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returntothepit >> discuss >> Ben and Jerry's Schweddy Balls Ice Cream by IllinoisEnemaBradness on Sep 7,2011 9:00pm
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toggletoggle post by IllinoisEnemaBradness at Sep 7,2011 9:00pm
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/0...-balls-ice-cream-flavor?sc=fb&cc=fp

We thought it would never happen. When we reported that comedian Ana Gasteyer had spilled the beans on a new Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor based on a Saturday Night Live skit that pokes fun at NPR, we thought it would never happen.
Schweddy Balls ice cream.
Ben & Jerry's

Schweddy Balls ice cream.

But we were wrong. Ben & Jerry's announced today that "Schweddy Balls" ice cream is on its way to store shelves across the country.

As we explained in June, "in case you don't get the reference, the skit is a hilarious commentary on NPR's, um, uniquely soothing sound. [Alec] Baldwin plays Pete Schweddy, a guest on a fake NPR show called Delicious Dish. Pete makes holiday treats like cheese balls, popcorn balls, rum balls and his famous Schweddy balls. The skit is an exercise in double entendres."

We talked to Ben & Jerry's spokesman Sean Greenwood and asked him, "What are you guys thinking?" We were imagining someone who's never seen the skit walking the grocery aisles and stumbling on the flavor.

Greenwood laughed.

"We've always been a company that has had a sense of humor," he said. Sometimes, he said, they spend time discussing serious business and other times "we just do fun."

"This is just plain silly," he said. And it tastes pretty good, he promised.

The flavor is made up of "vanilla ice cream with a hint of rum and is loaded with fudge covered rum balls and milk chocolate malt balls."

It'll be available for a limited time in about 30 percent of stores that carry Ben & Jerry's ice cream.



toggletoggle post by bobnomaamrooney at Sep 7,2011 10:32pm
Oh wow the least funny SNL skit gets an ice cream flavor named after it a decade after it aired.

Up next from Ben & Jerry's Ally McBeal's Dancing Baby Butterchip Crunch!



toggletoggle post by DestroyYouAlot  at Sep 7,2011 11:47pm
^ would



toggletoggle post by IllinoisEnemaBradness at Sep 8,2011 7:21am
least funny SNL clip? oooWhat?



toggletoggle post by ShadowSD  at Sep 8,2011 8:37am
Yeah, what about Ben & Jerry's Coffee Talk with Mike Myers in drag, that skit sucked and was the same thing everytime.

Really the fact is that both skits were pretty weak, as have been countless on SNL, along with countless mediocre skits, and countless really funny skits. Show's been on awhile.



toggletoggle post by DestroyYouAlot  at Sep 8,2011 12:29pm
would also drink Linda Richman brand coffee.



toggletoggle post by narkybark   at Sep 8,2011 12:37pm



toggletoggle post by annecox at Sep 23,2011 2:42am
Thank you for posting such interesting topic. Ben and Jerry's new product launch "Schweddy Balls" ice cream flavor, vanilla ice cream, a hint of rum, loaded with fudge covered rum balls and milk chocolate malt balls. The brand new flavor “Schweddy Balls” was titled after a “Saturday Evening Live” skit that features Alec Baldwin and pokes fun at National Public Radio (NPR). However, a parents' group has inexorably gotten angry over the ice cream flavor, and this group which is called One Million Moms is calling for Ben & Jerry's treat to be boycotted. Some consider it as shallow, on the contrary, others support the group. There are lot of reactions about this hot controversy, and this becomes a trending not only in the internet forums and blogs, but also in ordinary conversation. Now, what is your opinion about this issue? From what I know, this is not the first controversy faced by the company. One of the first protests against Ben & Jerry’s was in 1999, when Vermonters protested Ben & Jerry’s selling itself to Unilever, according to the New York Times. Well, I just hope that this will be solved soon.



toggletoggle post by FAIL TROLL at Sep 23,2011 7:55am
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