Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“It was ‘woke’ for corporations to remove beloved commercial icons such as Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben (now ‘Ben’s Original’), and ‘Mia,’ the Land O’Lakes Indian maiden. In each of these logos the supposedly ‘offensive’ and ‘stereotypical’ images were removed ostensibly to avoid offending the easily offended. Leaving customers with blank, unoriginal, uninspiring and non-comforting signage. Exactly what happened when the corporate bigwigs took out the iconography from the Cracker Barrel logo: All nostalgia liquidated. Cultural erasure used to be a leftist theme, but thanks to today’s enlightened corporations, it has become universal, as the soullessness of modish symbology has become painfully obvious.” (09/03/25)