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    Ben & Jerry's Removes Fortune Cookies From New 'Lin-Sanity' Flavor

    Ben & Jerry's Removes Fortune Cookies From New 'Lin-Sanity' Flavor

    Et tu, Ben & Jerry? The Vermont ice cream manufacturer have had second thoughts about a new flavor of frozen yogurt available at their Harvard franchise called Taste the Lin-Sanity. Why? Because initial batches of the Jeremy Lin-themed frozen dessert featured "pieces of fortune cookie," sfgate.com reports. Those have since been replaced with waffle pieces, a decision Ryan Midden, Ben & Jerry's general manager for their Boston and Cambridge outlets, insists was made because waffle pieces retain their crisp better. Midden does acknowledge, however, that some customers took offense at the implied racism. From Boston.com:

    "There seemed to be a bit of an initial backlash about it, but we obviously weren't looking to offend anybody and the majority of the feedback about it has been positive," he said.

    Taste the Lin-Sanity's vanilla frozen yogurt also contains "lychee honey swirls," a decadent addition derived from the succulent fruit indigenous to southern China and Southeast Asia. So far, no one seems to have taken offense at that slightly subtler ethnic reference.

     

    23 comments

    • Ageless fan  •  2 mths ago
      C'mon people, stop taking offense at every little thing and take it in the humorous manner in which it was intended. Yes, racism is bad and there is definitely a line you don't want to cross, but political correctness has gone way, WAY too far in the last several years.
    • d' noodge  •  2 mths ago
      Are we supposed to somehow pretend that Lin is not Chinese? I love Chinese food but should I avoid it now for fear of promoting racism, shall I now refer to it as the 'Asian American with a slightly Cantonese twist Buffet'???

      Avoiding headlines like 'A Chink in the Armor' is certainly where we want to stand in a polite sympathetic and color blind society; avoiding putting a fortune cookie (a food item) in an ice cream flavor dedicated to Lin is just absolutely ridiculous.

      Ben & Jerry's have brought us newsworthy, controversial, fun and funny ice cream flavors since their inception and I feel that the 'Lin-Sanity' flavored ice cream including the fortune cookies was certainly done with and in good taste.......
    • Josh  •  Salt Lake City, Utah  •  2 mths ago
      How the hell is that racism? Racism Is a belief that inherent differences of a racial group justifies discrimination. How is associating a Chinese food item with a a person of Chinese descent discrimination in any way, shape, or form? Thats like calling a Mexican themed party racist for having a piñata.
      • Jaime 2 mths ago
        Fortune Cookies is actually NOT a Chinese food item. It was created in America. At any rate, I don't see how that's considered racism.
      • Josh 2 mths ago
        I am aware that the fortune cookie was created in the US. This does not change the fact that almost every Chinese restaurant I've been to serves fortune cookies at the end of the meal. On top of that, nearly every Chinese restaurant I've been to has been owned and operated by Chinese people. So what we have is Chinese people serving fortune cookies in their Chinese restaurants. I think that more than qualifies the fortune cookie as a Chinese food item.
      • Josh 2 mths ago
        Technically it was created in Japan and popularized in America. Either way, it is marketed, served, and sold as a Chinese food item. I have never seen them at any other ethnic restaurant or market.
    • Blue Dog  •  Los Angeles, California  •  2 mths ago
      Welcome to the Inquisition...
    • Debbie  •  Edmond, Oklahoma  •  2 mths ago
      oh for crying out loud this is just ridiculous. How is this racism any more than selling the stupid cookies at Chinese restaurants? PC gone amok!
    • Bob  •  2 mths ago
      This Political Correctness crap needs to stop so it can move in reverse. All these organizations that feel they are offended "for someone else" need to be put out of business for being drama queens and attention (money) grabbers (I would use the FREE prostitution word but Yahoo would delete it). Similar to the sluts in Congress.
    • moby1313  •  2 mths ago
      When can we expect the "Allen Iverson Broke as Fudge" flavor?
      • Douglas 2 mths ago
        They already give that away at homeless shelters. Actually, they tried an Iverson recipe, but it didn't come out right - probably because they never practiced making it.
    • Aaron  •  2 mths ago
      In Vermont, ice cream very important. Wax on, wax off.
    • Aaron  •  2 mths ago
      Hey wait a minute, where are all the "Ron Paul!!" morons?
    • Aaron  •  2 mths ago
      Jeremy Lin might have been offended if he wasn't making millions of dollars and getting laid nine times a day.
    • LifeInMyHandz  •  2 mths ago
      #$%$ is there anything that isnt racist these days? This reminds me of the Shweddy Balls incident, making a fuss out of nothing. Seems to me Ben and Jerry's are enjoying themselves with all the controversy.
      • beacon 2 mths ago
        I loved the Shweddy Balls! I'm to old to worry about the words coming out of my mouth all the time. I never mean to offend, but, you know, some times it happens. Get over it. There are bigger fish to fry than ice cream.
      • Vann 2 mths ago
        Shweddy Balls was a great ice cream. I don't eat fortune cookies anyway so I would not like them in ice cream. Fortune cookies are only for getting a laugh out of.
    • Paul  •  Cicero, Illinois  •  2 mths ago
      How is an ingredient racist. If they put German chocloate cake in an ice cream honoring Dirk, would they be mad. Leave it to some people to turn an honor to someone into a problem. It's ice cream with fortune cookie pieces people.
    • Dataman  •  2 mths ago
      Ben & Jerry's perform self-emasculation.
    • Aaron  •  2 mths ago
      Jeremy Lin has an incredibly large wee-wee and he's terrible at math.
    • Aaron  •  2 mths ago
      I worked at a company in China once. My Chinese co-workers asked me a funny question: "What's a fortune cookie?" Seriously. They don't have fortune cookies in China.
    • 1Salvo  •  Dallas, Texas  •  2 mths ago
      What was the flavor???? Flied Lice???? When will the racism from the left stop. First the Jews now the chinese. I hope the blacks do not start voting for republicans might get old timey up in here.
      • 1Salvo 2 mths ago
        Good thing Democrat Sen. James Byrd is gone. He might give them a come uppance if they were to wander off the Democrat plantation.
      • Dataman 2 mths ago
        It is "Fried Rice," you plick.
    • 1Salvo  •  Dallas, Texas  •  2 mths ago
      Wow, the liberals are really starting to show the true colors......pun intended.
    • Hugh Jass  •  2 mths ago
      fortune cookies in ice cream/frogurt sounds delicious, but lychee?! seriously?
    • Margaret  •  Madison, Ohio  •  2 mths ago
      Oh, so, so politically correct! I am sick of people being so, so sensitive!
    • frank  •  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia  •  2 mths ago
      #$%$mericans waxing their l-inaneness for all to see what a bunch of racists they are
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