{"id":201817,"date":"2020-06-17T09:28:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T14:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=201817"},"modified":"2020-06-17T19:13:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T00:13:55","slug":"aunt-jemima-syrup-brand-to-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=201817","title":{"rendered":"Aunt Jemima Syrup, Mix brand to go away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Quaker Oats is retiring the 131-year-old Aunt Jemima brand, saying the company recognizes the character\u2019s origins are \u201cbased on a racial stereotype.\u201d Just hours later, the owner of the Uncle Ben\u2019s brand of rice says the brand will \u201cevolve\u201d in response to concerns about racial stereotyping. Quaker, which is owned by PepsiCo, said it\u2019s overhauled pancake mix and syrup will hit shelves by the fourth quarter of 2020. The company will announce the new name at a later date. The Aunt Jemima image has evolved over the years to meet socially acceptable standards of the times, but the brand could not shake its history of racial stereotypes and connections to slavery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Quaker Oats is retiring the 131-year-old Aunt Jemima brand, saying the company recognizes the character\u2019s origins are \u201cbased on a racial stereotype.\u201d Just hours later, the owner of the Uncle Ben\u2019s brand of rice says the brand will \u201cevolve\u201d in response to concerns about racial stereotyping. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":201818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201834,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201817\/revisions\/201834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}