Post by Zig on Sept 20, 2014 16:18:55 GMT -5
At first glance, Ben and Jerry’s Hazed and Confused ice cream flavor doesn’t appear to be offensive. The tasty treat, which combines chocolate and hazelnut ice cream with fudge chips and a hazelnut core, seems to be a play on the Led Zeppelin classic “Dazed and Confused” with the hazelnut centricity of the variety.
Maybe there is even a little subtext of the effects of a certain drug there. Maybe.
Related: Hear an Alternate Version of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Black Dog’
But, that’s not how some people see it. Apparently, there has been a vocal outcry again the flavor’s name concerning the very real issue of hazing. And now, next month the powers that be at the ice cream factory (maybe Ben and Jerry themselves?) will meet to discuss changing the name of the ice cream flavor.
According to Bloomberg, there have been three complaints, total. Two named in the article had particular ties to hazing, as their sons had been victims of terrible acts in the name of hazing.
wzlx.cbslocal.com/2014/09/19/ben-jerrys-led-zeppelin-themed-hazed-and-confused-ice-cream-under-fire/
SMH.
Maybe there is even a little subtext of the effects of a certain drug there. Maybe.
Related: Hear an Alternate Version of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Black Dog’
But, that’s not how some people see it. Apparently, there has been a vocal outcry again the flavor’s name concerning the very real issue of hazing. And now, next month the powers that be at the ice cream factory (maybe Ben and Jerry themselves?) will meet to discuss changing the name of the ice cream flavor.
According to Bloomberg, there have been three complaints, total. Two named in the article had particular ties to hazing, as their sons had been victims of terrible acts in the name of hazing.
wzlx.cbslocal.com/2014/09/19/ben-jerrys-led-zeppelin-themed-hazed-and-confused-ice-cream-under-fire/
SMH.
