• doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    In Finland, there's a chocolate covered marshmallow-type confection that was used to be called "N-word's Kisses"

    When the company that made them shortened the name to just "Kisses" and made the mascots' lips slightly less exaggerated in the early 2000's there was a huge backlash and a tidal wave of angry letters to the editor from old people.

    There also used to be a licorice mascot that looked like this, and while he may be long gone, you'll be delighted to know that to this day, black men still sometimes get called Laku-Pekka. Well, I say long gone, but he's kind of still around except instead of being a caricature of an African person it's a horrifying amorphous mass of Mr Popo faces