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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?
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?
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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