Ben & Jerry's Creates Colin Kaepernick Flavor

Dec 14th, 2020

Hannah Fink

Colin Kaepernick's Change the Whirled non-dairy frozen dessert. Photo: Ben & Jerry's Twitter.

Colin Kaepernick's Change the Whirled non-dairy frozen dessert. Photo: Ben & Jerry's Twitter.

Ben & Jerry's has released a collaboration flavor with Colin Kaepernick, called Colin Kaepernick's Change the Whirled.

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The dessert is a caramel non-dairy frozen dessert with fudge chips, graham cracker swirls and chocolate cookie swirls.

This flavor honors Kaepernick's activism in pursuit of racial justice and his portion of the proceeds from Change the Whirled go to Know Your Rights Camp.

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