Posted on 11/30/2015 8:39:42 AM PST by Kaslin
In Australia, one is able to purchase a personalized label for a jar of Nutella, the popular chocolate and hazelnut spread. Unless, apparently, someone is trying to purchase a label for a person named Isis. A woman in Australia found this out the hard way, when she was told that she would not be allowed to purchase a personalized jar for her five-year-old niece, Isis Taylor. Her niece was named after the Egyptian goddess, and was born years before the creation of the Islamic State.
Despite pleas to Ferrero Australia to please reconsider and print the label, the company stood firm and will not budge due to the "sensitive nature" of the name.
Myer told Ms Taylor that Nutella had a protocol for acceptable names and directed her to Nutella's parent company, Ferrero Australia.
Ferrero chief executive Craig Barker personally contacted her the next day to stand by the company's position.
"I'm really quite upset by this," Ms Taylor told him. "You are actually making my daughter's name dirty. You are choosing to refuse my daughter's name in case the public refers to it negatively."
The Nutella campaign, which allows fans of the hazelnut spread to personalise a 750 gram or one kilogram jar, was launched in September. In a statement, Ferrero Australia confirmed the label in question was not approved for printing due to its sensitive nature.
"Like all campaigns, there needs to be consistency in the way terms and conditions are applied," the company said. "Unfortunately, this has meant there have been occasions where a label has not been approved on the basis that it could have been misinterpreted by the broader community or viewed as inappropriate."
This is ridiculous. The name "Isis" dates back to over 2,000 B.C., and the Islamic State was founded in 2013. Isis Taylor was not named after the group, and it's a fairly safe assumption that her mother would have chosen a different name had ISIS (the group) existed in its current form during her pregnancy. This child, and thousands of other people who are named "Isis," shouldn't be punished or encouraged to change their names because a group of terrorists decided to adopt their names as their moniker. "Isis" as a name has been used for thousands of years for peaceful purposes--it should not be controversial.
Not set off by quotes, and not attributed to anyone else. So it belongs to the author, not the aunt.
I would refer you to Strunk and White as to the usage and meaning of quotation marks. There are other ways to treat block quotes, but they weren't used for this paragraph, either.
"My daughter"
* slap *
"My niece"
* slap *
"My daughter"
* slap *
My niece"
* slap *
"My daughter AND my niece!"
"Fuggedabout, Jake, it's just Chinatown. "
Unless the girl is under three years old, who could have known.
And if I need to get permission from YOU as to what I post, you better log in as a moderator. They (and the site owner) can tell me what I can and can't post. You can't. Now go find the abuse button and whine to someone who can help you.
Good name for a dog.
Lousy name for a human being.
I can understand the company’s position. The PR would be bad if they printed the ISIS label, and someone posted pics on the intertubes claiming that the company supports terrorists. I’d just say “no” if I was the company as well.
Or maybe a Star Trek character?
The name "Isis" dates back to over 2,000 B.C., and the Islamic State was founded in 2013.
More like 2011 for Daesh.
5.56mm
You’re making me dizzy. lol
This mom/aunt/whatever-she-is ought to be more concerned that the little child's name is the same as the name of the world's greatest threat to world peace than that she can't get a personalized jar of Nutela, which has the name of a horrifying terrorist organization on it. On a different topic, whenever I see someone with one of those huge ear piercings, I can barely look at them in the eyes. Their piercing is so distracting. Having the name of ISIS is distracting as well. It makes me cringe just reading the news about ISIS. I would not want to be reminded of ISIS every time I was this child, and I would not saddle her with the name either. Which name came first is irrelevant. I would at the very least start giving her a nickname rather than call her ISIS. BTW, a member of my family named their son a very nice name that had some alternate ways of spelling it. Unfortunately, it was one of those names that became very trendy as a girl's name shortly after he was born, and it was frequently assumed he was a girl as a baby because of it. So rather than saddle him with the now feminine name, they changed his name. Because they loved him. Life is tough enough without having to add to the difficulties of a "Boy named Sue" scenario.
Monica Lewinsky wasn’t the first one with that name and won’t be the last one. I had a classmate in the late 40’s and 50’s whose first name was Monika
I don’t think the dog cared what his or her name was. I had a Dachshund many years ago, whose name was Moritz. He also came to “Stupid” when we called him that.
“He also came to “Stupid†when we called him that.”
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I had dogs like that——and I miss them dearly. :-)
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Nutella is yummy
Bingo.
Having one's name on a label is sooooo last year. Auntie should order a bag of M&Ms with her picture on the candies.
That was in the 70’s when we were stationed at Fort Riley.
Make your own label on the computer and stick it on! Complain, complain..
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