This ad is one of the most viral web videos of the year. It's not short — at three and a half minutes, it dwarfs the attention span most advertisers assume their target audience has. It's not sexy — the raciest thing about the ad is some teen hand holding. It's not star-studded — the main characters in the ad are… Read… 11/20/13 6:20pm 11/20/13 6:20pm

Today is National Ice Creamy Day, obviously, and while you might be tempted to press your personal duck genie into service by wishing for an ice cream thunderstorm, you ought to resist the urge. Your duck genie just wants to be friends, and he'll feel like you're just using him if you only call him to ask for favors. … Discuss… 7/21/13 6:30pm 7/21/13 6:30pm

It's too goddamned hot to do anything but cry in front of an air conditioner — hoping the cool breeze will freeze the tears to your face, creating saline icicles that will further cool you. However, if you are like me and do not have an air conditioner — not even a shitty wall unit! Please cry for me! — your only… Read… 7/10/13 2:20pm 7/10/13 2:20pm

An Instagram shot posted by the daughter of Don West — George Zimmerman's lawyer — allegedly taken during the first day of the Trayvon Martin trial, shows him taking an ice cream selfie with his kids along with the the caption "we beat stupidity celebration cones. #dadkilledit." It did not go over well, probably because … Read… 6/29/13 2:30pm 6/29/13 2:30pm

While Dairy Queen might not give a shit about your arteries, it's nice to know that they're making sure their employees don't turn into total heifers. Read… 6/28/13 10:25am 6/28/13 10:25am

Three young ladies banded together to create the most delicious college payoff plan yet. Read… 6/04/13 1:55pm 6/04/13 1:55pm

This ad for Häagen-Dazs ice cream is all sorts of bizarre. First of all, why is Bradley Cooper holding an open ice cream container at a party — is that not a cry for help? Read… 5/31/13 10:00am 5/31/13 10:00am

Ahead of what has proved for many Americans to be a happily gluttonous Memorial Day weekend, The New York Times ran a Q&A with ice cream trucker Peter Van Leeuwen, of the artisanal ice cream Van Leeuwens. Obviously, there was lots of delicious banter about ice cream and the scooping thereof, banter most definitely… Read… 5/27/13 2:30pm 5/27/13 2:30pm

Gosh, women and their messy emotions and crazy behavior while PMSing. What a womanly thing. But guess what?! Guys PMS, too. Joke's on you, dudes, because you can also feel crazy emotions and it sucks and can we please just hug and eat ice cream together? Read… 5/09/13 4:00pm 5/09/13 4:00pm

Is anyone else worried about this baby? Because I'm hella worried. Read… 5/09/13 10:25am 5/09/13 10:25am

An intrepid tipster, as intrepid tipsters are liable to do, has sent us a pretty cool link to a cartoon created by animator Scott Benson. It’s called “But I’m a Nice Guy,” and sums up the fallacy lurking behind MRA screeds about rampant misandry and feminist conspiracies with a simple ice cream analogy that even the… Read… 4/28/13 10:35pm 4/28/13 10:35pm

If you've always wondered what Liz Lemon tastes like, and you would like to experience her flavor in frozen yogurt form, Ben and Jerry's has got you covered. To commemorate/mourn the final episode of 30 Rock, they're releasing "Liz Lemon Greek Frozen Yogurt with a Blueberry Lavender Swirl," which is adorable. And also… Read… 2/01/13 4:40pm 2/01/13 4:40pm

If you can't get fat and drunk fast enough, I've got just the thing to aid your journey! Wine ice cream is five-percent alcohol and one-hundred-percent delicious. Read… 12/04/12 10:20am 12/04/12 10:20am

This, friends, is an ice-cream-cake moon, with real craters, created by British design agency Doshi Levien, in association with Häagen-Dazs. Did you hear me? HÄAGEN-DAZS ICE CREAM CAKE MOON. Fly me to the moon and let me nom among the stars! Read… 10/04/12 6:40pm 10/04/12 6:40pm

Dear caffeine, I just wanted to let you know that I'm glad we're friends. Fifteen minutes of sleep per night is plenty! Love Dana, possibly your biggest fan. Read… 8/31/12 6:00pm 8/31/12 6:00pm

Please tell me I'm not the only one feeling this way. Read… 8/17/12 7:10pm 8/17/12 7:10pm

Maybe you're not crazy about Ronald Reagan, but odds are, unless you're lactose-intolerant (and for that I am so very sorry), you probably love ice cream. Well, thanks to our 40th President, today you can celebrate National Ice Cream Day with whatever flavor (Ben & Jerry's Mint Chocolate Cookie) you can procure from… Discuss… 7/15/12 6:30pm 7/15/12 6:30pm

A poor crop of vanilla this past year is about to wreak havoc on all of our lives. You see, far lower yields than normal in several countries that grow large quantities of the world's vanilla supply have led some people to start stockpiling it, which is driving up the price. The wholesale price of vanilla has gone up… Read… 4/04/12 9:30am 4/04/12 9:30am

A debate has erupted on Park Slope Parents, the notorious parental hellhole, that is so ridiculous it actually makes you want to cry. Mostly you want to cry because they're trying to take ice cream away from children. But you also want to cry because if this is how much parents are babying their children, we are… Read… 4/02/12 10:00am 4/02/12 10:00am

Dana Zemack has been making stick figure comics since she was 12. This week, she made one just for us. Read… 3/02/12 6:10pm 3/02/12 6:10pm

After facing a just measure of outrage for their Jeremy Lin ice cream, Ben and Jerry fed each other a tender last spoonful of "Taste the Lin-Sanity" and decided to remove the fortune cookie shards from their latest ice cream because apparently not even ice cream barons know how to cope with an prominent Asian-American… Read… 2/26/12 3:00pm 2/26/12 3:00pm

We all joke about being addicted to dessert or salt or various other vices, but in the case of ice cream, one new study has shown that it actually does share some characteristics with drugs. It sets off the pleasure centers of our brain in the same way, but it's also now clear that when you eat a lot of ice cream, you… Read… 2/24/12 9:40am 2/24/12 9:40am

Here's an old commercial from Soviet-era Estonia. It's supposedly for ice cream, but the very subtle subtext is that this is a commercial about hunkering down on some man meat. Oh, good— there are kids there, too. Read… 2/23/12 7:45pm 2/23/12 7:45pm