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Hippy makers of delicious ice cream Ben & Jerry’s are known for their humor, many of their fine flavors have a jokey or punny title, hell they even named one of their flavors Schweddy Balls (vanilla ice cream with a hint of rum with fudge covered rum and malt balls – it’s delicious, I could eat Schweddy Balls all day long) but they are not amused with a line of porno movies released under the name “Ben & Cherry’s”.
Here’s Ben & Jerry’s product Peanut Butter Cup:
For comparison here’s the Ben & Cherry’s product, a dvd of porn titled Peanut Butter D-Cup:
Where B&J have Cherry Garcia, B&C have Hairy Garcia. Where B&J have Boston Cream Pie, B&C have Boston Cream Thighs and so on and so forth.
Ben and Jerry’s hauled their porno counterparts into court claiming that the fuck flicks are hurting the ice cream’s brand by associating them with pornography. Personally I think this is protected under the rights we all have to make parodies and of general free speech, but today a federal judge is disagreeing with my expert opinion and is blocking the further sale or production of the Ben & Cherry’s XXX series .
What’s your legal opinion? Was the judge in the right to shut them down? Or is this a harmless parody? Are people really going to mix up frozen desserts with hardcore dvds? Give us your ruling in the court of our comments section down below.
Via LaTimes.com
