Trader Joe’s to remove ‘racist’
packaging of ethnic food
by
Noah Manskar
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
7/20/2020 11:56:16 AM
Trader Joe’s plans to remove ethnic brand names from its products as a petition calling for their removal gains steam.
The California-based grocery chain said it’s working to phase out foreign names it has attached to ethnic foods, such as “Trader José’s” for Mexican cuisine, “Trader Ming’s” for Chinese products and “Arabian Joe’s” for Middle Eastern dishes.
“While this approach to product naming may have been rooted in a lighthearted attempt at inclusiveness, we recognize that it may now have the opposite effect — one that is contrary to the welcoming, rewarding customer experience we strive to create every day,” Trader Joe’s spokeswoman Kenya Friend-Daniel said in a statement.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
droopydog 7/20/2020 12:09:10 PM (No. 484772)
A new Dark Age (is that racist?) is upon us.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/20/2020 12:21:36 PM (No. 484782)
Trader Joe’s began in Pasadena, CA, decades ago. A funky. very whimsical place that offered its own interesting items with clever names - excellent quality at good prices. It was unique.
I am sorry to see them “cave”, to use Dr. Sowell’s term, which he repeated time and again during his guest visit to Mark Levin’s program. He believes that what is happening - the giving in, the “caving”, to the mob. I couldn’t agree more.
As with children, who are constantly testing their parents to see how much further they can go, what further concessions they can get, these mindless mob are testing our society and they are winning. We are “caving”...
16 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
hershey 7/20/2020 12:32:16 PM (No. 484789)
Another bunch of lilly livered putzes...too bad we don't have any stores in our area so I could boycott them...
9 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
dolphin 7/20/2020 12:36:04 PM (No. 484792)
Never go there. Too many hippies.
9 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
KevinSeattle 7/20/2020 12:36:06 PM (No. 484793)
What? No more German potato salad?
13 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/20/2020 12:37:42 PM (No. 484796)
PS. I don’t believe their spokeswoman Kenya is a Swede...
8 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
SweetSweetback 7/20/2020 12:46:25 PM (No. 484806)
“Two Buck Chuck” offends my Jewish friend, Chuck Horowitz, and also my Paiute friend, “Joe Two Bucks”
Let’s ban it!
Trader Joe’s traded its gonads for a pink P hat! Morons!
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Let's just all stay home and eat crackers. Oh wait, not saltines, they are too white.
Maybe a multi-grain that shows diversity. Oh wait, talk of crackers may make someone anxious.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
snakeoil 7/20/2020 1:14:09 PM (No. 484825)
Trader Joe's Kale and Eggplant Surprise for Snowflakes? Hope nobody remembers the old name for Brazil nuts.
13 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Jeremiah29_11 7/20/2020 1:22:04 PM (No. 484836)
Trader Joe has now charted his course for the “Reefs of Political Correctness”. May Neptune stab holes in the hull of his vessel and sink it to the bottom of the deep.
9 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 7/20/2020 1:24:25 PM (No. 484841)
** Trader Joe’s spokeswoman Kenya Friend-Daniel said in a statement. **
There's yer problem, right there.
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Trader Giuseppe pasta sauce
Trader Jozef Polish dill spears
Trader Josef German potato salad
Trader Joshua matzo meal
so many ways to offend if the offendee is super sensitive. And so many are. Good thing TJ's has a spokeswoman working on that whole inclusive thing.
2 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/20/2020 2:07:10 PM (No. 484887)
I guess Trader Jamal's and Trader Lakeisha's just didn't have that ad jingle ring to it. I'm surprised there wasn't a second petition for racial exclusion.
5 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
doublesharp 7/20/2020 2:09:09 PM (No. 484890)
If TJ was a stock I'd short it.
6 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/20/2020 2:10:45 PM (No. 484891)
Excellent recollection, #9. We used to ask for them by name around Christmas time and nobody batted an eyelash.
7 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Right Time 7/20/2020 2:26:55 PM (No. 484906)
Oh, for Pete's Sake! How trivial.
Leftists have no sense of humor
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 7/20/2020 2:33:41 PM (No. 484916)
New packaging reads - 'Product contained within this package is generally eaten by people who may or may not originate from this area of planet earth'
3 people like this.
9 and 15, I had to give it a couple of memory beats - oh yeah. Now I remember...
6 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Catfur27 7/20/2020 2:46:43 PM (No. 484932)
I demand the end using of the term "soul food"
I am offended
It implies that only people who eat what black people like have souls .
/s
1 person likes this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
reefdiver 7/20/2020 2:51:39 PM (No. 484939)
Is the word 'ethnic" now racist?
4 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 7/20/2020 4:26:37 PM (No. 485003)
Re #9 and #15. I do remember that and a certain firework that scooted along the ground and finished with a bang. I think that they are just called "chasers" now. Old-timers in the keys also had a name for a certain coral head. We don't need to go back to those days but the pendulum has swung too far the other way along with a massive loss of of any sense of humor on the left.
6 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/20/2020 5:29:52 PM (No. 485060)
Grew up in Canada before I came to my senses and legally became a proud American. We used to have a saying in Alberta which seems applicable here.
" F M if they can't take a joke"
3 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
Norway 7/20/2020 6:33:42 PM (No. 485124)
We live in the time of insanity.
2 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
chillijilli 7/20/2020 6:35:01 PM (No. 485125)
Yes, we will all be one happy OneWorld borderless family, comprised of equal non-gendered "units" working feverishly together to save the Planet.
2 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/20/2020 6:47:08 PM (No. 485137)
SO, no more white anything, no paper, no toilet paper, no sinks, toilets, floor tile...all white with dark printing has to go, they are Racist! I can go through a grocery store and pick out every product that is racist in one way or another based on BLM criteria. Now the store has Licorice, pencil erasers (Pink for the Gays), black jelly beans and black real beans...
Now that we all know the insanity of all this, can we get back to normal and put these PC Morons on Mars?
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Virtue signalling and political correctness, in the extreme.
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#9 and #15... My aunt thought they were called "nikatos" since she was a little girl. She only found out the real name when she said at a party how excited she was to have one since she hadn't had one in a while. Everyone was aghast and she had no idea why.
1 person likes this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
EQKimball 7/20/2020 9:59:52 PM (No. 485303)
So whatever happened to the progressives' celebration of multi-culturalism? Our local Trader Joe's shares a parking lot with Swan Thai Restaurant, Avenue Italy Restaurant, Asaka Japanese Cuisine and Maria's Mexican Restaurant. TJ's carries ethnic food, beer and wines of at least two dozen countries. Where is the insensitivity other than in the busy minds of the self-appointed sensitivity police?
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