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Goodbye Aunt Jemaima. I’m going to miss seeing your happy face in the morning.

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June 17, 2020, 08:51 AM
stickman428
Goodbye Aunt Jemaima. I’m going to miss seeing your happy face in the morning.
This will surely end racism.

Aunt Jemaima has been deemed a racist stereotypical image and is now going to join the beautiful Land o Lakes Native American woman and vanish completely from the packaging.

“ We recognize Aunt Jemima’s origins are based on a racial stereotype," Quaker Oats said, adding that the move is an effort "toward progress on racial equality."

If someone was seriously triggered by a bottle of pancake syrup with a happy black lady on it they should do the world a favor and dive into a wood chipper head first.

This is just fucking silly.

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June 17, 2020, 08:54 AM
Ronin1069
I'm surprised it took this long.


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June 17, 2020, 08:57 AM
RogueJSK
On the cultural side, this is ridiculous.

But on the practical side, I wouldn't shed a tear if Aunt Jemima syrup disappeared altogether. It's just brown-colored high fructose corn syrup with artificial flavoring. You can do a lot better with real maple syrup. Wink
June 17, 2020, 09:00 AM
vinnybass
Well, now Mrs. Butterworth's gotta go too.

Fair's fair 'n shit. Can't have the white granny prevail. Friggin' idiots.



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June 17, 2020, 09:10 AM
tigereye313
quote:
Originally posted by Ronin1069:
I'm surprised it took this long.


This.




June 17, 2020, 09:11 AM
mrvmax
I used those when I was a kid but as an adult I hate all the corn syrup and artificial junk. Get some real Vermont maple syrup and don’t look back (I buy mine from a friend of one of our Sigforum members). I think I may buy some Mrs. Butterworth/Aunt J bottles to put my real maple syrup in.
June 17, 2020, 09:16 AM
MikeinNC
What about Uncle Ben?



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June 17, 2020, 09:17 AM
DJ_Boston
we need to go after the Quaker Oat man now too.


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June 17, 2020, 09:20 AM
BigSwede
Store brand always works.


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June 17, 2020, 09:20 AM
DJ_Boston
Why don't we get rid of all depictions of humans at all. The Taliban are here, and have conquered too many minds in our country.


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June 17, 2020, 09:24 AM
stickman428
Yeah Mike, Uncle Ben is gonna have to go too. He is reinforcing a racist stereotype too or something. Wonder how long until he gets tossed into the memory hole?


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June 17, 2020, 09:28 AM
joel9507
So....I thought putting 'diverse' images into ads was a big thing for the politically correct, not all that long ago.

Somehow, we are to imagine that both that it's OK, nay, preferable, to show black folks in ads for products, but that it's not OK for them to be on the products themselves.

Missing the logic, somehow.
June 17, 2020, 09:29 AM
Haveme1or2
Yeah I'll buy it with a normal everyday fat black woman's pic on the labels .... Roll Eyes
June 17, 2020, 09:39 AM
smschulz
Well "Jake from State Farm" in now black so that must count for something. Frown
June 17, 2020, 09:45 AM
zipriderson
In all of these silly examples, we have yet to hear from anyone who is actually offended.

Not their advocates. . the actual 'victims'. Where is the outcry from the black community over Aunt Jemaima, or the sword handles, or Stapleton, or the word Antebellum (yes the band Lady Antebellum will not be "Lady A")?
June 17, 2020, 09:46 AM
Modern Day Savage
Friggin' ridiculous virtue signaling combined with corporate cowardice...I am sooooo tired of the cowardice and capitulations to emotionally unstable unreasonable Leftist temper tantrums, complete with tears and pouty faces.

quote:
Originally posted by mrvmax:
I used those when I was a kid but as an adult I hate all the corn syrup and artificial junk. Get some real Vermont maple syrup and don’t look back (I buy mine from a friend of one of our Sigforum members). I think I may buy some Mrs. Butterworth/Aunt J bottles to put my real maple syrup in.


Read my mind, as I was about to make the same suggestion. The syrup itself will do in a pinch but, truth be told, I don't give a damn about the actual corn syrup, but the childhood memories that a bottle of Aunt J sitting on a breakfast table bring can't be replaced. I'll gladly keep some Aunt J bottles around just to pour some maple syrup in and enjoy...my middle finger to Leftist SJWs and corporate cowardice.
..I just wish I could find an old glass bottle rather than the plastic ones.

As a slight deviation from the topic; years ago I devised a unique way to eat syrup covered pancakes/ flap jacks that others seem to get great amusement in watching me perform and eat.
June 17, 2020, 09:59 AM
RogueJSK
Is it similar to the method of eating cereal without a bowl, wherein you shove a handful of cereal in your mouth, take a swig of milk, and chew? Big Grin
June 17, 2020, 10:00 AM
ugeesta
Colonel Sanders has to go to. That old white guy had to be a slave owner back in the day.




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June 17, 2020, 10:05 AM
corsair
quote:
Originally posted by Ronin1069:
I'm surprised it took this long.

Agreed.
Growing up, Aunt Jemaima was a sugary sweet syrup, not a pancake mix. Looking at the bottle while eating, I never liked the image as it represented the slave mammy; the mythical, kindly, heavy set but, dim witted house maid. Same deal with Uncle Ben, not only was the rice shitty but, again it represented the obedient, kindly slave image. There's a whole back story of how it was marketed and several women played the role around at Worlds Fairs and school visits as Aunt Jemaima. Racist, I don't think so, insensitive, yeah.
June 17, 2020, 10:12 AM
lyman
quote:
Originally posted by RogueJSK:
On the cultural side, this is ridiculous.

But on the practical side, I wouldn't shed a tear if Aunt Jemima syrup disappeared altogether. It's just brown-colored high fructose corn syrup with artificial flavoring. You can do a lot better with real maple syrup. Wink



this,

used a lot of AJ when I was a kid on pancakes,

haven't touched the stuff in 30 yrs ,or more



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