Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfied (aka Ben and Jerry of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream) took to Reddit today for one of the site’s famous AMA question and answer sessions. While the pair were ostensibly there to discuss the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United ruling, they did take some time answer questions about a number of other topics—including the Grateful Dead.

When the two were asked to tell their best Grateful Dead story, Cohen, who also noted that his favorite ice cream flavor was Cherry Garcia, responded:

Well, I only met Jerry once.

I had been running a small company called “Rainforest Crunch,” it was a cashew-brazil-nut buttercrunch that was conceived at a Grateful Dead concert benefitting the rainforest, the idea was that the rainforest could be as economically viable as if it were sustainably harvested as when it’s cut down and used for cattle ranches. What they needed was a market. And one of the products that comes from the rainforest is brazil nuts, so I came up with a product that used a lot of brazil nuts.

It was quite tasty.

And so this guy was doing a – at the time – it was a benefit cassette for the rainforest – and he wanted photos of these various rainforest projects and there were various musicians that had donated tracks and one of them was the Grateful Dead. So he wanted a photo of us all together, during a time when Jerry was performing at the Beacon theater with the Jerry Garcia band. It was the longest-running show they had ever put on there. And you know, somewhere in the middle of this show, they set up this photoshoot in the late morning, 10 or 11 am, we’re all there assembled for the shot, and there’s no Jerry.

About a half hour later, he walks in and says “Gimme a cup of coffee and a whole lotta aspirins.”

Those were the only words he ever said to me.

Greenfield, for his part, responded with something else entirely:

You know… the best time I ever had at a Grateful Dead show, I was passed out most of the time.

The Ben & Jerry’s founders have a long-established connection with the jamband scene. Their company has put out a few jam related ice cream flavors over the years, including Phish Food, Dave Matthews Band’s Magic Brownies and the aforementioned Cherry Garcia. The pair even joined Phish on vocals for “Brother” during the Clifford Ball in 1996.