Where Is Ben And Jerry’S Graveyard?

While the factory tour at this famous ice cream duo’s facility is still unavailable, there are still cones to eat and the Ben and Jerry’s Flavor Graveyard to explore. Known as one of the best ice cream plants in the county, Ben and Jerry’s is located in Waterbury, Vermont, just about 35 minutes from our Bed and Breakfast.

Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Graveyard Doug Kerr on Flickr (Creative Commons) Ben & Jerry might be a couple of ice cream tycoons, but they’ve remained true to their roots. Case in point: the deliciously somber Flavor Graveyard located on the grounds of their factory in Waterbury, Vermont.

Even the most devoted Ben & Jerry’s customers do not know the Flavor Graveyard exists. Visitors can find the ice cream cemetery in the backyard of the company’s factory in Waterbury, Vermont, which over 350,000 people visit yearly. With this many people visiting the factory, we can assume a large amount find their way to the Flavor Graveyard too.

Although tears of sadness are shed for customer’s dearly de-pinted flavors, a happy resting place befitting their place in Ben & Jerry’s history can be visited in Waterbury, Vermont. Climb up the hill for the flavor graveyard!!

In typical creative and fun Ben & Jerry’s fashion, this included an actual graveyard overlooking their factory with granite headstones and clever causes of death for each flavor. Videos found online give off a Disneyland haunted mansion feel.

In addition to this ice cream flavor making its way to the graveyard, Ben & Jerry’s decided to figuratively bury fossil fuel pollution as well (via Ben & Jerry’s ). The company believes all fossil fuels belong in the ground in an effort to help climate change.

Ben & Jerry’s Factory Tour. Factory is located on the left. Parking: Onsite parking is available in the lower parking area as well as the upper, upper parking area near the playground and Flavor Graveyard. At the top of hill once you enter the site the drop-off area is at the end of the covered boardwalk.

According to their site, there are 34 flavors interred in the Ben & Jerry’s boneyard. Visitors can either take a factory tour which includes a visit to the cemetery, or they can come and pay their respects individually. Luckily, sometimes flavors are resurrected.

Where is Ben and Jerry’s ice cream factory?

Case in point: the deliciously somber Flavor Graveyard located on the grounds of their factory in Waterbury, Vermont.

According to their site, there are 34 flavors interred in the Ben & Jerry’s boneyard. Visitors can either take a factory tour which includes a visit to the cemetery, or they can come and pay their respects individually. Luckily, sometimes flavors are resurrected too!

Opened in 1997 , the memorial to bygone flavors was originally an online-only affair, until a handful of resin headstones were mocked up and planted on a hill behind the factory. Like a pet cemetery for punny ice cream recipes, each grave marker was given a clever epitaph that summed up the life and death of the flavor.

How many flavors are there in the Graveyard?

The physical Flavor Graveyard was erected in 1997 and originally contained just 4 flavors, which only existed in the United States: Dastardly Mash, Economic Crunch, Ethan Almond and Tuskegee Chunk.

Ben & Jerry’s is known for outrageous, chunky, funky flavors. But outrageous flavor experimentation comes with some risks, and flavors can meet their untimely end even without using a spoon. That’s okay with us, because ice cream flavors, like everything else, have a beginning and an end.

Ice cream miracles are known to happen though, and yes, flavors really do come back from the grave from time to time! For those that don’t, we make sure they have a happy resting place befitting their place in Ben & Jerry’s history. The Flavor Graveyard.