Land O'Lakes Removing Native American Woman From Packaging After 92 Years

One step closer to, frankly, them being completely removed from American consciousness. This move isn't necessarily a good thing.

I won’t be using them anymore.

I don't think we have this product in Canada. It's good to see a Native North American Indian, even on a product. We see so few of them. Leave it as it is.

They could put Lando Calrissian on the box instead. I don't think the Armenians would object.

[quote]Instead, future packages will showcase photos of real Land O’Lakes farmers and co-op members,

Yes, ugly midwestern farmers will make me want to buy more of your product.

Who does their advertising? The same people that put missing children on milk cartons?

Buy my butter, y'all!

And replacing her with a woman in a burka.

Will the be getting rid of Aunt Jemima from the Aunt Jemima syrup bottle too? I think she's far more offensive than the Native American image.

"Buffalo told the paper the image goes “hand-in-hand with human and sex trafficking of our women and girls.… by depicting Native women as sex objects.”

WAIT. So straight men are having their toast and wanking it to the Land O'Lakes lady? For real? They can't even use a stick of butter without having to fap?

[quote] They can't even use a stick of butter without having to fap?

I blame Marlon Brando. He started it all.

r9, where have you been? It's been a thing for decades. You cut the woman's knees out and put them where her breasts are. Please watch the following audio-visual presentation and I'll take questions afterwards.

I'm not crazy about the replacement.

R11, fucking heterosexuals are freaks.

[quote]fucking heterosexuals are freaks.

Some men aren't as desirable as you and me and have to get their kicks wherever they can find them. Try not to judge too harshly.

The Native American mascot is harmless.

Fuck this P.C. shit.

I think they should put a Thai ladyboy on the box.

It’s not an offensive or sexual representation at all

She’s not a “Native American” because the Indians didn’t refer to themselves as the “people of Amerigo Vespucci.” If we are going to call them by some wrongass name, just fucking call them Indians.

Native American is just as wrong as Indian, but it also allows you to be smug about how “respectful” you are to them — by calling them some new but still totally fucking wrong name. Fuck you!

Great way to kill your brand.

That’s dumb.

R8, She got a makeover years ago. She's fine.

How about a hot white man?

Really the most likely choice would be putting Rose Nylund on the box, nothing says Land O Lakes like her.

They may have updated her look but there's a push to give Aunt Jemima a less stereotypical name.

Aunt Janiqua has been bandied about.

R24, I can't fucking stop laughing and it's 11:28 pm. Fuck you!!!

Aunt Jemima in her glory.

[quote]Aunt Jemima in her glory.

I had a choice. I could play a maid or BE a maid.

[quote]Really the most likely choice would be putting Rose Nylund on the box, nothing says Land O Lakes like her

They'd never use someone whose butter churn broke and caused her to lose the Butter Queen title.

I came to have a party

R27 And she won an Oscar!

Betty Crocker has been made over numerous times.

I'll still buy Land-O-Lakes because it's good butter, but they're gonna lose a ton of business. It's such an instantly recognizable logo.

I guarantee you the only people offended were white people. Actual Indians do not give a shit about this.

[quote]They may have updated her look but there's a push to give Aunt Jemima a less stereotypical name.

I know you were being racist but I'll answer seriously anyway.

They could just use her real name Anna Short Harrington since that is who the character was based off of to honor her work with Quaker Oats.

However, their history is very complex with minstrel show roots.

When I was in high school, one of my friend's mother demonstrated something similar to the trick in R11's video. Only she folded the box to make the Land O'Lakes girl's knees look like her breasts. To this day, another of my friends still calls it Land O'Lakes Titty Butter.

But could she make her transition to male by making one of her arms a penis? That's some mad butter box skillz right there.

The tranny SJW crowd is truly trying to destroy American culture one step at a time. Who the fuck gets offended by a Native American on a butter package?

[quote] They may have updated her look but there's a push to give Aunt Jemima a less stereotypical name.

Jemima is not and was never a stereotypical African-American name. It is a biblical name. And, has been common in upper-class British culture for years. One of my upper-class Southern Belle ancestors was named Jamima.

The connection between Aunt Jamima and minstrelsy is the song and subsequent character "Old Aunt Jemima" which was actually written by an African-American comedian Billy Kersands, who has a mixed reputation sort of like Tyler Perry, today.

Irish butter is so much better. And they don't put a fucking leprechaun on the package.

R31 which one’s the tranny?

Are Big Chief tablets still sold?

Where did the linking of Native American and butter come from in the first place, it’s not like they have an inherent connection anyways. They had buffalo, which I’m sure they didn’t milk, and then horses when the Europeans came, but they weren’t big into the cows, the dichotomy is cowboys and Indians after all.

[quote]Instead, future packages will showcase photos of real Land O’Lakes farmers and co-op members,

Yes, but we're also developing a line of premium butter called Land O'Lakes Reserve. We're going to move the image of the native woman to that package when we kick her of this one and replace her with white farmers.

This makes me sad as I always thought that it was a pretty picture and made the brand. How politically correct we have become is frightening. Oh, and I used to do the boob thing with her knees too! Good memories. Ha!

fare dee well O Hiawadda, fare dee well

It's not like it's degrading or humiliating.

She had great tits but she couldn't last forever :(

[quote] I guarantee you the only people offended were white people. Actual Indians do not give a shit about this.

I believe you. It sounds like the Navajo Code Talkers at the Washington Redskins game

Did Indians invent butter?

How nice of us white folk to decide amongst ourselves if this is offensive or not...

What started out as a humorous thread of course has to turn in to a very serious SJW battle over an old butter and pancake brands.

"How nice of us white folk to decide amongst ourselves if this is offensive or not."

Don't blame white folks on his one. It's het males of all races and creeds who are to blame for Buttertitgate. (And maybe an occasional lesbian.)

