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AFA Boycott, Complains About Ben & Jerry’s Schweddy Balls

Posted by: Bridgette P. LaVictoire on September 20, 2011.

The verdict is already in that the new ice cream from Ben & Jerry’s called Schweddy Balls is not exactly the best out there. It is vanilla ice cream with malt balls in it. Of course, the American Family Association and its affiliate OneMillionMoms cannot stand to see Ben & Jerry not have a winning ice cream flavor. So, of course, they have called for it to be boycotted.

The flavor gets its name from a Saturday Night Live skit featuring Alec Baldwin, Ana Gasteyer and Molly Shannon.

The group stated “The vulgar new flavor has turned something as innocent as ice cream into something repulsive.”

Wait…didn’t they say the same thing about Ben & Jerry’s Hubby Hubby ice cream?

They want their people to tell Ben & Jerry’s to “refrain from producing another batch with this name or any other offensive names or you will no longer be able to purchase their products.” Well, given their clientele, they would probably start offending people if they named an ice cream after AFA’s resident blithering hater Bryan Fischer. Might we recommend Fascist Fischer Flambe? Red Hots combined with cinnamon ice cream.

In total, they wrote:

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.”

Yep, they are really going to get a lot of people to complain, huh?

Press Release Via Right Wing Watch.