The Worst TIME Covers

Sometimes we swing and miss. And sometimes we put ice cream on the cover. Vote for the worst cover in TIME's 85 year history.

Worst Covers

1981

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Ice Cream
Getting Your Licks
August 10, 1981

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Cover Story Excerpt:
Fresh fruit and fantasy now turn butterfat into delicious sin. What you must understand at the outset is that Ben & Jerry's, in Burlington, Vt., makes the best ice cream in the world. That Mayfield's, in Athens, Tenn., is the world's best ice cream. That the absolute best ice cream in the universe, without argument....Read the full story

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