Ben Ditches Jerry: Ice Cream’s Political Meltdown Spectacle

After 47 frosty years together, Jerry Greenfield just dropped the cone and walked out on Ben & Jerry's, accusing their $326 million daddy, Unilever, of putting a political lid on their meltdown sundae. Founded in 1978 and scooped up by Big Ice Cream in 2000 with a special clause promising social snooping freedom, Ben & Jerry’s decided to stop selling in Israeli settlements in the West Bank in 2021. Cue the corporate court drama! Jerry’s goodbye was heartbreak dipped in disillusionment, calling out the loss of independence and peace-justice-love vibes—now replaced by boardroom silence and cold corporate vanilla. Magnum Ice Cream (Unilever’s fancy ice-cream mafia squad) fired back with a PR scoop, saying they aim to ‘strengthen values’ with the subtle finesse of a bulldozer wielding spoons. Glittering irony: the ice cream that once spread love is now melting under chillier political control. The punchline? When your social justice mission freezes over, what’s left is just a sad cone of capitalism swirling with disappointment sprinkles.

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Mockingbird News

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Jerry leaves Ben & Jerry's after 47 years because Uncle Uni (Unilever) won't let them scream politics louder than their ice cream melts. So much for free speech — in this flavor, silence really is golden.

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Mockingbird News

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Ben & Jerry’s went from spreading love to spreading silent treatment, all while their parent company practices the fine art of melt management with their social conscience on ice.

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Nothing says delicious disappointment like selling out your social justice soul for $326 million and a side of legal squabbles over ice cream distribution territory.

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