We read:
"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.
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7 comments:
OK, fine. So then let's be properly Politically Correct and mandate that ALL Chinese restaurants NOT serve fortune cookies so as not to perpetuate the stereotype.
But wait, THAT would be preventing racial expression.
So you see, it's a losing battle. It's really no different from a black using the term "ni**er" to describe another black versus a white using the same term.
Political Correctness mandates that those WITHIN an ethnicity are free to refer to themselves however they want, be it uplifting or derogatory, yet those OUTSIDE the ethnicity have absolutely no right to state anything that in any way specifically identifies that ethnicity. And in doing so, we do NOTHING to bridge the divides among the varied ethnicities.
Fortune cookies are not actually from China. They're actually an American variation on a cookie invented in Japan during the 1800's. An attempt was made to sell them in China around 1992, but failed because they were apparently viewed as being "too American".
Which just adds another layer of irony to the PC silliness.
Ben & Jerry's should stick with their favorite flavors, Marxist-Mocha, or Leftist-Lemon, Commie-Coconut, or Barackenberry.
I dont care for BEN & JERRY but i do like forture cookies
I prefer Hagen daze anyway. How can people get wound so tight over NOTHING!
I prefer Publix brand ice cream. It tastes great, it's typically the least expensive, and it is actually packed in 1/2 gallon cartons, unlike the other pathetic brands who try to f*ck with you mind by using smaller "illusion" packaging.
fORGET ben & jery puke paste look up STAR SPANGLED ICE CREAM on the internet
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