Posted on 09/21/2011 10:50:55 PM PDT by SmithL
Ben and Jerry's name for a new ice cream flavor has at least one conservative group up in arms. OneMillionMoms, which is associated with the American Family Association objected to the name Schweddy Balls, which is a reference to a "Saturday Night Live" skit that featured Alec Baldwin as a name-challenged maker of Christmas candy.
In a statement at www.onemillionmoms.com, the group said "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 statement followed with a full description of the puns in the skit, which is available at the Ben & Jerry's website: http://www.benjerry.com/flavors/feature/schweddy/
According to the website, the flavor is: "Fair Trade vanilla ice cream with a hint of rum and is loaded with fudge covered rum and milk chocolate malt balls."
OneMillionMoms also objected to the flavor Hubby Hubby, a special edition of the flavor Chubby Hubby in honor of gay marriage.
"It seems that offending customers has become an annual tradition for Ben & Jerry's," . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at knoxville.com ...
For me, Haagen Dasz has no peer.
Agree.... Vote with our dollars between elections....
Homemade ice cream is better anyway.
“Over priced, ridiculous combinations of flavors and oh ye they are communists”
And one of them is totally gay as well, which explains the offensive flavor names.
Current Communist Goals [1963]:
(as per "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen)
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
Health nannies long ago prevailed on the FDA to allow frozen dessert formulas that contain whole milk but no explicit cream to be called ice cream. Before that, the cartons would read “ice milk.” They weren’t bad as a kiddie dessert.
As a homemade formula for an electric cranked freezer, I have found ordinary canned evaporated milk to be a great basis for this new kind of ice cream. This sometimes contains carrageenan, which helps the texture, but not in the amounts found in a typical McDonald’s shake.
Anyone remember those double insulated paper bags the grocery stores placed the ice cream boxes in back in the 50’s? My mother would save a couple of them for me when I got car sick on vacation.
Fake as the name is, I agree completely.
Thrifty’s has great tasting ice cream.
I never did like B&Js ice cream as it seems gummy and unnatural to me. I bought it when it was cheaper than H-D and wished I hadn't. I generally stayed away from the brand because of it's liberal persona. I like Haagen-Dazs. Compare the two ingredient lists and that will tell you why.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/sep/28/unilever-ben-jerrys-ingredients-watchdog
"Ben and Jerry's admits ice-cream with a liberal conscience not 'all natural'Unilever's premium brand abandons claim after US food health watchdog notes use of unnatural ingredients such as corn syrup."
Have some in my freezer right now. If you like peanut butter and chocolate their peanut butter and chocolate is really good. Also, for any ice cream drinks, shakes or malts their vanilla is phenomenal.
A great book and a MUST read for anyone who wants to know what is really going on concerning communism in this country and the world.
HD is great, but I miss Frusen Gladje. They were bought out by Unilever (which also bought Ben & Jerry's). The brand has disappeared. Sigh.
Who would have ever thought that maggots could make Ice Cream?
My Dad loved Thrifty’s strawberry ice cream... loved it over any other.
It’s not even funny to me. I never go in their places nor buy their products. They could care less about their image. I will buy the less expensive ice cream brands-they taste much better.
Chocolate Peanut Butter ice cream is my weakness, and for my money, Schwan’s has the absolute best.
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