Ben & Jerry, just a nasty company

[Dok]

Ben & Jerry’s new flavor of ice cream is getting a chilly response from retailers. Some supermarkets are now refusing to carry its latest spoon bender, “Schweddy Balls.”
The Vermont-based company, known for carrying ice cream flavors with unusual names released the product in September and has been met with broad criticism. The name is a reference to a Saturday Night Live skit featuring Alec Baldwin.

Suggestive names are nothing new for Ben & Jerry’s. Along with hippie-like names such as Cherry Garcia, Half Baked and Whirled Peace, the company offers flavors such as Karamel Sutra and What a Cluster as well. But the release of Schweddy Balls was the final impetus for One Million Moms to begin pressuring Ben & Jerry’s to discontinue the flavor, the Associated Press reported. In September, the conservative Christian group, an offshoot of the American Family Association, called on supporters to boycott the product.

"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 organization’s website states. “In the past, Ben & Jerry's has released controversial ice creams, like a special edition of Chubby Hubby called Hubby Hubby last year, which celebrated gay marriage. It seems that offending customers has become an annual tradition for Ben & Jerry's.”

http://www.christianpost.com/news/supermarkets-freeze-sales-of-ben-jerrys-ice-cream-59011/

[resist.tyranny]

Maybe I'm a cretin and a heathen, but I think Schweddy Balls is funny as hell.  Don't buy Ben and Jerry's and the problem will go away when they go bankrupt.   

One Million Moms should put their focus on something like joining with Max Keiser to take down Coke.  Now that would be the real thing.

[Dok]

Yep just ignore them. 

Is Your Favorite Ice Cream Made With Monsanto's Artificial Hormones?
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=184515.0

PETA urges Ben & Jerry's to use.....HUMAN milk
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=62918.0

[tritonman]

yuck

[Cryptvill]

Ugh... Ice cream

[goforward]

I'm thinking more and more that heads of companies do this form of shock promotion because it's more effective to use the news and blogoshere than standard advertising
Much like the early Edward Bernay stunts
I mean what does the stuff taste like meat balls?
nasty

[wvoutlaw2002]

I'm thinking more and more that heads of companies do this form of shock promotion because it's more effective to use the news and blogoshere than standard advertising
Much like the early Edward Bernay stunts
I mean what does the stuff taste like meat balls?
nasty

I also don't get the point of those "special edition" Jones Soda varieties...you know, the ones that taste like mashed potatoes, green beans, and so on.