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Bernie's Yearning, a flavor in which 'all the chips have gone up to the top,' symbolizes the divide between the 99 percent and the one percent in America. (Ben Cohen/YouTube)

Bernie Sanders ice cream is now a reality, thanks to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, founders of Ben & Jerry's.

Called "Bernie's Yearning," the ice cream -- which Cohen describes on BerniesYearning.com, a website devoted to his support of Sanders for president -- is mint, topped with what he calls "a thick disc of solid chocolate, which represents the huge majority of economic gains that have gone to the top one percent."

While the company is not selling the ice cream, Cohen and Greenfield are giving away samples of the flavor in free sundaes today in New York City's Union Square, Gothamist reports.

Sanders, who has long represented Vermont -- home to Ben & Jerry's headquarters -- as a United States senator, recently tried the ice cream flavor on "The View."

Jerry & I are headed to #NYC -- if you've been waiting to try #BerniesYearning swing by Union Square tomorrow at 5p pic.twitter.com/dmMxRIMnE1 -- Ben Cohen (@YoBenCohen) March 30, 2016

"Excellent! Really good," he said. "And I'm not just saying that because it's Bernie's Yearning."

Cohen gave away 40 pints made in his home kitchen to those who entered a drawing.

"It's essentially mint chocolate chip ice cream, but all the chips have gone up to the top," Cohen said in a YouTube video. "That's where all the money is. And below it is nothing." Like Sanders, both Ben & Jerry's founders, who sold the company to Unilever in 2000, live in Vermont but were born in Brooklyn and grew up in New York. Greenfield also sells lit Bernie Sanders campaign signs via the Bernie's Yearning website.

The look of the flavor -- chocolate melting down to a creamy base -- inspired Cohen to come out with limited edition "Bernie's Bowls." Anyone who wants one can enter to win a bowl on the site.

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