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Today you don't have to steal ice cream. Ben and Jerry's will be serving up free cones at their scoop shops all over town – and all you have to do is wait in line. Each year Bostonist tries to find the optimal time to visit the nearest scoop shop at a time when the fewest others will be awaiting their Cherry Garcia in front of us. We've found that the best time to go is…no, of course we're not going to tell you or our five-year research project would be bust, we'd be waiting in line behind everyone we told our secret to today. The free scoops are available to anyone who wanders by and waits for them all day long. (Scoop shops at movie theaters and the airport don't participate.) Ben and Jerry stores will be doling out free cones from noon until 8 pm; if you find a shop that's not participating let us know – we heard the Arlington Center location caused some grief last year, and we know the soloution.

Touring the Ben and Jerry’s factory in Vermont while taking an afternoon off from Skiing at Sugarbush is good. Getting free ice cream at a scoop shop on a nearly 80 degree day in April is so much better. With some morally reprehensible corporations making the local news recently (think Gillette and gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick’s Coca-Cola ties) Bostonist is glad to take a little something back from our growth hormone free friends from the north at a Ben and Jerry’s scoop shop. Bostonist is maxing out our caloric intake for the day in a fifteen minute walk. Freedom Trail-Eat your heart out. From the Prudential Mall we’re grabbing some New York Super Fudge Chunk, going past the store on Newbury for some Dublin Mudslide, loosening our belts, maybe taking a little nap in the Common and making it to the store at Park Plaza for some Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz Buzz to keep us going through the rest of the afternoon. If we haven’t had enough we’ll hit the store in Harvard Square and then have someone drive us out to Natick, ok, now we’re just getting obsessive.