Eskimo Pie no more: Ice cream owners will drop 'derogatory' name

CNN ^ | June 20, 2020 | Alta Spells and Jay Croft

[Graybeard58]

The left will have conniptions when they find out what “Corpus Christi” means.

[mylife]

The music annoys me, not the names

[moovova]

That’s alright...I’ll stick with FatBoy Ice Cream Sandwiches.

[mylife]

Klondike? Like 2 lesbians in Alaska?

[davius]

Esquimaux

A name derived from esquimantsic, in the Albinaquis language, eaters of raw flesh. Many tribes in the Arctic regions are still ignorant of the art of cookery.

[TigersEye]

It will now be called Walrus Crap!

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

Take Alaskans out of American culture like Native Americans.

[Vendome]

“This name is considered derogatory in many other places because it was given by non-Inuit people and was said to mean ‘eater of raw meat.’”

Well I doubt that but, they do eat raw meat....

[American in Israel]

[ConservativeInPA]

Simple choice at hand. Don’t buy anything from Dreyer’s. If they want to engage in this Marxist bullschiff, then I won’t spend a dime on their products. These commies need to go hungry.

[unread]

Has White not become a “derogatory” name..?? Just asking... :(

[Vendome]

From Wikipedia: Etymologically speaking, there exists a scientific consensus that the word Eskimo comes from the Innu-aimun (Montagnais) word ayas̆kimew meaning "a person who laces a snowshoe" and is related to "husky" (a breed of dog), and it does not have a pejorative meaning in origin. In Canada and Greenland, the term "Eskimo" is predominantly seen as offensive or "non-preferred", and has been widely replaced by the term "Inuit" or terms specific to a particular group or community. This has resulted in a trend whereby some Canadians and Americans believe that they should not use the word "Eskimo", and use the classifier and typical Canadian word "Inuit" instead, even for Yupik (non-Inuit) people. Some people still believe that Eskimo translates to "eater of raw meat", which may be seen, or used, in a pejorative way. The word has been cited by some authors as being used by colonizers in the process of committing cultural genocide.

[American in Israel]

Has nothing to do with race and everything to do with Communist culture erasure.

[Gritty]

Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream will die a slow, self-inflicted death and they certainly deserve it.

[edwinland]

I agree with you. My reason for posting this story was not to cue the usual “what word will they ban next” discussion, but rather to point out something a bit more subtle (maybe too subtle) which is that the word said to be racist because it “was used” by “others” to describe Inuits. I suspected that something was hiding in the passive sense and sure enough when I checked it turns out to be a word that one group of Native Americans gave to another group of Native Americans.

[curth]

Pretty sure the same company calls their ice cream Edy’s on the east coast for some reason. Won’t be buying any anymore.

[Fast Moving Angel]

I’ve been calling myself a Saltine American for a long time. Cracker is SO racist!!!

Flour power!!

[Redwood71]

About the same poor decision when M & M’s decided not to allow their product to be eaten by ET in the movie. In the book, it was M & M’s. They probably fired that VP also. Reese’s got billions of dollars of free advertising.

rwood

[Chuckster]

Get woke, go broke. Now they will have to start from scratch rebuilding what was a 100 year old brand, one of the best known in America.

[familyop]

Why would they do that? We know that there are not Eskimos in it. :)