<P> Though traditional cookies and cream ice cream is made with vanilla or sweet cream ice cream, there are variations that use chocolate, coffee or mint ice cream instead . </P> <P> There is some debate as to who first invented and marketed cookies and cream ice cream . </P> <Ul> <Li> Malcolm Stogo, an ice cream consultant, claims to have created the flavor in 1976 </Li> <Li> John Harrison, the official taster for Dreyer's / Edy's Ice Cream, claims he invented it first for the company in 1982 </Li> <Li> Blue Bell Creameries claim they first mass - produced the flavor two years earlier, in 1980, after an employee tasted it at a Houston ice cream parlor the year before; however, they do state that "Blue Bell makes no claim to have invented it but certainly pioneered the flavor" Blue Bell Creameries applied to register the trademark "Cookies' n Cream" in 1981 . </Li> <Li> South Dakota State University claims the flavor was invented at the university's dairy plant </Li> <Li> Another claimant is Steve Herrell of Massachusetts' Herrell's Ice Cream </Li> </Ul> <Li> Malcolm Stogo, an ice cream consultant, claims to have created the flavor in 1976 </Li>

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