ACTION ALERT: Ben and Jerry's Offensive Schwetty Balls

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http://onemillionmoms.com/IssueDetail.asp?id=422

Ben & Jerry's Tasteless Ice Cream Flavors

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.

[Akala]

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[lennedsay]

Disgusting.

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I hate malt balls.

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[Akala]

especially the chewy ones you get every once in a while...there are always a few per box tho.

Disgusting.

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I hate malt balls.

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you crazy

[Mr. Gundam]

Heading to the store right now so I can get these balls in mah mouf.

[Human Snorenado]

It's a limited batch only available in certain places.  Haven't been able to find it yet in Podunk, NC.

[Mr. Gundam]

The Whole Foods by my house had it. Will be enjoying some balls in a bit.

[Positive Touch]

Disgusting.

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I hate malt balls.

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racist

[Mr. Gundam]

Yum yum ice cream. Needs more malt balls, though. They're incredibly crunchy and awesome.

[Barry Egan]

This sounds like a pretty awesome flavor.

[chronovore]

No joke, I can sit down and eat malted balls until I vomit.

There are no malted balls in Japan that I've found, so I bought a carton last time I was stateside... and did eat them until I nearly puked. Now... I'm not so fond of them. And I've reigned in my desire for chocolate-covered raisins so they don't suffer the same fate.

As for the OP, good grief, it's a good thing that everything in the world is so PEACHY DORY, what with peace in the Middle East, terrorism defeated at last, and corruption gone from local government in the same stroke that eliminated the recession, that we can just relax and worry about what people are naming ice cream.

Whew!

[Cerveza mas fina]

Ill take action by emailing the PR lady when these balls will make over the aylantic.

[Joe Molotov]

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[Cheebo]

I wonder what these moms would think of the SNL sketch the ice cream is named after.

[Mr. Gundam]

No joke, I can sit down and eat malted balls until I vomit.

There are no malted balls in Japan that I've found, so I bought a carton last time I was stateside... and did eat them until I nearly puked. Now... I'm not so fond of them. And I've reigned in my desire for chocolate-covered raisins so they don't suffer the same fate.

Not even Costco? I heard they carry pretty much the same stuff as the ones in the states.

[chronovore]

They don't have the same stuff as the USA, but there's a lot of overlap. They have bulk Japanese stuff primarily, though they have quite a bit of import goods as well. They DO have chocolate covered raisins, for which I'm thankful. Never seen malted milk balls there though.

My favorite things from CostCo are the massive hunks of cheddar and bleu cheese, as well as organic peanut butter.

[Trent Dole]

One million moms
WOW

[Joe Molotov]

I wonder what these moms would think of the SNL sketch the ice cream is named after.

They're not fans.