Aunt Jemima

Funny how she got younger over the years and now looks so much like Orpah!
Nothing is sacred anymore. SIGH!

 

I would kill for some waffles right now....

 

Eating a healthy breakfast is like finding the "Fountain of Youth".

 

was aunt jemima ever "sacred"

i work with a woman who is part black, and every once in a while she'll talk about her crazy stepmom who is a "big fat white woman who is racist and has nooses in boxes, and statues of black ppl in her house who stand there with their arms out like servants, and has aunt jemima salt and pepper shakers..." all of these very racist, old, relics... it sounds kinda creepy to me.

maybe, hopefully?, the makers are trying to make aunt jemima more modern and realistic looking and less sterotypically slave-ish... hmm lemme go find an "old" picture of her......


well i did find this, which kind of supports what i said:
http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/metropolitan/96/04/07/aunt-jemima.html

""Whites gave us this image," explains Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, whose book on how blacks are portrayed in advertising takes a critical view of Aunt Jemima. "They made her very dark, they made her very obese, and they put her in the kitchen."

It's not a new complaint. Surveys in the 1920s found that many African-Americans already were seething over the stereotype. With her expansive girth, manner of speech and trademark bandanna, Aunt Jemima was a painful reminder of slavery. "

 

I figured it was because of complaints over her being portrayed looking like a slave. In the modern picture, she looks like a successful businesswoman.

 

Yup a successful businesswomann who makes Pancakes!

 

this is from the web link below, I'm so boared I had nothing better to do....

http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1287/Nancy_Green_the_original_Aunt_Jemima


Nancy Green, the original "Aunt Jemima"

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November 17

Aunt Jemima Logo *On this date we celebrate the birth of Nancy Green in 1834. She was a Black storyteller and one of the first (Black) corporate models in the United States.

The world knew her as "Aunt Jemima" but her given name was Nancy Green. The famous Aunt Jemima recipe was not her recipe but she became the advertising world's first living trademark. Miss Green was born a slave in Montgomery County, Kentucky. Chris Rutt, a newspaperman, and Charles Underwood bought the Pearl Milling Company and had the original idea of developing and packaging a ready-mixed, self-rising pancake flour. To survive in a highly competitive business, the men needed an image for their product.

In 1889, Rutt attended a vaudeville show where he heard a catchy tune called "Aunt Jemima" sung by a blackface performer who was wearing an apron and bandanna headband. He decided to call their pancake flour "Aunt Jemima". Later, Rutt and Underwood were so short of capital funds that they were broke. In 1890, they sold the formula to the R. T. Davis Milling Company. Mr. Davis began looking for a Negro woman to employ as a living trademark for his product, and he found Nancy Green in Chicago. She was 56 years old. The Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix was introduced in St. Joseph, Missouri.

In 1893, the Davis Milling Company aggressively began an all-out promotion of "Aunt Jemima" at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Green, as "Aunt Jemima" demonstrated the pancake mix and served thousands of pancakes. Green was a hit, friendly, a good storyteller, and a good cook. Her warm and appealing personality made her the ideal "Aunt Jemima" a living trademark. Her exhibition booth drew so many people that special policemen were assigned to keep the crowds moving. The Davis Milling Company received over 50,000 orders, and Fair officials awarded Nancy Green a medal and certificate for her showmanship.

She was proclaimed "Pancake Queen." She was signed to a lifetime contract and traveled on promotional tours all over the country. Flour sales were up all year and pancakes were no longer considered exclusively for breakfast. Nancy Green maintained this job until a car crash in Chicago killed her, on September 23, 1923. The Davis Company also ran into money problems, and the Quaker Oats Company purchased the Aunt Jemima Mills in 1925.

Reference:
Black Women in America An Historical Encyclopedia
Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Darlene Clark Hine
Copyright 1993, Carlson Publishing Inc., Brooklyn, New York
ISBN 0-926019-61-9

 

and in spite of it all...


I would still kill for some waffles....

 

Well, they did the same stuff to The Vermont Maid too!
They changed her picture too.
Like it or not at one time in American history big black women cooked in kitchens and made ass kicking food.
Changing her picture is bullshit.
As far as the black folks being maids..I spent much of my childhood sitting in peoples homes while my Mom did their wash and cleaned their homes. She worked as a maid and she was white. So I'm sick of hearing that only Blacks had it so hard etc.
EVERYONE has had it rough and hard.
My Fathers Mother was Lakota Sioux and we did not go around making Baseball teams change their logos. ie:The Braves
It's just a Pancake Logo and changing it shows how we have gotten to the point of stupid on changing things.
If you look at Blacks like Oprah-Colin Powel and Tiger Woods they are not even viewed as Black anymore. America made then WHITE as soon as they were up there in success.
I'm not endorsing Slavery but there are parts of that History that Blacks might want to keep and acknowledge instead of changing a stupid picture on a Pancake box.
That really did not solve anything in regard to how we treat one another.
I think many races need to get over the past and start living in the present. We have enough crap going on now in regard to human rights then worrying about how Aunt Jemima is pictured on a pancake box.

 

LOL Bro I will make you some Waffles. I am trying to Find a Micky Mouse Waffle Iron too. Or who knows maybe they changed that too.

 

So see? She sure as shit did not look like Oprah when all this was going down.
Now they have her looking like some other person...PURE BULLSHIT!

 

I haven't had pancakes in ages. hrm, damn, now I'm hungry

 

I had to go and make 2 grilled cheese sandwiches because of this thread....

 

Pancakes with maple syrup beats pancakes with aunt Jemina waffles ..

And don't you think that Aunt Jemina and Uncle Ben would make a nice couple ?

 

Do you like Sausage with either? Bacon rocks too! In Pancakes or Waffles I add a small amount of Vanilla Extract to make them taste even better.
I wonder if they ever met at any shows? I think they would have been a very good couple too.
Maybe that's who Bill Cosbys parents were?
Old Bill tried for years to get all The Little Rascals Movies so he could control anyone EVER seeing Buckwheat etc.
Glad he never got them.
Gotta go-Just woke up here and I am craving a Stack of some sweet Aunt Jemima Pancakes. I blew up the old picture and have it scotch taped over the new Oprah one. In my house she will ALWAYS be seen who she REALLY IS! Not Oprah!
They will have to beat my door down to take my REAL AUNT JEMIMA AWAY!

 

Now your talking Quest!
On rye with tomato?

 

If they're going to change the picture, they should change the name. That lady on there now isn't Aunt Jemima! She doesn't look like she can make good pancakes either.

 

Might I ask who this Aunt Jemima is? *feels blonde*

 

on sourgough with onion....


it was a swiss cheddar blend....

 

It's a brand of table syrup .. And if i'm not wrong you're a brunette so you should feel brunette not blonde .. Anyway