Meh, whatever. Call it Quaker Oats Co. Syrup. Oh wait, “Quaker”?! Ummm, those folks aren’t as woke as they think they are?
Aunt Jemima becomes Aunt Pearl?
A distinction without a difference.
Once you start erasing it never stops.
You get the feeling that the Democrats are trying to recreate an antebellum America?
We shouldn’t have black icons for marketing purposes?
Uncle Ben was a REAL person.
“Aunt” Jemima could be construed as marginalization but why not just change the name to “Jemima’s” rather than removing a black face from mainstream packaging?
And as pointed out elsewhere - Pearls are... white...
Narratives are colliding!!!
Soon, buffet lines will be replacing black cooks with white cooks and we will all suffer for it.
The entire thing is senseless. WTF is wrong with “Aunt Jemima”?
Appeasement will gain Pepsico nothing. They won’t even be eaten last.
Fired the black lady! Moron little liberals.
Please just make up my mind. Either Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben are racist stereotypes that must be canceled from our culture, or else removing their images is itself a racist act.
Which is it? I need to know how to feel enraged.
Give them say 6 months to look at the sales figures from the “Pearl Milling COmpany” pancake mix.....sales will drop drastically....I predict cut in half by the end of 2021..so Aunt Jemima will be back in some form, or the entire product will be retired.
Betty Crocker (a very well-known and popular brand of General Mills Corporation) has been undergoing racist genetic mutation for many years.
I once had occasion to visit the President of GMills, on business. I had to wait for just a moment in his office’s reception area while he came out to usher me in to see him.
Hanging on the walls were about 20 or 30 pictures of Betty Crocker. All ever so slightly different. I was trying to figure them out when El Presidente came out to greet me. He saw that I was staring at his collection of Betties. He asked how I liked them and I must have expressed my wonderment because he explained....
Each Betty was a little different because GMills changes Betty every year to reflect her products’ marketing demographics. Which means, it turns out, that when (say) one percent more Chinese people buy Betty cake mixes, Betty herself mutates to become one percent more Chinese.
I forget the exact figures but El Presidente knew them, at that time Betty was (say) 79.3 percent Caucasian, 7.6 percent black, 9.2 percent Chinese, 2 percent Neanderthal and the remainder Sasquatch.
(Must have been some kinda orgy....?)
STOP VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS.
THEY SCREW EVERYTHING UP TO GET AND KEEP CONTROL OVER YOUR LIFE!
Of course corporate oligarchs also recently killed King Arthur. Neither he nor his flag grace the bags of King Arthur Flour anymore. I suppose he was deemed "too Christian" and "too male". Maybe if he was a "trans" they could bring back his image as "Queen Arthur".
A quick look through twitter on this indicates that the black-folk complaining the loudest about this are also the most reactionary leftists.
They are too stupid to grasp that their cultural revolution hammers are used hit them eventually.
The stupid thing about this is that Aunt Jemima was an example of a former slave who rose to success and prominence and worldwide adoration. You’d think the idiots would celebrate that. It was essentially the opposite of racism and they just couldn’t leave it alone.
Funny headline on the same website:
“Tom Brady Accused Of Racism For Winning Super Bowl During Black History Month”
It is not satire.
So let me get this straight—they “cancelled” a well-known piece of Americana featuring a black woman on a beloved logo because it was insensitive stereotyping or some such, and replaced it with the name of the original company that came up with the logo in the first place? How does that make a lick of sense?
I stopped buying it after they got rid of her she has been with me for over 50 years