Ben and Jerry’s has pulled their “Lin-Sanity” ice cream flavor after controversy arose over the fortune cookie pieces included in the ice cream. Smh…
The limited edition “Taste The Lin-Sanity” flavor was only sold for a few days in their Harvard Square location before controversy arose over the inclusion of “fortune cookie pieces:
After initially replacing the first batches, the company has now formally and directly apologized: “We offer a heartfelt apology if anyone was offended by our handmade Lin-Sanity flavor,” they said in a statement.
“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.”
Initially, the flavor was a mix of vanilla frozen yogurt, lychee honey swirls and the fortune cookie pieces—those have since been replaced by waffle cookies, a decision which Ryan Midden, Ben & Jerry’s general manager for Boston and Cambridge, had said was only made because “a couple of [pints] got returned because the cookies got so soggy.”
via TheWordEyeHeard
