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Follow Up of the Day: In light of the minor controversy that ensued following the inclusion of fortune cookie pieces in a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream named after Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin, the Unilver subsidiary today issued an apology to “anyone was offended by our handmade Lin-Sanity flavor.”

The limited-edition concoction was sold exclusively at the company’s Harvard Square location in honor of the overnight sensation’s connection to the square’s namesake university.

The initial recipe consisted of vanilla-flavored frozen yogurt, lychee honey swirls, and fortune cookie flakes. After customers reportedly pointed out the racial overtones of including bits of fortune cookie in an ice cream named after an Asian-American basketball player, the store switched out the ingredient in favor of waffle cookies.  

“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,” said Ben & Jerry’s in their press release. “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.”

For his part, the local GM, Ryan Midden, continues to maintain that fortune cookies were removed from the flavor “because the cookies got so soggy.”

Earlier this month, ESPN writer Anthony Federico was fired after he used the phrase “chink in the armor” to describe the Knicks performance on the night of their winning-streak-snapping loss to the Hornets.

[espn / boston / gothamist.]

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