The Dough-liciously Tasty History of Our Famous Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough!
We’ve got a loooong history with dough and kind of started the whole cookie-dough-in-ice-cream trend in 1984 when a fan suggested it to us! Ever since then, we've been dough-sessed! Here’s a quick summary of how this dough-licious flavour rose to power in the ice cream world.
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1984
At our very first Scoop Shop in a renovated gas station in Burlington, VT, an anonymous fan suggested that we mix gobs of cookie dough into our Vanilla ice cream. We gave it a dough and BOOM people seemed to like it....really, really like it!
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1991
Fans in our Scoop Shops became dough-ssed with our Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream! They loved it so much that we had to pack it into pints and bring it to grocery store shelves!
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2009
In 2009 we landed in Australia and opened our very first Scoop Shop in Manly, Sydney - bringing along, three surprises.... Our dough-licious Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream and our co-founders themselves, Ben and Jerry for the grand opening!
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2015
Fans did an experiment and dough-scovered that our Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream has more cookie dough than other brands. #Win
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2017
It comes at dough surprise that when we launched Pint Slices, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough was one of the first flavours we created.
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2019
In 2019 our Flavour Guru's dough-livered on one of our fans biggest requests for a Vegan friendly version of our popular cookie dough flavour. Meet our Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Non-Dairy - it's dough-verloaded with cookie dough love, all without a lick of dairy!
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Today
Our Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream continues to dough-minate and has remained a reigning fan flavour-ite! In Australia, fans scoop up around 2.7 million scoops of it every year! If you haven't tried one of our dough-licious flavours just yet it's not too late. Run, dough'nt walk to your nearest store and grab a scoop or get it dough-livered now!
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