NEW BEN & JERRY’S FLAVOR: EMPOWER-MINT

Ben & Jerry’s ice cream has introduced a new flavor, Empower Mint – a peppermint ice cream base with generous swirls of fudge and chunks of chewy brownie. A portion of the proceeds from Empower Mint will benefit the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP. Along with the new flavor, the Vermont-based brand also launched “Democracy is in Your Hands,” a campaign dedicated to encouraging national voter registration and the importance of reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act. “We believe Democracy only works when it works for Everyone,” writes the brand. “But lately, it seems the challenges facing our democracy have gotten out of hand: Low income and minority voters are having their voting rights infringed upon, and money from wealthy donors is corrupting the system.”
* Whoa, whoa! I just want something to get me through “Empire”, not a political treatise.
* Swirls of fudge in a new Ben & Jerry’s flavor? What are the odds?
* Ben & Jerry’s is the only ice cream that makes your head hurt, and not from a brain freeze.
* Politically oriented ice cream flavors. This could finally put the country on the right track.
* Abraham Lincoln toyed with this idea to save the Union, but they had no refrigerated trucks back then.
* I like how they still talk about our democracy. It makes me so nostalgic.
* If they want to keep it real, they should get a cute ice cream name with the word “oligarchy” in it.
* How about “Strawberry Surveillance State”? No? How about “Erosion of Our Freedoms Lime Sherbert”?
* How about “National Debt: Fudge the Numbers”?
* Vladimir Putin has special ice cream flavors in Russia, too, but no one’s allowed to buy them.