Ben & Jerry's New Flavor Finals

Ben & Jerry’s has narrowed down more than 40,000 suggestions for a new flavor to five finalists, and will turn their customer-creators loose next month in the “Flavor Finals,” to see which is tastiest. The five finalists get expense-paid trips to the ice cream maker’s Waterbury plant, where they will whip up their concoctions for the company’s flavor gurus in the Oct. 4-5 finals.

Here's the flavors:

ApricotAbra - a mix of apricot chunks, dark chocolate, vanilla ice cream and tart apricot preserves

Wackie Chan - sweet cream and ginger-flavored ice cream, with chocolate-covered fortune cookie bits and fudge swirl

Italian Renaissance - made of amaretto liqueur ice cream, cherry chunks and sliced almonds

Mojito - a lime-based sherbet with mint, brown sugar and rum

Puttin' on a Ritz - vanilla ice cream, caramel and Ritz crackers