Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup says it
will review branding due to
racial bias concerns
Miami Herald,
by
Chacour Koop
Original Article
Posted By: Muguy,
6/18/2020 6:57:53 AM
Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup says it will review its brand and packaging after two other popular products announced changes to their products due to racial bias concerns.
“The Mrs. Butterworth’s brand, including its syrup packaging, is intended to evoke the images of a loving grandmother,” the company said in a news release Wednesday. “We stand in solidarity with our Black and Brown communities and we can see that our packaging may be interpreted in a way that is wholly inconsistent with our values.”
Conagra Brands said it has “begun a complete brand and packaging review on Mrs. Butterworth’s.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
franq 6/18/2020 7:12:04 AM (No. 448258)
About time. Need to give her some tats and a 'do rag. Raise her fist too.
37 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
edgar 6/18/2020 7:13:48 AM (No. 448260)
Maybe they can model the next bottle of syrup after George Soros to keep their brand image consistent with their desire to grovel to target communities. C'mon man.
29 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
sw penn 6/18/2020 7:15:57 AM (No. 448261)
Get your souvenir Auntie Jemima and Ms. Butterworth’s bottles before they're gone.
So you can secretly show the grand un-differentiated humans
what life was like in the former Free Republic of America
before everything was grey.
But, only do that if you're sure
they won't snitch you out to the thought police!
21 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
NancyD 6/18/2020 7:19:08 AM (No. 448263)
All of this is beyond stupid.
Welcome to fascist democrat America.
34 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
6079 Smith, W 6/18/2020 7:27:37 AM (No. 448268)
Is this the new Me Too Movement? "Me too! Me, too! I'm woke! I'm really, really woke!".
22 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
gwholmessr 6/18/2020 7:29:13 AM (No. 448270)
Looks like they are laying off two working women, isnt that supposed to be racist? We live in such a screwed up time. I'm worried for my grandchildren's future
18 people like this.
So, basically, Conagra Brands wants to reduce the loss which Quaker Foods will take by giving up the years of brand familiarity with Aunt Jemima brand syrups by giving up their years of brand familiarity with Mrs. Butterworth's brand syrups. Both will replace their established brands with an expensive generic brand.
12 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 6/18/2020 7:32:12 AM (No. 448274)
When the LGTBQXYZ community catches on, they'll do away with my faux syrup stand-by, Log Cabin.
28 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
msjena 6/18/2020 7:40:25 AM (No. 448283)
I think they need to re-brand Betty Crocker, because it stereotypes women as homemakers. Also, Quaker Oats, because it appropriates a religion. And Chef Boy-ar-dee makes fun of Italians, Anglicizing their difficult-to-spell name.
25 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 6/18/2020 8:07:16 AM (No. 448308)
What next? 'Spose my cast-iron lawn jockey collection is in danger , too.
15 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Newtsche 6/18/2020 8:18:55 AM (No. 448325)
WHAT?!?!??!!
3 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
aasilver 6/18/2020 8:19:46 AM (No. 448327)
We drive on Black tires. This must change.
We burn Black coal. This must change.
We use white bandages. This must change.
Band aids are beige. This must change.
Foot ball is 75% Black. This must change.
Basketball is 85%. This must change.
18 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
StormCnter 6/18/2020 8:20:28 AM (No. 448328)
#9, you evoked a smile from this L-Dotter. Texas ranch kids knew nothing about real maple syrup, so when Log Cabin arrived in that little tin cabin container where the syrup poured from the chimney, we thought we had died and gone to pancake heaven.
24 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
mathman 6/18/2020 8:23:42 AM (No. 448336)
I guess every product will now feature the face of Karl Marx.
Utter insanity.
I protest!
17 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Catfur27 6/18/2020 8:26:24 AM (No. 448343)
...hmmmmm...what IF President Trump said it was a good idea to remove images of black people from all food products ??.... we KNOW the dishonest media would then be screaming : " He's doing that because he's a racist !! "
13 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
planetgeo 6/18/2020 8:32:58 AM (No. 448347)
I have seen the videos of the looters. Truth in advertising suggests the syrup be rebranded as Mrs. Butterbutt. Seriously, "ladies", no need to riot...you could probably stuff a bigscreen TV in your pants and walk out of the store without anyone noticing.
14 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
paral04 6/18/2020 8:37:08 AM (No. 448350)
What about Betty Crocker brands? A woman being exploited?
7 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
philsner 6/18/2020 8:40:34 AM (No. 448355)
Good grief. Does anyone know how easy it is to make your own syrup?
