Or are rice and syrup so low-salience that we can reasonably expect their parent companies to squeeze another century out of each of them?
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How are Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben chugging along as corporate mascots in 2019? AJ is a straight-up minstrel show character -- there was a @uvapress book about this subject.
Are those brands so shaky that they'd fade without these characters fronting their packages?
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It just seems weird as heck to see walls of these low-dollar products lining supermarket aisles in 2019, as if they were somehow too insignificant and too ubiquitous to address.
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I was honestly just contemplating this very thing
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Because people who care about things don't put Aunt Jemima syrup on their food.
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Some kind of weird corn syrup
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We actually have two books that address the subject: CERAMIC UNCLES AND CELLULOID MAMMIES https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/1326 + SLAVE IN A BOXhttps://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2502
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