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Leading up to the Presidential election in November, one of the most familiar slogans of Barack Obama's campaign was the powerfully succinct phrase, "Yes, We Can." It served as a rallying point for his supporters and now gourmet ice cream producer Ben & Jerry's is adopting the message to honor the new President by renaming their butter pecan flavor, "Yes Pecan" for the month of January.
Ben & Jerry's has partnered with the voting advocacy organization, Common Cause, for this temporary renaming and all proceeds from the sale of "Yes Pecan" will go to fund their efforts.
So get yourself to a scoop shop and get a cone of "Yes Pecan" before the month is out!
[via Newsday]
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1-10-2009 @2:17PM jerry said... Maybe if Ben and Jerry had come up with a vanilla and chocolate flavor and called it chocolate - vanilla swirl would have been Obama's new flavor for them.LOL
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1-10-2009 @2:17PM Marcus Rogers said... GREAT JOB Ben and Jerry's. I love your ice cream and YES PECAN!Everyone who don't like the new name KICK ROCKS!
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1-10-2009 @2:29PM Sadie said... We are one step closer to having to have his face hanging in our living rooms. I don't think the presidents face should be on any commercial products. Bad move Ben and Jerry!
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1-10-2009 @2:33PM Danis said... Funny [strange, not ha-ha] how all the NEGATIVE remarks about this article are so light you can barely read them - HOWEVER - all the 'positive' 'pro-Obama shite' is very dark and readable - hmmmm, why is that??? Yea, like I didn't already know, right?
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1-10-2009 @3:38PM Thanking my lucky stars... said... I can see Barry, Mickey, and the two chiren' along with the "mother-in-law now.......dragging the White house couch out to the front porch and eatin' "Yes Pecan."
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1-10-2009 @4:16PM Alex0958 said... That's wonderfully symbolic. A person has to be as nutty as the ice cream to believe the Socialist rhetoric!
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1-10-2009 @4:31PM joey g said... should have called it MULATTO ONE
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1-10-2009 @4:27PM joey g said... WHO KNOWS MAYBE THEY WILL NAME A SCUM BAG AFTER HIM. LIKE HUSSEIN BAG ?
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1-10-2009 @4:34PM joey g said... these a holes must be looking for a bailout!!!!
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1-10-2009 @6:28PM Mel said... Hmmmm. I tried to post something earlier but it must have gotten "lost". I'm tried to say anyone that doesn't want to buy this product isn't racist. If someone chooses to take a side then they should be prepared to deal with people boycotting their product. It's the only way we can tell them we don't like their style. And for those of you that say they'll do fine, have you seen companies that tout expensive wares? A lot are going under. I hope B&J is one of them.
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1-10-2009 @10:14PM zephora55 said... Oh, come on, didn't you already know that Ben & Jerry's leaned to the "left" when they created "Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream?"
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1-10-2009 @10:55PM EVELYN HENDRICKSON said... WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP! I NEVER BOUGHT BEN& JERRY'S BEFORE AND WILL NEVER EVER BUY IT NOW. WHERE WERE THESE BUNCH OF LOONS WHEN BUSH WAS PRESIDENT? WASN'T THIS THE UNITED STATES THEN? WASN'T AMERICA IMPORTANT THEN? IS AMERICAN JUST IMPORTANT WHEN A DEMOCRAT IS A PSEUDO-PRESIDENT? HE'S NOT MY PRESIDENT SO I GUESS I WILL JUST EAT VANILLA UNTIL WE GET A REAL PRESIDENT AGAIN AND NOT A BILL CLINTON CLONE.
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1-10-2009 @11:30PM watdafuk said... How about "Take your banana and split"
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1-11-2009 @9:48AM cpa said... For all of you who are "boycotting" ben and jerry's...grow up...they name their ice cream after everyone and everything...And if you haven't figured out which way they "lean" by now... well, you've been living in a hole, or you're just dense.
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1-11-2009 @12:24AM Donna said... Ben n Jerry's is once again showing their creativity and sense of humor. I think the new name is a hoot. Not only is their ice cream awesome but they give back to the community time and time again. Great company, great product, awesome humor and New York Super Fudge Chunk makes the most miserable of days wonderful. Lighten up if you don't like their cause. Some companies do nothing at all.
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1-11-2009 @12:49AM r w said... Only an idiot puts their faith in the government to do anything for them or the country. The most a government can do is get out of the way and let the PEOPLE that really run this country and cause it to prosper do their thing. The reason we are in the mess we are in right now is because of government interference in the free market that has been snowballing for the last 30 years(Democrats). The ignorant that do not know what is happening have voted in the very people that caused this mess, like they are going to fix what they screwed up. If you dislike and disagree with an anti-American Marxist that has never served this country, but has only badmouthed it and taken from it; has befriended racists, federally convicted criminals and terrorists, that person is a racist because the Scumbag he/she does not agree with happens to be black? The racist is the person that brings race into an argument where it is not an issue. The racist is someone that supports an elitist candidate that lacks morality and experience based ONLY on the scumbag's race. I rarely eat Ben and Jerry's - it is over priced and there are better ice cream brands that are more reasonably priced.
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1-11-2009 @2:56AM Rollando said... Just great! They gotta rub it in. Renaming my favorite Ben & Jerry ice cream. I did not vote for Obama. I voted for Ralph Nader. Oh well ... I'll just have to get over it and move on. "Sigh..."
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1-11-2009 @3:08AM Darren said... I think you can all stop saying anyone is being racist. A black man has become president. So stop with the civil rights agenda. They are no longer needed. Take your racist focused ass and see how far you can go instead of waiting for someone to pay for you to sit home.
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1-11-2009 @4:27AM Ted said... Haha...I love the people that this name, specifically, is what's going to stop them from buying Ben & Jerry's. Like it's news to some people that Ben & Jerry's is a liberal corporation? Where the heck have you been? You stuck with Ben & Jerry's through their naming products after Stephen Colbert, Jerry Garcia, even Wavy Gravy! But Barack Obama, ooooooo, that's where you draw the line. Congrats again to conservatives for showing how insulated and ignorant they are. Hopefully one of these days Rush Limbaugh will jump off a bridge, and between 10 and 20 million of you will too.
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1-11-2009 @5:42AM Holly said... I've never eaten a "pea-can". It's always been a "pea-con" to me. Obama's the next pres...big deal! Now, he's become the national product of liberals from the Spiderman comic book to ice cream. For the first time, if they come out with a new book about "The Selling of a President", it will be about merchandising the pres not about his campaign.
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