PRESS RELEASES ABOUT BALLS  3:11 pm September 20, 2011

American Family Association Freaks Out Over Ice Cream Named After Testicles

by Kirsten Boyd Johnson

The humorless testicle-phobes at the American Family Association have gotten wind of this new flavor of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream named “Schweddy Balls.” Here is their press release via Right Wing Watch, which quotes the word “balls” no fewer than 10 times, for mysterious reasons:

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.

[Right Wing Watch via Wonkette Operative "Miranda B."]

Hola wonkerados.

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{ 207 comments }

Barb September 20, 2011 at 3:15 pm

They should have one that is more a sign of the times:
The Reese's-cession

johnnymeatworth September 20, 2011 at 3:19 pm

"We're having a ball in the Reese's-cession!"

Come here a minute September 20, 2011 at 3:16 pm

"Mmm, your balls are salty"

Callyson September 20, 2011 at 3:19 pm

Next up for AFA: boycott the NFL. *Foot*ball?!? Something sick about that name…

Bonzos_Bed_Time September 20, 2011 at 4:26 pm

Many followers of the sport agree that football sacks are always great to watch.

HempDogbane September 20, 2011 at 10:44 pm

The AFA has a "Christian" Sports Talk radio show. I'm somewhat embarrassed that I know this.

MightySix September 20, 2011 at 3:19 pm

A rare SNL home run of a sketch with Ana Gasteyer and Mollie Shannon as the earnest, non-threatening NPR type radio hosts of the "Delicious Dish" and Baldwin as Pete Schweddy. I'll be first in line for this stuff when it hits the stores. Suck it, AFA!

BarackMyWorld September 20, 2011 at 4:56 pm

In case anyone hasn't seen it: http://www.hulu.com/watch/116203/saturday-night-l

finallyhappy September 20, 2011 at 6:30 pm

I love that sketch! and we have been looking for Schweddy Balls. I am buying several containers when I find it

Pristine_ODummy September 21, 2011 at 8:36 pm

They don't sell it at my local grocery store. :(

Dashboard_Jesus September 22, 2011 at 1:53 am

well then you'll just have to call the store owner and DEMAND some tasty Schweddy Balls…I'm sure you'll love them since they're a Teabagger's delite! (LOL, best SNL skit ever "…over at Season's Eatings we have balls for every taste…would you like to see my balls? mmmm, balls…my mouth's watering just thinking about them, they're bigger than I expected…wow, I can't wait to get my mouth around these balls")

Pristine_ODummy September 22, 2011 at 1:39 pm

I'm not a teabagger.

We're gonna keep looking for them, though. Just to be annoying.

horsedreamer_1 September 20, 2011 at 8:52 pm

The long distance calling plan touted on the same episode, late '98, is a stone classic, too.

10-10-1776-2-26-1840….

The mnemonic for it was "America's independence, the removal of the Native Americans, Darryl Lamonica's uniform number, the number of Moody Blues albums…"

NorthStarSpanx September 21, 2011 at 9:34 am

The AFA have been teabagging the public for years by now, and they find Schweddy Balls offensive?

Rosie_Scenario September 20, 2011 at 3:20 pm

Don't tell the AFA about that traditional English favorite, Spotted Dick.

boy_scientist September 21, 2011 at 8:12 pm

My dear grandmother wrote a life history a few years before she passed. They were so poor, she relates, that all they had to eat was Lumpy Dick. This is poor-mans Spotted Dick and is simply flour whisked into hot water with a bit of salt.

This story never got old.

SexySmurf September 20, 2011 at 3:20 pm

After reading this story, Andrew Breitbart immediately went out and bought himself two scoops.

Schmannnity September 20, 2011 at 3:38 pm

There you go again. Duck!

baconzgood September 20, 2011 at 3:44 pm

I'll kill you!

NorthStarSpanx September 21, 2011 at 9:29 am

Bringing Marcus Bachmann with him?

DashboardBuddha September 21, 2011 at 9:44 am

If by scoop you mean steam shovel bucket load, then yeah.

SorosBot September 20, 2011 at 3:20 pm

Now I condemn Ben and Jerry's for this too; it's just terrible, naming an ice cream Schweddy Balls over a decade after that reference was relevant.

flamingpdog September 20, 2011 at 3:40 pm

Yuppies NEVAR FORGET!

tihond September 20, 2011 at 3:44 pm

Perry's Berries would have been more timely.

BerkeleyBear September 20, 2011 at 4:49 pm

Probably couldn't get the South Park guys to sign off on "Chef's Salty Chocolate Balls".

