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Bye-bye, oh sweet Eskimo Pie

8 October 2020

5:56 PM

8 October 2020

5:56 PM

Stop right there and put down that chocolate-coated ice cream treat! It’s not just sugar that is dripping from those delicious rivulets of vanilla confection. Racism is apparently blended into the recipe too. 

Just when you thought we’d seen off racist ‘Coon’ cheese, followed by the equally racist ‘Smarter White Milk’, it turns out there’s still more racism lurking on the dairs shelf.  

In another case of corporate virtue signalling run amok, venerable Aussie ice cream maker Peters has now dumped its allegedly racist ‘Eskimo Pie’ brand a favourite of generations to rename it ‘Polar Pie’.  

The ice cream treat is just the latest in a long line of familiar consumer...

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