Saturday, February 7th, 2009...10:14 pm
yes, pecan! no!
Did you read about Ben & Jerry’s latest new flavor of ice cream, the Yes, Pecan! flavor? I haven’t sucked down a whole pint yet tasted it yet, but only because I object to the whole notion.
Yes! (let’s just go with the exclamation points today), I may have voted for the man, and I may have gotten goose bumps touring the Ben & Jerry’s factory in lovely Vermont (from the inspiration, people, not the freezers), complete with photo-op black and white dairy cows outside, but helllooooo! People, the word is “pecan,” not “pee can!” Ask any Texan.
So that new flavor name makes no sense. (I had to let it sink in before I realized what they were even trying to say, but I smoked too much dope in my youth was probably playing Facebook Scrabble at the same time I was reading about it.)
If you are rhyming “pecan,” then you are stuck with things like “bug on” or “hug on”… Either of those would have been fine and might have even caught on. Dude, bug on! Or in the spirit of reaching out to community, Hug on, my friend, hug on!
But if you stay with rhyming “Yes, we can,” how about “Yes, Tea Spam!”? Green tea, a little Spam….could be a hearty, meal-substitute type of ice cream flavor.
Or, “Yes, Jeans b’damned!” might be more appropriate and honest for those of us who cannot stop at one pint spoonful.
But if you’re going to use the Obama “Yes, We can!” to hype your own product to sell more fat to this obese society guide your ice cream flavor naming, well, then you have limited options, and should probably keep the title as “Yes, we can” and go more literal with a swirl of half chocolate/half vanilla ice cream. Sprinkled with some chocolate bits molded into the shape of Obama’s face for some crunch?
[Why did they go with the vanilla anyways?? More *cough cough* socially acceptable with pecans?? Come now, B&J. We voted him in, can't we handle chocolate ice cream? Or maybe dulce de leche at least? First Black president, and you give him vanilla?? Or more accurately, butter pecan. My grandmother loved butter pecan. Couldn't you have jazzed it up a bit rather than stay the safe course? Et tu, Ben & Jerry's, et tu?]
I’m just saying. They are not pee cans, America. And he is not vanilla.
What new flavor combination would you create for Obama? Any ideas?
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12 Comments
February 7th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
That is NOT how I pronounce “pecan.” No way, no how.
So with ya.
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February 7th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Well, at the risk of getting boo’d off your blog, I’ll tell you what flavor I’d give Obama. I’m thinking something along the lines of chocolate ice milk – kind of like the cheapy stuff you get at McDonalds. My reasoning: Obama, like ice milk, is simply “better than nothin’.”
Of course, if McCain had won, I would’ve given him vanilla ice milk. Personally, I didn’t like either of the options that we had last November.
As for how to say “pecan” – you’re dead on. I’d be laughed out of the house on Thanksgiving if I asked for a slice of “PEE-can” pie. Geesh. Everyone knows it’s “puh-CON.”
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February 7th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Haha! I agree.
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February 8th, 2009 at 7:40 am
Brooke, we’ll see if you get booed, but I’m not disagreeing with you. Someone getting SO much hype is never going to actually live up to that. BO (ha!) hasn’t been anywhere close to radical that I can see. And thanks for the enunciation. “puh CON”, why couldn’t I spell that?? That’s what I meant!
February 8th, 2009 at 7:41 am
We’re just so happy to see that you haven’t lost all of your Texas upbringing!! Regardless of whom your fave candidate was, at least you know the important stuff, — like how to pronounce correctly the pecan! We just had this very discussion at lunch with our friendly Texas transplants last week. In fact, we had to do some educating, also.
February 8th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Do Ben & Jerry still run the show? This smacks of corporate coattail riding…B & J would have been way more irreverent.
February 8th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
That is stupid. It’s not even funny let alone clever.
And I think the Spam idea would fly. Hello, Obama is from Hawaii….
February 8th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
excellent post. LMAO.
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February 9th, 2009 at 3:43 am
I’m a little slow on the uptake, I guess because a) I didn’t recognize this as Obama and b) I also pronounced it correctly and didn’t get the association to the motto. How about Yes! Free bran! It would be a health food ice cream.
But for Obama, a self-described mutt, I’m thinking a vanilla and chocolate swirl with bits of blueberries to represent his supporters.
February 9th, 2009 at 7:45 am
Hahaha! LOVE, lOVE and LOVE these “product reviews” you do! My favorite posts!
February 9th, 2009 at 9:00 am
citizen, I didn’t get it at first either! yes, pecans? yes, almonds? then I realized what they were trying for.
I like your Yes, free bran! This country is totally clogged up. That could be a public health initiative!
February 9th, 2009 at 10:01 am
I didn’t get it either. Thanks for explaining it. Why didn’t they just say “Yes! We PeCAN!” or something like that? Dummies.
I vote for neopolitan as an attempt to represent all the different flavors in our country.
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