BarackMyWorld September 20, 2011 at 5:02 pm

What about Dusty Muffins?

finallyhappy September 20, 2011 at 6:31 pm

Betty White! I hope I am as wild as her in 2 years, much less in 30(when I reach her current age- if the world hasn't ended- or more likely, I just die)

Pristine_ODummy September 21, 2011 at 2:28 am

ZOMG, she's GREAT!

baconzgood September 20, 2011 at 3:22 pm

True story: I heard that Ben and Jerry's was having a contest about naming a new flavor and I sent in "Balls, lick em". They sent me a nice rejection form letter, but there was a post-it attached that had written on it "HAHAHAHAHA".

babyeinstein September 20, 2011 at 3:40 pm

Those dudes rule. I met them once, long ago, at a special tour of their factory in VT (long story, I know a dude who's some big time novelist who lives in VT (DON'T THEY ALL??)) and I remember one was kind of a dick and the other one nice. But I don't remember which was which.

At any rate, they don't seem like the type of company to give a flying fuck whether One Million Maws buy their ice cream or not.

BerkeleyBear September 20, 2011 at 4:52 pm

Except they don't own the company anymore, at least not a controlling interest in it. They were bought by Unilever some time ago, the same huge conglomerate that now owns Anheuser Busch (and in turn Goose Island Brewery). The fact that they've kept the spirit of the place is typical of Unilever, but the moment it seems bad for business they'll get a lot less "fun."

Dashboard_Jesus September 22, 2011 at 1:57 am

yeah, ever since I learned of their sellout to fucking Unilever- of all the corporate whores they could have chosen- I just haven't had the same appreciation for Ben & Jerry's, and it was my FAVORITE ice cream!

WhatTheHolyHeck September 20, 2011 at 5:08 pm

It was a stroke of genius for the AFA to suggest that the company is offending its customers.

The primo hippie ice cream maker is offending its customers.
The primo hippie ice cream maker that tithes to peaceful charities is offending its customers.
The primo hippie ice cream maker who created a long-running and best-selling homage to The Grateful Dead is offending its customers.

In the words of one of Ben and Jerry's PR flunkies, "HAHAHAHAHAHA."

SmutBoffin September 20, 2011 at 3:22 pm

Boycott away, diabetic wingnuts! The life you save may be your own.

OC_Surf_Serf September 20, 2011 at 3:22 pm

American Family Association Freaks Out

So they are taking their balls and going home?

johnnymeatworth September 20, 2011 at 3:22 pm

Just be glad they didn't go through with the proposed "Super Colon Blow" flavor….

baconzgood September 20, 2011 at 4:11 pm

Hartman win!

DashboardBuddha September 20, 2011 at 7:08 pm

Ah Phil…we hardly knew ye.

Radiotherapy® September 20, 2011 at 3:24 pm

What about Commie Obamie….there's nothing in the carton.

Texan_Bulldog September 20, 2011 at 3:24 pm

"popcorn balls, cheese balls, rum balls—balls for every taste—and the ball puns proceed" They sure are focused on balls; just saying!

horsedreamer_1 September 20, 2011 at 8:55 pm

This is Good News for the British Labour Party.

bagofmice September 20, 2011 at 3:24 pm

It's hard to lift your luggage when when you have Schweddy Ballls.

NorthStarSpanx September 21, 2011 at 9:30 am

Schweddy Balls takes the romance out of teabagging.

Sue4466 September 20, 2011 at 3:25 pm

Fucknuts. The fudge-covered rum and malt balls flavor sounds kinda gross to me. And, honestly, the name is not something that makes me crave icecream (or anything really, total EW).

But now I'm going to have to buy a carton of this stuff just because the AFA says it's bad.

Being a godless librul is just hard some days.

SexySmurf September 20, 2011 at 3:28 pm

Still sounds less gross than pistachio (seriously, who the fuck buys that nasty shit?)

Sue4466 September 20, 2011 at 3:33 pm

True. And I have no idea.

Now Americone Dream? Yummy

BerkeleyBear September 20, 2011 at 4:54 pm

Guilty. Used to be the only "exotic" flavor I could get my little paws on, and in a real spumoni it lends a nice textural element.

finallyhappy September 20, 2011 at 6:33 pm

pistachio gelato can be excellent- not sure about mass produced ice cream

CommieLibunatic September 20, 2011 at 3:33 pm

I was thinking the same thing. I'm not much of a malt ball fan, but I'll do my duty if it means stickin' it to the trolls.

Rotundo_ September 20, 2011 at 6:25 pm

There is just something about the AFA that when they urge a ban, I have to go out and buy whatever gets their undies in a bind that particular day. The skit had me falling out of my chair in tears the first time I saw it. What a bunch of repressed trolls.

