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Jodie Ostrovsky, owner of What’s The Scoop? ice cream shop in Portland, Oregon, had worked with Planned Parenthood before. “Nothing happened,” she told The Huffington Post. “This year, honestly, I didn’t even think about it.”
She’s thinking about it now.
Anti-abortion supporters got wind of the ice cream shop’s Planned Parenthood fundraiser, and they let their disapproval be known.
Abortion ice cream???
#PRAY for this sick, twisted organization and the souls that are lost in it.
#PRAY that… http://t.co/qX8WhAVUTW
— Erica Burton (@EBurton4Life) July 19, 2014
“I was surprised,” Ostrovsky told HuffPost.
As it does regularly with local groups, What’s The Scoop? partnered with Planned Parenthood to create a new flavor — in this case, a mix of honey vanilla and rose petal called Rose City Revolution.
The shop arranged for the organization to sell the ice cream, as well as a few other flavors, for a period of time and keep 50 percent of the profit. On July 17, What’s The Scoop? hosted a three-hour party for the organization to invite guests. During that time, the parlor donated 10 percent of all sales to the group.
However, the store’s community-mindedness hit a rocky road just before the event kicked off.
Ostrovsky said the backlash appears to have begun with a posting on an anti-abortion blog, which called the flavor “Blood and Scream!“
Another comment from elsewhere, Ostrovsky said, compared her to Josef Mengele, the Nazi who performed human experiments and picked concentration camp inmates to be killed.
“Some of them have been scary,” Ostrovsky told Willamette Week of the reactions. “Some of them are bizarre and odd. We don’t know why they’re telling us that we have problems when they’re saying terrible, threatening things.”
However, the shop’s Facebook page, where some of the negative comments appeared, has received a deluge of support.
“Keep on the good work with making wonderful flavors and supporting health care facilities that need it!” one visitor wrote. “As for all the other commenters: you should all be absolutely ashamed of yourselves.”
Despite the controversy, Ostrovsky explained to Eater Portland that she’s grateful for a “wonderful outpouring of support.”
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From the Cronut™ to the Ramen Burger, food mashups hit big last summer and almost immediately jumped the shark. With monstrosities like ramen pizza and the unstoppable iterations of the Cronut™ — Cro-Nots, Doissants and Brioughnuts and perhaps worst of all, the Crogel — we thought the trend might have been laughed off the food stage. How wrong we were. People just can’t seem to resist ruining perfect foods by combining them into one illogical whole. People also can’t resist capitalizing on a food trend, or even better, capitalizing on two trends in one. Case in point: BrusselKale.
USA Today reported on July 10 that a new hybrid vegetable called BrusselKale is expected to hit U.S. supermarkets nationwide this fall. British vegetable seed company Tozer Seeds has been developing BrusselKale for 15 years by traditional crop breeding. The vegetable is not genetically modified, Tozer says. Hybrid fruits and vegetables aren’t new, and they’re not automatically a bad thing either. Broccolini was introduced in 1999 to great fanfare, and the Honey Crisp apple is a hybrid fruit that has seamlessly entered the market. (It was introduced by the University of Minnesota in 1960 as a cross of Macoun and Honeygold apples.) Combining Brussels sprouts and kale, however, seems like a desperate attempt to profit off the trends of the moment.
The hybrid vegetable is already available in some grocery stores, but it’s currently going by a few different names, including BrusselKale and Lollipops. On Tozer’s website it’s listed as “Flower Sprout” and it’s also appearing as “Kalettes.” After 15 years of breeding the vegetable, you’d think they could have sorted out the name before putting it on the market. Today reports Tozer Seeds is relaunching the vegetable under the name BrusselKale this fall.
According to the Daily Mail, Tozer Seeds says BrusselKale has a more subtle flavor than Brussels sprouts, and was developed with texture in mind, so that it would be suitable for sautéing but also for eating raw.
No matter what BrusselKale tastes like, and no matter what they call it, we wish everyone would just leave our kale and Brussels sprouts alone. Sure these “hipster” vegetables are overblown trends, but they’re popular for a reason. They’re nutritious, tasty, versatile and great canvases for a variety of flavors. These vegetable are great on their own — we don’t think they need to be ruined by joining forces.
BrusselKale, go away. We’ve already had enough of you.
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