Phish is a pretty famous band. Ben and Jerry are pretty famous ice cream makers. Lake Champlain in New York and Vermont is a pretty significant lake. Did you know that the three of these are interrelated?
Ben and Jerry teamed up with the legendary alternative rock band Phish to create the phantastic Ben and Jerry’s Phish Food Ice Cream. In this pint of perfection you get chocolate ice cream with gooey marshmallow, caramel swirl and fudge fish. You can put on the music and let yourself drift off into an ice cream induced paradise.
Part of the sales from Ben and Jerry’s Phish Food Ice Cream goes to the Vermont Lake Champlain Watershed project. The United States Army Corp of Engineers is working to study the watershed from Lake Champlain and come up with projects to protect the water quality, supply and ecosystem while enhancing the lake and the communities around the watershed area of Lake Champlain. The project is going to help create an environment of beauty in upstate New York and Vermont with clean waters, healthy fish and a stable neighborhood.
By indulging in some Phish Food Ice Cream you are not only feeding yourself but you are feeding the fish of Lake Champlain. Just watch out as the nutritional benefits from ice cream are not the same as those from ecosystem projects. There are 270 calories with 110 from fat in a single serving of Phish Food resulting in 19% of your daily value. There are 30mg of cholesterol which is 19% of your daily value. There are 80mg of sodium which is 3% of your daily value. There is 10% of your daily value of calcium found in each half cup of Ben and Jerry’s Phish Food Ice Cream.
Do something good for yourself and good for the people of Vermont and New York (more than just for the two guys selling the ice cream). Take a moment to make sure you have proper portions and then dive in. The United States Army would not just jump into Lake Champlain, Phish would not just jump into an ice cream deal, Ben and Jerry would not just make up flavors willy nilly and you should not be reckless with your ice cream. Ben and Jerry’s Phish Food Ice Cream is to be enjoyed the same way we should enjoy the world: responsibly.
