Our posts for today, Day Six, are by Max Rubanenko and Emily Elfman.

(Max) Today we took a tour of Ben & Jerry’s, It only lasted about 30 minutes but we learned a lot of different things about the process of how they make their ice cream and the history of the company and its ice cream as a whole. Ben & Jerry’s was started in the 1970’s by two men Ben and Jerry. They started off in a small shop in Merrick, New York, serving only about 6 flavors of ice cream. The company continued to grow and grow really quickly and is now probably the biggest artisan ice cream maker in the world. We learned that even one of the biggest ice cream companies in the world can still get all of their ingredients from local farmers and still be artisan even is their company is so big. 

(Emily)      We walk in to Ben and Jerry’s and the smell is amazing. It smells like vanilla and cookies. The first thing we see are old fashion ice cream scoops. I want to buy everything at the gift shop. I am picturing where I would put these items in my room. Then I hear  we are coming back to buy them after the tour. We are told to put our tickets on head as we walk up the stairs into this room with a giant movie screen. There were clouds and a button that says play
   “Two kids meet in track class, and they Need to make a living. They both have a love of food, and wanted to go into the bagels Business. They thought about it and decided ce cream was more their style. In the 80s they started cookie dough. They were the first ones to come up with the idea. Once the idea was out everyone copied it. In the 1990s they looked at ingredients and flavors to name after their favorite bands. In the 2000s corporations became interested which is when they became came popular all over the world. In the 2010 social media chose names like "The Tonight Dough" named after the tonight show, “ Americone Dream Come True” the after the Late Show with Stephen Colbert”.
    Now we just walked into the factory. It's fantastic there are numbers to give us an idea of where we are talking about. Number two was the pasteurizer where all the milk gets pasteurized. Then comes the flavor station at number three. They have many different flavors they inject into the ice cream.  Number four is the freezer where they freeze their ice cream at 36-34 degrees. The chunk feeder is number five, where they put chunks of either cookie dough, brownies, or any other chunk they come up with. After five come six, which is the sweet swirl machine, their number one swirl is caramel. Seven is the automatic filler, which leads to eight, which is the hardener to have it settle and make colder.

(Max) After our tour at Ben & Jerry’s we went to Prohibition Pig for lunch. I thought the meal was amazing and so did many of my classmates. I  decided to get the GLT (guanciale, lettuce, and tomatoes - which were fried green tomatoes), which I would recommend anyone who goes here to get. 

After Prohibition Pig we came back to the hotel for a couple of hours to relax and get ready for dinner at Our House. At Our House most of us got one of their 27 different mac n’ cheese's. They all sounded great but I went with the Steak and crab mac n’ cheese which was great. For dessert which all of us got I had a Nutella creme brulee, which might have been the best creme brulee I have ever had.