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3. There used to be a commercial with a talking bottle of Mrs. Butterworth syrup
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 01:21 PM
Jun 2020

the voice sounded like that of an elderly white woman.

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To be honest, I thought this was the Onion... I too have never given Mrs. Butterworth a thought hlthe2b Jun 2020 #1
That - focusing on the worst offenders - is why progress is so achingly slow on equality... Moostache Jun 2020 #5
There is no doubt about Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben's. hlthe2b Jun 2020 #7
There is ambiguity in Mrs. Butterworth that is definitely not in other symbols for sure. Moostache Jun 2020 #15
You are being offensive by suggesting anyone here is defending or equating Aunt Jemima issue. hlthe2b Jun 2020 #16
Then I have utterly failed. Moostache Jun 2020 #19
Wait until the questioning of Log Cabin Syrup starts. RhodeIslandOne Jun 2020 #28
No...Not Mrs.Butterworth! orwell Jun 2020 #2
There used to be a commercial with a talking bottle of Mrs. Butterworth syrup Ex Lurker Jun 2020 #3
If you look at the old commercials ms liberty Jun 2020 #4
That's My Recollection ProfessorGAC Jun 2020 #6
Mrs. Butterworth commercial was voiced by a white lady. Sneederbunk Jun 2020 #8
I Thought That's What I Said ProfessorGAC Jun 2020 #10
Yep. "Mrs. Butterworth, I love you!" SMC22307 Jun 2020 #24
Stubbs BBQ sauce must go. Sneederbunk Jun 2020 #9
You do realize that's the photo of the guy who marketed his own sauce, right? GoCubsGo Jun 2020 #11
see my post below making that very point. hlthe2b Jun 2020 #13
Does not matter in these sensitive times Sneederbunk Jun 2020 #14
So, people aren't allowed to put their own image on their product? GoCubsGo Jun 2020 #18
I guess Famous Amos and his cookies Raine Jun 2020 #23
The Stubbs Story hlthe2b Jun 2020 #12
Yep. That's what I'm saying, too. n/t GoCubsGo Jun 2020 #17
I expect that many corporations will avoid putting any characterizations of AA on consumer products MichMan Jun 2020 #20
I always assumed Mrs Butterworth was a fat white woman Raine Jun 2020 #21
As a child, I thought Mrs. Butterworth was Swedish cabot Jun 2020 #22
Mrs. Buttersworth? Catherine Vincent Jun 2020 #25
So Conagra doesn't even know their own product history??? RhodeIslandOne Jun 2020 #26
The animated Mrs. Butterworths used to remind me of the ice robot in the movie Logan's Run TheBlackAdder Jun 2020 #27
Isn't that just Robin Williams in a dress? lame54 Jun 2020 #29
I thought Mrs. Butterworth was a white woman... NurseJackie Jun 2020 #30
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