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2011/09/22 05:41:54
Subject: One Million Moms hate delicious Ice Cream or Tasty Schweddy Balls
Ben & Jerry's announced their newest ice cream flavor which sounds anything but appealing. Schweddy Balls is the best they could come up with. 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 name originated from a Saturday Night Live skit featuring Alec Baldwin as Pete Schweddy, owner of a holiday bakery called Season's Eatings. "There are lots of great treats this time of year," Schweddy says. "Zucchini bread, fruitcake, but the thing I most like to bring out at this time of the year are my balls."
He then explains that he sells popcorn balls, cheese balls, rum balls—balls for every taste—and the ball puns proceed for about four minutes. Ben & Jerry's chose to go with fudge-covered rum and malt balls for their flavor. The skit culminates in Baldwin stating that "No one can resist my Schweddy Balls."
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.
The ice cream is being released in a limited batch, which means it will be distributed nationwide but only for three or four months. If it proves popular, another batch might be forthcoming, but we hope not.
"The name is irreverent," says Ben & Jerry's spokesman Sean Greenwood. "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."
TAKE ACTION
Please send Ben & Jerry's Public Relations Manager, Sean Greenwood, an email letter requesting that no additional Schweddy Balls ice cream be distributed. Also, highly recommend they refrain from producing another batch with this name or any other offensive names or you will no longer be able to purchase their products.
2011/09/22 05:48:26
Subject: One Million Moms hate delicious Ice Cream or Tasty Schweddy Balls
One million annoying, permanently offended silly women.
I get more annoyed about this gak than I should..
Inn the US/UK especially, we are nations of spineless, constantly complaining, cowardly, snivelling little victims. Everyone is always fething complaining about something utterly fething banal. Is that blaming the victim? I fething hope so.
Oh yes, I deserve free healthcare, I deserve to go to university, I deserve free money, I deserve everything because I just deserve it.... nnnngggggghhh
NO NO NO. DOUBLE ENTENDRE ICECREAM MADE ME RAPE HER, WHY ISNT UNIVERSITY FREE? ID BE A DOCTOR THEN HONEST..ITS NOT MY FAULT MY LIFE IS gak, ITS BEN AND JERRY AND MATTYS FAULT!
We are arming Syrian rebels who support ISIS, who is fighting Iran, who is fighting Iraq who we also support against ISIS, while fighting Kurds who we support while they are fighting Syrian rebels.
2011/09/22 06:36:56
Subject: One Million Moms hate delicious Ice Cream or Tasty Schweddy Balls
What a completely pointless thing to get bothered about. I kind of wonder if this is one of those pretend outrage groups that are just there to get publicity for a product.
mattyrm wrote:NO NO NO. DOUBLE ENTENDRE ICECREAM MADE ME RAPE HER, WHY ISNT UNIVERSITY FREE? ID BE A DOCTOR THEN HONEST..ITS NOT MY FAULT MY LIFE IS gak, ITS BEN AND JERRY AND MATTYS FAULT!
While Ben and Jerry have been blamed unfairly, I think most people would agree just about everything that's bad everywhere in the world is your fault.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
2011/09/22 08:47:16
Subject: Re:One Million Moms hate delicious Ice Cream or Tasty Schweddy Balls
While Ben and Jerry have been blamed unfairly, I think most people would agree just about everything that's bad everywhere in the world is your fault.
Fairs fair, I might have been at fault regarding making Santa HIV positive, convincing Hitler to carry out mass genocide and arming the Lockerbie bomber, but I swear I haven't even met Simon Cowell.
We are arming Syrian rebels who support ISIS, who is fighting Iran, who is fighting Iraq who we also support against ISIS, while fighting Kurds who we support while they are fighting Syrian rebels.
2011/09/22 08:54:59
Subject: One Million Moms hate delicious Ice Cream or Tasty Schweddy Balls
While Ben and Jerry have been blamed unfairly, I think most people would agree just about everything that's bad everywhere in the world is your fault.
Fairs fair, I might have been at fault regarding making Santa HIV positive, convincing Hitler to carry out mass genocide and arming the Lockerbie bomber, but I swear I haven't even met Simon Cowell.
You have access to guns and yet he still lives...
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2011/09/22 09:20:39
Subject: Re:One Million Moms hate delicious Ice Cream or Tasty Schweddy Balls
htj wrote:Much as this is a ridiculous thing to get upset about, I can't say as I'm keen to get Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls in my mouth.
Not the best name for a foodstuff.
That all depends on the target market.
gak, I bet Cannerus is buying gallons of this stuff.
We are arming Syrian rebels who support ISIS, who is fighting Iran, who is fighting Iraq who we also support against ISIS, while fighting Kurds who we support while they are fighting Syrian rebels.
2011/09/22 10:18:25
Subject: One Million Moms hate delicious Ice Cream or Tasty Schweddy Balls
htj wrote:Much as this is a ridiculous thing to get upset about, I can't say as I'm keen to get Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls in my mouth.
Not the best name for a foodstuff.
That all depends on the target market.
gak, I bet Cannerus is buying gallons of this stuff.
Ha, the store I work at actually refused to carry it. We get the off request every now and then. And I'm more into the Gaga breast milk ice cream myself.
Worship me.
2011/09/22 10:27:44
Subject: One Million Moms hate delicious Ice Cream or Tasty Schweddy Balls
I've heard tell of an egg and bacon ice cream, created by making ice cream with eggs from chickens that were fed a high-bacon diet. That, to me, is the height of unnatural. Although I do envy the chickens.
DC:80SG+M+B+I+Pw40k97#+D+A++/wWD190R++T(S)DM+
htj wrote:You can always trust a man who quotes himself in his signature.
2011/09/22 10:33:20
Subject: One Million Moms hate delicious Ice Cream or Tasty Schweddy Balls
But those are sphere related items not schoolboy references. They could be used as double entendres but are used legitimately all the time.
The issue is the comedic reference to genetalia and the ice cream referring to that.
A bunch of macho wargamers with schoolboy humour will just giggle as they lick the sweaty balls ice cream.
Middle America will find it offensive.
2011/09/22 11:15:18
Subject: One Million Moms hate delicious Ice Cream or Tasty Schweddy Balls
Despite my earlier comments, I have suddenly become passionate about, I dunno, saving the children or whatever. As a result I will heroicly consume gallons of this fudge-covered rum and malt flavour ice cream as it is brought to me by concerned citizens.
Some may call me a hero...
...they are right to.
DC:80SG+M+B+I+Pw40k97#+D+A++/wWD190R++T(S)DM+
htj wrote:You can always trust a man who quotes himself in his signature.
2011/09/22 11:46:07
Subject: One Million Moms hate delicious Ice Cream or Tasty Schweddy Balls
Are Ben & Jerry's planning any other ice-cream flavors based on poorly performed and obnoxious SNL skits?
I don't buy Ben & Jerry's simply because I cannot forgive them for getting rid of Fossil Fuel. Seriously, who doesn't love dinosaur-shaped pieces of fudge in their ice cream?
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2011/09/22 11:51:42
Subject: One Million Moms hate delicious Ice Cream or Tasty Schweddy Balls
Actually, 3.50 for a gallon drum of icecream sounds rather nice...
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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