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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5743814" data-attributes="member: 48469">Did the right have a problem with Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima?[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966166648/aunt-jemima-no-more-pancake-brand-renamed-pearl-milling-company[/URL]&quot;Quaker Oats cooked up a new image for an old, offensive brand Tuesday. PepsiCo Inc. the parent company for Quaker Oats, announced it&#039;s rebranding Aunt Jemima, the popular pancake and syrup brand, retiring the racist stereotype used for the product&#039;s image.PepsiCo will replace Aunt Jemima with the Pearl Milling Company in June — one full year <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/17/879104818/acknowledging-racial-stereotype-aunt-jemima-will-change-brand-name-and-image" target="_blank">after the company</a> first announced plans to do away with the Aunt Jemima brand.Aunt Jemima and other food brands, including Uncle Ben&#039;s, Cream of Wheat, and Mrs. Butterworth&#039;s, announced redesigns amid protests against systemic racism and police brutality in the U.S. last summer.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5743814, member: 48469"] Did the right have a problem with Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima? [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966166648/aunt-jemima-no-more-pancake-brand-renamed-pearl-milling-company[/URL] "Quaker Oats cooked up a new image for an old, offensive brand Tuesday. PepsiCo Inc. the parent company for Quaker Oats, announced it's rebranding Aunt Jemima, the popular pancake and syrup brand, retiring the racist stereotype used for the product's image. PepsiCo will replace Aunt Jemima with the Pearl Milling Company in June — one full year [URL='https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/17/879104818/acknowledging-racial-stereotype-aunt-jemima-will-change-brand-name-and-image']after the company[/URL] first announced plans to do away with the Aunt Jemima brand. Aunt Jemima and other food brands, including Uncle Ben's, Cream of Wheat, and Mrs. Butterworth's, announced redesigns amid protests against systemic racism and police brutality in the U.S. last summer." [/QUOTE]

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