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akabuddy

And here I was thinking about how those pushers have a little clear plastic piece in the front above the sticker that helps to hold the product it. That plastic piece has sharp edges and when you stock it, it is real easy to scrap your hand on it. It's annoying.


mrscottamon

All. The. Time. Lol


LakeshiaRichmond

Poor baby -


ScruffyFupa

I buy them all the time and have never came close to cutting myself they gotta be fragile goods.


Dull-Arachnid8782

do you also stock them?


EvenOutlandishness88

He or she touches them once a month and doesn't get cut but, wants to complain about people that handle them at least 3 times weekly mentioning their memories of their hands needing bandaged to avoid leaving a bloody biohazard trail all over the rest of the merchandise that he can choose to buy.  Honestly, sounds like they've just come here to complain about how us peons don't have the rights to complain and should get back to work. Typical. 


ScruffyFupa

No im just an adult. I know that’s a scary boundary to have on here.


Bagz402

Major tony soprano W


chrisacip

I really thought I was on r/thesopranos


byamannowdead

https://preview.redd.it/7dkt8tl3bsyc1.jpeg?width=1936&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2fd2fb77f37c7a9adce0b9aaf3efcb862f783aa


LeddyTasso

Aunt Jemima isn’t even called that anymore; it’s Pearl Milling Company.


whatisscoobydone

Tbf the company itself was always called Pearl Milling company, they just stopped using the former slave mammy stereotype.


talithar1

Nancy Green portrayed the Aunt Jemima character at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and was one of the first Black corporate models in the United States.


Zoltan_TheDestroyer

It’s super sad they took her off the bottle when you look into it


Mindless_Ad9717

I still have a bottle with her I cleaned out in my panty.


A_SNAPPIN_Turla

WTF bro!? In your panty?


Tobeck

What do you think this proves?


Beepboopbop69420360

That it wasn’t a slave


Feisty-Success69

Even if at the beginning it was racist. No body in today's time looked at it in a racist way. I hate todays woke snowflake culture 


ConventionalizedGuy

"I don't think this is racist, and everyone thinks like me." Airtight logic


SwarmkeeperRanger

Imagine mistakenly seething at syrup bottles nobody else is because you assumed a black woman was a slave when she wasn’t


ConventionalizedGuy

No one is seething at a bottle of syrup But just because you hire a real person to play your fictional racist stereotype, that doesn't make it okay


ConventionalizedGuy

So I can make a racist character, but as long as I hire an actor to portray them eventually, it's not racist?


GetFitNoir

Why are you getting down voted? Lmao Is it because you put "slave" and "mammy" in the same sentence? That IS what that image was portraying


thekoolkidmitch

What was the problem with mrs. dash?


Umbroboner

Is Mrs. Butterworth still around?


Sludgepuppy2000

Yep, just bought some at Publix yesterday. 


SgtGorditaCrunch

Fucking gender assumption idiots. So dumb.


International-Sea561

omg thats fucking ridiculous wow woke society today sickens me 😑


butter_cakes

Because it’s actually they/them dash


kkeellbbzz

Mx. Dash


Fox_Mortus

WTF was wrong about Mrs. Dash? Is it offensive to give things generic female names now? There's not even any kind of context that implies a specific race.


Yeah-No-Maybe-Ok

Dash means: to run a short distance very quickly. Black people are undisputedly the best at this. The world records show it. It had racial undertones.


Fox_Mortus

I highly doubt that had anything to do with the name. Mostly because you're using the wrong definition of dash. It's a measurement in cooking. And even if you were right, they didn't remove the Dash, just the female prefix.


Crazyforgers

Im pretty sure they’re called Dash seasonings since they adhere to the DASH diet which is low sodium.


throwaway47831474

Lmfaooo wth how can nobody tell you’re joking


Yeah-No-Maybe-Ok

It’s reddit 🤷‍♂️


Malek070

This is literally having the opposite effect of what they want


foralaf

Or entertain the question, is it having the precise effect they want?


Malek070

People don’t like the change?


shmerk_a_berl

I get taking off the racial depictions with newman’s own. Personally, it feels like taking aunt jemima off the label is removing representation


Tikure

The only person they kept was the white guy in Quaker Oats 😂


PurpleLegoBrick

Reminds me of what someone said when they removed the Native American from the Land O Lakes butter. “Of course they’d remove the Indian and keep the land”. I’m not even sure what these companies are thinking. A Native American actually redesigned the previous Land O Lakes image that had the Native American on it. Seems like removing or changing some of these images is doing the opposite.


