Posted on 08/03/2020 2:21:18 PM PDT by edwinland
After nearly 100 years, Eskimo Pie ice cream will get a new name.
"We are committed to being a part of the solution on racial equality, and recognize the term is derogatory," Elizabell Marquez, head of marketing for parent company Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, told CNN in a statement.
The chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream bar joins brands such as Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben's in overhauling long-used names and marketing strategies considered racially offensive...
The name "Eskimo" is commonly used in Alaska to refer to Inuit and Yupik people, according to the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska. "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.'"
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The name was "was given by non-Inuit people and was said to mean 'eater of raw meat.'"
"Was given"? By whom?
Means 'eater of raw meat? in what language?
I don't know a single European language where "eater" or "raw meat" sounds anything like "esk" or "imo".
And why not? Because (depending on your source) the word Eskino is from the language of the Montagnais Native Americans of Canada or from the closely related language of the Algonquin Native Americans of Canada. In other words, it was a word used by one group of Native Americans to refer to another group of Native Americans.
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=eskimo
So if the word "Eskimo" was invented by Native Americans ...
... and the word Eskimo is a derogatory racist word...
Then that means that Canadian Native Americans are ...
Move along. nothing to see here.
Swahili Pie? Equal time.
I'm not Vanilla....and I'm offended!!
I eat sushi and sashimi.
I am an Eskimo and proud to be one!
This madness must end.
Considered “Racially ‘offensive’” by whom???
Good grief... I never heard squat about any of these “offensive” brands before
And certainly by no one who wasn’t with a LOOKITMEEEEEE
attitude
This is too much.
I’m gonna go open a vein...
Klondike Bars are better anyway.
What will they call it? The Washington Redskins became the Washington Football Team. So will Eskimo Pie become the Chocolate Ice Cream Bar?
Quick, somebody trademark the name “Alaskan Pie”.
Did anyone try calling it “Inuit Pie?”
OH NOES now everyone can feel better no more Eskimo Pies..now the world’s problems have been officially resolved/sarc
Maybe next they can get rid of black hockey pucks, why are they black, obviously racist, they should be white
I’m an American. I haven’t purchased any Eskimo Pies in a long time, and now I will never purchase one (however they rename it) again. I will also try to avoid any other product produced by the same company. I am SO sick of corporate virtue signaling.
ML/NJ
They also built some awesome igloos that were snug and warm despite Arctic conditions outside.
I think Eskimos got it mostly right. We should emulate them.
No, that will become “Saltine White Southerners.”
Eskimos do make Beaver Pie though
Klondike bars are better than Eskimo Pies.
I never buy their Product, but if I did I wouldn’t anymore.
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