It might feel like you are in a freezer when you go outside, but that is not stopping Ben & Jerry’s from releasing five new ice cream bars that you can find in the freezer aisle.
The ice cream-on-a-stick flavors are: Cookie Dough, Chocolate Fudge Brownie, Strawberry Cheesecake, PB Pretzel, and Caramel Blondie.
The bars will be available starting next month. If you can’t wait until then to get your mouth on one, you can try one for free this Saturday at Ben & Jerry’s Scoops Shop while supplies last.
Ben & Jerry’s has some of the most interesting combinations of flavored ice cream. Therefore, it would make sense that Food Network would reach out to them to do a competition show to create possibly new flavors.
Starting on August 16th, six ice makers will compete on Ben & Jerry’s: Clash of the Cones. Their creations will be judged by Jet Tila and Chris Rivard, a Ben & Jerry’s flavor expert, as well as the public.
“Viewers are in for an imaginative and entertaining ride, watching along as these gifted ice cream makers create original Ben & Jerry’s flavors, based on inspiration from some of the biggest stars on the planet in food, music, and film. This is the perfect show for the entire family to gather around and watch this summer,” said Courtney White, president, Food Network and Cooking Channel, in a prepared statement to Variety.
Who are these celebrities? They are Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Food Network’s Duff Goldman, Buddy Valastro, and Kevin Bacon. I have the perfect flavor for the latter, maple ice cream with chunks of waffles and bacon. They can call it Kevin Bacon and Waffles.
At the end of the four episodes, they get to chance to wow thee Ben & Jerry, aka Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, for a chance to win the grand prize of $20,000.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPOPHGhlqlQ
I will admit, I am one of the few people who has not seen Stranger Things season 3 yet. I am still stuck on season 2. However, I have heard about the NeverEnding Story scene. Since I have been a neverending fan of Limahl’s, I have been curious about that scene.
Then last night late night competitors Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert went from their shared love of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to ’80s soundtrack songs that are bigger than the movies they are from. In other words, they did that scene from the Netflix show, so now I get what all the fuss is about.
Even though The Tonight Show and The Late Show go head-to-head, the two hosts are in perfect harmony when they sing.
Now back to Limahl, personally, NeverEnding Story is not one of my favorite songs of his. I prefer everything off of his album Colour All My Days and from Kajagoogoo over it. Which means you need to discover his tunes. He is becoming a huge hit again on Spotify, so start there.
Now, if you are like me and have not seen the scene that started all of this, then click here!
Hurricane Sandy is huffing and puffing her way up the East Coast and will be passing over NYC sometime later tonight. As we all know she is a scary storm and because of that the North East is becoming a virtual ghost town with television shows shutting down production until she blows over.
Well the late night shows that tape in NYC all said yesterday they were going to go on as is, but today they are all changing their tune. Jimmy Kimmel Live, who flew across the county with his staff to do a week of special shows in Brooklyn, cancelled tonight’s taping. The ABC late night host Tweeted, “Though it pains us to do it, JKLfrom #Brooklyn tonight is cancelled. I’m disappointed too, but we want you to be safe.” No decision has been made as of now per his rep, if they will reschedule Chris Rock, Kelly Ripa and Alicia Keys for another night or if they will stay an extra day to make up for tonight.
While Kimmel is a guest in the Big Apple, Jimmy Fallon and David Letterman are not. The NBC Late Night host Tweeted, “We sent our audience home just to be safe. But we are doing our show tonight anyway. Should be fun. #LateNight” He said that after Tweeting, “Everyone in tonight’s studio audience gets a free Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. #LateNight #wehave10peopleinourau”. I sent an email to the show’s rep to find out if the scheduled guests would be there and as of now have not heard back. When it comes to The Late Show, a CBS rep says that they also will be taping without an audience tonight and that Denzel Washington and musical guest Paul Banks will be there. I mean it is Denzel after all, and he ain’t afraid of anything! In all seriousness, I think they made the right choice in choosing the audience’s safety over having them in the background for a few laughs.
This will not be the first time that a late night show has gone without an audience, Craig Ferguson tried out for fun a few years back. But in his case there was no Frankenstorm coming his way.
Now having written all about how the late night shows will or will not go on, I pray that everyone on the East Coast in her path will be safe. That is the most important thing.
UPDATE: The Late Show just Tweeted this, “Studio audience in place and ready for tonight’s all-new #Sandy show with Denzel Washington & Paul Banks.” At least they still have a sense of humor about it all.
