The battle of the late night talk shows just got a little sweeter — and creamier.
Last week, Ben & Jerry's teamed up with NBC's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" to announce its new flavor "Late Night Snack": Vanilla bean ice cream with a salted caramel swirl and fudge-covered potato-chip clusters. The salty-sweet treat was developed in response to a "Late Night" skit in which Fallon and the show's band The Roots performed a song "Ladysmith Snack Mambazo" about Ben & Jerry's ice cream.
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But while the new flavor may come as welcome news to anyone who has enjoyed the forbidden pleasures of dipping a French fry in a Frosty, it was less well-received by Stephen Colbert, the other late-night talk show host to have his own Ben & Jerry's flavor. On last Thursday's episode of the "Colbert Report," the show's host, whose AmeriCone Dream features vanilla ice cream with fudge-covered waffle cone bits and caramel, railed against his new competitor, saying "Fallon, there's only room for one ice cream flavor in late night" before threatening to melt a pint of Fallon's dairy dessert with a hair dryer. Fallon then made a surprise guest appearance and the two traded ice cream insults before engaging in a brain-freeze inducing eating contest.
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Article by Katie Robbins
She has written for Saveur, Psychology Today, BlackBook, theatlantic.com, and LA Weekly's blog, Squid Ink, among other publications.
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