No thanks.
Posted on 09/02/2009 9:17:52 AM PDT by markomalley
Some of my best friends are gay. Suspiciously large numbers, it has sometimes been suggested to me. But that’s OK, I’m cool with that. What my friends get up to in the privacy of their own homes - or, indeed, the scary back room of their local boite - is very much their own affair. And if they want to get married (Hell-ooo! Why sacrifice the single greatest benefit of being gay?), well I’m probably OK with that too. I don’t believe that homosexuality is a lifestyle choice so I guess it’s only fair that gay men and women too should enjoy their inalienable right to be shackled to the same person, on pain of massive alimony payments, till the day they die. (Hat tip: William C Fisher; The Corner)
But here’s where I draw the line. I do NOT want my freaking ice cream tub to tell me gay marriage is a great and wonderful thing. Which is more or less what Ben & Jerry’s has done with one of its flavours. Or flavors, if you will. (See pic)
(snip)
But I can tell you now there’s something worse out there than Ben & Jerry’s. Much, much worse. So bad in fact that I vow never ever again to buy it for my kids even though it tastes quite nice and offers reasonable value. I refer to the horror that is Mackies ice cream, which now uses its website to disseminate propaganda for the wind industry and which decorates its tubs with scenes of nature dotted with wind turbines - as if to suggest that these monstrosities have become an integral, nay even a desirable part of the British landscape.
“You can feel extra good about enjoying Mackies ice cream because it is made with renewable energy” claims their
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
No thanks.
Glories & gay in the same sentence...ugh
I wonder if they thought about that . . . .
I think they are probably a lot more interested in generating revenue, than they are educating you about gays.
I can’t possibly boycott Ben & Jerry more than I do now, given their vocal and economic support for Mumia Abu-Jamal. Not “anti-death penalty”, which is a position I can understand while disagreeing, but rather “pro-Mumia” which is disgusting and an abomination.
WTH is that on the container? Fudge filled holes? LOL!
Nor do I want my government telling me gay marriage is a great and wonderful thing, but they do.
Better safe than sorry - I have not seen any scientific tests to prove this is false... :)
Their favorite ice cream is a half gallon of Fudge packed into a one quart container!
Fudge and peanut butter? Wow. You seriously can’t make this stuff up!
Well, we should have been suspicious of something called “Ben & Jerry’s” all along. Why wasn’t it called “Ben and Shirly’s”?
Now on my boycott list.
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are still the same hippies today that they were in the 60’s & 70’s.
Everything that I love...they hate. And everything they love...I hate. Such as this...
Looks like it has some sort of pretzel "sticks" covered in "fudge."
Why didn’t they just call the flavors ‘Fudge Packer’ or ‘Hershey Highway’? /s
Who's surprised? Politics is 24/7 to these guys. If it isn't gay marriage it's the whales, the ozone layer, or the polar bears treading water. Make them spend a single day without politics and their heads explode. Not that there's anything wrong with that...
B&J is substandard anyway. Only HD for me.
Don’t you know ... it is subtle acceptance that will largely go unnoticed by the buyers of ice cream? ... maybe they (buyers) will laugh and joke about it.
They (Ben and Jerry) do want to celebrate the acceptance of homo sexual marriage.
I will not buy their ice cream...
I understand it is REALLY packed with fudge!
Get outta here.....lol.....that’s not real.
Look at that image above... that is NOT Photoshopped.
I've been boycotting Ben & Jerry's ice cream for over a decade now. I've always despised these two leftist hippies.
C'mon, FReepers... join me! There are PLENTY of other good ice cream and frozen yogurt brands out there that are just as good, or even better than Ben & Jerry's!
So are those pretzels supposed to look like dirty rectums? They might as well just call it Reekdick Road? Ugh, I’ll never eat a bit of B&J’s ice cream again.
No Kidding
“Hubby Hubby” features fudge covered peanut butter-filled pretzels in vanilla malt ice cream rippled with fudge and peanut butter.
