Do you know anyone who was offended by Eskimo Pie ice cream treats?

toomuchbaloney · Jun 20, 2020

4 hours ago, A Hit With The Ladies said:
"Eskimo Pie to change name, cites racial equality: We 'recognize the term is derogatory'" (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/503700-eskimo-pie-to-change-name-cites-racial-equality-we-recognize-the-term-is
I wonder if Hawaiian Punch and Cracker Jack's will also be renamed.

Sounds like maybe you don't care how Alaska natives might feel about it and would prefer to minimize any offense taken. Or are you advocating for name changes of the other products because of some actual "concern"?

Emergent, RN · Jun 20, 2020

Another attempt by the corporate food industry to get publicity for their unhealthy crap. Similar to the new Coke / classic Coke PR campaign years ago.

Meanwhile, the people who eat their toxic products die at a much higher rate then those who eat traditional foods, cooked at home.

amoLucia · Jun 20, 2020

Klondike bar, anyone? And for HP, they did away with that little tourist guy in the floral shirt years ago. Likewise, the same with the Frito Bandito and Pecos Pete, I think.

Seems like Christopher Columbus is taking the hit at present. There was a monument statue in Little Italy, in my old neck of the woods. Was vandalized and now being relocated by the city. The Italian-American influence was very big in central/northern NJ. You can't just un-write that part of history.

toomuchbaloney · Jun 20, 2020

11 minutes ago, amoLucia said:
Klondike bar, anyone? And for HP, they did away with that little tourist guy in the floral shirt years ago. Likewise, the same with the Frito Bandito and Pecos Pete, I think.
Seems like Christopher Columbus is taking the hit at present. There was a monument statue in Little Italy, in my old neck of the woods. Was vandalized and now being relocated by the city. The Italian-American influence was very big in central/northern NJ. You can't just un-write that part of history.

Do you think that history is being rewritten? I don't think that removing statuary or commemorative portraits or legacy renaming is the same as rewriting history.

A Hit With The Ladies, BSN, RN · Jun 20, 2020

14 minutes ago, amoLucia said:
Klondike bar, anyone? And for HP, they did away with that little tourist guy in the floral shirt years ago. Likewise, the same with the Frito Bandito and Pecos Pete, I think.
Seems like Christopher Columbus is taking the hit at present. There was a monument statue in Little Italy, in my old neck of the woods. Was vandalized and now being relocated by the city. The Italian-American influence was very big in central/northern NJ. You can't just un-write that part of history.

I've been doing Italian language DuoLingo for nearly 4 months now, and love Italian cuisine and the people there generally. Getting rid of the Columbus statue was ridiculous! And now in San Francisco they're toppling UNION General Ulysses S. Grant because he owned a slave in the antebellum period! This Cultural Marxism is getting ridiculous!

beachynurse, ASN, BSN · Jun 22, 2020

I think that our society is becoming ridiculously hypersensitive. Eventually we are going to be afraid to say anything for fear of unintentionally offending someone with the wrong word. What about the Lucky Charms Leprechaun, how do the Irish American's feel about him, I say he goes with every thing else. Just saying...

allnurses Guide · Jun 22, 2020

In 1983 we were in Juneau, Alaska. My son went into a liquor store to buy ice cream. The clerk told him that only adults can enter a liquor store. Then the friendly clerk said, "How about you wait on the sidewalk? I am an Eskimo so your Mom can buy you an Eskimo Pie from an Eskimo, the only Netsilik in this town."

toomuchbaloney · Jun 22, 2020

I'm not certain why a company's decision to change a brand is so upsetting to some people.

emtb2rn, BSN, RN, EMT-B · Jun 24, 2020

On 6/22/2020 at 12:50 AM, toomuchbaloney said:
I'm not certain why a company's decision to change a brand is so upsetting to some people.

Resistance to any change in the status quo. Inability to accept other’s perceptions might be different from their own. Lack of empathy. Belief that they are seldom right but never wrong.

amoLucia · Jun 24, 2020

Just FYI - Eskimo Pie Company has a cookie on the market; looks like the ice cream pie. Same company name for now.

toomuchbaloney · Jun 24, 2020

There's a whole bunch of people in Fairbanks Alaska with their panties in a twist because they were offended by a waiter's T-shirt message : "dont be a racist". Conservatives pick the oddest fights sometimes...