Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Star Spangled Wingnuttery

Would you eat ice cream with names like these?

I Hate the French Vanilla
Nutty Environmentalist
Iraqi Road
Smaller Gevernmint
Gun Nut
A small ice cream manufacturer in Washington, DC makes these flavors. The last of which, "Gun Nut" was developed in "concert" with Ted Nugent and the company, Star Spangled Ice Cream Co. promises to donated a dollar for every quart sold to the Gun Owners Foundation Gun Safety Project. Some proceeds from the other flavors are donated to charities that help soldiers.

Now these are all worthy things to give to. But the flavor names; even if the company claims that they are targeted at Adults (which I don't know if they do), ice cream is eaten by kids primarily. What kind of ideas are they promoting to the next generation? Well, the company's web site carries the tag line: "Ice cream with a conservative flavor" (no link-love from me on this one). So that would be: hate people who give you good advice, rape and pillage the environment, government can do no good, guns are sacred.

Well, we are talking serious wingnuts here.

Have another ice cream cone.

My head hurts.

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