Sweet heaven: The Ben and Jerry's ice cream graveyard where every discontinued flavor gets its own headstone and epitaph

'High on a Vermont hill there's a Graveyard that's haunted, by the ghosts of old flavors that nobody wanted,' or so it’s told on the lawn overlooking the Ben and Jerry's ice cream factory.



After nearly 35 years of making ice cream some flavors are bound to expire.

But fortunately for ice cream lovers, this imaginative graveyard featuring clever epitaph-faced headstones in Waterbury, Vermont allows guests to remember those flavors gone, but not forgotten.



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In memoriam: A lavender-painted arch opens up the ice cream memorial to guests at the Ben and Jerry's factory in Vermont with such flavors as Urban Jumble, pictured right, featured Not forgotten: Five discontinued flavors of Makin' Whoopie Pie, Oh Pear, Economic Crunch, Tuskeegee Chunk, and Bovinity Divinity are seen Welcome: The Flavor Cemetery is cheerfully seen on the grounds of the Vermont ice cream factory in Waterbury Nestled behind a lavender-painted arch and white picket fence, guests come face-to-face with the individual memorials whose tombstones' witty poems beg for a moment of attention. As read for the discontinued flavor Fresh Georgia Peach which graced store aisles from 1986 to 1991, its demise is creatively explained:

‘Fresh-picked peaches, trucked from Georgia, tasted great but couldn't last, 'cuz Georgia's quite-a-ways away, & trucks don't go that fast.' RELATED ARTICLES Previous

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'It's curtains for the chocolate pair, I ate alone in the comfy chair, One pint per night it might have been, But 'twas low fat so it weren't no sin.' For 1987's Economic Crunch, it reads: 'A delightful mash, this flavor we remember For the stock market crash on the sixth of November.'

Remembered: Tennessee Mud, which held a short shelf-life of 1988 to 1989 is seen left of Economic Crunch which was (perhaps most fortunately because of the inspiration) a limited 1987 recipe



Selection: Flavor Bovinity Divinity is seen left, which ran from 1998 to 2001, along with Coffee, Coffee, BuzzBuzzBuzz, right, which ran only three short years from 1996 to 1999



As the company dreamily tells of their cemetery: 'Pint-sized poltergeists now and then will appear, then leave you to wonder why they ended up here.



'Some aren't really dead - they're just chilling out; some are grave mistakes you'd rather live without.



‘Say farewell to the bad ones & give the best room to roam; 'cuz you never know which ones might follow you home.'

Such may be the case for one previously discontinued flavor currently resurrected for select store shelves.

Other attractions: In the winter the company also offers snowshoeing around the property and in the summer space for picnics alongside pastures stocked with grazing cows

All gone! Flavors Ethan Almond is seen left, along with Peanut Butter and Jelly, right



Originals: Ben & Jerry's founders Ben Cohen, left, and Jerry Greenfield, right, have been dishing out ice cream since 1978

Back from the dead: Ben & Jerry's Cannoli ice cream is momentarily back with a new recipe and name after its retirement in 1998

Flavor Holy Cannoli was discontinued after one year in 1998 but now for a limited time and within a limited batch is said by the company to be making a comeback around the country.

The recipe now simply called Cannoli is without pistachios, however, which were in its original recipe and in its epitaph were lightheartedly blamed for its 'ruin.'

'Now in front of the pearly gates, Holy Cannoli sits and waits,' it reads. 'What brought its ruin no one knows, Must have been the pistachios.'



The graveyard display is just one of many attractions offered at the ice cream factory.



In the winter the company also offers snowshoeing around the property and in the summer offers space for picnics alongside pastures featuring grazing cows.

