Ben & Jerry’s Apologizes for Linsanity Fortune Cookie Ice Cream

Feb 27, 2012

A Boston Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shop has apologized for creating a "Taste the Lin-sanity" frozen yogurt flavor that included lychee honey swirls and crumbled fortune cookies. "There seemed to be a bit of an initial backlash about it," Ryan Midden, Ben & Jerry’s general manager for Boston and Cambridge, [told Boston.com](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/post/jeremy-lin-a-ben-and-jerrys-controversy-an-offer-from-a-rod/2012/02/26/gIQAWy88bR_blog.html?tid=pm_sports_pop), "but we obviously weren’t looking to offend anybody and the majority of the feedback about it has been positive."