The Quaker Oats Co. announced that Aunt Jemima will return to the packaging of syrup bottles in 2025. In late October 2024, ...
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Aunt Jemima: Scrapping the Syrup "Mammy"
The name “Aunt Jemima” was inspired by a minstrel show song titled “Old Aunt Jemima,” which featured a character based on the ...
In a 2015 opinion piece for the New York Times, Cornell University African-American literature professor Riché Richardson described Aunt Jemima as "an outgrowth of Old South plantation nostalgia ...
Founded in 1888, Pearl Milling Company launched its pancake mix under the name Aunt Jemima, derived from an 1875 minstrel song called Old Aunt Jemima. The brand's logo was that of a "mammy," an ...