Melville House Books

"Between the Covers" - vanilla pages sandwiched between chocolate covers, with some fancy tie-in merchandise on top.

Activists have mobilized on Facebook for a library-themed Ben & Jerry’s flavor. They strongly believe, and I quote:

(1) Libraries are awesome;

(2) Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream is tasty;

therefore:

(3) A library-themed Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream would be tasty awesome.

Here is a taste of some of the suggestions they have collected so far along with their recommended accompanying flavors.

- Gooey Decimal System = Dark fudge alphabet letters with caramel swirls in hazelnut ice cream.
- Sh-sh-sh-Sherbet! = Key Lime or a Chocolate/Vanilla combination
- Cookie Bookie = a combination of cookie bits!
- Dusty Stacks = layered ice cream with speckles of cocoa in every layer.
- Li-Berry Pie = Lime sherbet mixed with raspberry sauce and pie crust crumbles (cinnamon sugar, butter, piecrust).
- Liberry I Scream = strawberry/blueberry sherbet and vanilla ice cream.
- Overdue Fine as Fudge Chunk = Hunks of rich fudge brownies in creamy milk chocolate drizzled throughout with golden caramel and sprinkled with mini white chocolate coins.
- Rocky Read = vanilla with choc covered nuts choc chunks and raisins.
- In the Stacks = butter pecan with fudge swirl
- Reference Ripple = anything with PB
- Marian the Librarian Rasberryan = Rasberry and Chocolate with chunks of fudge
- Libguide Licorice
- Drupal Poopal Fudge
- Ranganathan’s Raspberry Rules! = Raspberry and chocolate chips
- Free and Open to All = a rainbow of flavors with all kinds of chips-butterscotch, peanut butter, chocolate

The instigator behind the initiative, Andy Woodworth, vows to Twitter remorselessly until they achieve their goal, “I’ll be tweeting about this on my Twitter account (wawoodworth) till we get it done!”

Your contributions to the library are welcome.

Valerie Merians is the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.