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Off Topic » in reply to Re: I suspect that professional marketers have been trained to see everything as something that needs "change."

It's lucky they can get away with Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben at all in this age of hair-trigger sensitivity.

Aunt Jemima, like Betty Crocker, is completely fictional. I don't see much of Betty on the Betty Crocker website.

The Uncle Ben character actually looks almost the same as he did back in the 50s. The rice was named for a real black Texas farmer who was famous for growing high quality rice. The face on the box is based on a restaurant maitre d', Frank Brown, a friend of the manufacturers.

As long as Morton Salt comes in that easy-to-spot blue and white round box, they could put Lady Gaga on the logo for all I care.

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