Political Ice Cream
It’s no secret Mita and I are big Ben and Jerry’s fans. We’ve even considered moving to Vermont and getting jobs with B&J, especially since one of their employee benefits is three pints a day of your favorite flavor. Hmmm, that’s three balanced meals free, is it not?
Well look’s like our fav ice cream maker has stubbed their toe a little bit on a political stumbling block. I really thought that ice cream could be truly international and above politics, but seemingly not any more in this age of rabid ‘I’m offendedism’, *sigh*. It’s a month since St Patrick?s Day which the Irish and the rest of the world celebrated with little note. But some reporter with nothing much to write about has gone back into Steve’s Junk Food blog to look at a string of comments (mostly from “brave” anonymous comments (ever notice how the loudest mouths are the most anonymous … gotta love the ‘Net)), apparently just to dreg up what these loud mouths were ranting about and give the maudlin complaints credibility.
The is no argument that the “Black and Tans”, a slang name for the Royal Irish Constabulary, were responsible for many reprehensible acts in Ireland many years ago. (more here for history buffs). But there’s also no argument that the ‘Black and Tan’ mixture of Guinness Stout and Harp Ale is an extremely popular drink in England, Ireland and the US.
The Reuter’s article claims that Ben & Jerry’s issued an apology, I don’t see it in writing after a cursory look at their web site and I am not going to look further. How nice it would be if everything didn’t offend someone. I think I’ll cool off with a glass of orange juice. Ooops, does Minute Maid know about this?
Perhaps we’ll have to refer to the juice as amber and not Orange, after all the Orangemen were on one side of a very nasty religious rebellion and someone might be easily offended….
