Cookies and cream

There are competing claims as to who first invented and marketed cookies and cream ice cream.

• Malcolm Stogo, an ice cream consultant, claimed to have created the flavor in 1976,{{cite web |url=http://www.malcolmsicecream.com/about-malcolm.html |title=Who is Malcolm? |publisher=Malcolm Stogo Associates |year=2010 |access-date=2016-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030182917/http://www.malcolmsicecream.com/about-malcolm.html |archive-date=2016-10-30}} 1977{{cite news |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/dairy-chilled-astoria-frozen-dessert-line-article-1.1790505 |title='Godfather of Ice Cream' introducing made-in-Astoria nondairy frozen desserts |author=Justin Rocket Silverman |work=New York Daily News |date=May 14, 2014 }} or 1978.{{cite web |url=https://icecreamuniversitydesserts.com/pages/our-story |title=Our Story |publisher=Ice Cream University Desserts |access-date=2021-02-11 |archive-date=2021-09-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920025933/https://icecreamuniversitydesserts.com/pages/our-story |url-status=dead }}
• South Dakota State University claims the flavor was invented at the university's dairy plant in 1979 by plant manager Shirley Seas and students Joe Leedom and Joe Van Treeck.{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413002500/https://www.sdstate.edu/dairy-and-food-science/history-sdsu-ice-cream |archive-date=2018-04-13 |url=https://www.sdstate.edu/dairy-and-food-science/history-sdsu-ice-cream |title=History of SDSU Ice Cream |url-status=dead |website=Sdstate.edu |access-date=2018-08-15}}{{cite news |url=https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/content/news/SDSU-celebrates-invention-of-Cookies-n-Cream-flavor-40-years-later-508624121.html |title=SDSU celebrates invention of Cookies 'n Cream flavor 40 years later |date=April 15, 2019 |work=Dakota News Now |publisher=Gray Media Group}}
• In a 2005 press release, Blue Bell Creameries claimed they were the first company to mass-produce the flavor, in 1980.[https://web.archive.org/web/20051122142326/http://www.bluebell.com/press/newflavor_pbj.htm Blue Bell's Peanut Butter and Jelly Ice Cream New Treat For Summer!]. bluebell.com. Retrieved on 2012-07-06. In 2006, The New York Times reported that Blue Bell made "no claim to have invented it but certainly pioneered the flavor."R. W. Apple, Jr. (2006-05-31). [https://web.archive.org/web/20080708211854/http://www.bluebell.com/The_Little_Creamery/What_Folks_Say/folks_nytimes.aspx Making Texas Cows Proud]. The NY Times. Retrieved on 2012-07-06. However, as of 2020, the company's website proclaimed, "We were first to create this innovative flavor."[https://www.bluebell.com/product/cookies-n-cream/ Cookies 'n Cream Ice Cream]. bluebell.com. Retrieved on 2023-06-02. Blue Bell Creameries applied to register the trademark "Cookies 'n Cream" in 1981.[http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=73315746&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch Trademark Status & Document Retrieval (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office)]. uspto.gov. Retrieved on 2015-06-18.
• John Harrison, the official taster for Dreyer's/Edy's Ice Cream, claims he invented it first for the company in 1982.Sara Fiedelholtz (2003-07-11). [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311024915/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20030711/ai_n12510856 Taster's career made from ice cream]. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved on 2012-07-06.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070311041453/http://www.edys.com/johnthetaster/index.asp?b=105 Edy's John Harrison]. edys.com. Retrieved on 2012-07-06.

In 1983, cookies and cream became one of the top five best-selling flavors of ice cream.[http://www.makeicecream.com/hisoficecrea.html The History of Ice Cream] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704131533/http://www.makeicecream.com/hisoficecrea.html|date=July 4, 2008}}. Makeicecream.com. Retrieved on 2012-07-06.

• Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme

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