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2020-06-20 -PC Follies
Eskimo Pies to drop ‘derogatory’ name over racial insensitivity
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Posted by Fred 2020-06-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 I can see why they want to change the name. The word 'Pi' has to be triggering to anyone (Afro-Americans, and Vagino-Americans especially) who flunked high-school trigonometry.
Posted by SteveS 2020-06-20 00:21||   2020-06-20 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 By this time next year I expect Minute Rice to be under attack by those unable to tell time. I've watched videos by African American commentators on YouTube saying if Aunt Jimima isn't on the product anymore they won't buy it. Besides, all that fake "maple" syrup tastes like crap. Dont skimp. By the good stuff.
Posted by Cheaderhead 2020-06-20 00:28||   2020-06-20 00:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Fruit Loops won't get cancelled - Toucan Sam's beak looks like a gay pride flag.
Posted by Raj 2020-06-20 01:15||   2020-06-20 01:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Klondike Bars next?
Posted by gorb 2020-06-20 01:52||   2020-06-20 01:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Dunno..."Inuit Bars" just doesn't have the same pizazz.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-06-20 02:56||   2020-06-20 02:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Walrus nuggets.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-20 03:15||   2020-06-20 03:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Or with Klondike bars.

Nope. That's on the list too. As we know from the Kung Flu, naming things after their geographic point of origin is racist.
Posted by SteveS 2020-06-20 09:36||   2020-06-20 09:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Cincinnati chili may be next on the hit list.
Posted by Clem 2020-06-20 09:38||   2020-06-20 09:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Cincinnati chili may be next on the hit list.

It's hard to worry about what they call ground beef and ketchup on day old spaghetti.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-20 09:54||   2020-06-20 09:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Correct ethnic names for ice cream sandwies will be as follows:
In NW Alaska they are called Inupiaq Pies.
In western Alaska they are now called Yupik Pies.
In Greenland they will be known as Inuit Pies.

These are just a few examples.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-06-20 09:57||   2020-06-20 09:57|| Front Page Top

#11 and contain seal blubber
Posted by Frank G 2020-06-20 10:17||   2020-06-20 10:17|| Front Page Top

#12 and contain seal blubber

Which each of those tribes have a different unpronounceable word for, which will be duly misspelled on the regionally target wrappers.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-20 10:49||   2020-06-20 10:49|| Front Page Top

#13 Back in the twenties and thirties, a sugary, carbonated beverage was called a "dope." Just sayin'...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-20 10:53||   2020-06-20 10:53|| Front Page Top

#14 And poured by a "soda jerk".
Posted by Clem 2020-06-20 11:12||   2020-06-20 11:12|| Front Page Top

#15 How about,
Aunt Trudeau
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-06-20 11:16||   2020-06-20 11:16|| Front Page Top

#16 #14 was explaining to someone the other day that "jerk water" referred to jerking a rope to start the flow of water from a tank into a locomotive.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-20 11:44||   2020-06-20 11:44|| Front Page Top

#17 "jerk water"
pre-ejaculate

So is Oreo next?
Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-20 13:21||   2020-06-20 13:21|| Front Page Top

#18 Excerpt from NPR article (and they still say it's bad for other made-up "reasons"):

According to the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, linguists believe the word Eskimo actually came from the French word esquimaux, meaning one who nets snowshoes. Netting snowshoes is the highly-precise way that Arctic peoples built winter footwear by tightly weaving, or netting, sinew from caribou or other animals across a wooden frame.
Posted by JHH 2020-06-20 17:58||   2020-06-20 17:58|| Front Page Top

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