http://espn.go.com/new-york/nba/story/_/id/7617213/new-york-knicks-jeremy-lin-ben-jerry-apologizes-lin-sanity-flavor

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"Ben & Jerry's, the iconic ice cream brand famous for flavors borrowed from a broad swath of the culinary spectrum, has apologized for including fortune cookies in its "Taste the Lin-Sanity" frozen yogurt sold at a Harvard Square location in Boston The Vermont-founded company has replaced the fortune cookies in its honey-swirl, Jeremy Lin-inspired variety with waffle cones. "We offer a heartfelt apology if anyone was offended by our handmade Lin-Sanity flavor," Ben & Jerry's said in a statement. Lin, the New York Knicks point guard who shot to NBA stardom this month after spurring a win streak in the absence of Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire, played four seasons for the Harvard Crimson before turning pro in 2010. "We are proud and honored to have Jeremy Lin hail from one of our fine, local universities and we are huge sports fans," Ben & Jerry's said in the news release. "Our intention was to create a flavor to honor Jeremy Lin's accomplishments and his meteoric rise in the NBA, and recognize that he was a local Harvard graduate. "We try (to) demonstrate our commitment as a Boston-based, valued-led business and if we failed in this instance we offer our sincere apologies.""

Are you fucking kidding me?

The pussyfication of America continues.

How in the fuck is this offensive? The guy is Asian. They made a flavor with something Asian in it.

Chill the fuck out society!

2/26/2012 10:24:23 PM

you don't get to decide what offends someone

they do

2/26/2012 10:25:43 PM

Well I am offended that they are offended by it.

2/26/2012 10:26:43 PM

How in the fuck are fortune cookies Asian?

Asians don't serve fortune cookies with their meals at home.

2/26/2012 10:28:18 PM

^^ that's fine

2/26/2012 10:29:05 PM

^^also Jeremy Lin was born and raised in California, so there's that too

2/26/2012 10:30:32 PM

I bet those waffle cones taste just like fortune cookies BECAUSE THEY'RE THE EXACT SAME FUCKING RECIPE

2/26/2012 10:34:36 PM

haha, the comments section is golden.

People are posting their favorite fake flavors.

Quote :

"Bryant Gumbel ice cream: they keep telling you it's chocolate...but you know it really isn't."

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"Ben Roethlisberger Ice Cream: If you wont eat it, he'll force it down your throat. "

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"Tim Tebow flavored Ice Cream... Never been touched by anyone....."

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"WNBA Ice Cream: Nuts hidden inside!"

2/26/2012 10:49:09 PM

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"The pussyfication of America continues. How in the fuck is this offensive? The guy is Asian. They made a flavor with something Asian in it. "

Exactly. Should have told the whiners to go get fucked.


Damn, maybe it would be different if they were making fun of him or his ethnicity, but come on.

2/26/2012 10:53:15 PM

I bet it tasted like curry.

2/26/2012 10:54:05 PM

Chocolate and chilis are actually great flavors to combine.

2/26/2012 10:58:25 PM

all of this shit is just fuzzy zoeller all over again

next thing some arab is gonna get famous and people are gonna make hummus jokes

[Edited on February 26, 2012 at 11:17 PM. Reason : haha i cant brain good]

2/26/2012 11:00:45 PM

LET

THING

SOME

2/26/2012 11:01:25 PM

If this would have been on the ice cream carton, I could understand it being a little offensive.


"Taste the Rin-Sanity"

2/26/2012 11:54:06 PM

Fortune cookies arent even an Asian thing, they were invented in the United States

2/26/2012 11:57:22 PM

Next thing you know, some Asian is gonna gonna get offended for a Chinese Buffet serving eggrolls.

^That really has nothing to do with this.

People associate fortune cookies with Chinese food. Thats all that matters.

Nobody cares if America invented them, that is pointless to this story.

[Edited on February 26, 2012 at 11:59 PM. Reason : .]

2/26/2012 11:57:53 PM

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"How in the fuck is this offensive? The guy is Asian. They made a flavor with something Asian in it."

fortune cookies, not Asian at all. But Asian Americans sell them the Caucasians all the time.

[Edited on February 27, 2012 at 12:11 AM. Reason : I don't actually care.]

2/26/2012 11:58:02 PM

You only get them at Asian places.

Thats basically the point.

It doesn't matter who invented them.

2/27/2012 12:00:53 AM

Chinese restaurants are run by racist shitholes and I will not stand for this

2/27/2012 12:01:08 AM

Its not like they named it Ice Cream of Sum Yung Chink.

2/27/2012 12:08:49 AM

Fortune cookies are asian.

But they are Japanese, not Chinese. They were invented in Japan, then a few years later they were adopted by American Chinese restaurants.