I believe they sold the company,
so it isn’t run by the two disgusting leftists
anymore.
It’s run by a bunch of other disgusting leftists.
ROFLMAO!!!! Very good.
It’s discussed here. Pretty funny.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329641/posts
fatty bulldyke flavor, plump rump…….
I never partake of their products. They have been leftists for YEARS!
Jerry of Ben and Jerry’s is not a very pleasant human being.
Conservatives’ response to gay ice cream: “No thanks.”
Leftists’ response to a company opposing gay “ice cream”: BOYCOTT, PICKET, DEMONSTRATE, JUMP UP AND DOWN AND WHINE ABOUT IT.
I’d boycott Ben and Jerry’s except I never go there anywise.
Likewise. I’ve been off ben an jerry’s since the last century.
From the article:
As you see, to celebrate the legalization of gay marriage in its achingly worthy, nauseatingly PC home state Vermont, Ben & Jerry’s has temporarily changed the name of its Chubby Hubby brand to Hubby Hubby.
Wow! He shouldn't hold back, he should tell it like it is, lol. But soooooo very true.
Simple. I believe confectionary should be politics-free. Just because a pair of hippie ice cream makers happen to think gay marriage is an OK thing doesn’t mean that all their customers should have a message they may well find deeply unpalatable rammed down their throats. I felt much the same way about their President-Obama-endorsing “Yes Pecan” flavour earlier this year. “Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP already!” I wanted to scream at them. “Your job is to placate women, distract movie audiences, and bribe children. It is NOT your job to change the world.”
OMG. He really, really sums it up, every word. Hippie ice cream makers. Rammed down our throats. Deeply unpalatable. Daring to say what our MSM tells us is 'intolerant' or 'unkind' - that is, disagreeing with their take on gay marriage. 'Shut up already' is right! Thanks for posting, markomalley. And thanks for telling it like it is, Mr. Delingpole.
From the article:
As you see, to celebrate the legalization of gay marriage in its achingly worthy, nauseatingly PC home state Vermont, Ben & Jerry’s has temporarily changed the name of its Chubby Hubby brand to Hubby Hubby.
Wow! He shouldn't hold back, he should tell it like it is, lol. But soooooo very true.
Simple. I believe confectionary should be politics-free. Just because a pair of hippie ice cream makers happen to think gay marriage is an OK thing doesn’t mean that all their customers should have a message they may well find deeply unpalatable rammed down their throats. I felt much the same way about their President-Obama-endorsing “Yes Pecan” flavour earlier this year. “Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP already!” I wanted to scream at them. “Your job is to placate women, distract movie audiences, and bribe children. It is NOT your job to change the world.”
OMG. He really, really sums it up, every word. Hippie ice cream makers. Rammed down our throats. Deeply unpalatable. Daring to say what our MSM tells us is 'intolerant' or 'unkind' - that is, disagreeing with their take on gay marriage. 'Shut up already' is right! Thanks for posting, markomalley. And thanks for telling it like it is, Mr. Delingpole.
It’s run by a bunch of other disgusting leftists.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure B&J sold their company to someone, but I wonder if they (or, as you said, other disgusting leftists) still have a hand in it. The fact that they came out with this "Hubby Hubby" ice cream tells me SOME disgusting leftist is still running the brand...
rofl - what a graphic...let alone the description...
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
I think because it was started by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield.
Wonder how it was packed?
lol
They holed the carton from the bottom and then the ..............never mind.
anybody forcing you to buy it - yet?
IIRC, they got a regular corporate type as CEO, but they still have a hand in the business.
They put a glory hole in the side and...
That’s a flavor: Glory Whole Fudge, with whole chunks of fudge.
I think you're correct... makes sense.
Lifetime chocoholic.
What are those chocolate things? Colons?
There are social pressures to be “pro-gay” and pro gay “marriage”.
You can lose your job and livelihood if you hold the wrong viewpoint on this issue.
“diversity training” is corporate political re-education.
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