--- title: Hillary Clinton: Reporter Asks for Ice Cream Calorie Count description: Would a reporter have asked a male candidate the same question? canonical: https://time.com/4298926/hillary-clinton-ice-cream/ author: Maggie Parker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-19T15:15:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:16.546Z og:title: Twitter Was Furious When A Reporter Asked Hillary Clinton About the Calories in Her Ice Cream Sundae og:description: Would a reporter have asked a male candidate the same question? og:url: https://time.com/4298926/hillary-clinton-ice-cream/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt93243f65f6064753/69888fa4f887dc1c71e9581a/hillary-clinton-ice-cream-eating-campaign.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: hillary-clinton-ice-cream-eating-campaign og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Twitter Was Furious When A Reporter Asked Hillary Clinton About the Calories in Her Ice Cream Sundae twitter:description: Would a reporter have asked a male candidate the same question? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt93243f65f6064753/69888fa4f887dc1c71e9581a/hillary-clinton-ice-cream-eating-campaign.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Twitter Was Furious When A Reporter Asked Hillary Clinton About the Calories in Her Ice Cream Sundae > Sponsored content. 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Clinton’s response? “Oh, come on!” Twitter users didn’t brush aside the question so quickly. > [](https://twitter.com/Karoli/status/722180229817499652) > [](https://twitter.com/annafacci/status/722164815020462080) > [](https://twitter.com/debrapalermo/status/722255017105698816) > [](https://twitter.com/HeidiJensenABC/status/722178665694523394) > [](https://twitter.com/BethRickenbaker/status/722177758269456385) > [](https://twitter.com/SarahEWatkins/status/722231396815777793) For the record, fellow politician Bakari Sellers is team Hillary-eating-ice-cream: > [](https://twitter.com/Bakari%5FSellers/status/722173881373470721) **_Read more:_**[_Taylor Swift Calls Out Double Standard for Successful Women_](http://motto.time.com/4295191/taylor-swift-double-standards/) It didn’t take long for Twitter to realize that no one bothers male politicians about the calorie content of the food they consume on the campaign trail: > [](https://twitter.com/pourquoinon/status/722183975041511425) > [](https://twitter.com/Mint%5Fmulatto/status/722173620198510594) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4298926/hillary-clinton-ice-cream/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4298926/hillary-clinton-ice-cream/"},"headline":"Twitter Was Furious When A Reporter Asked Hillary Clinton About the Calories in Her Ice Cream Sundae","datePublished":"2016-04-19T15:15:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:16.546Z","description":"Would a reporter have asked a male candidate the same question?","url":"https://time.com/4298926/hillary-clinton-ice-cream/","keywords":["motto","News","hillary clinton"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt93243f65f6064753/69888fa4f887dc1c71e9581a/hillary-clinton-ice-cream-eating-campaign.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maggie Parker","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maggie-parker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt93243f65f6064753/69888fa4f887dc1c71e9581a/hillary-clinton-ice-cream-eating-campaign.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"hillary-clinton-ice-cream-eating-campaign","caption":"","creditText":"Justin Sullivan/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4298926/hillary-clinton-ice-cream/","name":"Twitter Was Furious When A Reporter Asked Hillary Clinton About the Calories in Her Ice Cream Sundae"}}]}] ```