Making her knees her tits is LITERAL VIOLENCE!!!

This why he won.

Look it's a perfectly innocent corporate image on Land-O-Lakes. Don't fuck with it. I haven't bought that butter in ages.

They should have kept the art and just renamed it I Can't Believe it's Not Racist!

#MARGARINETOO

Aren't Native Americans lactose intolerant?

I could think of a replacement.

I would rather have this one.

LOL R59

Village People for a certain segment of the population.

I think the supermarket would be a much better place if the Land O'Lakes lady , Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Chiquita, were replaced with white people.

Look at Bitchy Cracker up there, even wanting to whitewash the grocery store.

We gave you the Frito Bandito and you whined about that too. I guess you want to be represented on your own terms, huh?

[quote]Did Indians invent butter?

No, I think it was Little Black Sambo.

I grew up in California in the '60s; we didn't have Land-O-Lakes back then. So when I moved to the DC area in '78, I discovered it. (And also found out for the first time that east coast and west coast butter is shaped differently.) Anyway, I'd never heard about the Indian tits thing until someone showed me ... by cutting out the breast area and folding the package so that the knees fit in that window. So even though it's a juvenile thing that kids do, some of us who never had the opportunity didn't find out about it until later in life.

R66 Wait a minute, what do you mean shaped differently? Don't they all come as rectangular bars?

R66 Was it a shock to discover Hellman’s?

[quote]I grew up in California in the '60s; we didn't have Land-O-Lakes back then. So when I moved to the DC area in '78, I discovered it. (And also found out for the first time that east coast and west coast butter is shaped differently.)

I get west coast butter at Whole Foods. My dishes were made in California and east coast butter sticks are too long.

The one time a Native American was portrayed in a reverent and respectful way and the faux outrage people attacked it anyway.

White people having an opinion on this is hilarious. Christ. They're not mascots. They're people and if they don't want to be on a butter box then take them off of it.

R71 But, are Natives the ones demanding she be taken off the box? No, it is largely white people. Also, she is not a real person, and is no different from Betty Crocker, the Brawny Man, or Mr. Clean. Should Mr. Clean be taken off of packaging because he might be offensive to bald white men, who are people not mascots?

I find this so disrespectful of migrant workers.

He will be on the new packaging of Land O Lakes.

Like Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben's Rice has also been seen as prejudiced and outdated, so here is the new Uncle Ben.

Once they got rid of Pontiac cars this was inevitable

[quote]The one time a Native American was portrayed in a reverent and respectful way and the faux outrage people attacked it anyway.

I agree. I think it was around 2008 or 2009, when the campus newspaper at my college started allowing some students to write guest pieces. One guest piece was from a woman complained about the Land O'Lakes packaging. I can't remember why she was annoyed, but I thought her complaint was ridiculous since there was nothing nothing disrespectful about the image on the packaging.

The best butta EVEH!

The best butta EVEH!

“Reverent and respectful” Have you never heard of the Indian Princess trope? And I guess the stereotype of the smart Asians must be OK too, huh?

r67 Yes, they're both rectangular, but the West Coast sticks are shorter and fatter.

R81 Is that true of the dicks as well?

[quote]Was it a shock to discover Hellman’s?

Yes, although I knew about it. Lots of things were different ... Keebler was not nationally marketed back then. Utz potato chips still aren't. I'd never seen Polaner jams before. And McCormick was still using the Schilling name in the West for its spices.

One other thing. Did everyone know everything in a can that you can buy from tomato to olive to soup? Did you know there are only two canneries in he United States?

[quote] Was it a shock to discover Hellman’s?

I was born and raised in San Francisco and when I moved to NY it wasn't the Hellman's / Best Foods mayonnaise that surprised me, but rather that I couldn't find C&H sugar.

It wasn't that C&H is better than Domino, it's just that growing up watching those commercials with sexy Ed Kenney singing about C&H made me always reach for it at the grocery store.

R72, Watched Mr Clean ads recently on Vudu. Mr. Clean is a bald Big Black bodybuilder type.

Is the Brawny man still super hot? A lumberjack type?

r84 Did you know the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary?

[quote]And I guess the stereotype of the smart Asians must be OK too, huh?

Sometimes stereotypes are true.

And yet the names Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves and Washington Redskins continue. That's blatant racism.

[quote]And yet the names Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves and Washington Redskins continue. That's blatant racism.

And the "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People" too!

Trivia point: Cincinnati Reds was only in reference to their socks, distinguishing them from their opponent teams

One of the very few points I know about baseball, a candidate for the world's most boring game.

Of course we should still be outraged right

R80, the Indian Princess trope might be worth discussing, but do you really think the Land O Lakes logo means to demean an Indian woman as a Princess? There is no correlation here.

No one thinks the Native American woman displayed on the package is a "princess", so we can chuck that explanation in the bin. No one think Aunt Jemima or Uncle Ben are royalty either.

We call it maize.

She's off accepting an Oscar for Marlon Brandon.

R94 I love that commercial!!

So what about the blue bonnet lady, Dutch boy paint and sunbeam bread, are they all sex symbols too?

I win! Ha ha.

Oh, Jesus. That Argo lady is fucking hot. Her dress is opening and it makes her look like a giant, corn-colored vagina. Man, I can't wait to jack off to that. Tonight, it's me, some lube, abd that tub if Argo Corn Starch. Fuck, she's hot.

It's like Kyle Richards as a corn-colored cunt! Hold me back from rubbing a whack!

Can't they just have a woman in a polo shirt with the casino name on the upper left pocket? Or in a vest and bow tie dealer uniform?

I'm assuming boy is merely the gender she was assigned at birth.

^^^Isn't that one of the Monroe brothers? Alph or Ralph?