{"id":10421,"date":"2017-01-23T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/dippin-dots-beef-puts-white-house-press-secretary-on-the-spot\/"},"modified":"2017-01-23T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T23:53:00","slug":"dippin-dots-beef-puts-white-house-press-secretary-on-the-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/dippin-dots-beef-puts-white-house-press-secretary-on-the-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Dippin' Dots Beef Puts White House Press Secretary On The Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A staple of ballparks and malls, Dippin’ Dots has billed itself as the ice cream of the future. Travis Nicholson\/Flickr<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dippin’ Dots describes its product as “an unconventional ice cream treat that’s remarkably fresh and flavorful, introducing the world to beaded ice cream” and “the original and unbeatable flash-frozen ice cream sensation.” Donald Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer, disagrees. For years, he has mocked the company and its “ice cream of the future” on Twitter.<\/p>\n

In tweets from 2010 and 2011, Spicer said Dippin’ Dots was not<\/em> the ice cream of the future. In 2011, Spicer also tweeted a link to a Wall Street Journal<\/em> article about the company’s bankruptcy, and in his caption described Dippin’ Dots as “Ice Cream of the Past.” In September 2015, Spicer complained, “If Dippin Dots was truly the ice cream of the future they would not have run out of vanilla,” tagging the Washington Nationals baseball team in an apparent to reference a shortage of vanilla Dippin’ Dots at Nationals Park.<\/p>\n

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we may not have inauguration attendance data yet, but one set of record turnout numbers are in:<\/p>\n

Sean spicer’s angry dippin dots twetes pic.twitter.com\/KSXlXLLEeB<\/a><\/p>\n

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Since Spicer assumed the role of White House press secretary, these tweets have been making the rounds on the Internet, enough so for Dippin’ Dots to write an open letter to Spicer<\/a>, asking to “be friends rather than foes” and offering an ice cream social to the White House and White House press corps.<\/p>\n

Since that letter’s release, NPR reached out to Dippin’ Dots for further comment on the (one-sided) feud. Here’s what Billie Stuber, media relations manager for Dippin’ Dots, and Shama Hyder, who handles markets for the company, told us (questions and answers have been edited for clarity):<\/p>\n

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When did Dippin’ Dots realize that Sean Spicer had a beef with them?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Billie Stuber:<\/strong> [Laughter] Well, it was a bit of a surprise. We’re not used to beef. We’re friends with everyone. So we noticed [Sunday] some of his old tweets began to resurface and circulate.<\/p>\n

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