--- title: You Could Win a Pint of This Bernie Sanders Ice Cream description: "Bernie's Yearning" is mint ice cream with a chocolate disc you've got to break up and spread around canonical: https://time.com/4192710/bernie-sanders-ice-cream-ben-cohen/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-25T17:58:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:25:03.613Z article:section: Politics og:title: You Could Win a Pint of This Bernie Sanders Ice Cream og:description: From the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's og:url: https://time.com/4192710/bernie-sanders-ice-cream-ben-cohen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: You Could Win a Pint of This Bernie Sanders Ice Cream twitter:description: From the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # You Could Win a Pint of This Bernie Sanders Ice Cream by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Jan 25, 2016 5:58 PM UTC by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Jan 25, 2016 5:58 PM UTC The co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s has been so inspired by Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign that he’s crafted an [ice cream flavor in the Vermont candidate’s honor](http://www.berniesyearning.com/). After Ben Cohen’s [early ideas](http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/12/politics/bernie-sanders-ben-and-jerrys-ice-cream-flavor/) about a potential Bernie Sanders flavor gained widespread attention, he decided to actually develop the flavor called “[Bernie’s Yearning](http://www.berniesyearning.com/),” which he’s billing as a “participatory flavor including a graphic description of what’s wrong in our country (in 3D frozen confectionary form).” The flavor features a chocolate disc covering a pint of plain mint ice cream. The chocolate represents “the huge gains that have gone to the top 1% since the end of the recession.” The mint ice cream represents everyone else—consumers are instructed to break up the chocolate disc at the top and spread it around to the ice cream underneath to create a yummy version of what the Sanders campaign is calling for. The flavor isn’t an official Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream creation and there are no plans to put it on grocery store shelves anytime soon. Instead, Cohen has made 40 pints of the limited-edition ice cream in his kitchen, and he donated 25 of them to the Sanders campaign. The campaign will give the pints to randomly selected supporters [who sign up online](https://go.berniesanders.com/page/signup/pint-contest). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4192710/bernie-sanders-ice-cream-ben-cohen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4192710/bernie-sanders-ice-cream-ben-cohen/"},"headline":"You Could Win a Pint of This Bernie Sanders Ice Cream","datePublished":"2016-01-25T17:58:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:25:03.613Z","description":"\"Bernie's Yearning\" is mint ice cream with a chocolate disc you've got to break up and spread around","url":"https://time.com/4192710/bernie-sanders-ice-cream-ben-cohen/","keywords":["Bernie Sanders"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/bernie-sanders/","name":"Bernie Sanders"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4192710/bernie-sanders-ice-cream-ben-cohen/","name":"You Could Win a Pint of This Bernie Sanders Ice Cream"}}]}] ```