Aunt Jemima Rebrands Itself as ‘The Pearl Milling Company’
The pancake mix and syrup line Aunt Jemima has formally rebranded itself as “The Pearl Milling Company,” parent company PepsiCo announced Tuesday.
The pancake mix and syrup line Aunt Jemima has formally rebranded itself as “The Pearl Milling Company,” parent company PepsiCo announced Tuesday.
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The family of Lillian Richard, one of the women who portrayed “Aunt Jemima” — the smiling woman featured on popular breakfast foods and syrups — opposes Quaker Foods’ decision to undergo a rebranding, explaining that Richard became a “hero” in the city of Hawkins, Texas, and emphasizing that they “do not want that history erased.”
A descendant of “Aunt Jemima” blasted the decision by Quaker Foods to whitewash his great-grandmother’s legacy.
Eskimo Pie ice cream will undergo a name change after the owner company determined the name to be “derogatory,” Reuters reported on Friday.
A great-grandson of “Aunt Jemima” says that his family legacy will be “erased” now that Quaker Foods plans to eliminate the Aunt Jemima brand of pancake mix and syrup.
The B&G Foods company said Wednesday it will review its Cream of Wheat brand packaging, which features a black chef, to ensure the brand did not contribute to “systemic racism.”
Pepsico’s decision to remove the Aunt Jemima name and logo also means the end of a legacy started by freed slave Nancy Green.
The pancake syrup brand Mrs. Butterworth’s — known for its matronly woman-shaped bottle — will undergo a “complete brand and packaging review,” a spokesperson for Conagra Brands said.
Hours after Quaker Oats announced that it would rename the Aunt Jemima logo on its brand of maple syrup and other breakfast foods, Uncle Ben’s Rice announced that it would be changing its “brand identity” to “end racial biases and injustices.”
The national focus on race has led the makers of the Aunt Jemima brand to remove the iconic image of a black woman from its pancake and syrup products.