26 Feb 2012

Ben & Jerry’s “Taste the Lin-sanity” Controversy

In an attempt to coin their new flavor last week, Ben & Jerry’s released a new flavor called “Taste the Lin-Sanity” without a whole lot of thought as to how people might react to it. The original flavor was a vanilla frozen yogurt w/ lychee honey swirls and fortune cookie pieces. As you can imagine, the controversy started because of the fortune cookie pieces. All offensiveness aside, I actually would want to try that flavor because it sounds good, but Ben & Jerry’s realized their wrongdoing and quickly replaced the fortune cookie pieces with waffle cookies claiming that the fortune cookies got too soggy.

The creators still released an apology for the idea of even including fortune cookies anyways:

“We offer a heartfelt apology if anyone was offended by our handmade Lin-Sanity flavor,” they said in a statement.

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Posted on February 26, in Culture