Funny Pictures Thread

Johnny Speed · Dec 17, 2023

Ruttman98 · Dec 18, 2023

From the Shelby American Auto Club:

It doesn’t seem like it was 30 years ago when we pranked SAAC members with the Ben & Jerry’s “Carrott Shelby” ice cream scam and sucked in some of the more gullible ones. It started when we were pushing a shopping cart down the isle of our local grocery store and happened to see some carrot cake on sale right next to the ice cream section. Ben & Jerry’s had a popular flavor of cherry-vanilla, named after Greatful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia that they called "Cherry Garcia." We imagined the carrot cake together with vanilla ice cream for a new Ben & Jerry’s flavor called “Carrott Shelby.” We went home and created lettering for a carton, put it in our freezer and snapped a picture. The rest, as they say, was history. We ran the picture in the 1993 issue of the Shelby American, describing how SAAC members started a letter-writing campaign to Ben & Jerrys asking them to come out with a new flavor combining vanilla ice cream and spiced carrot cake…and "Carrott Shelby" was born. Of course, Ben & Jerry’s knew nothing about any of this. Until we ran the picture with the tag line, “If you don’t see it in your supermarket’s ice cream section, tell your grocer to get it.” Dozens of SAAC members did just that. Grocers inundated Ben & Jerry’s with requests for the new flavor and were told that no such thing existed.