ice cream making and ranting

Friday, July 09, 2004

the twilight's last gleaming

I am not registered with a political party, I hoped that this would save me from getting all sorts of political crap in the mail the way my parents do. I am officially registered as "Decline to state," and have been since I've been for the last 6 years (wow, I'm old). And as you all know, I do lean a bit left. But, God bless the republicans!

First Lydia made me aware of the W Ketchup

then, today yahoo news reminded me of the ketchup and introduced me to
star spangled ice cream

You can buy 4 bottles of this ketchup for $20 including shipping. This seems a bit pricey, but the price goes down when you buy in bulk.

However, for the republican ice cream in various politically charged flavors you will be paying $76 for four quarts including shipping. That's $19 a pint. That's almost 8x than the low trader joe's price of $2.50 a pint for Ben and Jerrys you can. If i'm going to pay $76 dollars for ice cream I'm going to buy it by the bucket and fill a large bathtub and swim around. The republicans better have damn good ice cream if they expect to sell it.

And, better yet, for $5 a pint, plus $100 label design, plus shipping that includes dry ice packing that they warn you will be "signifigant" you can get your picture on the ice cream. Now, that would be a fantastic wedding favor. It beats my personalized water bottles idea by far.


God Bless America! The land of the people who will spend $19 on a pint of ice cream and not bat an eyelash.

posted by C @ 10:02 AM  

1 Comments:

  • At July 09, 2004 1:40 PM, Blogger Zack said…

    I am a little perplexed by their demonic representation of George Washington. I thought conservatives loved him too.

    I was initially more depressed than amused, but I figure that the extra $15 per pint going to these opportunists is probably $15 not going to the Bush-Cheney campaign, where it might reasonably otherwise end up. They only donate 10% of their profits, not their gross, and if they're using another gourmet maker's equipment and producing such small batches, profits are probably not $15/pint to begin with (although they sure saved big on web site and label designs).

     

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