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If Biden had ignored the question, these same pundits would have said that he’d gone deaf or that the ice cream had given him brain freeze. Instead, he answered the question.

President Joe Biden eating an ice cream cone in Cleveland, Ohio on May 27, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein.

In his own words, spoken at the headquarters of Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream in May 2016, "My name is Joe Biden, and I love ice cream." "You all think I'm kidding—I'm not," the then-VP added.

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Back in 2017, the former vice president received a Biden-themed ice cream from Cornell Dairy ahead of speaking at Cornell University's convocation ceremony that spring.

The University of Delaware, Biden’s alma mater, has a creamery on campus that also serves ice cream. “We’re close with the women who run it,” Simons said.