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Conservative Mom Group Calls for Boycott of Schweddy Balls Ice Cream

Posted by wendym on September 21st, 2011 at 1:22 pm
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Ben & Jerry's "Schweddy Balls" Ice Cream

Looks like not everyone is a fan of Schweddy Balls. Er… the ice cream, that is.

Ben & Jerry’s recently announced a limited run of a new flavor of ice cream, “Schweddy Balls,” inspired by the classic Saturday Night Live sketch featuring Alec Baldwin.

One parenting group, however, doesn’t get the joke – and wants like-minded parents to boycott the new ice cream flavor.

In the SNL sketch, Alec Baldwin plays Pete Schweddy, a guest of the NPR radio show, The Delicious Dish, where he introduces his confection called Schweddy Balls. Hilarity ensues when the women fawn over the treat and make crude references to the Schweddy treat.

It’s hilarious… and since I am the hugest of SNL fans, I can’t help but adore that Ben & Jerry’s concocted this flavor – which, by the way, is vanilla ice cream with a hint of rum, plus fudge covered rum and milk chocolate malt balls.

The conservative group, One Million Moms, of the larger American Family Association, is calling for a ban on Ben & Jerry’s Schweddy Balls ice cream, sending a letter to its members that recalls the details of the sketch and fires off at Ben & Jerry’s:

“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.

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.”

The group writes on their 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.”

Sounds like someone needs to lighten up a wee bit.

 

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 Conservative Mom Group Calls for Boycott of Schweddy Balls Ice Cream

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20 Comments

Um yeah. I won’t be joining this boycott- I think this is hysterical. I’ll vote with MY collars an buy more~
In fact, I’d rather see (and join) a boycott of the American Family Association since:
“Two of the main duties that AFA assigns to itself are “promoting the centrality of God in American life” and “promoting the Christian ethic of decency.”"
Stay OUT of my life with your god.

goddess commented on Sep 21 11 at 1:27 pm

And they advocate against these:
“”Indecent” influences in American culture include: television, the separation of church and state, pornography, “the homosexual agenda,” premarital sex, legal abortion, the National Endowment for the Arts, gambling, unfiltered internet access in libraries, and the removal of school-sponsored religious worship from public schools.”
BOYCOTT AMERICAN FAMILY ASS.

goddess commented on Sep 21 11 at 1:28 pm

Can’t wait to wrap my lips around a taste of Ben & Jerry’s Schweddy Balls.

Mistress_Scorpio commented on Sep 21 11 at 1:48 pm

omg we just got some of this the other day and my kids – I swear, innocently! – thought the name was funny and kept saying it over and over and over – loudly!

It was funny. They got the “sweaty” part, just the other part to them was just, like soccer balls or something.

We were dying laughing!

btw it’s not a great flavor, they didn’t like it and I wasn’t a fan either. Funny idea but unfortunately not quite there in execution.

BlackOrchid commented on Sep 21 11 at 1:58 pm

I guess it makes sense that there are only One Million humourless, narrow minded (‘conservative’) Moms.
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I’m going to start my own Ten Million Moms group – please apply if you are open of mind and heart and, most importantly, humour – right after I get back from my Ben & Jerry’s run.

Voice of Reason commented on Sep 21 11 at 2:31 pm

Does it shrink in the freezer?

bob commented on Sep 21 11 at 3:20 pm

I don’t like malt balls, but the childish part of me wants to go stock the freezer with a dozen pints just to show that Americans *can* take a joke.

Diera commented on Sep 21 11 at 3:44 pm

bahhahahahaha bob, you get me every time!

jboogie commented on Sep 21 11 at 3:46 pm

What’s next….. being offended by Moose Tracks? There are so many other things in this world to worry about.

Jen commented on Sep 21 11 at 7:00 pm

hahaha Bob! The name kinda makes me cringe (it’s more about the sweat than the balls), but the flavor sounds delish, and I want to buy it twice as badly now that I know that it’s pissing off humorless religious extremists.

Bunnytwenty commented on Sep 22 11 at 9:53 am

What is it with these uber-religious, conservative groups? If you don’t like it, then fine. Don’t buy it. But don’t try to ruin it for the rest of us!

Ashley commented on Sep 22 11 at 11:31 am

Why don’t we make a list of things such people could be doing with their time instead making mountains out of mole hills?
I get the ball rolling. they could:
1. clean up a park in their neighborhoods.

Citizen Mom commented on Sep 22 11 at 12:01 pm

I just hope the ice cream doesn’t smell like sweaty balls!

LogicalMama commented on Sep 22 11 at 12:30 pm

Oh, come on. It IS crude. And the fact that nasty genitalia is apparently a funny thing to name ice cream for is gross. And I think it’s gross that anyone would joke around with their kids about this. Would “Tasty Twat” make for an ice cream that anyone would want to eat? (I’m going to refrain from speculating on other names, though I am making myself giggle thinking of them.) Or, is it okay since this is men’s genitals that we’re laughing about, and not women’s? I think it’s crude, and I think *you’re* crude if you’re mad that a group is offended by this, and I won’t bring it into my house. Or eat Ben & Jerry’s in general, though that’s mostly because we’re borderline poor, LOL.

That said, the skit was hilarious.

ChiLaura commented on Sep 22 11 at 1:56 pm

2. start a fundraiser for a local school
3. PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING.

Bunnytwenty commented on Sep 22 11 at 2:05 pm

I’m not mad that they’re offended – we all have a right to our feelings and to let companies know how we feel. And I agree it is crude. However, I’m expressing my feeling that a boycott is overblown and counterproductive – all they’ve done is make more people aware of the flavor.
And I also agree that that is some expensive ice cream! That’s what we should be writing to B & J about! lower the darn prices – and put more peanut butter in the Chubby Hubby. Hasn’t been the same since they sold the company.

Citizen Mom commented on Sep 22 11 at 4:23 pm

B&J should make an dessert in honor of the AFA’s mom group. It could be an artificially sweetened lemony tart sorbet called, “Uptight Mother Puckers.”

Mistress_Scorpio commented on Sep 22 11 at 7:50 pm

Oh, man, I’d buy that flavor. I’d be a little offended by the implied language, of course, but I’d buy it.

Citizen Mom commented on Sep 22 11 at 10:18 pm

The AFA is a designated hate group. Anything they are against, I’m for. What’s “crude” is the promotion of hate as a family value.

Michelle commented on Sep 23 11 at 12:39 pm

“B&J should make an dessert in honor of the AFA’s mom group. It could be an artificially sweetened lemony tart sorbet called, “Uptight Mother Puckers.””

LOVE this idea!

Manjari commented on Sep 23 11 at 3:49 pm

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