Posted on 01/13/2021 1:35:20 PM PST by mylife
Coon Cheese is to be rebranded in Australia to Cheer after a campaign by activists against the word's racist connotations.
The well-known brand, which has been around for more than 80 years, will disappear from shelves in July.
The cheese is owned by Canada's Saputo Dairy Australia which announced last year it would "retire" the name.
Coon is historically used as a racist slur, and Aboriginal groups have lobbied for its rebranding for decades.
It is one of a number of brands to face pressure to rebrand following last year's Black Lives Matter movement.
The cheese got its original name from American pioneering cheese maker Edward William Coon who patented a ripening process in the 1920s.
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Get woke, go broke.
Of course, it makes no difference that the name has nothing to do with the racial slur, but is named after the company’s founder. This reminds me of the debate over the word “niggardly” a few years ago.
Hope somebody doesn’t try to wash clothes with it.
I’ve been complaining about cracker for minutes now but Zesta keeps ignoring me!
Have to change the common name of Procyon Lotor too.
:)
“Coon” is a very common last name.
There is even a Democrat US Senator named Coons!
This is gonna get fun!
So I guess they will be getting rid of crackers too?
Fine, how about renaming it Boong Cheese? /sarc
What was this brand of food really named after? I’m wagering it’s a 90 percent chance that it wasn’t named to put down aboriginals at all.
>>The cheese got its original name from American pioneering cheese maker Edward William Coon who patented a ripening process in the 1920s.
Doesn’t matter anymore
A family on my street where I grew up was named COONS. some kids jokingly called them a family of Coons, a den of Coons, etc… At the time, I thought they meant Raccoons. Perhaps the older kids meant something different
Who would imagine these poor folks would someday be identified as inherently racist.
Why not call it Edward’s
OK Raccoons. You’re next. How about Racsofcolor?
That was mighty white of them
“So I guess they will be getting rid of crackers too?”
We’ll call it matzah.
It will now be known as:
“Northam Cheese”
I have an iphone for work. If I type the word boy into a text message it pops up an emoji of a black boy. I kid you not.
1984
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