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Ben & Jerry's apologizes for Irish upset over Black & Tan

They obviously meant harm in naming their (totally incredibly delicious) ice cream that. It's not like "Black & Tan" is known in America as a drink or anything, no way.

Due to this outrage, Ben & Jerry's has shelved plans for another alcohol-themed flavor, "The Fucking Overly-Sensitive Irish Whiners," which would taste of ale and potatoes, with chocolate bites shaped like pots of gold.*

*I'm so Irish, I was born drunk and sunburned, so don't even start with me.

Comments

[nothingjerk.livejournal.com]

Thats almost as offensive as Ben n Jerry's NY Plane Vannilla or the Oklamhoma City Berry Burst

These guys are just plain sick!!!

[andmydog.livejournal.com]

"The Fucking Overly-Sensitive Irish Whiners," which would taste of ale and potatoes, with chocolate bites shaped like pots of gold.

I would totally buy this, just to flaunt my rich dirt poor fucking cultural heritage.

[cheekybaby.livejournal.com]

*snicker* I sent that story to a bunch of people earlier today. :)

[dawning-star.livejournal.com]

I'm so Irish, I was born drunk and sunburned, so don't even start with me.

For the win!

I always tell my friends I only have to think of sunshine to get burned.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

I come in two shades: white and red. If my veins stood out more, I'd almost be patriotic.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

I'm late to the party! But gmail just added this as my news link at the top of the page!

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

I would totally buy it, but keep it deep in my freezer, just as a novelty. I don't think I could fathom ale-and-potato flavored ice cream.

[cheekybaby.livejournal.com]

I was bored earlier and skimming about on Yahoo news. Dumbest thing ever. But a damn fine ice cream. I never thought stout-flavored would work out....

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

I've had this comment window open for the past 5 minutes, trying to think of something as equally offensive, but I'm afraid I have to let you win, you bastard!

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

I haven't had a chance to be bored until this afternoon. But man, I always miss the good stuff!

[nothingjerk.livejournal.com]

Its not about winning or losing its about offending the most people possible.
:-)

[prettykate.livejournal.com]

Whatever dude, you are and AMERICAN and so am I, and that is the equivalent of calling something Osama Bin Strawberry over here. It's not "whining", Britian did some fucked up shit in Ireland, like most countries do when they colonize. I don't think they are crybabies at all, ESP. because they put it in a little green container and aimed the marketing that way. What idiots!I'm sure Ben and Jerry's didn't mean it, but they should have researched it better.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

I think it's the equivalent of calling something Osama Bin Strawberry if, for example, there is some tree somewhere called an Osama Bin that grows strawberries. But Black & Tan meant the drink, and it's also an antiquated term for a type of dog, so it's not as if that's the ONLY thing a Black & Tan could refer to. A Black & Tan is a type of drink - it's an ice cream flavor that aims to recreate the drink. It is meant to be nothing else, and I think it's silly when people overreact to damn ice cream. This isn't like calling a flavor "Guantanamo Almond", it's like....well, dammit, I can't think of something offhand that's an innocuous food/drink name AND can also refer to something nasty that happened, but it's like that and I gotta do Denver.

[pyrobovaphiliac.livejournal.com]

Columbine Coffee Crunch? Vanilla ice cream with coffee flavored bullets and a strawberry syrup swirl!

[nothingjerk.livejournal.com]

Osama Bin Strawberry, sounds yummy

[phanatic.livejournal.com]

Enh. The drink predates the RICRF by a couple of decades, at least; bartenders were pouring black and tans in pubs in the 19th century.

So it would be like calling something Osama Bin Strawberry over here, if we'd had that drink for the past 30 years, and then some guy named himself after it before blowing up a bunch of buildings.

[phanatic.livejournal.com]

I can't think of something offhand that's an innocuous food/drink name AND can also refer to something nasty that happened

A Bloody (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_%28cocktail%29) Mary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_I_of_England).

[phanatic.livejournal.com]

Oh. For that matter:

Kamikaze (vodka, lime juice, triple sec, also a bunch of Japs who flew their planes into ships)
Captain Kidd (cognac, dark rum, creme de cacoa, also a a pirate)
Irish Car Bomb (guiness, Irish cream, Jameson)
Depth Charge (calvados, cognac, lemon juice, grenadine)

[prettykate.livejournal.com]

Reagrdless, I think it's pretty fucking stupid of Ben and Jerry's if it has that conotation now! Where the Hell is the PR team? Esp. if they are packaging it for St. Pat's! That's dumb!

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

See, I didn't want to mention Irish Car Bomb, because that's obviously something very violent. It's not as if there were a darling little village called Irish Car Bomb, and they invented a drink, and then terrorists claimed the name for themselves and started blowing shit up. A Black and Tan is a drink that's - surprise - black and tan. That it happens to be the slang for a violent group during the independence war is an unfortunate coincidence. But the drink didn't originate BECAUSE of the group. They both existed independent of each other.

Whatever, you are only saying this because you are protestant! :)

[prettykate.livejournal.com]

DUDE, like I said, it DOESN'T MATTER. Maybe Osama Bin Strawberry was a bad example, but if Ben and Jerry's is going to make an Irish-themed group of ice creams they had BETTER research a little better than that! That was the icing on the fucking... cream, and had they not put it in little green cups then maybe people wouldn't be as pissed off. I also think they might have been hip to this, and that's why they only released it here. DUMB.

[phanatic.livejournal.com]

Heck, given that the drink predates the group, it's possible that they took the name *from* the drink.

Nobody bitches about people drinking kamikazes. Or if they do, the world recognizes them as foul-spirited bastards and moves on.

ICE CREAM IS SERIOUS BUSINESS, KATE!!!!111

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

I see your point that if they were releasing it as some great Irish thing, perhaps somebody should've checked it out. However, I think that maybe no one thought there WAS anything to check out. This isn't Irish Car Bomb flavored ice cream, it's black and tan, named because the drink is black and tan. So poor judgement on their part, but I understand how the idea of research never entered anyone's minds.

It is REALLY good, though. Seriously. I had my doubts, but it's delicious, and ice cream by any other name would be just as good.

Re: Whatever, you are only saying this because you are protestant! :)

[phanatic.livejournal.com]

C'mon, these are the *Irish* we're talking about. Notre Dame has a mascot which perpetuates the stereotype that the Irish are a bunch of drunken hooligans, and the Irish *love* that fuckin' school!

There's no black school with a big-dicked nappy-headed mascot. There's no Southern school featuring some inbred Jed as its mascot. Arizona State does not feature an illegal immigrant as a school symbol. But the Irish *love* Notre Dame. Who is it that's getting pissed over this ice cream? The article mentions *one* guy on "www.junkfoodblog.com," and I sincerely doubt that any guy posting on "junkfoodblog.com" has opinions that are in any way representative of a population larger than the one that lives in his basement.

[phanatic.livejournal.com]

Hey, can you get on Gtalk? I wanna figure out what's happening this weekend.