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Feds to Stop Calling Midget Raisins ‘Midget’ (after complaints from activist group)
Washington Free Beacon ^
| August 20, 2015
| Elizabeth Harrington
Posted on 08/20/2015 1:51:38 PM PDT by Zakeet
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a regulation on Thursday to stop referring to midget raisins as midget after an activist group called the term offensive.
The USDAs Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) issued the proposed rule, announcing the U.S. Standards for Grades of Processed Raisins would eliminate all five times the word midget is used. Midget has long been used to describe the differences in sizes of California raisins.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: agriculture; ams; california; liberalism; midget; raisin; raisins; speech; usda
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To: Zakeet
Is MG going to be forced to retroactively rename all those little cars?
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:09:35 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
To: donna
You are 100% right.
But then again, you appear to have a brain...
22
posted on
08/20/2015 2:11:00 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
To: WayneS
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:11:06 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Impeach, convict, deport)
To: donna
If little people are no longer called midgets,
why would they care if raisins are called midgets? Am I right?
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:11:53 PM PDT
by
Dahoser
(Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
To: nascarnation
I saw one in a Lowe's store parking lot last weekend that looked
almost as good as the one in that photo.
I'm guessing the owner was NOT there to purchase the lumber for a new deck.
25
posted on
08/20/2015 2:12:45 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
To: WayneS
Probably picking up absorbent garage floor mats for the oil leaks, LOL
26
posted on
08/20/2015 2:14:16 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Impeach, convict, deport)
To: Zakeet
I suggest we just call them transplumped grapes. Or transturgids. I kind of prefer transplumped, though. And get on with our otherwise meaningful lives.
To: Obadiah
Okay, prune, then.......................
28
posted on
08/20/2015 2:15:45 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: Dahoser
In related news, raisins will still be allowed to change into raisinets but Obama will now pay for the surgery.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:15:48 PM PDT
by
JediJones
(The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
To: x
“What’s next, no more dwarf tossing?
Or they call it something else?”
High arc softball.
30
posted on
08/20/2015 2:15:49 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(2016 - Jews for Cruz)
To: Jeff Chandler
I see what you did there............I SEE IT.........
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:16:15 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: x
Knew a woman once who was married to a gay midget wrestler. I mean that’s what he called himself and what he did for a living.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:17:29 PM PDT
by
Mercat
(The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him and delivers them.)
To: Zakeet; Larry Lucido; SaveFerris; FredZarguna
It's little people, you got that?
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:17:48 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
To: nascarnation
LOL!!..............................true, so true...................BTW, I have a friend who has one, and she’s had it since her dad bought it for her 16th birthday in 1957..........................
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:18:08 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: Red Badger
I’ve owned several over the years.
Fussy but fun.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:21:38 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Impeach, convict, deport)
To: nascarnation
Hers has been rebuilt several times. Maybe she’ll leave it to me in her will, since she has no children or other close relatives.........................
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:24:32 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: Red Badger
Very nice!
Like most “garage queens” they seem to develop problems faster when NOT being driven often.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:26:00 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Impeach, convict, deport)
To: Zakeet
According to Snopes, it is untrue that the Japanese once translated W. Somerset Maugham’s “The Grapes of Wrath” as “The Angry Raisins.”
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:26:57 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: nascarnation
SHe only drives it on sunny weekends, now, so it does sit a lot, and never in rain or during the winter time.......................
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:27:03 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: Gamecock
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:27:13 PM PDT
by
ken5050
("Hillary Clinton is the NY Jets of American politics"......Salena Zito)
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