DashboardBuddha September 20, 2011 at 7:12 pm

That reminds of my days as a youth group adviser at a Catholic church. The kids would eagerly await the latest edition of Catholic Digest and plan their movie going accordingly.

"Do you want to go see Life of Brian?"

"What's the digest's rating?

"Morally objectionable"

"I'll get my jacket."

starfanglednut September 21, 2011 at 10:24 am

That is so cute.

DashboardBuddha September 21, 2011 at 10:43 am

?

Pristine_ODummy September 21, 2011 at 2:33 am

Funny you should say that. I had the same reaction. I don't eat ice cream as a rule, don't like dairy, don't like sweet things too much, but ever since they started caterwauling about it, they've roused my curiousity.

For the sake of gratifying my unwarranted curiousity, I am willing to pay good money to buy something I would never have thought of buying otherwise.

DerrickWildcat September 20, 2011 at 3:26 pm

We also demand that Public Relations Manager, Sean Greenwood, change his filthy name too!

jus_wonderin September 20, 2011 at 4:59 pm

I believe Sean Greenwood is what happens if you don't contact your physician when your erection has lasted more than four hours.

Biel_ze_Bubba September 20, 2011 at 5:26 pm

I can imagine calling my physician about this problem … she'd probably say something like "what do you want me to do about it?" (In a sarcastic tone, unfortunately.)

Pristine_ODummy September 21, 2011 at 2:35 am

Well … if she's really attractive and your heart does pit-a-pats for her, perhaps you could suggest the obvy.

Goonemeritus September 20, 2011 at 3:26 pm

I have always loved this company, I even had a “What’s the Doughboy Afraid of” bumper sticker when they were trying to break into supermarkets 25 years ago and Pillsbury was putting the squeeze on their shelf space. I don’t think these guys see the right wing as their target consumers. I can almost hear the FUCK THEM from where I sit a whole state away.

BerkeleyBear September 20, 2011 at 4:57 pm

But can you hear their British and Dutch overlords scream if the sales dip 3 percent? Bet you can, if you listen hard enough.

But yeah, I don't think that the AFA mouthbreathers grabbing the ice milk corn syrup product in 5 gallon buckets are their target audience, so they can get away with it.

mavenmaven September 20, 2011 at 3:26 pm

Quick, have Michelle Obama single out this ice cream as a cause of obesity, and it will fly off the red state shelves faster than pornography and pistols.

Radiotherapy® September 20, 2011 at 3:28 pm

The AFA is right, it's very important to protect our scrotal honor and integrity. Just ask any teabagger.

Chillwaver September 20, 2011 at 3:29 pm

I bet Bryan Fischer is secretly dying to try Schweddy Balls topped off with some Santorum Jelly. Delish!

flamingpdog September 20, 2011 at 3:30 pm

Isn't asking AFA Teatards to boycott Ben & Jerry's like asking vegans to boycott Tyson's?

BerkeleyBear September 20, 2011 at 5:01 pm

Nah, Ben & Jerry's is expensive shit. You can get at least one gallon of generic high fructose corn syrup crap (with crappy no name candy mix-ins if you want) for the price of a Ben & Jerry's pint. If B&J was still trying to run a huge collection of scoop shops it might matter more, but those are a lot rarer these days..

Now, if the AFA told them to boycott DQ, the moaning and lamentations would be loud (maybe even louder than moaning casued by the stomach cramps eating too much stuff from DQ will give you, but maybe not).

DahBoner September 20, 2011 at 7:52 pm

Yeah, I bet B&J's don't give you a heavy metal hawk, like Dairy Queen does…

Pristine_ODummy September 21, 2011 at 2:38 am

Isn't that pdog's point? Vegans don't buy Tyson's anyway, so it's not like their boycott has any likelihood of affecting actual sales. Teatardturds don't buy B&J's, et cetera. Where is this DQ stuff found? I have never encountered it in the wild.

Moonbatting Average September 20, 2011 at 3:30 pm

For your consideration…

Young boy: "Would you like to lick my Schweddy Balls?"

Other young boy: *instantly turns gay*

I'm pretty sure that's how these things work

jus_wonderin September 20, 2011 at 5:01 pm

Other young boy: *instantly turns gay*

-

I get this vision of ILM producing the special FX.

Rotundo_ September 20, 2011 at 6:34 pm

Or DIsney doing a stage production like "The Lion King" where a bunch of bronzed "Gods" pick the little moppet up and hold him up to the golden streams of light filtering down while still more bronzed "Gods" go careening around them in carefully choreographed splendor while the orchestra fires up and …..

Well you get the picture, and it probably would be a helluva show, so long as they don't go Spiderman on it and get somebody hurt…

Pristine_ODummy September 21, 2011 at 2:40 am

Ping! And instantly, the world is transfused with shades of pink, while glitter cascades down on the OYB's little gay head.

