my pottery so. What was your question?DP: The CEO search.Ben: So -- I'm not CEO material. I'm a failed potter?I didn't study CEO-manship?I dropped out of school.Jerry: It definitely has reached a level of complexity where we need somebody who's got more experience?We have 600 people now, our sales are about $150 million, we have three different kinds of factories?It's just truly different than it was when we started. We need someone with some management instincts. So at one of our board meetings, somebody suggested this great idea to have an contest and we said cool, go with it.DP: So how did Ben get lucky enough to get his name first?Jerry: It flows better. Ben and Jerry sounds better than Jerry and Ben. You know, a lot of names end in "e." DP: But you're not angry about that, Jerry?Jerry: No, I got to be president of the company.DP: What role do you each have in the company?Ben: I contribute a lack of taste. I have weak taste buds so everything I taste has to have real strong flavor and a lot of mouth-feel.Jerry: Texture, Ben. He gets technical sometimes.Dominic: I too have a very bad sense of smell. Maybe that's why we decided to market these extra-thick socks. I mean, we all know that in adolescence growing up, foot odor is a really big deal.DP: So if [Ben's] the flavor tester, what are you, Jerry?Jerry: Well, it's changed over the years. In the beginning, I was in the manufacturing end of things and and in sales and marketing. You know, the really creative stuff. Lately, I've been involved with?spending a lot of time going around visiting the different individuals. I spend time going to sites ?and working with relationships and that kind of thing?Ben has always been the creative driving force.
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