Ben & Jerrys Gone To Pot

[spathiphyllum]

This will be interesting.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/may/30/ben-and-jerrys-cbd-ice-cream-legalized-federal-level

Do they jump on every band wagon?

[fender62]

is it a ploy to get children hooked on cannabis or to push there over priced ice cream..

[spathiphyllum]

Push their over priced icecream.

CBD should only be used by people who feel they need it. Why would they feel the best way to consume this is from over priced icecream?

[fender62]

mmm what if children bought it, and did not know what was in it.
children tend to do such things, interesting pictures on packaging etc.

[spathiphyllum]

CBD wouldn't negatively affect children luckily. CBD is a non psychoactive cannabinoid. It may make them a wee sleepy though.

I guess it's similar to alcohol in some deserts, such as tiramisu

[jno]

come on, Ben and Jerry are old hippies from way back. It's the lawmakers who have jumped on Ben and Jerry's bandwagon.

[spathiphyllum]

LOL.. It may have been something they've wanted to do for a while, and something the market is only now open to accepting.

[gingejbee]

Ben and Jerry's.....owned by Anglo-Dutch Unilever.....

[fender62]

i had a few mates back in the day, who liked wacky baccy, iv always preferred a beer myself, but they did no harm to anyone..laughed and ate a lot, specially my biscuits..

[jno]

it used to be owned by Ben and Jerry. Now it'll be available in Amsterdam smoking shops.

[jno]

all Tory MPs now, fender?

[gingejbee]

^^it was founded by Ben and Jerry who sold it nineteen years ago...

[spathiphyllum]

"i had a few mates back in the day, who liked wacky baccy, iv always preferred a beer myself, but they did no harm to anyone..laughed and ate a lot, specially my biscuits.."

LOL, seems quite harmless ;) As ong as they weren't bourbons!

gingejbee that is a cool fact, thank you. It also changes my whole view of ben and jerrys.

[spathiphyllum]

"all Tory MPs now, fender?"

Oh no.. Tory MP's take much harder substances than a bit of herb.

[jno]

yes, I know that, ginge. I visited the Vermont factory just before it was all sold, and had a free ice cream. I'm not mad on stuff with chunks of this and that in it, though, more of a sorbet person.

I recall they had a competition to suggest a new ice cream for Britain. Minty Python, Vanilla Parker-Bowles, Jack the Rippler, that sort of thing. I don't know what won.

[jno]

oh, not all of them, spath. Here's a list

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/09/high-tories-how-the-leadership-candidates-drug-pasts-compare

Javid seems to have ingested worrying levels of piety.

[woofgang]

Cherry Garcia is my favourite commercial icecream

[jno]

yes, that's nice, woofgang. Though I imagine Mr Garcia would be shocked to find it alongside Cannabis Cream on the shelves.

[woofgang]

oh I doubt it :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Garcia

[retrocop]

I don't often use ice cream but if I do I would rather poodle over to Menorca where they know how to make it. As the Menorcans also know how to distil the original Royal Navy Portsmouth Gin (Nelsons Days on the Island) I would treat myself to that. They(Menorcans) make a gin flavoured ice cream and far better than anything B and J concoct.

[jno]

:-) woofgang