LettucePrey September 20, 2011 at 3:32 pm

Jimmy has 35 tubs of ice cream. He eats 28. What does Jimmy have?

Diabetes. Jimmy has diabetes.

Radiotherapy® September 20, 2011 at 3:34 pm

I had Blue Balls once.

RedneckMuslin September 20, 2011 at 3:51 pm

They'll do that if you teabag ice cream.

BaldarTFlagass September 20, 2011 at 3:35 pm

I don't see what's so offensive. "Sweaty Balls" or "Itchy Sphincter" or "Suppurating Chancre" or something like that, maybe so.
All I can say to you, AFA, is "Rick Moranis."

baconzgood September 20, 2011 at 3:36 pm

fudge-covered rum balls.

Marcus Bachmann approved.

AlterNewt September 20, 2011 at 3:37 pm

"Not exactly what you want a child asking for at the supermarket."

Nosirree. "Now come on, mama's out of gummy bears."

mrblifil September 21, 2011 at 8:35 am

Supermarket's are dens of iniquitous depravity. The other day I saw a mother purchasing a zucchini of enormous girth, at least 14 inches long, with her children in tow, in broad daylight. I walked right over and made a point of telling her what a poor moral example she was setting, and then I asked if she would let me fuck her.

AlterNewt September 21, 2011 at 1:23 pm

That was you? Because that was my sister.

AlterNewt September 21, 2011 at 1:51 pm

She says "call me" .

Badonkadonkette September 20, 2011 at 3:37 pm

I think what AFA is trying to say is that Ben & Jerry's are shoving their Schweddy Balls down our throats.

baconzgood September 20, 2011 at 3:38 pm

Baconz on

Tee-Hee
" "
Overload.

AlterNewt September 20, 2011 at 3:49 pm

Kind of a "Tee-Hee" news day, isn't it?

eastcoastelite September 20, 2011 at 3:38 pm

I had no idea that flavors had the capability to be vulgar.

baconzgood September 20, 2011 at 3:40 pm

Aparently you've never had Cunt Shit Dick Spooge Pound Cake.

Dr_Zoidberg September 20, 2011 at 3:42 pm

It tastes like chicken.

baconzgood September 20, 2011 at 3:42 pm

It's made by Betty Cocker. YAGETIT YAGETIT.

LettucePrey September 20, 2011 at 3:41 pm

Good job, wingnuts. Protesting an ice cream flavor with a fucking lame petition to your illiterate disciples is a GUARANTEE that I am going to buy a few pints of Ben & Jerry's next time I go shopping. Grow a brain, morans.

elviouslyqueer September 20, 2011 at 3:41 pm

Oh for fuck's sake. Suck it, AFA. And by "suck it," I mean this.

Dr_Zoidberg September 20, 2011 at 3:41 pm

You know, I wish I had the kind of spare time these yahoos have to sit around and worry about nonsense.

Biel_ze_Bubba September 20, 2011 at 5:40 pm

I bet these dumbfucks are very suspicious of Smucker's jams, but they just can't quite put their finger on what it is that bugs them.

metamarcisf September 20, 2011 at 3:42 pm

Dog Vomit. Monkey Puss. With a name like this, it has to be good.

CapeClod September 20, 2011 at 3:52 pm

Mangled Baby Ducks.

metamarcisf September 20, 2011 at 3:54 pm

Belushi: "10,000 nuns and orphans"

Curtin: "What's so bad about that?"

Belushi: "They were all eaten by rats!"

BaldarTFlagass September 20, 2011 at 3:55 pm

Frozen Essence of Carbuncle.

Steverino247 September 20, 2011 at 3:56 pm

With a name like "Ten Thousand Dead Nuns and Orphans" it has to be good.

metamarcisf September 20, 2011 at 4:12 pm

Yessir, that's mighty good jam!

OzoneTom September 20, 2011 at 5:09 pm

No love for "Fluckers" or "Painful Rectal Itch"?

Boehneriffic September 20, 2011 at 5:53 pm

The ghost of Michael O'Donoghue is smiling big time right now.

metamarcisf September 20, 2011 at 6:13 pm

What would Ed Sullivan sound like if red hot needles were plunged into his eyes?

Lionel[redacted]Esq September 20, 2011 at 8:57 pm

I always love "The Little Engine that Died." One of the all time great comic writers:
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76imrmike.phtml

BaldarTFlagass September 20, 2011 at 3:42 pm

I think I've only ever seen Ben and Jerry's in pints. Like those fat AFA fucks would ever buy anything less than a half-gallon or a 55-gallon drum of ice cream. Definitely an empty threat here.