Who eats that stuff anyway?
I'm confused. Isn't Mrs. Butterworth a white made up character?
11 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
nina584 6/18/2020 8:44:28 AM (No. 448357)
Boycott !!!
5 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
Pearson365 6/18/2020 8:44:52 AM (No. 448358)
Once again, the Babylon Bee is on the story:
Cracker Jack Changes Name To More Politically Correct Caucasian Jack
15 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Clinger 6/18/2020 8:45:28 AM (No. 448359)
I'm pretty sure that "Log Cabin" is meant to depict slave quarters so you best be planning on finding a maple tree, piece of pipe, hammer and a bucket.
10 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
wakeupcall 6/18/2020 8:53:11 AM (No. 448365)
Well there goes my favorite Mrs. Butterworth syrup. Guess I will have to make my own buttery syrup with melted sugar and butter like we did before their brand came out. No more purchasing any of their brands for me. I will start reading labels more carefully now to see just who is making products.
People must unite and stand against those who are helping destroy the real history of America which used to be united if freedom of choice. The very freedom God our Father I AM THAT I AM gives everyone. Now the Marxist Communist democrats, liberals, Rino's, etc, say there is no more freedom of choice. You will do as the Communists traitors to America say or you will find yourself is Communist brainwashing re-education camps or eliminated. And as one well known communist said, It is easier to kill a million people than to brainwashing them. All communist countries have killed 100's of millions of those who refuse to be brainwashed and they love the way they live without freethinkers.
As other Communists have stated, We cannot allow free thoughts in the individual mind. The thoughts that matter, and must be passively obeyed, are the thoughts of the Communist leadership, obey or die.
9 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 6/18/2020 8:53:31 AM (No. 448366)
High fructose corn syrup-laden crap anyway.
7 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
mizzmac 6/18/2020 9:01:41 AM (No. 448373)
May I suggest Colin Kapernick as a spokesperson? I hear he is looking for work and is quite popular now. Mr. Butterworth, maybe? Has nice hair.
5 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
Historybuff 6/18/2020 9:05:41 AM (No. 448378)
How 'bout that Quaker guy anyway!
Never knew Mrs. Butterworth was a woman of color.
5 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 6/18/2020 9:23:22 AM (No. 448397)
I knew it but I thought 'fat shaming' Mrs. Butterworth would be next. I don't or haven't used any of these products or seen them in our house since the 1950s when growing up. We had locally made syrups with just a name on the label no faces.
So let Quaker Oats groveling begin. Changing a product that some portion of the population doesn't even use and insult the portion that uses it, great move stupid.
2 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/18/2020 9:25:26 AM (No. 448399)
They could keep Mrs. Butterworth if they took the artificial brown color out of the fake maple syrup. Then it would be an old white grandmotherly type, which of course would elicit howls of anger, for not being deverse enough.
3 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
halfnorsk 6/18/2020 9:38:50 AM (No. 448409)
I’m old enough to remember the commercial using white Charlie Weaver in drag, posing as Mrs Butterworth. It never dawned on me that Mrs. B might be a woman of color.
4 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
ramona 6/18/2020 9:42:07 AM (No. 448413)
I checked the pancake mix shelf at the grocery store yesterday. There were still a few boxes of Aunt Jemima pancake mix but not a single bottle of the syrup. I bet those bottles will become collector's items.
Ramona (the Pest)
ps I always thought the AJ character evoked warmth and home-made goodness
5 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
hershey 6/18/2020 9:43:06 AM (No. 448414)
'Standing in solidarity' with rioters and looters is going to cost you big time....saw an ad for Sam Adams yesterday for coming out with a LGBTQueer label....they just dropped off my beer list...
3 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/18/2020 9:44:28 AM (No. 448416)
Uncle Ben was old enough to retire too.
2 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
hershey 6/18/2020 9:48:31 AM (No. 448419)
Oh, Second post, sorry, but #19, it's not really that easy...I've been doing it myself for many years...it is a LOT of work...
1 find the trees to tap
2 tap them
3 collect the sap every day from each tree
4 boil it down (lengthy process)
5 sanitize containers
6 fill containers.
I'll remind you that it takes 40 GALLONS of sap to make ONE gallon of syrup.
7 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
Daria 6/18/2020 9:51:10 AM (No. 448422)
So can all of the O'Connors, Kellys and McCarthys go after Bailey's Irish Cream?
