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Ben Jerry’s replaces fortune cookies in ‘Lin-Sanity’ flavor after controversy Ben Jerry’s will take fortune cookies out of its new Jeremy Lin-inspired ice cream flavor after hearing complaints that the ingredient was racist. The limited-edition flavor, “Taste the Lin-Sanity,” originally featured vanilla frozen yogurt, honey swirls and bits of fortune cookies, the latter ingredient serving as an obvious nod to Lin’s heritage. After the backlash, the company pulled the cookies from the mix and replaced them with waffle cone pieces that will be served on the side. “There seemed to be a bit of an initial backlash about it, but we obviously weren’t looking to offend anybody and the majority of the feedback about it has been positive,” Ryan Midden, the general manager of the Ben Jerry’s in Cambridge, Ma., told the Boston Globe. And that quote right there encapsulates the politically correct culture in which we live. Most people liked it, Midden said. But because a few people didn’t, Ben Jerry’s caved. The company says the main reason for removing the fortune cookies was because they got soggy inside the batch. If you believe that, I have a bridge made of Cherry Garcia to sell you. The move comes days after the Asian American Journalists Association released media guidelines about how to cover Lin. “Is there a compelling reason to draw a connection between Lin and fortune cookies, takeout boxes or similar imagery?,” they wrote. “In the majority of news coverage, the answer will be no.” [Y! News: Asian American Journalists Association issues guidelines on Jeremy Lin coverage] Notice how the AAJA specifically mentions news coverage. There’s never a compelling reason to run a graphic of Lin standing on a takeout box. But a tongue-in-cheek ice cream product being sold in Harvard Square is not news coverage. How else should they have honored him? He plays in the Big Apple, but apples aren’t a good ice cream fruit. He played for the Harvard Crimson. That color doesn’t go wel