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‘Aunt Jemima’ relatives suing pancake company for $2B citing century-old agreement
New York Daily News ^
| October 7, 2014
| Nina Golgowski
Posted on 10/07/2014 5:50:47 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Two self-proclaimed descendants of the American pancake icon are taking their heritage to court with a lawsuit seeking more than $2 billion from the Quaker Oats company, Kentucky’s Courier Journal reported.
In a suit filed by the great grandsons of Anna Short Harrington, who went on to become "Aunt Jemima" in 1933, they claim they're owed a slice of the pancake company's revenue according to a long-forgotten agreement stretching back to its late-1800 creation.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: auntjemima; harrington; lawsuit; pancakes
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To: ConservativeStatement
The image symbolizes a sense of caring, warmth, hospitality and comfort, and is neither based on, nor meant to depict any one person," said a statement released from the PepsiCo subsidiary. LOL. That statement is next to a clearly racist old version of the Aunt Jemima add with a pidgin quote from her "I's in town, honey!" The lawsuit is silly but PepsiCo should stop digging before their defense gets any more ridiculous.
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10/07/2014 6:16:24 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Jane Long
That is funny also you folks have fun with that one the beeber thing gets me too
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posted on
10/07/2014 6:16:27 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi MomÂ…)
To: ConservativeStatement
Pancake woman doesn't get anything?
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posted on
10/07/2014 6:16:29 PM PDT
by
palmer
(This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
To: ConservativeStatement
To: goldstategop
Not if they can show a likelihood of her being based on a real person.
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posted on
10/07/2014 6:20:24 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: dontreadthis
Is that a “boob belt” designed into the glass container?
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posted on
10/07/2014 6:22:31 PM PDT
by
Sgt_Schultze
(A half-truth is a complete lie)
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
10/07/2014 6:24:15 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
To: ConservativeStatement
$2 billion? Geez, as long as you’re going to the trouble, why not go for $3 billion. After all, it’s only money.
To: smoothsailing
Wow! Family....what a concept.
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posted on
10/07/2014 6:24:40 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
10/07/2014 6:25:49 PM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
To: goldstategop
Of course she’s fictitious.
Aunt Jemima= Ain’t Yo Mama, baby.
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10/07/2014 6:27:50 PM PDT
by
Molon Labbie
(Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
To: goldstategop
Calling a black woman Aunt Jemima is racist even if that is her proper appellation./sarc
I once had an aunt named Fanny who was very short and very fat.
Am I entitled to record royalties for the song “Short Fat Fanny”? I hope so. (Larry Williams?)
Ain’t America great?
To: Veggie Todd
More reparations.
And here I thought Obama made us all more proud of transcending our differences.
Silly me.
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10/07/2014 6:29:04 PM PDT
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goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: God luvs America
and don’t forget Ms. Butterworth. Poor Pillsbury Doughboy where does he fit in?
To: ConservativeStatement
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10/07/2014 6:36:02 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: ConservativeStatement
It seems that the ladies were paid for their work decades ago, and I bet they were glad to get it!
They agreed to specific compensation, and it was paid. It must have been consistent with compensation in the times they lived in. Nobody was cheated.
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posted on
10/07/2014 6:38:22 PM PDT
by
passionfruit
(When illegals become legal, even they won't do the work Americans won't do)
To: Jane Long
Yep, those were the days.
To: ConservativeStatement
2 Billion!!!! Come on why not go for 2 Trillion
To: ConservativeStatement
Jemima (יְמִימָה) is an interesting girl's name. It apparently means "dove" or "pigeon" in Hebrew.
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