CapeClod September 20, 2011 at 3:50 pm

Nor are they ever going to spend anything more that $2.00 for a half gallon of something that tastes like freezer frost.

GhostBuggy September 20, 2011 at 4:01 pm

Or those gallon (?) buckets – actual buckets! – of ice cream at the end of the freezer aisle with an inch-thick layer of frost on them, with names like VANILLA and CHOCOLATE.

finallyhappy September 20, 2011 at 6:36 pm

Correct- only pints at the grocery store. Not sure if the scoop shop can give you any larger containers but given the scoop shop prices, no AFAer is even buying a scoop, much less a pint there.

DaRooster September 20, 2011 at 3:44 pm

"Good times…"
"Mmm Hmm… Good times"

Lucidamente1 September 20, 2011 at 3:44 pm

God help us when they find out about Chef's chocolate salty balls.

Lionel[redacted]Esq September 20, 2011 at 3:52 pm

Say everybody have you seen my balls
They are big and salty and brown
If you ever need a quick pick me up
Just stick my balls in your mouth

AutomaticPilot September 20, 2011 at 3:46 pm

Oh yes, by all means, send Ben & Jerry's an "email letter," whatever that is…

babyeinstein September 20, 2011 at 3:46 pm

Oh suck my balls AFA. Those shrieking pearl-clutchers at One Million Moms boycott over shit like an ad featuring "a male rebelling against officers and authority in a riot." I'm not making that up.
http://www.onemillionmoms.com/IssueDetail.asp?id=

elviouslyqueer September 20, 2011 at 3:57 pm

Evidently the "OMM" missed this little part about Jesus getting a mite bit feisty in the temple and doing a bit of rebelling against authority his own damn self:

John 2: 13-19

When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”

drrty_martini September 20, 2011 at 5:32 pm

Silly! That part was written before Jesus turned into the Invisible Hand.

GhostBuggy September 20, 2011 at 4:03 pm

That's great, especially the demand that Levi make an ad that's less confusing. Somewhere out there, a million moms sit befuddled by jean commercials.

Pristine_ODummy September 21, 2011 at 3:23 am

Proving once again that they have way too much time on their hands and way too few brains to utilize said time well.

Pristine_ODummy September 21, 2011 at 3:22 am

In all fairness (much as I hate being fair to these repressed oppressors, they were concerned about the images of lightly clad women more than of a riotous young male.

OTOH, they are waxing wroth because it offends their Christian morals — something that, apparently, their multiply-married-and-divorced legislators fail to do. Their complete lack of reason or logic, combined with their hypocrisy and nannyism leads me to believe you are justified in asking them to apply their pieholes to the far more constructive task of sucking your balls.

Lionel[redacted]Esq September 20, 2011 at 3:46 pm

"Dad, what does Schweddy Balls taste like?"

"Ask your Mother, son, ask your mother."

JustPixelz September 20, 2011 at 3:47 pm

If they object to innuendo in food name, I assume they are preparing press releases objecting to:
-wieners
-breasts
-melon balls
-succotash
-rump roast
-asparagus
-fruit
-texas toast
-twinkies
-chik-fellate

Tundra Grifter September 20, 2011 at 3:50 pm

Bone-in ham.

And, of course, the classic dark meat.

["Texas toast?"]

Tundra Grifter September 20, 2011 at 3:54 pm

Edith Bunker had about a five-minute riff on this, starting with "chicken breast."

Let's go back to Victorian times, when table legs had little cloth skirts.

Pristine_ODummy September 21, 2011 at 3:27 am

They were NOT called "legs," they were "limbs!" Honestly. Such shocking language. And I do believe there are *ladies,* well-brought-up young ladies of the most exquisite sensibility and tender sentiment, perusing these very pages.

Tundra Grifter September 21, 2011 at 8:04 pm

And those ladies don't perspire (let alone sweat – even in the throes of the dirty deed) – they glow.

Pristine_ODummy September 21, 2011 at 8:43 pm

Well-brought-up young ladies do not engage, sir, in dirty deeds. Although they have been known on occasion, as required, to close their eyes and think of God and country.

DahBoner September 20, 2011 at 7:49 pm

Don't forget Funbags, Moo moos and of course, Chesticles…

Pristine_ODummy September 21, 2011 at 3:25 am

You forgot the melon *ballers*!

Srsly, some hicks were recently arrested for trying to copulate with melons in some farmer's field. (Not that that's what a melon baller is, but where did they get the idea that someone should stick their dick in a fucking melon?)

SheriffRoscoe September 20, 2011 at 3:47 pm

The AFA simply does not care for the invisible hand of the free market scooping up mouthfulls of schweddy balls.

