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Aunt Jemima gets the boot/Quaker Oats
Aunt Jemima is removed ASAP!
Blog King, Mass Appeal
CHICAGO — In a shocking development, PepsiCo and Quaker Oats have decided to remove the face and moniker of “Aunt Jemima” from their pancake and syrup products effective immediately, thanks to George Floyd and “Black Lives Matter.” After more than a century of raking in billions of dollars off the corpulent mammy’s graphic, the amalgamated corporation suddenly believes the mascot of Nancy Green — a former slave who worked for the company — is based on racial stereotypes.
Yep, Nancy Green is Aunt Jemima’s real name. She worked on Quaker Oats’ plantation for free while the company got filthy rich off her brand. Now PepsiCo executives feel like sh*t so they’re erasing the mammy’s name and countenance from her breakfast products “to make progress toward racial equality.”
JUST IN | After 131 years, PepsiCo is retiring the controversial brand name and mascot, Aunt Jemima, acknowledging that the brand is based on a racial stereotype. https://t.co/SVQDJ62oPv pic.twitter.com/72XFuYOh9R
— Adweek (@Adweek) June 17, 2020
The company released a statement.
“We recognize Aunt Jemima’s origins are based on a racial stereotype,” said vice president and chief marketing officer Kristin Kroepfl in a press release. “As we work to make progress toward racial equality through several initiatives, we also must take a hard look at our portfolio of brands and ensure they reflect our values and meet our consumers’ expectations.”
Aunt Jemima pankcake mix debuted in 1889.
She retires after 131 years of free service.
Rumor has it Cardi B will take her place.
Do you agree with PepsiCo’s decision?
Does Aunt Jemima’s descendants deserve reparations for unpaid labor during slavery?
Are Mrs. Butterworth and Uncle Ben next?
Share your thoughts.
This world is f$&#@d
I NEVER knew about this…wow, I love their pancakes! I always thought It was a black-owned company..shows how much I know.
She got the best fucking pancakes and syrup in the world.
“We recognize Aunt Jemima’s origins are based on a racial stereotype,”
What stereotype? That older black women know how to cook?
This is got to stop, now it’s getting out of hand. Complete bullshit.
Mrs Butterworth next 😢
@I s: Not Mrs. Butterworth. Shes made of butter LOL. Aunt Jemina I agree with. Its weird.
What is gonna replace Aunt Jemima?
Racial Equality Syrup lol
Fuck symbolism Reparations is the ONLY solution
@Proud ADOS: This the point of all this protesting shit really. To make us forget about that and convince us systematic racism will be over in a few months. Obama didn’t do it. Now they using this tactic. But they trying to interject this lgbt trans bullshit into it now
KFC needs to get rid of Colonel Sanders right?
What about Popeye’s and their greasy expired and left-over chicken? Owned and run entirely by white people but have a black woman as their mascot.
Remember the rag on her head? Then they gave her a perm and was like, “There we go! Fixed it!”
Mrs Butterworth bottle is an actual mammy. lmao
Finally retiring aunt Jemima a product of PepsiCo. Need to also retire Creme of Wheat logo Uncle Ben. Uncle & Aunt?? Been bothering me all my life. Bout time.
AUNT JEMIMA AND UNCLE BEN WOULD HAVE MRS. BUTTERWORTH OVER FOR THREESOMES
THEN AUNT JEMIMA CAUGHT UNCLE BEN JUST STRAIGHT FUCKING HER WITHOUT HER AND SHE DID NOT LIKE THAT
THEN WOULDN’T YOU KNOW IT , OLD UNCLE BEN CAUGHT THEM 2 BITCHES IN A VERY STICKY SITUATION AND HE COULDN’T BELIEVE HIS EYES
THEM 2 BITCHES HAD DONE MADE A FUCKING STICKY MESS EVERYWHERE
UNCLE BEN LEFT BOTH THEM NO GOOD BITCHES FOR SOME BITCH NAMED WHITE RICE
This is STUPID – Aunt Jemima – Seriously… Political Correctness is NOT CORRECT
We did it boys racism is no more
WTH,,MOST OF US KNOW ALL ABOUT MISS BUTTER WORTH AND ANCHAMIMA, NOW ITS GOING TO FAR🙃✌
New Product to be called Aunt Karens Liberal Sauce
No more black faces in my pantry. OK fine.
