I know that precedent has most of the threads about “patriotic” nomenclature for comestables placed in the BBQ Pit, but this one is so bizarre it’s hard to get all bilious about it.
“I Hate The French Vanilla” and “Iraqi Road” are already available, but it appears that there is some delay in getting the “Cowardly German Chocolate” to market.
*Celyn, ya gotta understand that seeing how much it pisses off liberals makes the product’s target consumer want to buy it more! A very clever marketing approach…
What I find funny is that they claim to have contacted “one of America’s premier producers of gourmet ice cream” to produce their product, and when you actually go to the order form, you see “the name ‘M&I Seafood Manufacturing Inc.’ will appear on the shipping label”.
Obviously, this is some new premier producer of gourmet ice cream I hadn’t yet discovered. Shrimp Ripple, anyone?
And uhm, isn’t seafood harvested, and not manufactured?
According to their General Inquiry section, they’re for real.
Am I the only one who doesn’t really want to deal with political views in every aspect of my life? Sheesh, I don’t need to make political statements when I go to the store. And I sure wouldn’t spend $20 a gallon on ice cream!
I’m a liberal and the only thing that would really piss me off about this product is if, after shelling out good money for it, I found out it tasted like frozen crap. In fact, judging from the ingredients, it doesn’t seem to be much better from the typical cheap low-end ice cream you can find at any story at a much cheaper price.
I’m always annoyed when companies try to pitch their products as more politically correct or (in the case of conservatives) patriotically correct than their competitors because it usually means the product itself isn’t that good. When it comes to ice cream, tastebuds have no ideology. Whatever you have to say about Ben’s and Jerry’s political beliefs, the reason their ice cream sells is because, to many people regardless of political persuasion, it’s a damn good ice cream. After getting publicity for selling itself as the only ice cream for all true God-and-country, French-hating, Clinton-despising conservatives, Star Spangled Ice Cream’s ultimate success will depend upon whether the product is simply any good or not.