Doesn't anybody learn? Ben & Jerry's just released a new ice cream flavor called Taste the Lin-Sanity that's only available at its location in Harvard Square, according to the Boston Globe.
The ice cream has lychee fruit and fortune cookie pieces in it.
This comes after the Asian American Journalists Association specifically said there is no reason to relate Jeremy Lin to such food items as 'fortune cookies, take out boxes, or other similar imagery.'
And as Deadspin points out, lychee is a fruit native to Southeast Asia, which is not even where Jeremy Lin's family is from.
We're sure Ben & Jerry's didn't purposefully try to be racist, and the flavor is only available near Lin’s alma mater but …
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