The event came to be known as “Poopgate” because there apparently was only one scandal in all of human history. Anyway, in the end, the bus driver was fined $10,000 and sentenced to 150 hours of community service, but there was another casualty of Poopgate: the One Sweet Whirled flavor being taken off the shelves. The Dave Matthews Band suddenly being linked with a shower of poop didn’t help, but the final nail in that coffin was probably the fact that One Sweet Whirled contained “Caramel Swirls & Coffee Flavored Fudge Chips.” And while it is true that, like, 50% of people only eat ice cream when they’re in a shitty mood, there are limits to how much they want to think about human feces when having dessert, especially when that dessert, well, does sort of look like a brownish-yellow slurry.
Ben & Jerry’s
However, the weird thing is that Ben & Jerry did bring the flavor back under the name “One Sweet World” in 2017, fudge chunks and all. Perhaps the larger lesson here is that it takes about 13 years for the world to get over any poop-related incidents on your part, so … I guess stop worrying about the time you crapped your pants in front of everyone in elementary school. Science says most people are over it now. There’s your inspiration for the day.
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