Ben & Jerry .....I LOVE THESE GUYS!

First, you need to know that Ben and Jerry are the only two men I would ever leave my husband for!

And these boys did it to me again. Damn them....I can not resist them.
They just came out with a 3.6 oz Ben & Jerry container of ice cream. OMG is this a winner. Which one of you guys came up with this? I want to marry you!!

This mini tub of the best ice cream ever even comes with a little spoon under the lid too. They had them on sale for like 10 for $10 at my grocery store. I saw them for the first time this weekend and went into a frenzy of ice cream excitment! C'mon ice cream headache!
How could we pass this up. It's still the great creamy rich flavor only in a mini size so you aren't tempted to eat a whole pint!!

As for that "whole" pint. We went to Ben & Jerry's in Vermont several years ago. Truly the happiest place on earth! Disney has nothin' on this place.

It was in the fall and it was a rainy day so we decided to head up to Montepelier to tour the Ben & Jerry's and stop at this place we had read about in the Washington Post for dinner.
So we started with dessert....

When we got there we found the ages ranged from the late 20's to the 80's. It was all adults but then again it was a weekday and in the fall so the kids were probably in school. Everyone was talking and laughing and there was no one without a smile on their face the whole time we were there.....including yours truly.

We got in line for our tour and 1/2 way through the tour a machine broke down so they told us they had to stop the tour but they herded us to another Ben & Jerry room. In this room they continued to serve up all the familiar flavors and new flavors that they were working on. Needless to say no one there was too upset about the loss of the remaining tour.
Everyone was making friends and moaning over new and old flavors and talking ice cream. Honestly it was a hoot. At one point I said to my hubby that he needed to look around and see how happy every one was. He looked at me and said, "what is there to not be happy about?" Good point!

Now I have always complained that the information on the side of a pint of Ben & Jerry's says it serves 4. C'mon really? They are just trying to make us feel badly - those damn food police.
Well I will boldly admit that I can watch an hour long episode of many of my favorite shows and down a pint all alone. Yea, that's right - not four - just ME and MY PINT.
I always ask what 4 people can all eat just one pint? 4 small children perhaps. But I say it's 1 serving and 2 at best. (okay you can see my issues on ice cream now)

But while in the B & J's gift shop they had koozies for the pints! Now c'mon, right there it shows you that this is for 1. You don't have a koozie for your beer and have it say serves 4 and you share it. They don't make coozies for more than 1 so there is my point and for some reason that made me feel a whole lot better.....just not thinner.