Feds to Stop Calling Midget Raisins ‘Midget’ (after complaints from activist group)

Washington Free Beacon ^ | August 20, 2015 | Elizabeth Harrington

[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 USDA’s 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.

[WayneS]

Is MG going to be forced to retroactively rename all those little cars?

[WayneS]

You are 100% right.

But then again, you appear to have a brain...

[nascarnation]

[Dahoser]

If little people are no longer called midgets,
why would they care if raisins are called midgets?

Am I right?

[WayneS]

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.

[nascarnation]

Probably picking up absorbent garage floor mats for the oil leaks, LOL

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I suggest we just call them transplumped grapes. Or transturgids. I kind of prefer transplumped, though. And get on with our otherwise meaningful lives.

[Red Badger]

Okay, prune, then.......................

[JediJones]

In related news, raisins will still be allowed to change into raisinets but Obama will now pay for the surgery.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“What’s next, no more dwarf tossing?
Or they call it something else?”

High arc softball.

[Red Badger]

I see what you did there............I SEE IT.........

[Mercat]

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.

[Gamecock]

It's little people, you got that?

[Red Badger]

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..........................

[nascarnation]

I’ve owned several over the years.
Fussy but fun.

[Red Badger]

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.........................

[nascarnation]

Very nice!

Like most “garage queens” they seem to develop problems faster when NOT being driven often.

[Cicero]

According to Snopes, it is untrue that the Japanese once translated W. Somerset Maugham’s “The Grapes of Wrath” as “The Angry Raisins.”

[Red Badger]

SHe only drives it on sunny weekends, now, so it does sit a lot, and never in rain or during the winter time.......................

[ken5050]

California Raisins: Heard it through the grapevine..