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

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

[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.'"

[Raycpa]

Italian ice next?

[EnquiringMind]

Derogatory???? Eskimo Pies??? CRAP Pies perhaps is derogatory.

[McGruff]

[tet68]

Maybe they should just change the name to Eskimo Cake?

[xrmusn]

Eskimos do make Beaver Pie though
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Is that in honor of the rodents that dam rivers

OR

Ward, you were rough on the Beaver last night...

Which took on a whole new meaning as ‘they’ were stealing and reassigning ‘our’ language.

[redshawk]

This is too much.
I’m gonna go open a vein...

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Everclear. ... A gallon a day keeps the brain away. ... November can’t come quick enough.

[Rusty0604]

It’s all so stupid.

[MPJackal]

“Eskimos do make Beaver Pie though”

Hey, hey. keep it clean;-)

[Bonemaker]

[DAC21]

I guess Dreyer’s can take the financial hit when the newly named brand tanks due to zero name recognition. Morons.

[tet68]

Italian ice next?

Now I could see chocolate covered Gelato!

Etruscan Pie?

[Osage Orange]

LOL!!

[Osage Orange]

I use to chew that brand...all the time playing baseball.

[TexasFreeper2009]

wth? how is that in ANY universe derogatory?

is Italian pasta derogatory?

ROFL

!!!

THE WORLD HAS GONE CRAZY!!!

[redshawk]

3.14 yikes. ...

[Rusty0604]

Once I had to explain to black coworkers that “black Friday” merely meant that was the day some retailers went from red to black, or from loss to gain,

[cyclotic]

So, Sushi Pie?

Just doesn’t sound all that tasty

[tet68]

Ok, lets use 3.25 that might work, just don’t expect
me to fly in one.

[Magnum44]

Danish immigrant Christian Kent Nelson (1893–1992), a schoolteacher and candy store owner, claimed to have received the inspiration for the Eskimo Pie in 1920 in Onawa, Iowa, when a boy in his store was unable to decide whether to spend his money on ice cream or a chocolate bar. After experimenting with different ways to adhere melted chocolate to bricks of ice cream, Nelson began selling his invention, under the name I-Scream Bars. In 1921, he filed for a patent, and secured an agreement with local chocolate producer Russell C. Stover to mass-produce them under the new trademarked name "Eskimo Pie" (a name suggested by Mrs. Stover), and to create the Eskimo Pie Corporation. After patent 1,404,539 was issued on January 24, 1922, Nelson franchised the product, allowing ice cream manufacturers to produce them under that name.

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