CapeClod September 20, 2011 at 3:48 pm

And they will releasing a companion flavor, "Oily Taint."

BaldarTFlagass September 20, 2011 at 3:56 pm

On tap for next year: Mungy Bunghole.

Monsieur_Grumpe September 20, 2011 at 3:48 pm

I was more offended when 21 Flavors came out with Black Liquorice and Dill Pickle ice cream.

Lionel[redacted]Esq September 20, 2011 at 3:48 pm

I'm just waiting for the AFA's boycott of meat, when they find out that meat is also a double entendre.

AlterNewt September 20, 2011 at 3:56 pm

They probably think a double entendre is a second helping.

Chichikovovich September 20, 2011 at 4:10 pm

Ya say the meat is double tender? Whoopee! Just the way I like it.

DaRooster September 20, 2011 at 3:49 pm

"I am so sick of people doing things that I don't like. But… instead of just going on my merry way and letting everyone decide what they like… I will protest and throw a fit and cry until the whole world sees what a good person I am."

Shut up!

Tundra Grifter September 20, 2011 at 3:51 pm

I hope they never visit Hoover Dam and hear the Park Ranger tell all those dam jokes.

Your eight- and ten-year old kids will ride that one for a month afterwards.

DashboardBuddha September 20, 2011 at 7:21 pm

Frankly my dear, I don't give a reservoir.

johnnyzhivago September 20, 2011 at 3:52 pm

So, by this logic American pastime of Football is probably nothing but some sort of horrible foot fetish thing?

JustPixelz September 20, 2011 at 3:53 pm

The flavor I would object to — if B&Js made it — is "Perry's Policies". I don't think I could stomach it.

dekkoparsnip2 September 20, 2011 at 4:11 pm

To be fair, it would taste like lube and used chewing tobacco, so I don't think the name would be the issue.

DashboardBuddha September 20, 2011 at 7:22 pm

i bet that flavor would be made with Real Orphan Tears.

RedneckMuslin September 20, 2011 at 3:53 pm

"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".

Like any of these religious fucks would buy anything from these hippy atheists.

hagajim September 20, 2011 at 4:06 pm

Hell – the hippie aetheists sold out to Unilever a few years back.

Chichikovovich September 20, 2011 at 4:16 pm

Unilever – that's one o' them your-a-peein' outfits innit?

metamarcisf September 20, 2011 at 3:53 pm

The e-mail letter I sent through the OMM site was a slightly edited version of their template, but effective, nonetheless.

mumbly_joe September 20, 2011 at 7:09 pm

Oh no, metamarc! You're in the positives now! This is a sad day for wingnut-baiters everywhere.

Lionel[redacted]Esq September 20, 2011 at 3:54 pm

You know, to celebrate the AFA thinking about how badly our children will be corrupted by the name of a pint of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, I say we chip in and give them a pearl necklace.

Beowoof September 20, 2011 at 4:08 pm

They would love it but would swallow the evidence

Radiotherapy® September 20, 2011 at 3:54 pm

They should boycott any italian restaurant serving Pasta Fagioli.

smokefilleddoommate September 21, 2011 at 3:27 am

I usually order the Gabbagool.

DaRooster September 20, 2011 at 3:56 pm

"Our fans get the humor.”

There ya go.

Mumbletypeg September 20, 2011 at 3:58 pm

These AFA perps need to get their heads back in the gutter. WHere were they when my tender young brain was being warped by such nasty commercials asking "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Blow-Pop®, Tootsie?"

Radiotherapy® September 20, 2011 at 4:39 pm

Mos Def.

Biel_ze_Bubba September 20, 2011 at 5:45 pm

"I'd love to be an Oscar Mayer weiner" always sounded a bit creepy to me.

LesBontemps September 20, 2011 at 4:03 pm

It seems that offending customers has become an annual tradition for Ben & Jerry’s

By, uh, giving their customers what they want to buy? Why does AFA hate capitalism (and Capitalist Jebus, I guess)?

finallyhappy September 20, 2011 at 6:43 pm

I am only offended by the cost of a scoop at the B&J scoop shop and also when they don't have coffee,coffee, buzz, buzz, buzz(my favorite flavor- not found in pint containers!).

MissTaken September 20, 2011 at 4:03 pm

This is shameful. There are few things I enjoy more than licking an ice cream cone round and round with my tongue while it slowly drips down my mouth. To associate this pleasurable experience with balls is just vulgar.

SorosBot September 20, 2011 at 5:16 pm

Um, I think I need to go clean my pants now.

Steverino247 September 20, 2011 at 7:02 pm

And now you know why I follow you.

From a respectful distance, of course.

