Was Ben & Jerry’s Original "Lin-Sanity" Flavor Racist?
The controversial Jeremy Lin-inspired flavor was originally vanilla frozen yogurt with swirls of lychee honey and fortune cookie pieces. They recently removed the fortune cookies. It’s currently only available at their Harvard Square store.
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thebestclint a year agoJP—fortune cookies are not Chinese. They are Chinese-American. They do not exist in China. The reference, therefore, is that Lin is Chinese-American—as in, something Chinese made in America. At the same time, I’m sure that they didn’t want to appear insensitive WHICH IS WHY IT DOES NOT EXIST IN THE ICE CREAM NOW.
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jorwesflow a year agofortune cookies are Asian. Jeremy Lin is Asian. how is that racist? it’s harmless, and probably tasted good. stop being so sensitive. and to those that say “if he wasn’t Asian, you wouldn’t be hearing about him,” HE BROKE SEVERAL ROOKIE RECORDS. if anyone/any race breaks notable records like he has, they will get bigtime publicity. he’s Asian. I’m white. youre something. facts. not racism.
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casperjuulk a year agoOh my f*cking God. Isn’t there any lower limit to what you people will consider “racist”?
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☁Spam Of God☁ a year agoThere was an ice cream that was non-Lin related that was sold a few years ago with chocolate covered fortune cookies in vanilla ice cream, and I’m not going to front, it was the most delicious ice cream I had ever eaten ever. That being said… yeah this is kinda racist, deal with it. It wouldn’t have been more racist if they had called it “Taste The Rin-Sanity”. If they used flavors that genuinely represented his personal background or personal preferences it would have been different, such is not the case.
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Calligraphuck a year agoConsidering Fortune Cookies are an American invention and have no link to Chinese culture at all? Not racist.
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MrSwearword a year agoIf it had bits of dog or Peking duck in it THEN it is racist. Fortune cookie pieces make it offensive? Those haters “disgrace famiry”.
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liana a year agoThere is no compelling reason for the news or companies to link Jeremy Lin with fortune cookies. So if you can’t see that this is racist, it’s because these kinds of associations have been normalized. It is dehumanizing to compare people to chopsticks, fortune-cookies and kung fu. It is important for people to stand up to ignorance and, no, it is not just people overreacting and be too “politically correct”.
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