Seriously? The product is caramel coated popcorn, you’d think they might give it a more appropriate name, such as…
Caramel Jills
Edit: For people that aren’t aware, this is their rebranding of Cracker Jacks, to try to be inclusive or some shit. I think they did a terrible rebranding of this, for reasons already stated. :(
The link is to the Wikipedia article. Lotta multi-syllable words in there, just ask someone to read and explain it to you.
Sad to see a poster turn out to be an racist weirdo.
My guy you’re obsessed with race. You see a black kid and think “she shouldn’t be here, or they should make it about race”
To pre-empt the inevitable THEN I CAN SAY NI-" cracker here is not being use to refer to race. It never was. If it was, that’s racist, it was not. You’re just racist.
If a Spanish package used the word negro for a black coffee flavoured items that’s not racist. Its not about race. Its about the the taste. You wouldn’t care about that bud. But a black person on a package? FUCK STOP EVERERYTHING I GET TO SAY THE N WORD NOW! IT’S MY ONLY JOY
They aren’t trying to be inclusive they’re trying to sell sugar to children. They likely have a lower rate of girls buying it. People who like it won’t stop buying unless they’re a freak like you. New people will. That’s all. It’s money. Also, there’s you, and your free publicity. Anti-woke weirdos make good advertisments. You freak out about the green mnm no-longer wearing heals and the mars company sees a revenue spike
See you later culture warriir
Popcorn is not a cracker in the first place, but the snack is indeed covered in caramel.
Is it that hard to connect the dots? Hell, Caramel Jills even sounds nicer and prettier, at least to me.
Cracker reffers to the “cracking” sound that the popcorn makes. Not the race of the character on the bag. This is jack, hear how his treats crack. These are cracker jacks, they crack, jack.
That’s a you invention. The racial bit
Maybe it’s a misunderstanding? It’s a homograph. Something spelt the same, with a different meaning. Cracker jack never meant “jack is, racially, white”. That would be racist.
Changing it to caramel specifically because they’re black is racist. It does sound better, I’ll admit that though. If they made the change to caramel jills for non racial reasons I’d support it
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole on this, and yes indeed the snack has serious historical cultural references.
OP:
https://www.snackhistory.com/cracker-jack/
Read into that…
The Prize and Culture
The prize inside Cracker Jack’s box has tons of cultural references.
Looks like its a special edition to to promote women’s sports, not super obvious by the packaging but also not like a rebranding
Cracker doesn’t refer to the skin color of Jack, but to the crackling of the caramel shell on the popcorn.
My concern was ‘jilling off’ is the female version of ‘jacking off’.
Meanwhile, everyone else understands that Cracker is a racist insult towards white people, along with Honkey.
God forbid anyone even quotes the N word though…
Cracker is a particular type of white person and I haven’t heard anyone seriously say the word honky for decades. You’re overreacting.
https://www.snackhistory.com/cracker-jack/
Read into that…
The Prize and Culture
The prize inside Cracker Jack’s box has tons of cultural references.
Is it racist? It’s a reference of slave masters cracking the whip. Not white people having the same color as a saltine cracker.
It can be used in a racist way, but its a term of endearment in my circles.
Is it racist to call a white man a cracker or a honkey?
Is it racist to call me a red man? Ya know, Native American?..
Hey dumdum, knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. Try using your brain why black people have it a little worse.
And knowing that ‘Cracker Jacks’ heavily refers to baseball, the crack of the bat…
Then put into context how old the company is…
Their old mindset was basically ‘white people play baseball, black people play basketball’
Cracker Jacks was founded in the late 1800s, around 1896.
Poor white people. They’ve been oppressed for so many years.
Choctaw here
Fuckoff
Are you trolling? You seem angry it isn’t acceptable in society to say the N word? You want to say it?
I want to take the time to explain the reason everyone is calling you racist. You are insisting a product change its name BECAUSE of the color of someone’s skin. You chose caramel because it is more appropriate for her skin color by your reasoning and doesn’t use the products name, which you find offensive.
The popcorn obviously isn’t referring to race in any way, but you made it about that and came up with a pretty racist solution.
Next time get the gum at cvs and not some popcorn. If you don’t like a product, don’t give them your money. Easypeasy. No need to get worked up.
Cracker is to white as N***** is to black.
Please explain the difference, and why I shouldn’t be equally upset…
One term came from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*removed*
The other was made by white people to describe other white people btw. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(term)
Get over yourself. Read a book.
Seriously, read your own links…
Lemmy done censored your own links.
Well done asshole.
Read your own links, Lemmy done censored them.
If you’re comparing the badness of two words, and you won’t even say one of them? That’s the worse word
True, I can compare many words. Which word would you like me to say?
Preferably “I’ve been doing a lot of introspection and am really sorry that my internalized issues manifested in a way that caused me to hurt others.”
‘Cracker Jacks’ heavily refers to baseball, the crack of the bat…
Then put into context how old the company is…
Their old mindset was basically ‘white people play baseball, black people play basketball’
Cracker Jacks was founded in the late 1800s, around 1896.
And of course the Jill is black, otherwise it’d be problematic for calling a white girl “cracker”.
That’s the point, yes.
Their marketing department might have done better by calling their new dark skinned young lady “Caramel Jill”…
We get it: you’re an asshole. You don’t need to keep trying to convince everyone.
No, you don’t get it. I was forced by a Flock camera to go into and make a purchase in a CVS, otherwise they were gonna tow our vehicle away.
So I had no choice but to go in and purchase something, to keep the vehicle from getting towed.
It wasn’t my vehicle by the way, I was ‘vehicle sitting’ so to speak.
I never called anyone any sort of slur, but seriously, FUCK FLOCK CAMERAS!!
You made the choice to park your car in the wrong place. Nobody “forced” you to do anything.
No
I don’t think this is anyone’s attempt at being “inclusive”.
“Amusing comeuppance” is the phrase that first jumps to mind. “Postmodern art“ is another. I would also love to have a package of this.
Read the top right corner, do some research…
“Women in Sports!”
They literally were doing the inclusive thing, I took this photo June 15, 2023.
I don’t need lessons on how to read
You might get a lot further if you stop talking to everyone like they’re fucking idiots
Then clearly you don’t know how to research…
Did they really have to call her a cracker, when caramel would have been much more respectful and fitting?
It wasn’t about race until you made it about race.
It would be disrespectful. Like if you were playing white shirts vs dark shirts and said all the blacks had to be black shirts. It was about shirt colour, then you made it about skin colour for no reason.
Massively disrespectful, massively racist.
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole on this, and yes indeed the snack has serious historical cultural references.
Doubling down on calling everyone else an idiot only buries your message
No one will listen to you when you call them an idiot
BECAUSE YOU COME OFF AS A RACIST, ELITIST PIECE OF SHIT
(Because you are)
I never once used the word “idiot”.
Fuckoff, blocking you for being a troll and throwing words I never said or typed into chat.
Okay, you’re the only one that’s used that ‘idiot’ word, so please kindly fuck off.
Are you done throwing your tantrum now?
Oh this is easy. Fuckoff.
Blocked.
Jack is in heaven with Aunt Jamima and Uncle Ben now.
