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                             ESKIMO PIE CORPORATION
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                          [Eskimo Pie Corporation Logo]
                                September 1, 1999

Dear Fellow Eskimo Pie Shareholder,

         Unfortunately,  we have been drawn into a time consuming, expensive and
distracting proxy contest. You have received multiple mailings of materials from
Eskimo Pie  Corporation  and Yogen Fruz in an attempt to present our  respective
positions.  Let me try to distill all of the  rhetoric  down to the basic issues
for you to consider.

         Yogen Fruz is asking you to elect a slate of its  associates to control
the Board of Directors and the future of the Company.  If elected,  Yogen Fruz's
stated  plan is to  commence a process of breaking up the Company by selling the
Eskimo Pie  trademark,  attempting to sell the brand names owned by and licensed
to us from Welch's,  Weight Watchers and Nabisco Brands,  and liquidating all of
the  Company's  physical  assets.  Yogen Fruz would like you to believe that the
value  of  this   strategy  will  return  no  less  than  $15.00  per  share  to
shareholders.

         We believe that the key  assumptions  used by Yogen Fruz to support its
strategy  are  seriously  flawed and  result in a  misleading  valuation  of the
Company.  Based upon extensive  financial  analysis,  detailed  knowledge of the
workings of this  Company and the absence of any  comparable  offers to purchase
the Company from others,  we believe that the Yogen Fruz  valuations are grossly
overstated  and that its  break up  strategy  may  return as little as $7.00 per
share.

         The Company has  demonstrated  improving  financial  performance  since
1997,  and  current   management   has  previously   announced  and  is  already
implementing specific plans to make further improvements.  Your current Board of
Directors has  carefully  studied the  alternatives  available to the Company at
length and has stated its strong support for the Company's  restructuring  plan.
The Board,  however,  remains  receptive to any strategy for increasing value to
all  shareholders,  including the sale of specific  assets, a sale of the entire
Company, strategic alliances or mergers.

         Let  management and the current Board finish the process that they have
begun.  Do not turn over  control  of your  Company to Yogen Fruz and its flawed
strategy.

         Please  vote FOR the  Board's  nominees  and  AGAINST  the  Yogen  Fruz
proposals by signing,  dating and mailing the  enclosed  WHITE PROXY CARD in the
enclosed  overnight  mailing  package today.  If you previously  returned a BLUE
PROXY  CARD,  you should  revoke  that vote by  signing,  dating and mailing the
enclosed  WHITE PROXY CARD today.  If you wish to discuss  these matters with me
personally, please contact me directly at 804-560-8407.

                             Thank you for your support,



                             David B. Kewer
                             President and Chief Executive Officer

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                             ESKIMO PIE CORPORATION
               PROXY SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS


      The undersigned hereby appoints David B. Kewer, Thomas M. Mishoe, Jr. and
F. Claiborne Johnston, Jr., jointly and severally, proxies, with full power to
act alone, and with full power of substitution, to represent the undersigned and
to vote, as designated below and upon any and all other matters which may
properly be brought before such meeting, voting as specified on the reverse side
of this card with respect to the matters set forth in the Proxy Statement, and
voting in the discretion of the above-named persons on such other matters as may
properly come before the Annual Meeting, all shares of Common Stock which the
undersigned would be entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of
Eskimo Pie Corporation to be held on September 8, 1999, or any adjournment or
postponement thereof.

PLEASE COMPLETE, SIGN AND DATE THE REVERSE SIDE OF THIS PROXY CARD AND PROMPTLY
RETURN IT IN THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE.

YOU MAY SPECIFY YOUR CHOICES BY MARKING THE APPROPRIATE BOXES, SEE REVERSE SIDE,
BUT YOU NEED NOT MARK ANY BOX IF YOU WISH TO VOTE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BOARD
OF DIRECTORS' RECOMMENDATIONS. THE PERSONS NAMED ABOVE AS PROXIES CANNOT VOTE
YOUR SHARES UNLESS YOU SIGN AND RETURN THIS CARD.

                           (continued on reverse side)


THIS PROXY WHEN PROPERLY EXECUTED WILL BE VOTED IN THE MANNER  DIRECTED  HEREIN.
IF NO  DIRECTION  IS MADE, THIS  PROXY WILL BE VOTED FOR  PROPOSALS  1 AND 2 AND
AGAINST PROPOSALS 3 AND 4.



         The Board of Directors Recommends a Vote FOR Proposals 1 and 2

PROPOSAL ONE:  Election  Of  Directors  to serve  until 2000  Annual  Meeting of
               Shareholders.

Nominees:   Arnold H. Dreyfuss,  Wilson H. Flohr,  Jr., F.  Claiborne  Johnston,
            Jr., David B. Kewer, Daniel J. Ludeman, Judith B. McBee and Robert
            C. Sledd

      [ ] FOR all nominees listed above      [ ] WITHHOLD AUTHORITY to vote for
      (except as written on the line to          all nominees listed above
      the right)

(INSTRUCTION:  To withhold  authority to vote for any  individual nominee listed
above, write that nominee's name on the space provided below.)


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PROPOSAL  TWO:  Ratification  of  the  selection  of  Ernst &  Young  LLP as the
                independent  auditors for  the Corporation and its  subsidiaries
                for the current fiscal year.

                 [  ]  FOR         [  ]  AGAINST          [  ] ABSTAIN



       The Board of Directors Recommends a Vote AGAINST Proposals 3 and 4

PROPOSAL THREE:  Yogen Fruz Proposal Regarding the Shareholder Rights Plan.

                 [  ]  FOR         [  ]  AGAINST          [  ] ABSTAIN



PROPOSAL  FOUR:  Yogen  Fruz  Proposal  Regarding  Shareholder's Ability to Call
                 Special Meeting.

                 [  ]  FOR         [  ]  AGAINST          [  ] ABSTAIN



I plan to attend the meeting. [   ]



SIGNATURE(S) _______________________________________     DATE __________, 1999



NOTE: Please sign exactly as name appears hereon. Joint owners should each sign.
When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, trustee or guardian, give
full title as such. If signing on behalf of a corporation, sign the full
corporate name by authorized officer. The signer hereby revokes all proxies
heretofore given by the signer to vote at the 1999 Annual Meeting of
Shareholders of Eskimo Pie Corporation and any adjournment or postponement
thereof.