Ben & Jerry’s fudge has come back to bite Unilever

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Ben & Jerry’s, the Vermont-based ice-cream brand owned by Unilever, is known for its quirky concoctions of natural ingredients. From Cherry Garcia, the flavour named after a co-founder of the Grateful Dead, to Phish Food, its mix of chocolate ice-cream, marshmallow and caramel swirls, they are sweet and amusing.

None is as strange and distinctive as the agreement…