3 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/18/2020 9:56:36 AM (No. 448437)
Perhaps they should replace Mrs. Butterworth with Malcolm X or Martin Luther King. Never mind they had nothing to do with syrup. What are they trying to do? Remove all black people from product emblems? It makes no sense.
1 person likes this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
HotRod 6/18/2020 10:01:21 AM (No. 448450)
It's the left's new war on women! The left is a truly bizarre bunch of people.
If Aunt Jemima's picture is offensive because she is black and reminds ''woke'' people of slavery, instead of simply being a good cook, then we must also eliminate living black people, for the same reason! There are too many reminders of slavery walking around!
/s/
5 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/18/2020 10:01:28 AM (No. 448452)
We will continue to buy and use Trader Joe’s 100% maple syrup. Delicious and worth every penny.
4 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/18/2020 10:06:23 AM (No. 448456)
I too remember the Log Cabin syrup in those magical little cabin-shaped tins. Then Mom decided she could more economically make her own faux maple syrup, and it was Karo and Mapleine extract from then on.
What are they going to do about all the chicken and waffle places that are really, really racist?????
3 people like this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
Tusker 6/18/2020 10:10:01 AM (No. 448462)
Hey fools! How about standing in solidarity with the community who formally bought your syrup, the white community!
Here’s to your products never again leaving a store shelf.
8 people like this.
Reply 39 - Posted by:
Venturer 6/18/2020 10:27:41 AM (No. 448490)
In their eforts to pander to one portion of their customer base they decide to anger anohe portion. Doesn't make much sense to me, but let';s get woke and kiss the buttocks of the permmanently offended.
4 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/18/2020 10:39:06 AM (No. 448510)
Why don’t the CONAGRA big shots just shut up, and redesign their supposedly offending plastic syrup containers?
1 person likes this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/18/2020 10:40:29 AM (No. 448513)
Here’s the sort of thing that drives this. On the same Google page with Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup, Google offers this 2015 book:
Racism in American Popular Media: From Aunt Jemima to the Frito Bandito: From Aunt Jemima to the Frito Bandito (that doubletalk is how they list it)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brian D. Behnken is associate professor in the Department of History and the U.S. Latino/a Studies Program at Iowa State University.
Gregory D. Smithers is associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University.
3 people like this.
Reply 42 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/18/2020 11:02:27 AM (No. 448539)
My (mercifully) last word: Something amusing for a change. Louis Henry Gates does dna test! (this is satire)
https://thepeoplesnews.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/shocker-dna-test-proves-mrs-butterworth-isnt-black/
1 person likes this.
Reply 43 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/18/2020 11:05:21 AM (No. 448543)
I don't buy any of their garbage now. As long as they don't mess with black rifles, I don't care.
2 people like this.
Reply 44 - Posted by:
rib932 6/18/2020 12:00:23 PM (No. 448609)
How about that Air Jordan logo?
1 person likes this.
Reply 45 - Posted by:
msjena 6/18/2020 1:15:36 PM (No. 448701)
I buy real maple syrup and cheap but good pancake mix at Aldi. But I do miss that Aunt Jemima coffee cake mix they used to sell.
0 people like this.
Reply 46 - Posted by:
DVC 6/18/2020 2:34:38 PM (No. 448814)
Pretty crappy syrup, IMO. When I started helping a friend make maple syrup about 25 years ago, I stopped using any of the fake stuff. In the last few years, since my friend is too old for us to do the mapling any more, I have to buy my maple syrup, but I do. It was more fun when we were out in February hauling buckets and boiling sap all day.
0 people like this.
Reply 47 - Posted by:
cny 6/18/2020 5:58:04 PM (No. 449076)
I'll stick with Stone House Farm maple syrup. Perfection.
0 people like this.
Reply 48 - Posted by:
FLCracker 6/18/2020 10:22:23 PM (No. 449290)
Has nobody but me SEEN "Gone With The Wind"?
Butterfly McQueen's character, "Prissy", was a skinny, lazy teenager.
The character that favors Mrs. Butterworth was Academy Award Winner Hattie McDaniel's "Mammy", a warm, motherly -- and heavy -- person.
Hey, you want a "full-figured" bottle.
1 person likes this.
Reply 49 - Posted by:
or gate 6/19/2020 7:38:14 PM (No. 450247)
Buy Golden Griddle.
0 people like this.
Reply 50 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 6/18/2021 3:20:11 PM (No. 819802)
Rebranding is bull. Need to rebrand the leftist pigs.
0 people like this.
They better not jack with my honey bottle shaped like a bear!
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