Have you got any ice cream without so much spam in it?
Vermonty Python is described as "coffee liqueur ice cream with a chocolate cookie crumb swirl & fudge cows." This doesn't sound very appealing to me; worse, it sounds as if someone just thought up the name and decided to slap it on the next random combination of flavors that came along, rather than trying to devise a variety of flavor that would be appropriate for the name.
Surely with "Vermonty" in the name, the obvious choice would be a maple syrup flavor. It would be perfect for that special someone who became a barber to overcome his crippling fear of hair, when all he really wanted to be was...a lumberjack! Or a strawberry tart flavor, without so much rat in it. Maybe three rats...rather a lot, really. No, the perfect flavor to go with this theme would be ice cream mixed with chocolate-dipped crunchy frogs!
And woe betide the Ben & Jerry's customer who orders a pint of Vermonty Python and complains about the dirty spoon...
Okay, that's enough. I invite anyone who's interested to post their own Python-derived jokes on this theme in the comments section. I have serious misgivings about one of the most precious things from my childhood being turned into a string of licensing opportunities and mass marketed to the point of inanity, but that's just me.
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Actually, it doesn't sound that unappealing to me - but I think I'd like it better if they replaced that cookie crumble with chunks of wafer thin mint . . .
Ahhhhhh. Touché, sir, touché.
At least we can be sure it won't have any cheese in it.
I didn't get the "Vermonty Python" joke until the picture of the ice cream container (with the big Python-style lettering) finally made it to my screen. Damn.
And yet, John, it would still be the finest cheese ice cream on the market. Why? Because it's so clean.
Note: I should have mentioned earlier that I first saw this mentioned by Mark Evanier, who wrote about it here and here.
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