And next in news; the Quaker oatmeal man is a racist
Aunt jemima – one of the most sweetest ladies you ever come across making our breakfast even better. You’ll be missed. 😢 How shameful to think activists are fighting racism by removing people of color from their brands.
Why is everything all of a sudden becoming racist??? This syrup has been around for 130 YEARS!! Why is it racist to have a black woman on a syrup bottle, I mean really. Come on!
Make the new image a blonde woman with blue eyes
Dear Quakers….. Please speak up more about how this company doesn’t represent the values of Quakers worldwide and should change its name due to it’s deliberate vicious perpetuation of the damaging stereotype of Quakers eating “nothing but Oats” and using the image of a straight white man when alot of modern Quakers are not white.
I just want to see what happens! Going to be an entertaining time!
What a FUCKING load of pure unmitigated Bullshit – What about Ronald McDonald? He’s in White Face and that offends me
To all the people getting offended by this. Fuck you you dumb idiots. None of you know what racist is anymore. If your white and disagree with a black. It makes him racist. Who the fuck comes up with what is racist and what is not now.
SO WHY THEY DONT TAKE DOWN BET NETWORK THAT IS FOR BLACK PPL ONLY THATS IS A RACIST NETWORK
She will always be my aunty!!! 🤗🤗🤗
Kfc… you better lay low😹😹😹
Don’t kill uncle Ben rice
About time assholes
I would like a new logo to be a white grandma it would make me happy know that my race is all over and no black folks are on my pancake boxes
I mean, its fucking pancake mix, stop getting offended by everything
All these butthurt people in the comments 😂😭😂
This is getting so dumb. People are on a witch hunt now, looking for anything and everything that could be perceived as even remotely racist. Some slaves lived in log cabins, so Log Cabin syrup clearly promotes slavery. Get rid of it! I never tried Aunt Jemima syrup because HEB has a really good store brand. It does have a brown label on it though, which mocks people of color. Out it goes! Mrs. Butterworth and Uncle Ben, they!’re coming for you next!! Watch out!
I guess we’re better off without some fat lady trying to say she’s full of sweetness.
Good riddance…. I think I kept from buying it cuz she was so dang ugly
Now get rid of the stereotype of OJ Simpson thinking he’s orange juice so I can drink orange juice again…🤷
Should never model food after what a human looks like… it’s disgusting
you should just put a name on it and then just have like a recipe with the picture of the newest recipe they got… change it maybe once a year..or not 🤷
Ill bet they sell more once they get her fat ugly ass off there.
I might buy some put a maple tree on it or something or a bucket or just all the hoses that go from tree to tree making an entanglement of maple syrup hoses on the ground running to a big vat where some drunk guy is barfing into the batch while a dogs lapping at the syrup dripping into a bottle destined for sale.
Nothing says slavery like a black person’s face on a product, pandering to the man and Satanism
Eversince of the announcement. I noticed aunt Jemima pancakes been flying off the shelves fast. Maybe people are putting it on the credenza as collector’s items?
About 37 years ago I was a few years old in kitchen with my grandma. I’m white FYI. She asked me where Jesus was, I pointed to Aunt Jemima bottle. She said no in your heart.
Who actually looks at a picture on a syrup bottle and thinks ” this is racist.”
This is why I see boomers hating on the younger generation, everyone finds everything either offensive or racist nowadays
This is ridiculous they are icons and I am black and we should be proud of it
I’m black and I’ve been raised on Cream of Wheat, Uncle Ben’s, and Aunt Jemima. We might as well abolish all branding for food products.
So, they got rid of Aunt Jemima because of her skin color ……………..
That is the very definition of Racism you hypocrites.
I never saw a racist stereotype I just saw sweet black lady who likes making pancakes.
I’m white and I want that Quaker guy to go too. His stupid stereotype hurts my feelings too! 😂 ps : I was not shocked by the aunt Jemima or uncle Benz brand as I never associated them with slavery (you see 2 persons smiling only). I wonder if on the rice box they are going to put a Chinese or an indien guy now?😜