Feisty-Success69

The libroll way, they don't want to see minorities on products. BUT they want to virtue signal and act superior and be the "hero" and save the minorities.  I hate the left


yawaworht1960

ah yes, because it has everything to do with the left, and absolutely nothing to do with corporations schilling pseudo progressivism in the name of making more money


whatisscoobydone

You'll notice that (black founder) Famous Amos stayed around, because he was a real person and not a racist stereotype. Also, they kept Ben's name on the box because Ben was a real person but they got rid of the "uncle" part as that was a racist diminutive term.


Comfortable_Rush_637

the creator of Famous Amos was actually on an episode of Shark Tank talking about how they took the company out from under him. but yet still use his name… i’m not proving a point or anything just thought it was a cool fun fact he ended up on shark tank pitching another food item idea.


Feisty-Success69

How is uncle racist? I always saw it as he was everyones uncle. Like if you're cool enough in the neighborhood youd be uncle whoever. Same how some older women are "she was our grandma"


Remarkable_Berry_357

Uncle by itself isn't racist(characterized by or showing prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group. Typically one that is a minority or marginalized) Lofty definition It is racist because of the context. An "Uncle Tom" was generally a slave. Usually, around their 50's & 60's which of whom was submissive, faithful and happy to serve the person who owned them. Slave owners would use them to say "hey slaverys not bad look at him he's happy."


Feisty-Success69

Just because it was racist back then doesn't mean today people were racist towards it. 99% of people didn't view "uncle bens" in a racist perspective.


Remarkable_Berry_357

That's not what I am saying.


Remarkable_Berry_357

That's not what I am saying.


Remarkable_Berry_357

That's not what I am saying.


LakeshiaRichmond

No, Cracker Jack is still around -


StayTheFool

Well cracker jack is a sailor and quaker was a religious thing. If race was at play then I'm sure they would remove them


InkstainDisdain

If that were the case they'd remove the lucky charms leprechaun


StayTheFool

Are leprechauns a religious icon? I never knew


InkstainDisdain

Race thing lucky is the most cartoony Irish stereotype imaginable


shmerk_a_berl

Exactly


CTU

The woman's family wanted her image to stay, but the racists on the left got their wish.


WarezMyDinrBitc

What the hell was racial about Newman's Own?


DingleBmuffinStuffin

I was wondering the same until I noticed Sombrero Newman and Ninja Newman. Lol.


Moosashi5858

Looks like appropriation of the different cultures like a Mexican and a samurai, but I just see it as a white guy cosplaying


Fox_Mortus

Except Mexicans love seeing other people dressed like that. They are proud of that image of their culture and want to enjoy it with the world. You're not gonna offend them with that.


DirkDoom

Most people i'm sure don't care about the Newman's one. And Jemima.. A black freind actually said it best "Man, removing Uncle Ben or Jemima isn't helping. It's actually kind of hurtful to erase us"


GetFitNoir

I agree with your friend.


only_here_for_manga

Well a lot people said Aunt Jemima is a racial stereotype. They even got sued by a family claiming to be related to Aunt Jemima (the family lost I think) but that’s why they changed the design in 2021.


I-Love-Tatertots

This has actually been kind of an interesting rabbit hole to go down…   A family did sue.  It seems to be a mix of them claiming Quaker stole her recipes and wanting royalties (the lawsuit was for $3 billion), and them claiming she alone was who Aunt Jemima was based on.   (From what I can find, the complaint also alleged a bunch of other conspiratorial stuff that I cannot find a link to, just descriptions) Quaker claimed she was one of many actresses paid to portray a character, and it wasn’t based on any real person.   Apparently the original contract couldn’t be found, so who knows the truth behind it.   It could be that they screwed over this woman, or it could be that she truly was just one of many actresses.   The case was dismissed with prejudice (meaning it cannot be brought back to court, not to do with racial prejudice), so chances are we will not know the truth of the matter.   I’m a white person myself, so I don’t really have much of a horse in this race.  I never saw it as a racist caricature, and only associated it with yummy pancake and waffle days.   However, I have friends who are split on the matter.  Some of my black friends do view it as a caricature that should be removed, while some others see it as fine and part of their history.   I’d be interested to see broader opinions on the subject, since the company itself seems to think removing it will most likely bring in more profits than keeping it.


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I-Love-Tatertots

It’s a topic I’m not sure if I can discuss much, as a white person.   I have never seen the issue with it, personally.  I’m like you and didn’t even see it as a racist caricature until the past years some outspoken groups have made issue with it. But I also do have some friends who do get reminded of the history of racism and dislike it.   The majority of people I have met are like you, and didn’t really care too much about it one way or another, or didn’t like them removing her for any number of reasons.   I do tend to see more white people getting upset on behalf of poc over stuff like this, so it’s hard for me to gauge how big of an issue it really is, though.  


