![]() Throughout the years, Carvel let Dumas work in all aspects of the business from equipment, supply purchase, contracts and, of course, making ice cream. "I was able to get a better education than I got anywhere." "I learned my skills from Carvel," Dumas said. Today, Dumas is the VP of production at a gluten and dairy-free bakery called By the Way, which has locations in Greenwich, Conn, New York City and Westchester, NY. To celebrate the whale's 40th birthday, Carvel is partnering with the non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization, Save the Whales, which is also celebrating its 40th anniversary. "He represents memories of pure joy and togetherness, all the way down to his core of irresistible crunchies!" ![]() "Fudgie the Whale holds a special, nostalgic place in the hearts of many Americans across multiple generations," Scott Colwell, president of Carvel said in a press release. Now, Fudgie the Whale is made using a mold and more than 50,000 of the cakes are sold every year in Carvel shops. The day after Father's Day, Carvel came into the store and said "I told you!" "After that, I couldn't make enough whales," she said. They shot a TV commercial in-house, and Fudgie the Whale blew up. ![]() The only issue was that the tail kept falling off their solution was to cover it in fudge, which would work like cement to keep it together.Īnd like many great inventions, out of a quick fix to a problem, Fudgie the Whale was born on June 1, 1977. What are the crunchies, you ask? Scott Colwell, who has been Carvel president for the past five years, said they're ground up flying saucer cookies.Carvel was determined to make it perfect, and he had a vision in his head right down to the " Mona Lisa smile," Dumas said.įinally, Carvel liked a fish Dumas was making one day because it was large and rectangular–like a whale. You could get Fudgie sitting atop a pale blue ocean of more ice cream if you needed to serve 20 people in a pinch, but his basic identity didn't waver: chocolate ice cream separated by a layer of chocolate crunchies, then vanilla ice cream, all topped with milk fudge, more crunchies around the edge and whipped frosting rosettes. In February, it turned into Cupie Puss and was again refashioned each March as the more Blarney Stone-kissing, green-trimmed Cookie O'Puss. The original Cookie Puss, star of the Beastie Boys debut single of the same name,was another Carvel creation: a proto-alien with ice cream cone nose. Lest I get overly sniffy about Fudgie and his doppelganger, at least there weren't seasonal Fudgies. But I permanently fell out of love with Fudgie when we realized that Carvel's Santa Claus cake was - pregnant pause - Fudgie turned tail-side-up and gussied with special holiday icing. We stooped to a Fudgie once or twice, I cannot lie. He predicts he will sell 40 of them for Father's Day weekend ($24.99 plus tax).įor my own family, the cakerepresented a tragic capitulation, what you got someone as a clutch decision when you hadn't managed your gift-buying time effectively. ![]() Even so, Fudgie is Carvel's most popular specialty cake, more than 50,000 whales melting unnervingly slowly at American festivities every year.Lalani is not precisely sure why Fudgie has had such staying power, but the whale is his top performer. ![]()
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