AUNT JEMIMA: Terrorist, Freedom Fighter, Insurgent, or Hero?

[Placebo]

Poll question: AUNT JEMIMA: Terrorist, Freedom Fighter, Insurgent, or Hero?

Let your voice be heard about this woman and icon they call, the Aunt Jemima.

[JohnKleeb]

1. Waffle Queen ain't she

sweet lovely waffles.

[qnr]

3. if she is a Waffle Queen, does that make her a flip flopper? n/t

[JohnKleeb]

11. it could

[Nicole]

2. Terrorist

I read on the internet that all rag heads are terrorists.

[UpsideDownFlag]

4. ..."the most famous colored women in the world"....?

glad that at least some things in america change.

[Fenris]

5. Fictional "Mammy" figure designed to sell waffle mix to crackers.

The idea was that placing a black servant on the box would remind Southern whites of "the good ol' days" when blacks were forced to make them the most delicious pancakes they ever had.

[hlthe2b]

8. Probably original nasty intent, but she is a very motherly icon to me....

Reminds me of all the older ladies in the deep south (both black and white) that "honey" you throughout their conversation!

So, if I still find the icon comforting, is that a bad thing? Pancakes are the ultimate in "comfort food," after all...

[Placebo]

10. Mmm comfort pancakes with a pinch of terra for flava...

*drooools*

[Lone Pawn]

6. Terrorist

Look at her. Dark skin, hair under some head-wrap-lookin' thing, evil grin, and shifty eyes. Trying to drown God-fearing American pancakes in her sticky syrup of terrorism.

[hlthe2b]

7. A cooking phenom! ummmm, pancakes, yum!

Was there really an Aunt Jemima?

[Deja Q]

9. Is there a real Aunt Jamima, or did a white guy profit by doing this?

:shrug:

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

12. She kicks Mrs. Butterworth's GLASS ASS

[Placebo]

13. AHAHAHAHAHA!

That she does, that...she...does.

[Deja Q]

18. Don't you mean PLASTIC ass?

:D

[baldguy]

19. Mrs. Butterworth is a terrorist.

Spreading the blasphemous false "syrup" over God's great pancakes.

[Dogmudgeon]

21. Don't you mean "Rosa Butterstein"?

You mean you didn't know that Mrs. Butterworth used to be a Communist, until the Great Dairy Product Purge of 1937?

--bkl

[Placebo]

22. Mmmm, that's right, the Great Dairy Product Purge of 1937...

It's alllll coming back to me now... *trails off into memoryland*

[Dogmudgeon]

27. In the words of Comrade Molokov ...

From the 15th All-Union Conference on the Struggle Against Counter-Revolutionary Trends in Gastronomic Science:

"Cow's milk is intended by historical inevitability for the needs of baby cows, not the Proletarian and certainly not the Soviet New Man. The consumption of dairy products is a bourgeoise imposture of long standing, and shall be smashed by a Proletariat seeking its good health, and led by a Revolutionary Vanguard acting solely in the interests of building a gastronomic advance-guard within the Soviet state."

(Y.Z.Molokov, "On The Reduction of Phlegm and the Prerogatives of Revolution", Noviy Starograd, 1937)

--bkl
Every word is true. Honest.

[JVS]

25. BULLSHIT. BUTTERWORTH WOULD FUCK HER SHIT UP

[Ivan Sputnik]

14. Is it true

that she was married to Uncle Ben?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. Yes, they were quite a power couple in the processed food industry

:-)

[Lavender Brown]

16. Until her affair with the Pillsbury Dough Boy came to light.

Things were never the same! :cry:

[Ivan Sputnik]

17. I heard they reconciled

after the Doughboy's funeral, though.

The Pillsbury Doughboy--Dead at 71

Veteran spokesman, the Pillsbury Doughboy, died yesterday of a severe yeast infection and complications from repeated pokes to the belly. He was 71. Doughboy was buried in one of the largest funeral ceremonies in recent years. Dozens of celebrities turned out, including Mrs. Butterworth, the California Raisins, Hungry Jack, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, Captain Crunch and many others.

The graveside was piled high with flours as longtime friend, Aunt Jemima, delivered the eulogy, describing Doughboy as a man who "never knew how much he was kneaded."

Doughboy rose quickly in show business, but his later life was filled with many turnovers. He was not considered a very smart cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked schemes.

Still, even as a crusty old man, he was a roll model for millions.

Doughboy is survived by his second wife, Play Dough. They have two children and one in the oven.

The funeral was held at 3:50 for about 20 minutes.

[Dogmudgeon]

20. I may never eat again

That's just wrong. :)

--bkl

[Jack Schitt]

23. Was she real or just made up by a large corporation?

[NoPasaran]

26. A real woman named Nancy Green

Nancy Green was born a slave in Montgomery County, Kentucky in 1834. Her given name was Nancy Green, but the world knew her as "Aunt Jemima." Although the famous Aunt Jemima recipe was not hers, she became the advertising world’s first living trademark. She was attractive, friendly, a good storyteller, and an excellent cook. Her ability to project her warm and appealing personality made her the ideal "Aunt Jemima."

In 1889, the Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix was introduced in St. Joseph, Missouri after Chris L. Rutt, a newspaperman, and Charles G. Underwood bought the Pearl Milling Company. Searching for a novel product to survive in a highly competitive business, the two men hit on the original idea of developing and packaging a ready-mixed, self-rising pancake flour.

In the fall of 1889, Rutt attended a vaudeville show where he heard a catchy tune called "Aunt Jemima," sung by a blackfaced performer, clad in apron and bandana headband. Soon after, the whole town was humming the song, and Rutt immediately decided that Aunt Jemima was the name for his pancake mix. Short on capital, Rutt and Underwood went broke and sold the formula to the R.T. Davis Milling Company in 1890. Davis decided to try a new idea, and began looking for a Negro woman to employ as a living trademark for his new product. He found Nancy Green in Chicago, Illinois. She was 59 at the time and worked in the home of a judge.

In 1893, the Davis Milling executives boldly decided to risk their entire future with an all-out promotion at the gigantic World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. They constructed the world’s largest flour barrel. "Aunt Jemima," in the person of Nancy Green, demonstrated the pancake mix. She kept up lively conversation with the crowd, while making and serving thousands of pancakes. She was such a sensation that special details of policemen had to be assigned to keep the crowds moving at the Aunt Jemima exhibition booth.
-more-
http://www.toptags.com/aama/bio/women/ngreen.htm

[jcappy]

24. Why are these the choices???

Am I missing something about her? The image seems like a combo of sexism/racism unredeemed by any popular culture context.