MissTaken September 20, 2011 at 7:12 pm

Ah shucks, you're gonna make me blush!

Pristine_ODummy September 21, 2011 at 3:33 am

I am very excited by this practice, please show me more.

teebob2000 September 20, 2011 at 4:03 pm

My version of the online form letter from the nutcases at onemillionmoms.com:

Dear Mr. Greenwood:

I am greatly entertained by Ben & Jerry's decision to use what some WITH NO SENSE OF HUMOR WHATSOEVER MIGHT CONSIDER TO BE tasteless names for your flavors of ice cream.

I am requesting that all of the Schweddy Balls ice cream you can make be distributed. Also, I highly recommend you continue by producing another batch with this name or any other offensive names of your choosing, or I will no longer be able to purchase products from Ben & Jerry's.

I look forward to hearing from you regarding my concern.

Keep up the fight, guys!!!

Billmatic September 20, 2011 at 4:04 pm

Gays, fats, and Arec Bawr'win are ruining this country.

hagajim September 20, 2011 at 4:06 pm

I'm not certain how TruckNutz got passed over.

Beowoof September 20, 2011 at 4:06 pm

Something tells me that many AFA members taste this particular flavor on a regular basis and are now trying to cover for their love of sweaty balls.

baconzgood September 20, 2011 at 4:06 pm

"has released controversial ice creams" 5 words that I never thought I'd see strung together.

finallyhappy September 20, 2011 at 6:44 pm

I thought wasabi ice cream was controversial- but I just didn't eat it

DashboardBuddha September 20, 2011 at 4:07 pm

If you find yourself bitching about an ice cream flavor your relatives should make sure there's an adequate crafts program at the home.

Rolenthegreat September 20, 2011 at 4:08 pm

How many children really ask their parents for Ben & Jerrys? My parents were way to cheap for that shit.
Everyone knows the only people who buy B&J are menstruating or emotionally distraught women. And lets be honest those ladies need all the balls they can get.

finallyhappy September 20, 2011 at 6:45 pm

My daughter used to ask for Phish Food.

Rotundo_ September 20, 2011 at 6:52 pm

Mine is downright dangerous around the stuff. Keep your hands away from the carton during feeding time. The apple don't fall too far from the tree…

Dumbedup September 20, 2011 at 4:21 pm

Hmmm…Bachman Brittle (completely nuts), Pecan Perry (secretly gay…something). I'll leave it to the hippies in Waterbury, this is harder than it looks.

Pristine_ODummy September 21, 2011 at 3:35 am

DinglePerry — made with lots and lots of little blueberries.

savethispatient September 20, 2011 at 4:21 pm

Dear Ben & Jerry's, please publish all correspondence you receive from these loons, in all its ungrammatical glory.

Tundra Grifter September 20, 2011 at 4:26 pm

At their next convention, they probably aren't going to be playing any tunes by Jelly Roll Morton.

Redhead September 20, 2011 at 4:29 pm

For a group whose leaders are so obsessed with (underage) men parts and sticking in them in mouths and other holes, this group seems AWFULLY scared of ice cream named after balls.

Is it because they think teh ghey secks is supposed to taste like shame and tears, and not chocolatey goodness?

Bonzos_Bed_Time September 20, 2011 at 4:31 pm

Next thing you know they're going to boycott AC/DC!

bureaucrap September 20, 2011 at 4:36 pm

All of these AFA-types should get in their Trucknutz-equipped pickups and drive up to Vermont to tell the world that they're never going to buy another B/J again.

Gleem_McShineys September 20, 2011 at 4:39 pm

This is quite a serious matter. Think of the harm to the innocent children!

Those children will receive terrible beatings when they ask for Schweddy Balls and their AFA fathers clobber them sensless, screaming "THAT IS OUR LITTLE SECRET!"

You can understand the concern.

starfanglednut September 21, 2011 at 10:36 am

It's funny cause it's true!

Thurman Munster IV September 20, 2011 at 4:47 pm

Schweddy Balls, the Choice of Teabaggers everywhere

BarackMyWorld September 20, 2011 at 4:48 pm

The AFA can lick my balls, Schweddy or not.

Tommmcattt September 20, 2011 at 4:56 pm

Oooh, all four members of the American Family Association are going to boycott Ben and Jerry's. Terrifying!

fletc3her September 20, 2011 at 5:07 pm

They're just mad because this is going to sell so well around congress.

jus_wonderin September 20, 2011 at 5:14 pm

Does the AFA ever Girlcott anything? Me thinks the AFA has a preference for boys.

Biel_ze_Bubba September 20, 2011 at 6:01 pm

With luck, amusement at this bit of wingnut lunacy will go viral, and the AFA will have provided B&J with thirty million dollars worth of publicity for Schweddy Balls ice cream.

