Ben & Jerry

Ben & Jerry's ice cream is one of the most known ice cream's company on the world, But what's the story behind the two men who made a huge difference in ice cream world & how was their beginning? Let's find out!

At first, both Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield grew up in Merrick, Long Island. They went to the same school & became friends since then & split up to attend separate colleges.

Ben worked as an ice cream man in his senior year before he head off to Colgate University upstate.

& Jerry worked as an ice cream scooper in a high school's cafeteria at Oberlin when he went there to pursue a pre-med curriculum.

After graduating in 1973, Jerry failed twice to get into medical school, & Ben made his way to several colleges but dropped out of all of them.

In 1976, Jerry moved back north & lived with Ben. They both knew that they weren't getting anywhere doing what they were doing, so they decided to start their own food business.

Ben & Jerry considered opening a bagel shop, but then they turned their attention to an ice cream shop because the equipment of such a shop was much cheaper, & they both knew a lot about eating ice cream.

So they took a $5 costing correspondence course for an ice cream making in Penn State University, then they combined their $8000 lifesaving with a $4000 bank loan.

The pair looked up for a warm-weather town to open up their first shop & then they settled on Burlington, Vermont. Leased an old gas station building there, & opened on May5, 1978.

They began churning out all the reach & creamy, fun & chunky ice cream flavors they had always dreamed about.

Their ice cream was a hit, Soon the shop couldn't accommodate the bunch of costumers who come, more & more folks clamored for a taste of Ben & Jerry's flavors creations.

So they started selling it to local restaurants, then grocery stores & supermarkets throughout Vermont & beyond. Way beyond.

by: Mawaddah Bayazeed