Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a folk hero so fast it still makes heads spin. Now there’s a serious push to immortalize the jurist on her own flavor of ice cream. I guess so she can give headaches to someone other than Justice Alito.
Ben & Jerry’s produces a number of flavors named after important figures: Cherry Garcia, Stephen Colbert’s AmeriCone Dream, The Willie Nelson Peach Cobbler. A lot of guys are immortalized on Ben & Jerry’s containers. And that’s kind of the point, a lot of guys are.
A change.org petition circulating over the last week seeks to redress the gender inequality in the frozen food aisle by adding a flavor named after Justice Ginsburg. The proposed flavor is “Ruth Bader Ginger,” which is… kind of uninspiring. Something like “Notorious RBG” with RaspBerrys and Graham Cracker crumble sounds much tastier and more in line with Ben & Jerry’s style, but I’m not the one who started the petition. In between the regular comments about how you struggle mouthing out the words I use and how Elie is fat, propose your own favorite RBG inspired flavors! Or potential flavors named after other justices. Like, Chief Justice Taney’s DREDful ButterSCOTTch.
The petition, started by Yael Mazor-Garfinkle, notes that writers Tania Lombrozo and Amanda McCall have pointed out that “Ben & Jerry’s have named more than twenty ice cream flavors after people over the past 30 years, but only two for women.” Well, there’ve been 112 Supreme Court justices and only 4 have been women so Ben & Jerry’s is already ahead of the curve, but that’s an abysmally low bar.
Sign the petition here and help stock the ATL kitchen with a juridical treat.
Create “Ruth Bader Ginger” ice cream! [Change.org]