Ben and Jerry's Celebrates Gay Marriage in Vermont
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Same-sex marriage is legal in Vermont as of today and to celebrate, Ben & Jerry's has renamed its Chubby Hubby ice cream flavor "Hubby Hubby" for the month.
In April, the Green State became the fourth in the nation to allow gays and lesbians to marry.
"From the very beginning of our 30 year history, we have supported equal rights for all people," Walt Freese, Ben & Jerry's CEO, said in a statement. "The legalization of marriage for gay and lesbian couples in Vermont is certainly a step in the right direction and something worth celebrating with peace, love and plenty of ice cream."
But the move by Ben & Jerry's is largely a symbolic one. There are no plans to produce pints of ice cream with the Hubby Hubby label.
Sean Greenwood, a spokesman for the company, told the Boston Herald it takes 18 months to revise a product label.
Hubby Hubby sundaes, though, will be sold at Vermont Ben & Jerry's all month long.
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Ben & Jerry's has long been a supporter of gay rights, so this doesn't surprise me.
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the statement is nice, however i dont see why ben and jerry even bothered doctoring an image if they arent going to use it. Regardless of the time it would take to print it, if they arent going to release it to the public to show their support for the amendment then its pretty much an utterly useless gesture, kind of like vow renewal, or voting
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I smell apathy!!!! I will take any gesture made in good faith!!! We need all the exposure and publicity we can garner from companies like Ben & Jerry's. They have always been a leader in equal rights for all!!!
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im not apathetic, i just dont beg for scraps. just out of curiosity where did you find this proposed package? i ask because if it was on their website then its even more useless than i originally thought. however if it was a full page ad taken out in the NY times then i admit i may have made the statement in error.
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Hubby Hubby tastes so good
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Hubby Hubby tastes so good
Love it.Ok, that answers one question. The one I want the answer to is "What's in it?"
If I were making it, I wouldn't just throw things in at random, this type of thing deserves meaning.
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Since it's a guy-guy thing, it needs nuts, that are not real nuts. I'd go for peanuts, aka goober peas.
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In the interests of public decency, let's keep the nuts under wraps, like Glosettes
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For diversity, lets include yogurt and chocolate around the peanuts shells. I can't think of the proper melt-in-your-mouth coatings to specifically represent other ethnic groups, Of course, one could use different darknesses of chocolate, and yogurt can be mixed up with lemon, cinnamon, plain, or heavy vanilla…
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For the Rainbow Flag, and in case I left out anyone above, let's wrap our coated peanuts in colourful candy shells.
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For moral fibre, crunchiness, and to ensure long life and regularity, let's throw in some bran, Not as flakes, but the twig-style of All-Bran Cereal
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For fairy-tale weddings, let's add a strip of caramel or butterscotch ribbon. A yellow brick road of flavour
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For even more nuts-not-nuts for the other groom, let's include a ribbon of peanut butter.
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Of course, the base ice cream should be white, for purity, even if it's only in the ice cream.
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I would not be so naive as to suggest anything related to cherrys. Let's just not go there.
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Finally, it should be available in at least 3 different sizes, all the same thickness, but different diameters, so it can be stacked like the tiers of a wedding cake
I'm not sure what do to on the girl-girl side, but I have a name: Here comes the Brides.
There's no way I would be so offensive as to suggest something fishy, but to keep up with the old/new/borrowed/blue thing, I'd go with a French Vanilla base, and blue-coloured bran pellets. French Vanilla for the old, and while the bran is borrowed from the men's flavour, it's also a new ice cream ingredient, and the blue is self-evident. Of course, 3 stacking sizes could also be considered borrowed. I'd also stay away from nuts in any form, out of respect. Still, it would need more research and taste-testing.
I wonder if I should check the B&J web site for job openings in the flavour-creation department?
By the way, I have actually taken French Vanilla ice cream, and added things like bran twigs, peanut butter, chocolate chips, and remixed/refroze it. The twigs stayed crunchy, unlike the grape-nuts in grape-nut, and added an interesting texture, somewhat reminiscent of the flavour, "Dinosaur Bones", without the pass-the-insulin excessive sweetness.
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