Posted on 05/13/2021 2:23:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Next time you visit the rice aisle at your local supermarket, you might notice that one of the products you're used to seeing looks a little bit different.
The brand formerly known as Uncle Ben's just relaunched with a new name — Ben's Original — and new packaging, and the company's products are already showing up in stores across the country.
Mars Food, the parent company of Ben's Original, made the announcement on Wednesday and shared photos of the sleek new packaging, which includes the new brand name and a familiar orange background/navy blue font.
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And they get NOTHING out of it. That’s what’s stupid.
There was a study done in the 90’s that found that white people were not swayed, one way or the other by the race of people in the commercial.
It also found black people were much more likely to watch a commercial with a black in it.
So, it makes sense for advertisers to use black people in their commercials.
Now every commercial is like a UN meeting.
gays and their backfires could explain their perpetual misery that they’re imposing on the rest of us...
OK, I get the two missing persons on his bulletin board, Amelia Earhart and Jimmy Hoffa. But who’s the guy on the left?
“There was a study done...”
That study sounds like a bunch of crap. Everyone knows that it is the white folk that are prejudiced! /s
They could have just called him Gay Uncle Ben, and the media would have loved it.
They just don’t get how stupid they’re making themselves look. Same with the so called “hero’s” they support. They just appear more brainless than the last time..
Frankly they’ve pushed me out of any support or desire to be around. They’ve drawn their line and I will draw mine now.
When only white people are left on company brand labels (Colonel for KFC, Ben & Jerry, etc.), the complaints will shift to the lack of people of color on product branding.
Or know how to make fried rice (says Uncle Roger):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53me-ICi_f8
I don't care about the name change. The company is in business to sell product, not get entangled in controversy or boycotts.
Won’t buy the brand any more and I got like 30 more years left to live. Someone else will be getting my money when I buy rice.
Is the rice still white? /s
Aunt Jemima is now Peal Milling Company with a picture of a not very appetizing building on the label.
Quaker Oats dude slimmed down but an old white guy is still on the label. There are white guys on Bob’s Red Mill and Gorton’s fish. Don’t know how we still have the jolly Green Giant.
Can’t have blacks backing well known products. That’s racist. Can’t have Betty Crocker, a white female, representing a brand either.
True...
I don’t know if it’s old stock or the policy change just takes a while up here in Canada but I just checked this weeks grocery flyer and Aunt Jemima is still on the box of pancake mix on sale.
I think I’m on the same path. I know a few blacks and have no problems. But support this “cause” sh**...whatever it is...is ridiculous.
Is it ok to call the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
That is the green agenda—eliminate people from the planet.
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