Aunt Jemima brand gets a new name: Pearl Milling Company

AP ^ | 02 09 2021 | DEE-ANN DURBIN

[yesthatjallen]

Aunt Jemima is making her last batch of pancakes.

Quaker Oats said Tuesday that its Aunt Jemima brand pancake mix and syrup will be renamed Pearl Milling Company. Aunt Jemima products will continue to be sold until June, when the packaging will officially change over.

Quaker Oats, a division of PepsiCo Inc., had announced last June that it would retire the Aunt Jemima brand, saying the character’s origins are “based on a racial stereotype.” The smiling Aunt Jemima logo was inspired by the 19th century “mammy” minstrel character, a Black woman content to serve her white masters. A former slave, Nancy Green, became the first face of the pancake products in 1890.

SNIP

[Rebelbase]

And just like that groceries became segregated.

[AnxiouslyWaiting]

And the Rolling Stones need to be immediately cancelled & banned everywhere on the planet because of “Brown Sugar”.
When will the left demand the Stones kneel in obedience to the tyrants?

[Bogey78O]

Folks mostly kept buying due to familiarity. Now they ditched familiarity. So expect it to be treated like the generic and sell less as people value shop for a new name they know.

[dfwgator]

And the Rolling Stones need to be immediately cancelled & banned everywhere on the planet because of “Brown Sugar”.

Never mind that, what about "Some Girls" (Black girls just want to get _____d all night)



"Now, Mr. Jagger, there is only one question I want to ask you -- Jaggs. ... And you better have the answer, man, you better have the answer, since you have besmirched the character of black women. Therefore, here is my question, Jaggs. [pause, takes off eyeglasses, suddenly drops the pose, pleading] Where are all of these black broads, man? ... [huge cheers and applause] Hey, like, where ARE they, baby? You got any phone numbers for me, baby? ... Please send 'em to me. [puts glasses back on, dignified again] Thank you. ... [enthusiastic applause]"

[GraceG]

[Buttons12]

CORN SYRUP, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, WATER, CELLULOSE GUM, CARAMEL COLOR, SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SODIUM BENZOATE AND SORBIC ACID (PRESERVATIVES), SODIUM HEXAMETAPHOSPHATE.

Shouldn't there be a grain in there someplace? Corn meal, rice, wheat, buckwheat (oops), oats? Something.

[AlaskaErik]

Aren’t pearls white? How racist.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Earl the Pearl Monroe!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Here’s the Board of Directors of Quaker Oats, owner of Aunt Jemima. See if you can detect a pattern here. I know it is hard to see, but try hard:

William G. Barker III
Born: c. 1959
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Executive summary: CFO of Sun-Times Media Group

David L. Beré
Born: c. 1953
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Executive summary: Interim CEO of Dollar General

Michael J. Callahan
Born: c. 1938
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Executive summary: CEO of Material Sciences, 2003-04

Janet K. Cooper
Born: c. 1953
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Executive summary: Senior VP and Treasurer of Qwest

Philip A. Marineau
Born: c. 1946
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Executive summary: CEO of Levi Strauss, 1999-2006

Patricia B. Morrison
Born: c. 1959
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Executive summary: CIO of Motorola

Robert S. Morrison
Born: c. 1941
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Executive summary: Vice Chairman of Pepsi, 2003-05
Military service: USMC (1963-67, to Capt., Vietnam War)

William D. Smithburg
Born: 9-Jul-1938
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Party Affiliation: Republican
Executive summary: CEO of Quaker Oats, 1981-97

[Songcraft]

You're right!   There are a whole bunch of versions of that song out there on youtube that will have to be deleted, and they will have to have all their other songs pulled and banned there too!

[MV=PY]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXu-44KjRIE

[xp38]

Not really.....this is all a move by Big Syrup which really does matter

[Organic Panic]

Pearls are mostly white. They replaced a black woman with white pearls. Milling makes white flour. They replaced a black woman with white flour. They erased a black woman. RACIST RACIST RACIST.
They should have just updated the name with a modern black female name like Tyshauniqa.

[CodeToad]

Pearl Milling? Sounds like a bunch of black slaves grinding pearls in Jamaica. Seems racist to me.

[DoughtyOne]

Was my favorite syrup.

I’ve bought my last bottle of it.

Their treatment of the family of this woman wreaks.

[Howie66]

I couldn’t resist. :-)

[DoughtyOne]

It’s also my grandmother’s name, from my father’s side of the
family.

[simpson96]

Gladys Knight endorsed the stuff in advertisements in the 80's, and when some said Aunt Jemima syrup and pancake mix was a racist product, she really let them have it.

At that time, they backed off - likely because Knight was a black woman.

Now? She'd be canceled so fast...

[Viking2002]

The hell with Aunt Jemima. I use Log Cabin if I don’t have pure maple syrup on hand. (I wish we could grow sugar-free maple trees.)

[ptsal]

Are black cooks out of style?