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Feds to Stop Calling Midget Raisins ‘Midget’ (after complaints from activist group)
Washington Free Beacon ^
| August 20, 2015
| Elizabeth Harrington
Posted on 08/20/2015 1:51:38 PM PDT by Zakeet
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a regulation on Thursday to stop referring to midget raisins as “midget” after an activist group called the term offensive.
The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) issued the proposed rule, announcing the U.S. “Standards for Grades of Processed Raisins” would eliminate all five times the word midget is used. Midget has long been used to describe the differences in sizes of California raisins.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: agriculture; ams; california; liberalism; midget; raisin; raisins; speech; usda
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My dear wife is going to bake me a loaf of swirled cinnamon small stature raisin bread to help me get over the pain I am suffering from inadvertently causing untold agony to countless vertically challenged individuals ... and their bureaucrat protectors.
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posted on
08/20/2015 1:51:38 PM PDT
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
The word raisin is offensive! Think of all the old people with wrinkly skin who are reminded of their age infirmities by the word raisin. It must stop!
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posted on
08/20/2015 1:53:42 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
(Mr. Obama, the time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end.)
To: Zakeet
Donald...About that PC crap....
To: Zakeet
Don’t even get them started on Brazil nuts.
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posted on
08/20/2015 1:53:50 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Couples? Same-sex COUPLES?! Don't be such a narrow-minded hate-filled clusterphobe.)
To: Zakeet
Are we going to have the same “problem” with “white raisin?”
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posted on
08/20/2015 1:54:13 PM PDT
by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: Jeff Chandler
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posted on
08/20/2015 1:55:18 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: Zakeet
Differently abled grapes?
To: Zakeet
I saw a midget drive into a cripple parking space the other day. (Another Trump effect.)
To: Zakeet
Sorry, I'm gonna call 'em Midget Raisins!
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posted on
08/20/2015 1:55:41 PM PDT
by
TexasCajun
(I'll believe in man-made global warming when those that believe it, act like it.)
To: Zakeet
What's next, no more dwarf tossing?
Or they call it something else?
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posted on
08/20/2015 1:57:19 PM PDT
by
x
To: Zakeet
Websters defines the word midget as diminutive. Here it is used in a sentence: The brains of liberals are diminutive as compared to the brains of conservatives.
To: Jeff Chandler
LOL. Never heard them called that till I was about 15.
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posted on
08/20/2015 1:58:11 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
When I played drums in rock bands during the 80’s. There was a girl who called herself Bridgette the Midget that would follow the bands.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:01:14 PM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: Zakeet
Midget is now an offensive term? When did this happen? Why is it an offensive term?
geeez. Well, if the Washington Redskins are forced to change their name, at least now there is a good name to change their team name to.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:02:32 PM PDT
by
GregoTX
(Remember the Alamo)
To: Zakeet; LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:03:15 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Support Islamic Repatriation)
To: Zakeet
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:04:51 PM PDT
by
lesko
To: x
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:04:58 PM PDT
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: GregoTX
They actually play in Maryland.
I’d suggest the Baltimore Baraqqis.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:05:12 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Impeach, convict, deport)
To: Zakeet
If little people are no longer called midgets,
why would they care if raisins are called midgets?
Am I right?
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:07:09 PM PDT
by
donna
(Pray for Revival.)
To: Zakeet
They’re from California, call them Gidget raisins.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:08:28 PM PDT
by
MUDDOG
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