{"id":1150584,"date":"2021-12-24T13:49:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T18:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1150584"},"modified":"2021-12-24T13:49:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T18:49:20","slug":"fact-check-no-ben-jerrys-did-not-release-a-marlboro-red-ice-cream-flavor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-ben-jerrys-did-not-release-a-marlboro-red-ice-cream-flavor\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s Did Not Release A Marlboro Red Ice Cream Flavor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-no-ben-jerrys-did-not-release-a-marlboro-red-ice-cream-flavor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1150584&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=2965034357050600&amp;set=a.2778334142387290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a new, Marlboro Red cigarette flavor of Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s ice cream.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7342465\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7342465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image has been digitally manipulated. There is no evidence Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s has released this flavor of ice cream.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Facebook image shows what appears to be a pint of Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s ice cream with text that reads, \u201cEvery Kid\u2019s Favorite,\u201d and \u201cMarlboro Red.\u201d The pint shows a large box of Marlboro Red cigarettes, as well as a cow holding two smaller boxes of the cigarettes. Text at the bottom of the pint describes the ice cream as: \u201cTobacco ice cream with cotton filters, battery acid to taste, rat poison for texture and formaldehyde to preserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is no Marlboro Red flavored ice cream from Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s. Check Your Fact searched the ice cream brand\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/page\/10461186460\/search\/?q=marlboro%20red\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=image&amp;q=marlboro%20(from%3Abenandjerrys)&amp;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> accounts, but found no announcement of such a flavor. A search of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjerry.com\/about-us\/media-center#in-the-news\">Press<\/a>\u201d section of the Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s website, as well as its comprehensive&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjerry.com\/flavors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">list of flavors<\/a>, likewise turned up no mention of the cigarette-flavored ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the ice cream pint in the image is missing the text \u201cVermont\u2019s finest,\u201d which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjerry.com\/flavors\/coffee-coffee-buzzbuzzbuzz-ice-cream\/pint\">typically<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjerry.com\/flavors\/netflix-original-flavors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjerry.com\/flavors\/frozen-yogurt\">top<\/a> of Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s ice cream containers. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/11\/19\/fact-check-ben-jerrys-ice-cream-joseph-rosenbaum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s Release A New Ice Cream Flavor In Honor Of Joseph Rosenbaum?)&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Laura Peterson, public relations manager of Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s, confirmed in an email to Check Your Fact that, \u201cThis is not a Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s product.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A reverse image search revealed the fake image has been circulating online since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/dankmemes\/comments\/ecmmii\/kids_love_it\/\">at least 2019<\/a> when it was shared in a meme group on Reddit. While it was originally shared in a meme group, the Facebook post does not mention the satirical source of the image.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time social media users have shared a fake Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s ice cream flavor. In November, Check Your Fact debunked the <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/11\/19\/fact-check-ben-jerrys-ice-cream-joseph-rosenbaum\/\">baseless<\/a> claim that Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s released an ice cream flavor in honor of Joseph Rosenbaum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a new, Marlboro Red cigarette flavor of Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s ice cream.Facebook\/ScreenshotVerdict: False The image has been digitally manipulated. There is no evidence &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}