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    New Ben & Jerry’s flavor sparks boycott

    OneMillionMoms, an organization affiliated with the American Family Association, announced a boycott of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream over a new flavor called “Schweddy Balls.” The group said Friday on its website: “The vulgar new flavor has turned something as innocent as ice cream into something repulsive. Not exactly what you want a child asking for at the supermarket.”

    The idea for the ice cream flavor’s name came from a 1998 Saturday Night Live comedy segment featuring Alec Baldwin, Molly Shannon, and Ana Gasteyer. In the sketch Baldwin plays Pete Schweddy, a baker who brings his best-selling holiday treat to share with two public radio hosts. “No one can resist my Schweddy balls,” Baldwin famously said in character.

    The new Ben & Jerry’s flavor consists of vanilla ice cream with a hint of rum flavor, mixed with fudge-covered rum and milk chocolate malt balls.

    The AFA-affiliated boycott group objects to the Vermont ice cream company’s use of the “Schweddy balls” name and its sexually suggestive pun. “It seems that offending customers has become an annual tradition for Ben & Jerry’s,” the organization added on its website.

    Ben & Jerry’s has a history of embracing political activism, including an ice cream flavor — ‘Hubby Hubby’ — that serves as an endorsement of same-sex marriage.

    “The name is irreverent,” said Ben & Jerry’s spokesman Sean Greenwood of his company’s “Schweddy” flavor. “But we’ve always been about having some irreverence and having some fun … We’re not trying to offend people. Our fans get the humor.”

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    • TeedOff  •  2 mths ago
      Two new flavors ....Ankle Grabber Apple for men and Lap Snacker Lemon for ladies
    • AMLeatherman01  •  Grand Junction, Colorado  •  2 mths ago
      B&j have every right to promote any political or religous agenda they wish. Just like every conservadork repbuliturd church, actor and malcontent does. With the support of every republiturd and conservadork on here.
    • Vison Query  •  Encino, California  •  2 mths ago
      Oh, oh...I know another great flavor......call it American Tolerance...no worries about the price, the carton would be empty!!!!
    • Deborah  •  Atlanta, Georgia  •  2 mths ago
      Gay ice cream. So does it taste salty and fishy?
      • 7461 2 mths ago
        And sticky
    • Tom  •  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma  •  2 mths ago
      well, I will never eat B and J again....and what does it mean, they are making this ice cream, and thier initials are BJ ?
      • 7461 2 mths ago
        A BJ will get you a free scoup of vanilla
    • Papersak  •  2 mths ago
      Guys, this is FOOD. Balls humor, fine, but the name they chose makes it sound gross. xP

      Oh well. I'm not going to throw a hissy fit if people like tasty ice cream; I'm just turned off by the sound of it, personally.
    • Jane  •  Baltimore, Maryland  •  2 mths ago
      Wow, talk about having too much spare time. Where can I go to protest Totally Nuts and all the other flavors that made my butt big. There are really one million women with nothing better to do. How about they raise 1 million dollars and buy ice cream for everyone.
    • Vison Query  •  Encino, California  •  2 mths ago
      Yeah, way to go guys, finally some socially conscious companies out there...cry me a river you daft ignorant bigots......Rush is desperate for sponsors, but frankly this product is far to good...I wouldn't tarnish the brand with that blowhard! Grow up already!
      • Vison Query 2 mths ago
        Oh yeah, and I'm going to down a pint with my 'Freedom Fries'!
    • ronnie  •  Tampa, Florida  •  2 mths ago
      Get over it. Americans are such wimps.
    • 7461  •  Oxford, Massachusetts  •  2 mths ago
      Time for a name change SEIMENS
    • Jeffrey Lingford  •  Milwaukee, Wisconsin  •  2 mths ago
      why does the gay front have to keep trying to shove their agenda at all of us. go back into your closets and please stay there
      what you do in your own home is your business, i have no desire to hear or see it. and no, wont be buying any more of their ice cream either. first star bucks, now ben and jerries, so say nothing of disney land. its really out of control
      dosent anyone believe in morals any more.
      • Jane 2 mths ago
        It's a joke and a reference to a SNL skit.
      • AMLeatherman01 2 mths ago
        why dont you try to push me back in there toad?
    • Action Jackson  •  2 mths ago
      This ice cream smells like vinegar mommy, but tastes like cheese sweat!?
      • 7461 2 mths ago
        Just spray it with deodorant.
    • Alan  •  2 mths ago
      Ben and Jerry's should stay out of social justice issues with their Apply ever after flavor marketed in Britian for the support of gay rights. and just make Ice Cream. There are plenty of ways to name flavors without stepping into gray areas that offend anyone.
    • Completely Sensible  •  8 mths ago
      B&J need publicity. New ice cream flavour named....Moms 'disgusted' and call for a ban....it's all over the news....job done.....bonus to PR company.
    • fatman  •  8 mths ago
      gonna go buy some just for the container although vanilla and rum infused whoppers sounds good bet it'll make a heller home blizzard....I'll just have to do a little more insulin....lmao
    • JonGo  •  8 mths ago
      If you don't like it, don't buy it. That is what kills a product faster than anything.
    • myrnapotter  •  8 mths ago
      Your power comes in the form of you deciding what is acceptable to you - NOT ME. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE PRODUCT, YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT IN THE WORLD TO NOT PURCHASE IT. YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO DECIDE FOR ME!
    • irighti  •  8 mths ago
      If you are offended, fine do not buy it, but shut up! I will not buy it, but I am tired of the self righteous people dictating what I can or can not watch, buy, sell or participate in. Stay out of my life and leave me alone!!! I can make up my own mind. If I make a bad decision, then I have to suffer the consequences.
    • D-Man  •  8 mths ago
      Those who get offended by this also have to explain to their children who don't know. Unfortunately, some already would know without parents' explanation,
    • CathyNYC  •  8 mths ago
      MillionMoms, news flash: everybody sweats, and half the population has balls (at least anatomically). Get over yourselves. The kids won't think anything is vulgar unless you teach them it is.
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