--- title: Joe Biden Gets Own Ice Cream Flavor at Cornell description: Joe Biden, the world's most prominent ice cream enthusiast, is finally getting his own ice cream flavor thanks to the Cornell Dairy. canonical: https://time.com/4782093/joe-biden-ice-cream-flavor-cornell/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-17T15:28:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:43.246Z og:title: Vice President Joe Biden Finally Gets His Own Ice Cream Flavor og:description: The flavor of the internet's dreams og:url: https://time.com/4782093/joe-biden-ice-cream-flavor-cornell/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta408fc6c9a1e3e82/6988cda32dce0118289ed85d/joe-biden-ice-cream-flavor-cornell.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US vice presidential nominee Senator Joe og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Vice President Joe Biden Finally Gets His Own Ice Cream Flavor twitter:description: The flavor of the internet's dreams twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta408fc6c9a1e3e82/6988cda32dce0118289ed85d/joe-biden-ice-cream-flavor-cornell.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ultimate Ice Cream Enthusiast Joe Biden Is Finally Getting His Own Ice Cream Flavor  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 17, 2017 3:28 PM UTC  US vice presidential nominee Senator Joe Biden (L) and Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (R) enjoy ice cream cones as they speak with local residents at the Windmill Ice Cream Shop in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, August 29, 2008\. AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) US vice presidential nominee Senator Joe Biden (L) and Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (R) enjoy ice cream cones as they speak with local residents at the Windmill Ice Cream Shop in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, August 29, 2008\. AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)SAUL LOEB—AFP/Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 17, 2017 3:28 PM UTC After countless memes, endless Twitter jokes, and [an ice cream cone eating appearance on Jimmy Fallon](http://time.com/4514628/joe-biden-jimmy-fallon-ice-cream/), Joe Biden, the [world’s foremost ice cream fan](http://time.com/4408008/joe-biden-ice-cream-obsession/) and [a bonafide national treasure](http://time.com/4591253/joe-biden-national-treasure/), is finally getting an ice cream flavor of his own. The former vice president is receiving a Biden-themed ice cream from Cornell Dairy ahead of him speaking at Cornell University’s convocation ceremony on May 27\. It’s all thanks to student Molly Mandel ’17, who had interned for the Cornell Dairy Processing Plant the semester earlier and got the idea for creating a flavor for Biden after he was announced as the convocation speaker. According to the [_Cornell Daily Sun_](http://cornellsun.com/2017/05/07/cornell-dairy-to-make-memes-into-reality-with-joe-biden-themed-ice-cream/), Cornell Dairy quality manager and academic programs coordinator Deanna Simons contacted Biden’s undergraduate alma mater, University of Delaware to do some research and discovered that according to the UDairy Creamery, there’s never been an ice cream named after the Vice President. Simons also found out that Biden’s favorite flavor is old-fashioned chocolate chip, which is what inspired the Cornell Dairy’s flavor, a vanilla-based ice cream filled with chocolate chips. Students were encouraged to suggest names for the new flavor. 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