2/27/2012 12:17:06 AM

Ben & Jerry's presents: We Hate Asians: The Ice Cream

2/27/2012 12:17:55 AM

^^Maybe thats why people were offended.

[Edited on February 27, 2012 at 12:18 AM. Reason : 187 on a mother fucking cop]

2/27/2012 12:18:26 AM

I bet there were more white people offended by this than asians.

2/27/2012 12:18:30 AM

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"^^also Jeremy Lin was born and raised in California, so there's that too"

Fortune cookies were invented in motherfucking California. By Asian Americans.

Using fortune cookies as a symbol for actual Chinese people should be more offensive.

2/27/2012 12:19:50 AM

it was a Japanese cracker that inspired the American spinoff we know as fortune cookies. I am not saying it matters, bc Lin is from CA, and the fortune cookie we know today was first made in CA, so really it makes sense, but the fortune cookies themselves, are not Asian, and I just wanted to correct that.

2/27/2012 12:20:20 AM

I wouldn't be surprised if it was a white or black person who was "offended" and made them quit

2/27/2012 12:27:59 AM

The most correct adjective for the American fortune cookie would be Asian American. Maybe faux Asian American. Just like General Tso's chicken. The original Japanese cookie it was spun off from had nowhere near the circulation that the knockoff did. They looked very different too.

Ethnic Asians in the US have their own ethnic identity. I'm not saying that the fortune cookie in the ice cream was right, but in terms of symbolism, it's as appropriate as a symbol can be.

I think the real problem is that its perceived as a negative symbol. Honestly, it's hard to have a symbol of an ethnic group in the US at all without it having a negative association. Saying that basketball is a black American thing is a pidgin-holing kind of thing.

For second-generation Asian Americans, the fortune cookie as a symbol is almost archaic. It doesn't apply to them for the most part. Lin himself went to Harvard, so yeah.

2/27/2012 12:34:55 AM

what the hell is a pidgin

is that what general tso's chicken is made of

2/27/2012 7:38:39 AM

I'm not Asian-American. I wasn't made or born in Asia. I AM AMERICAN!
I'm tired of this hyphenated American bullshit. You are either American or you are not. Stop letting people put a label on you.
Are "Asians" offended by what B&J did? Fuck no! People need to tell busy body, squeaky wheel types to fuck off.
The Chink in the armor headline didn't bother me either.

Some other shit that bothers me...

If you weren't born in Africa then you aren't African American. Africa is a big continent, what color is everyone on it? Not everyone is black. If a white guy born in South Africa becomes a US citizen guess what he could claim to be? African-American. How stupid is that?
Race shouldn't matter except in one area, health care. Certain ethnicities are prone to certain diseases or genetic problems.

2/27/2012 8:28:10 AM

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" Fortune cookies arent even an Asian thing, they were invented in the United States"

JUST LIKE JEREMY LIN WAS BORN IN THE UNITED STATES.

2/27/2012 8:33:13 AM

they have no need to apologiz IMO BUT...


if you are gonna make that fucking flavor with fortune cookies, it should be understood that youre gonna catch heat for it and you should already agree to not apologize in your little executive meeting.

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""We offer a heartfelt apology if anyone was offended by our handmade Lin-Sanity flavor""

lol nice little drop there

[Edited on February 27, 2012 at 9:42 AM. Reason : k]

2/27/2012 9:42:29 AM

I would like to add to this thread that this is the pussification of america, and that fortune cookies are not asian

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

2/27/2012 11:59:36 AM

eh, its Cambridge, MA. People here offend easily

2/27/2012 12:16:38 PM

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"I'm not Asian-American. I wasn't made or born in Asia. I AM AMERICAN! I'm tired of this hyphenated American bullshit. You are either American or you are not. Stop letting people put a label on you. "

I'm not going to listen to your comment because you just put a label on me.

2/27/2012 12:44:46 PM

Orientals

2/27/2012 12:57:05 PM

Pussification of America

2/27/2012 1:13:54 PM

taste the linsanity (lindsay lohan edition): alcohol flavored ice cream with a cocaine swirl

2/27/2012 2:26:37 PM

pussyfication is for pussys

2/27/2012 2:27:50 PM

What's more irritating? People getting offended by something, or people getting offended by people getting offended? Chinese riddle for ya.

2/27/2012 2:32:52 PM

Confucius say, "He who eat ice cream in car is a sundae driver."

[Edited on February 27, 2012 at 2:46 PM. Reason : -]

2/27/2012 2:45:52 PM

this is WAY more offensive than the fortune cookie incident:

2/27/2012 3:16:59 PM

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"If you weren't born in Africa then you aren't African American. Africa is a big continent, what color is everyone on it? Not everyone is black."

Obligatory:

We are all Africans.

2/27/2012 3:20:50 PM

2/27/2012 3:33:59 PM

[fake]

2/27/2012 3:35:47 PM

2/27/2012 4:31:50 PM