No thanks.
Posted on 09/02/2009 9:17:52 AM PDT by markomalley
Some of my best friends are gay. Suspiciously large numbers, it has sometimes been suggested to me. But that’s OK, I’m cool with that. What my friends get up to in the privacy of their own homes - or, indeed, the scary back room of their local boite - is very much their own affair. And if they want to get married (Hell-ooo! Why sacrifice the single greatest benefit of being gay?), well I’m probably OK with that too. I don’t believe that homosexuality is a lifestyle choice so I guess it’s only fair that gay men and women too should enjoy their inalienable right to be shackled to the same person, on pain of massive alimony payments, till the day they die. (Hat tip: William C Fisher; The Corner)
But here’s where I draw the line. I do NOT want my freaking ice cream tub to tell me gay marriage is a great and wonderful thing. Which is more or less what Ben & Jerry’s has done with one of its flavours. Or flavors, if you will. (See pic)
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But I can tell you now there’s something worse out there than Ben & Jerry’s. Much, much worse. So bad in fact that I vow never ever again to buy it for my kids even though it tastes quite nice and offers reasonable value. I refer to the horror that is Mackies ice cream, which now uses its website to disseminate propaganda for the wind industry and which decorates its tubs with scenes of nature dotted with wind turbines - as if to suggest that these monstrosities have become an integral, nay even a desirable part of the British landscape.
“You can feel extra good about enjoying Mackies ice cream because it is made with renewable energy” claims their
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
No thanks.
Glories & gay in the same sentence...ugh
I wonder if they thought about that . . . .
I think they are probably a lot more interested in generating revenue, than they are educating you about gays.
I can’t possibly boycott Ben & Jerry more than I do now, given their vocal and economic support for Mumia Abu-Jamal. Not “anti-death penalty”, which is a position I can understand while disagreeing, but rather “pro-Mumia” which is disgusting and an abomination.
WTH is that on the container? Fudge filled holes? LOL!
Nor do I want my government telling me gay marriage is a great and wonderful thing, but they do.
Better safe than sorry - I have not seen any scientific tests to prove this is false... :)
Their favorite ice cream is a half gallon of Fudge packed into a one quart container!
Fudge and peanut butter? Wow. You seriously can’t make this stuff up!
Well, we should have been suspicious of something called “Ben & Jerry’s” all along. Why wasn’t it called “Ben and Shirly’s”?
Now on my boycott list.
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are still the same hippies today that they were in the 60’s & 70’s.
Everything that I love...they hate. And everything they love...I hate. Such as this...
Looks like it has some sort of pretzel "sticks" covered in "fudge."
Why didn’t they just call the flavors ‘Fudge Packer’ or ‘Hershey Highway’? /s
Who's surprised? Politics is 24/7 to these guys. If it isn't gay marriage it's the whales, the ozone layer, or the polar bears treading water. Make them spend a single day without politics and their heads explode. Not that there's anything wrong with that...
B&J is substandard anyway. Only HD for me.
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