The #Woke Left’s obsession with erasing minorities continues apace. The folks at Quaker Oats announced last year that the iconic image of Aunt Jemima would disappear from the brand’s packaging, and it’s official. They have rebranded the product line.
If a black woman can’t sell maple syrup or pancakes, then a black man can’t sell rice. Will Lucky the Leprechaun be losing his “charms.” Nope. He’s not black. But Uncle Ben is, and he’s being retired, sorry, evolved.
Two months ago to the day, we reported on a decision by Land-O-Lakes to drop Mia, the Indian Maiden from their packaging. The iconic image was deemed culturally insensitive. Today, the New York Times reports that PepsiCo, which owns Quaker Oats, is kicking Aunt Jemima to the curb.
Update at the bottom and sets up “context” for this sordid Mulvaney marketing fiasco: especially his bankroll and his lust for fame. I am a bit behind on this topic, but it’s clear that the Trans-Authoritarian crowd was having a field day with the rise of Mulvaney and his “365 days of Womanhood” celebration. And … Read more
The International Fraternity of Feminists (IFF) meeting took place at the lovely Brettonwoods resort earlier this month, and these little ladies have a lot to bitch about, it seems.
Investigative journalists are dropping like a congressional aide’s pants across the U.S. as main stream media lays-off thousands. Fake news powerhouse the L.A. Times has nearly emptied its Washington D.C. bureau just months before what many consider the biggest election year in American history. This shocking move has many of the journalists questioning the real … Read more
The rage-mongers in the social-justice media like to get out in front of their skis if you take me meaning. Cart before the horse. Tail wagging the dog. It happens often, but this is just embarrassing.
Science Retires In a somewhat shocking announcement, Science has retired from public service. After several years of receiving harsh criticism and being hard to follow, Science has decided it’s had enough in serving the public. Fans of Science are shocked with many turning to chemistry to cope while others are putting their faith in quasi-scientific … Read more
MARS Inc is a massive global food giant with 40 billion in sales in 2020 with over 70 brands under management. They are massive, from food brands to pet food and pet care to confections. During the Pandemic™, they increased sales by several billion, so why, WHY did they feel the need to do this … Read more
Good question. A sad question, really, but a question that has to be asked. What happened? The WHY is easy – but that’s for later. Many folks I’ve been talking to are just overwhelmed about what is happening. If you weren’t paying attention to politics all the time, you wouldn’t know.
This week we have a super-sized Monday midday Meme Storm (I think). We’ve got COVID memes, gun memes, vaccine memes, and trust the science, a dig on LeBron James (and his ilk), recycling that Aunt Jemimah Pancake mix box, and a few others.
I just bought two containers of Aunt Jemima syrup yesterday at Walmart. No, not that “rebranded out of fear of the PC Cancel crybabies” Pearl Milling Company version.
For seventy years, Mr. Potato Head has been whatever you wanted him to be, but that’s not going to work anymore. The #woke folk have convinced several ‘someones’ up or down the corporate food-chain that the brand needs a makeover. They are neutering the spud.
The summer of scrubbing ethnic people from store packaging seems to have calmed down now that autumn is upon us. But it was heady for a while. Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemimah, even the Mutual of Omaha Indian Chief got the hatchet. A process exemplified by Land O Lakes when they ditched Mia for a box with … Read more
What America is going through right now is not merely another, more intense round of “cancel culture.” We’re now in the midst of a full-force, totalitarian remolding of our society, one that seeks to place the petty resentments of an outraged minority of leftist activists above everything else in American life. Because of their willingness … Read more
Socialists are Democrats by another mother; they are non-voting utopians. They don’t live in the real world and they don’t want you to either. According to them what is going on is a great moment in American racial history.
Vermont has an eighty-six-year-old ski resort named Suicide Six, but with the growing “awareness” surrounding mental health issues, the venue has decided to rebrand over the summer? Seriously?
Intimidated by the Marxist’s zeal to purge people of color from the public eye Mutual of Omaha Insurance has opted – without any promoting – to drop its iconic Indian Chief logo. No one complained. There were no threats of protest. They just did it before (presumably) the Hammar and Sickel fell.
Does the privileged progressive class in Massachusetts have a problem? Their identity politics is scrubbing the landscape. Casting aside Mia the Indian Maiden, Uncle Ben, the Redskins in Washington, and Aunt Jamima. The Bay State is named after an Indian tribe. How can they allow that to stand?