Ben & Jerry’s Has A Literal Graveyard For Their Discontinued Flavors And Here Are 21 Of The Ones You Definitely Do Not Miss

The cemetery is a result of the company's rich history that started in 1978. Then, with a $5 correspondence course in ice cream-making from Penn State and a $12,000 investment ($4,000 of it borrowed), Ben and Jerry opened their first ice cream scoop shop in a renovated gas station in Burlington, Vermont.

The company kept growing and ten years later, it was named the “U.S. Small Business Persons of the Year” by President Reagan in a White House Rose Garden ceremony.

After years of research and development, 1991 saw the release of one of the quintessential Ben & Jerry's flavors: chocolate chip cookie dough. The flavor immediately rocketed to the top of the most-popular-in-pints list, and it reigns among our all-time flavor hits to this day.

According to their site, there are 35 flavors resting in the Ben & Jerry’s boneyard. With over 300,000 annual visitors to the factory, they're guessing that as many as a quarter-million mourners pay their respects at the Flavor Graveyard each year. Luckily, sometimes flavors get resurrected as well.