I know I'm going to be looking for it now!

mumbly_joe September 20, 2011 at 6:19 pm

I dunno, I think it's a dated reference, but I'm hardly offended by the name, and considerably less so by Hubby Hubby, which was celebrating a tremendous incremental step along the arc of justice for this country.

Of course, I just read an entire AFA press release without vomiting once, so I clearly have an extremely high threshold when it comes to offensive things.

ttommyunger September 20, 2011 at 7:02 pm

Once again, a mighty swing-and a miss! Do these closeted morons at AFA ever cease majoring on the minors? What next, a boycott of weiners, clams, kilbasa, nuts, people named Dick and tacos?

elfgoldsackring September 20, 2011 at 7:33 pm

But only fish ones.

DashboardBuddha September 20, 2011 at 7:02 pm

"It seems that offending customers has become an annual tradition for Ben & Jerry’s "

Whereas offending rational people is a daily tradition for fucksticks like you.

fletc3her September 20, 2011 at 7:08 pm

I think the tea baggers will mostly be mad that it doesn't take like actual balls, and they would know.

elfgoldsackring September 20, 2011 at 7:31 pm

Teabaggers who don't crave the taste of sweaty balls? Bish, please. Guess Moses wasn't the only basket case in de Nile (to put it in terms of a Bahbul story for ya.)

DahBoner September 20, 2011 at 7:45 pm

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.

You know what the world's most popular ice cream flavor is?

Plain ole' Vanilla.

As a White Person, I find this flavor name offensive and racist…

smokefilleddoommate September 21, 2011 at 3:36 am

Moms just need to tell their children to be aware the next time they drive themselves to the grocery store for ice cream…

It would be most advised to start a healthy ice cream conversation about 'Right Wing Schwing' the better flavor. After all, Right Wing Schwing includes rainbow gummy bears, blue diapers, lilywhite twinks and caramel double standards richly enveloped in a tasty Puritanical ribbon of batshit!

outragedcitizen September 21, 2011 at 7:31 am

How about a flavor called, "Santorum"?

mrblifil September 21, 2011 at 7:37 am

Take action. Suck my shweddy balls.

KeepFnThatChicken September 21, 2011 at 9:44 am

Nothing like a group of moralists who rationalize scientific ignorance for Jesus.

Buzz Feedback September 21, 2011 at 11:05 am

Come on. Everybody at AFA knows balls belong in your mouth.

MMathS September 21, 2011 at 11:27 am

Welp, if I wasn't going to buy this overpriced poison before, I sure as hell am going to now.

Ben & Jerry's should send the American Fuckwad Association a big thank you card.

notreelyhelping September 21, 2011 at 11:36 am

Honestly, these people have such filthy minds that they're an embarassment to people with filthy minds.

Polythene_Pam September 21, 2011 at 11:49 am

Oh, I like shopping with companies that honor tradition!

Neoyorquino September 21, 2011 at 3:45 pm

If you still have a carton of Hubby Hubby in the freezer, you can mix a few scoops in with this flavor and enjoy the taste of your Hubby's Schweddy Balls (fusion cuisine?).

Badtux September 21, 2011 at 10:49 pm

I want some salty nuts with my schweddy balls.

MiniMencken September 22, 2011 at 1:16 am

And don't let the AFA know the French have been munching on "pets de nonne" for centuries. (For you non-Francophone dogless liberals, the recipe is at: http://www.europeancuisines.com/France-Pets-De-So

Troglodeity September 22, 2011 at 2:38 pm

"What should YOU do with Schweddy Balls? Put 'em in your freezer at home!"

You're welcome, Ben & Jerry's.

Biel_ze_Bubba September 20, 2011 at 5:44 pm

AFA pantytwist madlibs!

metamarcisf September 20, 2011 at 11:53 pm

Great. Thanks!

Boehneriffic September 21, 2011 at 7:13 am

Mr. O'Donoghue was a huge influence on my sense of humor. From his National Lampoon days (magazine and radio hour), SNL and beyond. It explains why I am such a sick bastard. But funny, so I like to think.

Dashboard_Jesus September 22, 2011 at 4:00 pm

uh, that was supposed to be a joke, cuz of your teabag 'halo' and all…happy hunting, hope you find some Schweddy Balls before Xmas (it's gotta be worth it just to call up each store and ask if THEY have Schweddy balls! :)

Pristine_ODummy September 22, 2011 at 4:08 pm

Oh haha. You make the haha.

There's a beer in Wales called Brains, and I'm told the local louts think it's great fun to wander into the pub and ask their publican, "D'you have any Brains?"

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