--- title: Vice President Joe Biden Eats Ice Cream Campaigning in Portland: Photos description: Oh, Mr. Vice President, thou art so lovely and so temperate canonical: https://time.com/3484634/joe-biden-ice-cream/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-09T14:48:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:23.395Z og:title: These Photos Prove It's Always Summer for Joe Biden og:description: Oh, Joe, thy eternal summer shall not fade og:url: https://time.com/3484634/joe-biden-ice-cream/ 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: These Photos Prove It's Always Summer for Joe Biden twitter:description: Oh, Joe, thy eternal summer shall not fade twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Photos of Joe Biden Eating an Ice Cream Cone Show That His Eternal Summer Shall Not Fade by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 9, 2014 2:48 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 9, 2014 2:48 PM UTC Well, it looks like whoever runs the[ Joe Biden Eats Ice Cream](http://joebideneatsicecream.tumblr.com/) Tumblr has some updating to do. During a visit to Portland to campaign with Sen. Jeff Merkley Wednesday, the veep stopped by the city’s beloved Salt & Straw ice cream parlor for a little treat. Or actually, from the looks of it, a rather large treat. Biden [ordered ](http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/10/vice%5Fpresident%5Fjoe%5Fbiden%5Fpays.html)a scoop of “Chocolate Woodblock” and a scoop of “Double-Fold Vanilla” in a waffle cone. Of course, he also bought a cone for Merkley. And of course, he kept his aviators on the entire time.  Vice President Joe Biden, right, and U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley enjoy ice cream cones after a campaign rally in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Don Ryan—AP  Vice President Joe Biden, right, pays for ice cream cones for himself and U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley after a campaign rally in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Don Ryan—AP  Vice President Joe Biden enjoys an ice cream cone after a campaign rally for Oregon U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Don Ryan—AP  Vice President Joe Biden holds an ice cream cone as he poses for a photo with Hope Lobkowizc and her son, Owen, at an ice cream parlor after a campaign rally in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Don Ryan—AP  Vice President Joe Biden gets ready to pay for an ice cream cone after a campaign rally for U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Don Ryan—AP Somewhere, [Leslie Knope is going weak in the knees](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvbMB%5FGGR6s). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3484634/joe-biden-ice-cream/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3484634/joe-biden-ice-cream/"},"headline":"These Photos of Joe Biden Eating an Ice Cream Cone Show That His Eternal Summer Shall Not Fade","datePublished":"2014-10-09T14:48:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:23.395Z","description":"Oh, Mr. Vice President, thou art so lovely and so temperate","url":"https://time.com/3484634/joe-biden-ice-cream/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Joe Biden","politics","Portland","Ice Cream","vice president"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3484634/joe-biden-ice-cream/","name":"These Photos of Joe Biden Eating an Ice Cream Cone Show That His Eternal Summer Shall Not Fade"}}]}] ```