Career
Harrison is an employee of ice cream company Dreyer"s, which he joined in 1980, serving as its "Official Taste Tester". He tastes an average of sixty ice cream flavours on a daily basis. Harrison does not consume the ice cream, and instead spits it out.
Based on his own estimates, he has tasted a few hundred million gallons of ice cream at Dreyer"son
He has aided in the creation of more than one hundred unique ice cream flavours. One source reports that he invented the flavour Cookies n" Cream.
According to a World report on Harrison, "his taste buds are so fine-tuned he can immediately taste the difference between 12-percent and 11.5-percent butterfat in a product." The report also described him as the "most popular ice cream man in America". Harrison believes himself to be "the first national spokesman on ice cream".
He has appeared on many television programmes, as well as on other media.
In 1997, Harrison was awarded the American Tasting Institute"s Master Taster of the Year title.
