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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Megwetch...
I am part Pot.
Most of my elder relatives...could careless about all this BS going on.
The next time someone of color besides white calls someone a ‘redneck’ there needs to be a protest or riot.
My favorite was. .. BEER. ... $1.50 a six pack. .. Lol
“husky” (a breed of dog),
= = = = = = = = = = =
Another word that will have to be exiled to the trash heap..
He went to Alaska as a skinny dude and came back a husky....(If you know you know)
Then he got a job on a fishing boat as a Junior Baiter and in a few short days he was a Master Baiter.
Another word to be banned Master..
The guy that takes the mike will now be referred to as the guy who takes the mike (Until the Fems get done)
then it will be
Can’t say person because son is male and per is each
Can’t say ceremonies because money is in the word.
Should just take the dictionary and strike out ANY and ALL words that can be construed to ‘offend’ anyone, regardless of color or creed etc etc
The dictionary will become one of the smallest books in print.
We thought we had nothing to do..
When Quinn the Eskimo gets here, he won’t know what to eat
Only if it’s shaved Ice. ....
Why are we giving control of our language to a bunch of Communist agitators?
We should be telling them to sit down and shut up or get out.
My last name is Crow, not of the American Indian tribe. It goes back to ancient Anglo-Saxon UK culture. A name existing many hundreds of years before Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue. It’s just a matter of time before some woke commie will insist by force that I change it as I’m guilty of Native Indian appropriation. They are that evil, violent and dumb.
“What would you give for a Klondike Bar?”
One more company I won’t do business with ever again.
The absurdity of this nonsense is unfathomable.
Eskimo Pie is one of those great American success stories.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_Pie
Sheesh, so stupid...what about Hot Tamales? Mexicans offended? Im sure it wasnt a Mexican that named them.
And dont forget that the Canadian Football League has the Edmonton Eskimos.
My favorite was medicine... it was just a bottle marked Pills.
Inuit Pie! Eskimo pie was over rated. I ate one or two but it was vanilla ice cream with a chocolate covering that melted as you held it.
Eskimeaux -— I like the French spelling.
Chinese food will now be known as food.
I guess the word “Igloo” is out too. How about Whale Blubber Pie? Or is that not PC either? I don’t eat the damn things anyway, so who gives a crap what they’re called.
Did “Eskimo” people used to pick cotton?
Not once in my entire life have I ever owned “Eskimo” workers/slaves.
You folks have have what’s left of this country.....it’s just too stupid for me.
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