Ben & Jerry's may have made Saturday Night Live fans happy with the announcement of its newest ice cream flavor: Schweddy Balls (inspired by the classic 1998 sketch with Alec Baldwin and Molly Shannon). But a group of angry parents has no patience for the tongue-in-cheek flavor reference. In fact, this feisty group has even gone so far as to call for a boycott of Schweddy Balls ice cream because it thinks it's offensive and in bad taste.
And I for one can't help but AGREE!
It's very, very rare that I find myself on the same side as the group behind the boycott: One Million Moms. In fact, this might be the first time in the history of my conscious existence. (One Million Moms is an offshoot of the conservative American Family Association that rallies around many issues, including the recent boycott of Dancing With the Stars after it was announced that Chaz Bono would be involved.) But the group does make a good point with respect to the boycott of Schweddy Balls:
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.
As someone who appreciates food -- particularly ice cream -- I couldn't agree more. Ice cream isn't just innocent: It's lovely and magical and therapeutic after a bad day. Why in the world would we take something as marvelous as ice cream -- especially one that consists of vanilla ice cream with rum flavor, mixed with fudge-covered rum and milk chocolate malt balls -- and give it a horribly gross name no matter how clever?
I have a sense of humor and still I don't want to put Schweddy Balls into my mouth -- there I said it! Just because it's funny doesn't mean people will want to eat it. Sure, I'll watch the clip over and over again and laugh; but I'll be eating Chubby Hubby when I do it.
Do you think Schweddy Balls is offensive?
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if my son asked for that I think it would sound so adorable lol i wouldn't stop laughing
LOL! It looks good. I was basically going to say what jagamama0710 said. If you don't like a show/song/shirt/dress you have the freedom to not buy, watch or listen to it. Many of us don't care for Adolf Hitler but his book is available at my local library. I think that group of moms has way too much free time on their hands.
Oh Jesus. I called it. GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSES. If you don't like it, don't buy it. It's THAT SIMPLE. Quit bitching and moaning and ruining it for the rest of us who actually have a SENSE OF HUMOR.
This is JCPenney, round 2.
How do your kids even know what schweddy balls are? You mean you've take the time to explain to them that balls is a euphemism for testicles and that it's undesireable when they're schweddy? Because how else would they even understand it? It's ice cream. don't tell them what it means. The end.
Kids won't even get the double entendre of the name! It's ice cream! Get off your high horse and pull the stick out of your butt! Life is too short to be worrying about things like this. If you don't like it, don't buy it! Why would you want to force other people not to buy it because you don't care for the name?
It's just like Chaz Bono and the DWTS controversy. Kids won't know he used to be a woman unless someone tells them, and I don't know very many kids who are watching DWTS.
Kids won't know the inside joke of Schweddy Balls unless they're told!
I don't let my children watch "crap" on tv or listen to things that are inappropriate for their ages either (4 and 1) but here's the thing....I'm not going to be rushing to the store and pointing it out to my children and say "look kids! It's schweddy balls ice cream! it's a joke, get it? it sounds like sweaty balls? your dad has sweaty balls sometimes." Please. I think it's hilarious...FOR MYSELF.
^ I love this so much!