Cookies and cream

History

• Jodi Sue Kaufman, of Cleveland Ohio claims to have invented the flavor in 1977 in her kitchen, while growing up in North Miami Beach, Florida. A claim that is backed up by her maternal cousin Stacy Freeman also from Cleveland Ohio.
• Jeffrey Cornelison, of Colorado Springs, was the first to mix the Oreo cookies into the vanilla ice cream, which caught the attention of SDSU’s dairy team in 1974.
• South Dakota State University claims the flavor was invented at the university's dairy plant in 1979
• In 1980, Grace McLees developed the flavor of Oreo Cream at Pop's Frozen Custard in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. In 1981, the flavor name would be changed to Cookies & Cream after notice was received from Nabisco. The single-location, Wisconsin-based, custard stand also held the Guinness Book world record for fastest consumption of a 100-foot banana split in the same time period.
• In a 2005 press release, Blue Bell Creameries claimed they were the first company to mass-produce the flavor, in 1980. In 2006, The New York Times reported that Blue Bell made "no claim to have invented it but certainly pioneered the flavor." However, as of 2020, the company's website proclaimed, "We were first to create this innovative flavor." Blue Bell Creameries applied to register the trademark "Cookies 'n Cream" in 1981.
• John Harrison, the official taster for Dreyer's/Edy's Ice Cream, claims he invented it first for the company in 1982
• Another claimant is Steve Herrell of Massachusetts' Herrell's Ice Cream