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Eskimo Pie ice cream rebrands as Edy's Pie as the 100-year-old company ditches its 'derogatory' name
UK Daily Mail ^ | October 12 2020 | HARRIET ALEXANDER

Posted on 10/12/2020 8:14:26 AM PDT by knighthawk

The makers of Eskimo Pie ice cream have announced the new name for their brand, losing a 100-year-old trademark which is now considered racially insensitive.

From 2021 Eskimo Pie will be known as Edy's Pie - a tribute to one of their founders, Joseph Edy.

In 1928 Edy and William Dreyer decided to join forces to manufacture ice cream, beginning a company which owns Eskimo Pie and is now known as Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, in turn owned by Nestle.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: discostu

“There’s lots of new under the sun.”

I gather haven’t read Ecclesiastes?


121 posted on 10/12/2020 10:19:22 AM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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To: BBQToadRibs

I believe it was invented by a guy named German


122 posted on 10/12/2020 10:20:21 AM PDT by oldsicilian
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To: alternatives?

I gather you’re having your own conversation and should stop dragging me into it.


123 posted on 10/12/2020 10:21:03 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: SamAdams76

yeah, I find it so irrational that it is somehow anti-racist to remove portaits of people on products because of their race. Mind boggling.


124 posted on 10/12/2020 10:22:00 AM PDT by Phillyred
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To: knighthawk

Back in the day, I hired an eskimo.

I had to list various racial types on the monthly federal contractors wage report.

I got a call from the Atlanta Regional Office asking if I lied about employing an “Eskimo” in East Tennessee. The federal form used the word Eskimo. The guy was nice but unbelieving. I think curious is correct. In Atlanta they don’t run across Eskimos every day

I then told the story about the young actual Eskimo man who followed a girl here from Alaska. It was tragic. He got drunk and put in jail where he hung himself. There were those in my shop who believed the young girls father had him killed. Bad business that was


125 posted on 10/12/2020 10:25:58 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) t Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay My, o. h, my, what a wonderful day)
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To: alexander_busek

There’s nothing derogatory about “eaters of raw meat.” Just ask the Japanese — or me. I love to eat raw fish.


126 posted on 10/12/2020 10:30:21 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: discostu

“And continuing to insist on calling them that, or associating the word with their image..”

My point is that it’s the name of an ice cream bar.

Never once have I argued that people should or should not be referred to as Eskimo.

Nor am I aware the old image (which was not derogatory or insulting) is still used. Is it?


127 posted on 10/12/2020 11:03:34 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: knighthawk

A change no one demanded. Idiots.


128 posted on 10/12/2020 11:05:21 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: knighthawk
ditches its 'derogatory' name

I think we should thank Eskimo Pie for its extreme honesty.

It takes courage to admit to your customers that you have purposely foisted this derogatory name on them for as many years as they could get away with it. However, now, after their racist actions are exposed, and only after, agree to change.

129 posted on 10/12/2020 11:20:51 AM PDT by MosesKnows
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To: ifinnegan

But the ice cream bar is very deliberately what we USED to (and some people still insist on) calling this group of people. Complete with a picture of one of them. But that’s not their name. One quick search in the engine of your choice shows very clearly that there is still a kid dressed like an Inuit on the boxes, right next to (and sometimes holding) the E in Eskimo.


130 posted on 10/12/2020 11:33:17 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: knighthawk

The left is always erasing things. You’d think more people would stand up to them.


131 posted on 10/12/2020 11:35:54 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: discostu

You know, I’ve looked more in to this and I do not buy it that Eskimo is derogatory or that any majority of people who fall under the category think it is derogatory.

It’s supposed to be derogatory because supposedly Eskimo means “eats raw meat” in a language spoken thousands of miles away from the arctic circle.


132 posted on 10/12/2020 11:58:30 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

I explained to you multiple times why it is. If you can’t understand the very basic logic that refusing to call somebody what they want to be called is derogatory then you’re an idiot.


133 posted on 10/12/2020 12:13:17 PM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: Williams

“I don’t know but I’ve been told,
Eskimo pie is mighty cold.”

LOL! Ya gotta be quick!


134 posted on 10/12/2020 2:19:55 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: knighthawk

135 posted on 10/12/2020 2:31:16 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: knighthawk

They don’t want us to like Eskimos?


136 posted on 10/12/2020 2:32:47 PM PDT by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: knighthawk

Well since these manufacturers appear to prefer being woke by destroying another classic brand... I suppose the least I can do is to help them to go broke.


137 posted on 10/12/2020 2:35:00 PM PDT by Pennsyltucky Boy (bitterly clinging to our constitutional rights in PA P)
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To: Professional

Good. Now, let’s get rid of every indian name associated with cities, towns, mountains, creeks and streams.... shameful to name things after indians.

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

If they knew what Corpus Christi meant, their heads would explode.


138 posted on 10/12/2020 3:20:27 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Born after V.E. day but before V.J. day but I did co pilot the Enola Gay.)
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To: discostu

“I explained to you multiple times why it is. If you can’t understand the very basic logic that refusing to call somebody what they want to be called is derogatory then you’re an idiot.”

No. I understand fully. People shouldn’t be called what they don’t want to be called of of basic respect and civility.

I did some research and am challenging your premise.

Your facts.

If your premise isn’t true it doesn’t matter what the logic is.


139 posted on 10/12/2020 6:31:38 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Professional

You’re captain obvious dancing with Dorothy defeatist

You can do better ....I see your posts


140 posted on 10/12/2020 6:37:25 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you run the tra)
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