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Worst/Best discontinued products that are taboo now but ok yesteryear (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by Defectus@lemmy.world to c/interestingasfuck@lemmy.world

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Seeing another post about aunt Jemima products that were discounted due to racial stereotypes I was curious what's the worst product-fuckuo you have seen?

In Sweden we have a chocolate pastry ball that was called negerboll which translates to negro ball. Early 2000s it was deemed that it was not ok and it changed name to chocolate ball.

Bonus. https://www.testfakta.se/sv/livsmedel/article/bort-med-nidbild-pa-fazers-kinapuffar

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[–] viking@infosec.pub 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We had the same product you mentioned in Germany, only it was called "Negerkuss" (negro's kiss). It was than rebranded to "Dickmann's" (Fat Man's), which apparently didn't sit right with the crowd as well.

They are now known as Schaumküsse (Foam Kisses) or Schokoküsse (Chocolate Kisses).

There's however also a more elaborate pastry version of this which goes by Mohrenkopf (Mohr was considered to be the "polite" way of calling a person of color, Kopf = head), and some bakeries still make and sell them under this name.

[–] 7uWqKj@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Everybody’s still calling them Negerküsse, though.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago

True.