That's right....Carroll Gardens is officially the worst. See below for the new sign on the Court St. location:

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Much like the first note D'Amico put up when the anonymous 311 calls brought a health inspector to their door, the sign conveys the frustration of the owners--Frank D'Amico Jr. and his wife Joan D'Amico-- in dealing with recent urban(er) transplants who claim they want a more relaxed neighborhood than NYC, and then keep acting like uptight Manhattanites.

The news comes almost a full year after the Wall Street Journal prematurely reported the news. 

At the time, Seline Dell'Orto told The Observer the shop was open for business and would remain so for the foreseeable future. She also grew misty as she talked about her reputation for surly service, and the Yelpers who had trashed her online.

Maybe a few of them will be inspired to finally be a real hero and go break bread with owner one last time.

Well, OMM is associated with right-wing Christian group the American Family Association, which would obviously have a problem with a flavor based on a Saturday Night Live sketch based on Alec Baldwin and NPR. This group also has a petition boycotting just about every other food/apparel/entertainment item on the market.

The One Million Mom's website breaks down their Schweddy Balls argument on their website:

The name originated from a Saturday Night Live skit featuring Alec Baldwin as Pete Schweddy, owner of a holiday bakery called Season's Eatings. "There are lots of great treats this time of year," Schweddy says. "Zucchini bread, fruitcake, but the thing I most like to bring out at this time of the year are my balls."

He then explains that he sells popcorn balls, cheese balls, rum balls—balls for every taste—and the ball puns proceed for about four minutes. Ben & Jerry's chose to go with fudge-covered rum and malt balls for their flavor. The skit culminates in Baldwin stating that "No one can resist my Schweddy Balls."

In the past, Ben & Jerry's has released controversial ice creams, like a special edition of Chubby Hubby called Hubby Hubby last year which celebrated gay marriage. It seems that offending customers has become an annual tradition for Ben & Jerry's.

The ice cream is being released in a limited batch, which means it will be distributed nationwide but only for three or four months. If it proves popular, another batch might be forthcoming, but we hope not.

"The name is irreverent," says Ben & Jerry's spokesman Sean Greenwood. "But we've always been about having some irreverence and having some fun ... We're not trying to offend people. Our fans get the humor."

The original "SchweddyBalls skit":

We wonder how OMM would feel about a Big Gay Ice Cream Shop?

Yesterday the Voice's food writer Robert Sietsema wrote an open letter to Mr. Ozersky, criticizing him for his latest column about the food at his wedding — lasagna and cake provided by celebrity chefs that the groom couldn't afford.

"You don't make clear in the article how or if you paid for all this booty," wrote Mr. Sietsema yesterday. "Nowhere in the article does it say, 'I paid the chefs fair price for the services and products they provided, and Jeffrey Chodorow for the place where the banquet was held,' which is what a journalist who acquired these services and then wrote about them should have done."

"The most painful part of the article for me is the headline, in which you declare yourself a food critic," he added. Mr. Ozersky's column was titled "Tips from a Newly Married Critic."

Ms. Ozersky has now added a "clarification" to his column. He's not a critic, despite what the headline says.

I am not an anonymous critic and I don't review restaurants for TIME (or anyone else). I comment and enlarge on trends on gastronomy, which I stay aware of by being close to chefs. I love my chef friends, and wanted to share their food with my other friends.

Just like all those blogers who aren't vodka critics, but need to keep up with the latest trends in free booze.

Grub Street speculates it will be in John Wu's Bleecker Street building.

Mr. Becker, you might recall, was recently the victim of another irate neighbor Georgette Fleischer, a Barnard professor, who contributed to getting La Esquina shut down briefly and told the Post that "the restaurant owners are acting like barbarians and playing fast and loose with safety issues. It's only a matter of time before someone loses their life."