Pepsico will stop using the aunt jemima brand name and logo for its pancake mix and syrup as of the fourth quarter of the. Editor s pick pepsi to drop racial stereotype aunt jemima. Aunt jemima kept black woman in the space of domestic service associating them with serving food under a plantation mentality and it would be misguided to lament the change by quaker as a loss of representation for black women this particular representation for black women was based on a real person nancy green.
Although the aunt jemima character was not created until nearly 25 years after the american civil war the clothing dancing enslaved dialect and singing old plantation songs as she worked harkened back to a glorified view of antebellum southern plantation life as a happy slave narrative 14 18 the marketing legend surrounding aunt jemima. Ujustwait84 all american 25154 posts user info edit post. Moron all american 32554 posts user info edit post.
I stopped buying artificially flavored syrup like 10 years ago but i def avoided the aunt jemima because it became something people used in racist jokes too much. Jul 6 2020 7 55 pm. Share this article first published.
Aunt jemima is changing its name and twitter users suggest aunt karen. Second disclaimer this is an old pre covid story that i decided to post now. So usual disclaimers yes i am using my porn throw away because people irl would mock me for using this subreddit.
Why aunt jemima obese baseball players and guy fieri are the new age symbols of america. They re disgusting but if you re like 22 and don t want to keep perishable food items in your fridge and you like eating foodstuffs those just add water pancake mixes will stay good for like 35 years and they will technically feed you. Some of them have no egg no dairy mix just add water.
Pepsico will stop using the aunt jemima brand name and logo for its pancake mix and syrup as of the fourth quarter of the year acknowledging the origins of the mascot for being rooted in racist. Parent company quaker oats acknowledged wednesday that the brand s origins are based on a racial stereotype. Aunt jemima the syrup and pancake mix brand will receive a new name and image.
Although depictions vary over time they are similar to the common attire and physical features of mammy characters throughout history.
Aunt jemima irl. Aunt jemima is based on the common enslaved mammy archetype a plump black woman wearing a headscarf who is a devoted and submissive servant. Her skin is dark and dewy with a pearly white smile.
Her skin is dark and dewy with a pearly white smile. Aunt jemima is based on the common enslaved mammy archetype a plump black woman wearing a headscarf who is a devoted and submissive servant.