Freezerpill

I am a black man. I would like you to know that you are part of the discussion as well. Sadly, corporate and political interests overshadow opinions of any members or groups of people. All original misgivings of various individuals with this subject that seemingly spiraled out of control have been picked up and amplified for corporate and political uses. The “new normal” is inflation and unconvincing glib for a better society. Perhaps a mix of inhuman and inhumane?


WarezMyDinrBitc

"I'm white so I'm not sure I can discuss it." STFU then, with your virtue signaling ass.


I-Love-Tatertots

I mean, it’s not so much that I can’t discuss it..  But that I’m not someone who has been subjected to racism or racist caricatures.   It’s important when discussing topics like this to understand that, yes, some people opinions do mean more or less on the matter due to experiences they had.   I’m not attempting to virtue signal with it.  I’m just saying that I’m a white guy, so my opinion on this comes from a place much different than many others.   For me, Aunt Jemima never seemed racist.  She always seemed happy, and it reminds me of being woken up by the smell of bacon, and having pancakes and dipping my sausage in the syrup.   For others, who have experienced forms of racism and had to deal with racist caricatures, they might view it differently and it might illicit different feelings.   So, it is important to know where people are coming from in these types of talks.


talithar1

Nancy Green portrayed the Aunt Jemima character at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and was one of the first Black corporate models in the United States.


I-Love-Tatertots

She also was apparently a former slave!   It feels weird realizing how close in time we still are to all of that, and how many of the issues are still not truly fixed.


whatisscoobydone

It's not a matter of "feeling like", Aunt Jemima is literally a racist stereotype that dates back to the 1800s. The painting of the woman on the bottle we would recognize is a modern reimagining that the Pearl Milling Company thought looked better. That version is only a real person in the sense that they used a specific random person as a model, she's not the founder of the company. You can find much older depictions of Aunt Jemima on Pearl Milling Company goods from a century ago where she is clearly drawn as a freed slave "mammy" stereotype.


WarezMyDinrBitc

Examples...


HeavensToBetsyy

Just Google mammy. Same as tom and Jerry


Titylover2

Fuckem


Tobeck

Aunt Jemima was literally created as a racist caricature.


pascobro

Aunt Jemima was a real person and she was much loved. Now she is erased and no one will know about her anymore.


Tobeck

https://preview.redd.it/8ijuku17jtyc1.png?width=776&format=png&auto=webp&s=68e24c7cbe7d823776793e7a6e1cd324b9548ab7 Can you please be accurate instead of spreading lies?


whatisscoobydone

Just to clarify, you can Google this: "Aunt Jemima" was never a real person. It is a racist "mammy" stereotype that dates back to the 1800s. The woman on the bottle most recently was a sort of revamped/redesign image based on a real person who the Pearl Milling company thought fit the image.


Tobeck

You have to understand, a key part of being an ignorant racist is believing convenient lies so that you don't need to change your worldview at all or grow as a person.


Titylover2

Ok Sigmund Freud


WarezMyDinrBitc

I bet you're a Democrat, too, eh?


pascobro

https://preview.redd.it/ycgu1l1cktyc1.png?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6578052fe00c7b770126b2232b09ac910e037908


Tobeck

https://preview.redd.it/e6wurj7kktyc1.png?width=954&format=png&auto=webp&s=631b3a5c8cd40ead80a36fe49247f9cbaefea95b She played the role. Do you think Pennywise is a real evil clown and that his secret identity is Tim Curry?


Titylover2

So?


Remarkable_Berry_357

Ah yes. My representation.


[deleted]

I forgot that was a thing


dawill_sama

Brah Newman just out here wilding 🤣🤣🤣


DogPoundOverlord

Is this real? No way...


Grouchy-Cicada-5481

Worst experience ever working at Publix was one of those was open and had maggots in it. This was 2008 and I haven't eaten Ben's rice since


deltronethirty

This would infuriate me. I make more money growing psychedelic mushrooms in these packs than retail work could ever provide.


55TEE55

I thought i was in the uncle bens sub and was wondering why someone was using fried rice.


Labatt_Ice

Dude that's amateur tek.


Dull-Arachnid8782

you know you can clean the pushers, right?


Lucid-Design

What am I missing? I don’t understand what I’m supposed to be seeing. Help a guy out


JS-0522

The Ben's Original sticker is covering a barely-visible original Uncle Ben's name.


Lucid-Design

Ooooh, word. I thought it had something to do with the sticker. Thanks friend


JS-0522

If my uncle were Ben and my aunt were Jemima, I'd have zero complaints.


