Star Spangled Ice Cream was an American ice cream company founded in 2003 by three conservative activists and marketed as a politically conservative alternative to Ben & Jerry's, which the founders considered to be too liberal.
History
In 2003, amid the beginning of the Iraq War, Andrew Stein and his friends decided to create an ice cream brand in support of George W. Bush. They agreed that Ben & Jerry's made good ice cream, but disagreed with the company's liberal politics, so they founded Star Spangled Ice Cream. The founders, Richard Lessner, Frank Cannon, and Andrew Stein, had no knowledge of how to make ice cream, so they contracted production to a company in Baltimore called Moxley's.[1] The company sold ice cream online, and the price of dry ice to keep the product cold put the price at $66 for six pints or $76 for four quarts.[2] The company described the price of $76 as "patriotic", and ten percent of profits went to organizations supporting the United States armed forces,[3]