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10 January 2009

Yes Pecan! Ben & Jerry's announces their inauguration themed flavor.→[More:]I suppose that Chocolate Swirl would have been a little--you know...
post by: ColdChef at: 10:32 | 24 comments
I'm glad this won out over the runner-up of Bush-Is-A-Sociopath Backdoor Berry Mudslide.
posted by Lipstick Thespian 10 January | 11:19
I hate that ice cream stores close from December to May around here. I *like* eating ice cream while walking through the snow. That's not sarcasm; I do!

Ice cream is too thick in the mouth and too drippy on the hands in July. But it's so yummy!

At any rate, I think all the Ben & Jerry's in Chicago (save the touristy one at Navy Pier) closed permanently.
posted by crush-onastick 10 January | 11:32
Buttery ice cream with pecans. I think it's too exotic for American tastes.
posted by jonmc 10 January | 11:35
That is so full of awesomeness.
posted by Specklet 10 January | 11:50
Hey crush-onastick ... there's a Ben & Jerry's right by me. I live in the boring North Shore suburbs. If you ever get up this way we could have a mini-meetup there.

I love pretty much any ice cream but especially when it's got lots of stuff in it. Chocolate chips, nuts, sprinkles, swirls of caramel, coconut.

Now I want some.
posted by Kangaroo 10 January | 12:32
i like Colbert's waffle cone vanilla.
i've got some.
*looks over shoulder*
posted by ethylene 10 January | 12:34
*bursts out laughing*
That's awesome.
posted by moonshine 10 January | 12:46
It took me this whole thread to figure out the joke. It's wrong. So wrong. Enough people mispronounce that nut already, and now Ben & Jerry's wants to single-handedly codify the mistake. So wrong.
posted by mudpuppie 10 January | 12:59
I miss Cool Brittania. Strawberries and chocolate covered shortbread. Divine.
posted by ColdChef 10 January | 13:00
Oh, huh. As a person who pronounces "pecan" correctly, I totally didn't get it until mudpuppie's comment. She's right. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
posted by taz 10 January | 13:05
Thank you, taz. I felt very alone there for a while.
posted by mudpuppie 10 January | 13:33
Either pronunciation is correct.
posted by CitrusFreak12 10 January | 13:39
Alternate Idea: Baracky Road?
posted by jonmc 10 January | 13:42
Ooh nice one jonmc.
posted by CitrusFreak12 10 January | 13:57
Either pronunciation is correct.

Just because you say it's so, Yankee, don't mean that it is.
posted by mudpuppie 10 January | 14:03
pe-CAHN = nut commonly used in pies and other confections
PEE-can = a pot to piss in.

Both are "correct", of course.
posted by Wolfdog 10 January | 14:11
I'm just going with what the dictionaries say.

Neither one is more or less correct than the other.
posted by CitrusFreak12 10 January | 14:25
The name is awesome. As someone who ACTUALLY pronounces it correctly, I got the joke immediately. :)
posted by BoringPostcards 10 January | 14:45
When I lived in Vermont, I would get B&J's from their store on Church Street all year. Especially in the winter.

Up the road the corner store even had a freezer way in the back of the store where they'd sell "one off" pints for cheep cheep. I became very fat very fast but enjoyed putting on every new pound.
posted by MonkeyButter 10 January | 14:49
Ben (and Jerry's) trivia:
A friend knows Ben and told me that in addition to regular staircase in his house, Ben installed a slide from the his second to first floor.
posted by MonkeyButter 10 January | 14:53
Bush-Is-A-Sociopath Backdoor Berry Mudslide

HAHAHAHAHAHA! There's also Cheney Chocolate Torture (with real chunks of Yellow Cake).

I miss Cool Brittania.

You and me both, brother. Possibly my favorite B&J's flavor ever.
posted by scody 10 January | 15:03
OMG, there's no more Cool Brittania? *sad*
posted by grouse 10 January | 15:40
Nthing mudpuppie. It took me a full thirty seconds to "get" the Ben & Jerry's pun. Because "pecan" does NOT rhyme with "we can" ... it just ... doesn't!
posted by brina 10 January | 19:17
Now now, Miss Lamont. Round tones, round tones. If it doesn't rhyme, you're not saying it right.
posted by wimpdork 10 January | 20:11
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