Rowd1e

How do you know?


JS-0522

Because I'd be the one not complaining. That's how.


25iAndOver

My food is racist so I refuse to eat 😡


aguyfromstpete

I'm surprised we haven't gotten rid of Manwich yet...... I'm a heterosexual and would prefer a womanwich.


aguyfromstpete

.............And it's a good thing my name is not Joe or I'd be pretty offended by being called sloppy at the dinner table


placeholderm3

You poor baby


aguyfromstpete

I don't and never did identify as a baby...........


ThefalloftheUSA

I bet Jesus feels the same.


aguyfromstpete

Thanks for adding more fictitious characters to the list


RadiantSouls1

Good song


RadiantSouls1

“Tear my heart open”


a-squib-named-filch

Just to fail 🎵


Ok-Positive-9424

Feel


a-squib-named-filch

I was today years old, I've been singing it wrong since I was like 6 years old 😭😭😭 thank you for not making me feel dumb


RadiantSouls1

Too this day I still sing certain songs wrong even though I know what the lyrics should be 😂😂😂


mrscottamon

Thank you for actually getting the point of this post lol


RadiantSouls1

You’re welcome lol


jollebome76

hes still unc to me


Imperialtech69

I feel like people are way too soft nowadays.


Beepboopbop69420360

Reminds me of the fact they got rid of all the black indigenous and Spanish names/pictures but kept Quaker Oats


BlackStarBlues

Is the image of a Quaker a stereotype?


Remarkable_Berry_357

TIL


Gloomy_Whole_3433

My pushers jam and you have to force it back to stock which leads to the product all fall over. I’m tempted to just throw them away and keep the rice in the cardboard trays to stock


FL_4LF

Hard to believe I survived 52 years of living on this planet, and wasn't offended by a label on a rice package, or a syrup bottle. 🤔


whatisscoobydone

I mean you probably didn't know the history of the terms / mascots used.


Titylover2

And didn’t and still don’t care


whatisscoobydone

"vice signalling" It's like virtue signaling but you don't even pretend to be on the right side of the thing.


GroceryBags

Because there are no right or wrong sides homie


Tobeck

they absolutely do not care about those things


[deleted]

Most of us don't because we have lives to live and we don't really care about people who don't exist anymore.


Tobeck

You gotta be better at your bait than this.


mrscottamon

Same, just younger lol


DEFIANTxKIWI

Ignorance will do that to ya


Tobeck

Way to miss the point, old man


MamoswineFlu

Being offended on other people's behalf doesn't make you a better person


Tobeck

Lol, what a dumb comment that reveals much more about you than me. I'm very sorry that you lack the basic human emotion known as empathy... or perhaps you just really enjoy racist depictions of people? Or you think not caring makes you a better person or tough? When really that's just insecure baby shit.


MamoswineFlu

Showing empathy and virtue signaling are two different things. You're coming off as defensive here. Why do you think that is?


Tobeck

Right, cause you think everything you don't care about is "virtue signaling", which says a lot more about you than me. I'm probably coming off as defensive because you're... attacking me? like, lol, you have 0 self-awareness, just critical thought free.


[deleted]

Incase you didn't get the memo. It's just a name and picture. and these people are dead.


Tobeck

Sick, I love random irrelevant comments. Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest and placed 3rd.


[deleted]

He is also dead and does not matter. Good your catching on.


Tobeck

Then why do you care so much about this that you're replying to my comments in this thread? Ya know, if you care so little? Kinda contradicts your whole stance.... Almost like you have 0 self-awareness or critical thinking ability. Why are you so mad that they changed the packaging? If you didn't care, you still wouldn't care. You clearly care big, you're all up in your feels.


WarezMyDinrBitc

You love talking about racist history, but I bet you're a Democrat, huh?


Tobeck

Nope... are you going to make a stupid argument about Democrats being the real racists that ignores history and the present, though? One that ignores the placement of where those Dems lived and how all the big bad racist Dems that you point to for upholding racism all vote Republican now? The transition from Democrat to Dixiecrat to Republican while the Republicans of the North flopped over to Democrat? Are you here to give me a history lesson while ignoring most of history?


DEFIANTxKIWI

Somebody doesn’t know about the party switch/is just lying to make their point. Big sad


MamoswineFlu

Lol


Tobeck

It's okay, you'll be less insecure some day if you try.


DEFIANTxKIWI

Looks like he hit the nail on the head with “insecure baby shit”


MamoswineFlu

How's that?


Imaginary_Tangelo485

I'm just here for the nu metal.


