Ben & Jerry's spotted at Valintatalo!

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Post by dillin » Tue May 29, 2007 10:33 pm

Yay! Got my first taste of Ben & Jerry's today at Kamppikeskus. They were giving it away for free. Yummy (Phishing food). I'd buy it in a second if it wouldn't be so ridiculously expensive.


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Post by dave071061 » Wed May 30, 2007 9:17 am

dillin wrote:Yay! Got my first taste of Ben & Jerry's today at Kamppikeskus. They were giving it away for free. Yummy (Phishing food). I'd buy it in a second if it wouldn't be so ridiculously expensive.
Yep I saw the queues out the door of people waiting to get their freebe!
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Post by dillin » Wed May 30, 2007 10:23 am

dave071061 wrote:
Yep I saw the queues out the door of people waiting to get their freebe!
If a Finn hears the magic word FREE he'll queue for anything, even kitty litter.

When I saw how long the queue was I almost gave up, but in the end it took only 15 mins till I got my treat.
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Post by Nallis » Wed May 30, 2007 12:41 pm

Well there's Free Cone Day in the US every year so why can't the finns get a treat every now and then?
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Post by karen » Thu May 31, 2007 2:43 pm

Nallis wrote:Well there's Free Cone Day in the US every year so why can't the finns get a treat every now and then?
B&J's free ice cream day is international. We'll get ours next April.
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Post by Shazzer » Thu May 31, 2007 7:00 pm

Saw the Ben&Jerry's ice-cream booth in Kamppi just before I left. Easily 14 different flavours. I had The Vermonster AND Peace of Cake! Awesomely yum...
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Post by Aylwin » Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:27 am

Shazzer wrote:Saw the Ben&Jerry's ice-cream booth in Kamppi just before I left. Easily 14 different flavours.
Fantastic news! I can't wait for my next trip to Helsinki!

I first noticed Ben & Jerry's at Makuuni. Then they said that it's also sold at Valintatalo.

By the way, I don't know if anyone's mentioned this already (too lazy to read the whole thread) but Makuuni has a special offer ongoing where if you buy a tub of Ben & Jerry's, you can rent a video for €2.00.
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Post by mCowboy » Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:23 pm

I visisted Kamppi shoppe today...

all the 14 flavors can be bought home too, the basic flavors that are listed on the Finnish site are 5.90 for a pint tub and the rest they scoop to a pint tub and that costs 7.50.

It's far more economic to buy a tub than 3 scoops for 3 something Euros...

I got me a tub of vanilla heath bar crunch... <3
Get in there...
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Post by mCowboy » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:44 am

Ben'n'Jerry's is now available at CM Ruoholahti, same flavors as before: Vanilla, Cherry Garcia, Cookie Dough, Phish Phood....
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Post by enk » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:59 am

And in Sello CM. I've spent a lot of effort avoiding that section since the
4-year-old keeps trying to hint that I could buy him his very own tub
of Phish Food for his already gone-past birthday :lol:

-enk
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Post by Nallis » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:06 pm

And Jumbo CM as well.
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Post by enk » Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:53 pm

That was fun, one of my eldest's friends was over when I came
home with the Phish Food and I scooped some for him and
my son. They're merrily eating their ice cream and playing
Playstation when all of a sudden the kid starts poking my son
and says in a real low voice: why are there fish in my ice
cream? :lol:

-enk
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Post by karen » Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:26 pm

:lol:

We had some Phish Food tonight, too! This thread should be allowed to die.

We had a special Surf & Turf edition in Texas this summer. There were white chocolate cows in the ice cream. :lol:
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Post by enk » Sat Nov 17, 2007 3:38 am

karen wrote::lol:

We had some Phish Food tonight, too! This thread should be allowed to die.
Nahh, it's one of the few entertaining threads left :)
karen wrote:We had a special Surf & Turf edition in Texas this summer. There were white chocolate cows in the ice cream. :lol:
!! :shock: I wish I'd seen that one :D

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Post by Xochiquetzal » Wed Dec 19, 2007 3:13 pm

Ok, I broke down at Stockmann and finally found a flavor of Ben and Jerry's that I like. It's New York Super Fudge Chunk - AKA Rocky Road.

Incidentally, they stocked up at the Tapiola Stockman's with quite a few flavors - I'm not a B&J's fan but off the top of my head, I can remember a strawberry cheescake one, cherry garcia, some other chocolate flavor...

They also still have a lot of Stove Top stuffing for those who want a more American side dish for their Christmas dinner.

And just out of curiosity - am I the only one who wonders if Pirkka buys their baby carrots from growers who put them in manure mounds? They're terrible and I haven't forgiven the Super Vexi from replacing the great Dole ones with them. Now I have to go forage in the back of Stockmann to get my Dole sweet tasting carrots. (whine off) :)
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