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Posted By richards on March 26, 2015

Imagine if this Ben & Jerrys truck were filled with 10 flavors of kosher-for-Passover ice creams. (Wikimedia Commons)

A few weeks after Ben & Jerrys founders indicated thatmarijuana-infused ice creammay one day join its product line, the companys kosher-for-Passover charoset flavor has beengenerating buzz.

In case your memories of last years seder are blurred by too many cups of wine,charosetis the fruit-and-nut puree that symbolizes the mortar Hebrew slaves used when making bricks to construct Egyptian cities. In making its charoset flavor, which, sadly, is distributed only in Israel, Ben & Jerrys opted for the Ashkenazi tradition of apples and walnuts, rather than the chunky Sephardic style featuring nuts blended with assorted dried fruits.

Ashkenazi charoset is great, but why stop at one Passover flavor? If we could have 10 plagues, why not 10 ice creams? Heres somePassover flavors wed like to see:

1) Sephardic Charoset: Think rum raisin, but with lots of spices and other dried fruits like dates and figs.

2) Manischewitz Madness: Sure, its not yet legal to put marijuana in the ice cream, but why not this potent and intensely sweet wine? We envision it as a sorbet with a kick that could replace the four cups of wine and double as a palate cleanser.

3) Chocolate-Covered Matzahs and Cream: Think cookies and cream, but crunchier and kosher for Passover.

4) Macaroons and Cream: Ice cream with chunks of macaroon, and the possibility of almost infinite sub-categories of flavors, mixing different types of macaroon with different types of ice cream.

5) Pure Macaroon: Forget the chunks of macaroon and instead just infuse the almond and coconut that form macaroons base into the ice cream itself.

6) Fruit Jellies Jamboree: The iconic gooey fruity candies mixed into vanilla ice cream or fruit sorbet offers a nice mix of textures.

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Ben & Jerrys charoset and 10 more Passover ice cream ideas

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