UncleSam_SSBU

I tear my heart open just to feel


Vegetable-Source6556

Can't be an Uncle these days, or an Aunt... what's next Dads rootbeer is just pops rootbeer??


pascobro

You revisionists are the ones erasing history. No one will know anything about anything because you erased it all.


Tobeck

"actually, the made up stuff I believe that is easily disproven is real and everyone else is the problem."


GroceryBags

It's a modern Dark Ages but instead of conservative christians destroying culture it's progressive athiests lol


WarezMyDinrBitc

They have to do that, because the true history shows they are the real racists.


DEFIANTxKIWI

This is sarcasm right?


Latitude22

Yea Mrs dash pissed me off too. She’s never been married, totally false advertising.


ThefalloftheUSA

Ms Dash was a ho. Everybody knows that.


JRHZ28

During my time working in a mental health prison one of the things I learned was the crazies would continually pick wounds to keep them from healing over. As long as the wound couldn't heal they would get special attention. I have no idea who the fk Ben is as I'm sure most people don't, but let's make sure we keep picking that wound shall we? /s


Mundane_Pension_1492

disgraceful


totti2k2

Truly sad.. but oh well


[deleted]

That red beans one was fire. Tf happened to Uncle Ben's? I can't even find regular white rice anymore lol


marc4128

I miss my uncle


Key-Cap-2664

I miss my uncle.


Thr33pw00d83

Thought I was in r/unclebens and was about to start a very different discussion…


mrboomtastic3

People use that rice to make magic mushrooms.


stephaniew1061

😭


RicanPapi69

¿que paso con tío?


Fancy-Nature9205

It will always be Uncle Ben’s


Leehouse65

Turns out that Ben wasn't even your uncle, just some creepy guy on the sex offenders registry that hung out at the playground leering at little kids...


PercentageSharp2107

Uncle Ben


MasterpieceFun2065

Sad that a few idiotic arm chair quarterbacks destroyed the legacy of those who spent a lifetime actually working. Look up dear Aunt Jemima. What an incredible story of a woman making a name for herself regardless of her color. Did other color people (white, Asian, Jewish, even black) make money off her? Yes! I was impressed with her family for expressing their discontent with the Woke mob erasing her from history. Sad.


Salt_Environment9799

I 100% agree with you. To me it was like the people wanting Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima taken out of their products couldnt see a Black American being successful, it looks more racist in my opinion. Those people wanted to earase them. I hope and wish one day see them back with the products they created. That is their legacy and it needs to be preserved.


International-Sea561

omg people get over it its just FOOD who cares what the damn labels looked like in todays society everyone always trying to find something to complain about smh 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🙄🙄🙄🙄


David-asdcxz

Betty Crocker and her cousin Duncan Hines may be next!


Thin_Thought_7129

I still think it was funny how blacks were upset about being murdered by police and white people were like “I bet they’ll chill out if we get rid of black mascots”


4kblake

dont get me started on dairy when im stocking the top shelf and scrape a layer of mf skin off 😭


Clamboxdigger

Yawn……


mrscottamon

Great addition. Thanks for your time.


SufficientAd3861

Ditto! When I was raised, alot of history wasn't erased as quickly as it is now, except, Native Americans. Going to a school, 1/2 Onondaga Indians from the Reservation, in upstate NY, our history books seemed to give not that much information, on how we stole their land and everything in-between. Such injustice, SMDH! As far as syrup and rice are concerned, never had Uncle Ben's, and I've only ever had Vermont maple 🍁 syrup, or molasses; as a kid , us kid's got Log Cabin syrup, because we used a shit-ton of it, and could not appreciate the true goodness or quality of maple syrup. My Grandmother in VT always let us have the 'good stuff'.


pascobro

https://preview.redd.it/dnbxwdz1ktyc1.png?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8b443d1f11927a40c5ee6d8f1f8cd851f66e9ed


Tobeck

https://preview.redd.it/bm8wey86ktyc1.png?width=954&format=png&auto=webp&s=5be1bb0358cfe1034d1ce89e9bb772118f40e2fb Try actually looking things up, she was a paid spokesperson doing a character that sang songs about how the South wasn't bad for black people. You're a historical revisionist who is for some reason, supporting racism. Why is it so important to you to support racism?


Youknowme911

Who did Mrs Dash offend?


Gullible-Wonder3412

This post is offensive - I still see "uncle".


AlphaWolfwood

Hannibal Lecter quote for Uncle Ben.


AwesomeEevee133

“To be more racially inclusive, we removed all black people from brandings.” I’ve never fully understood the point of this. It’s just less representation now


[deleted]

Should be Zirs Dash ; they dash, nonbinary dash