encyclopedia of racist products

PS: I have eaten at KFC but I used to have a Sir Viv Richards "Master Blaster" cricket bat when playing schoolboy cricket.

australia isn't any more racist than any other western country ime. "blackfella" and "whitefella" are words used mostly by indingenous australians and aren't necessarily racist at all.

the classic 'launch Chevy Nova in Mexico' move.

This is an urban legend, btw.

do ppl there really call aborigines "black fellas"?

Erm. No. Koori people call *themselves* "blackfullas", its pidgin, at least do us the courtesy of understanding some of Australia's culture the way you expect us to of yours.

There are plenty of racist terms and racism against the indigenous in this country but blackfella ain't one of them, nor is it really even a "taken back" insult. Words like "boong" and "abo" on the other hand... sigh.

Sorry I didnt see sonderberg had already also pointed that out heh.

Well, they pulled the advertisement off and as predicted...

http://www.news.com.au/world/kfc-australia-pulls-racist-ad-after-us-anger/comments-e6frfkyi-1225816969895

ps: i am not asscoiated with these people

h4yd3n of melbourne Posted at 1:30 PM Today

Stand up for youself KFC. I'm never eating you agian untill you do.

fess up h-man

I'm currently boycotting them for taking the Tower Burger off the menu again, for what it's worth.

can't believe that proud aussie company KFC bowed to imperialist american pressure like this

katoomba fried chicken

Dave of Gold Coast Posted at 1:34 PM Today

Cool Can we now tell America to ban the movie White Chicks, or perhaps Tropic Thunder too... Oh no, wait... they make money for Hollywood... (I know KFC is American, but you get my point).

not sure i get his point tbh

Mystery solved:

Alex of The real world Posted at 3:10 PM Today

I hate Harry Connick Jr. He got all high and mighty because he realised his terrible music wouldn't sell but a few jabs at another country's culture might.

Erm. No. Koori people call *themselves* "blackfullas", its pidgin

Why can't the black dude be a dog or a cat or an animal that people to cuddle, and not some puke-eating street pest that everyone hates?

fess up h-man

lol i had a 'wicked wings snack pack' yesterday at lunch, i could never boycott the dirty bird ;__;

tbhaitch

I had a Zinger Burger combo the other day so chalk me up as a evil racist Australian.

i'm chalking you up as a man who got zinged by his own lunch.

zinger burgers more of a scooby snax for zingers i'd have thought

if this has already been posted, apologies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0NU9KULHO8

O_o_O

hmmm

An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of black pepper.

Penguin Group Australia had to reprint 7,000 copies of Pasta Bible last week, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported.

The reprint cost A$20,000 ($18,000; £12,000), but stock in bookshops will not be recalled as it is "extremely hard" to do so, Penguin said.

The recipe was for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto.

"We're mortified that this has become an issue of any kind, and why anyone would be offended, we don't know," head of publishing Bob Sessions is quoted as saying by the Sydney newspaper.

Penguin said almost every one of the more than 150 recipes in the book listed salt and freshly ground black pepper, but a misprint occurred on just one page.

"When it comes to the proofreader, of course they should have picked it up, but proofreading a cook-book is an extremely difficult task. I find that quite forgivable," Mr Sessions said.

If anyone complains about the "silly mistake", they will be given the new version, Penguin said.

At least this mistake won't make people's crock pots explode.

I love that dude responded with "well, doing your job correctly is hard!"

Look I'm sorry your car exploded, but building gas tanks is complicated work!

http://www.peteykins.com/sparklepony/MeatGrinder.jpg

meh i've made weird typos like that before

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8627335.stm

ahem, ned

ha i like how their reaction was "who cares? it was a typo, jeez"

are the black people locally sourced?

I like how their reaction was "We're mortified that this has become an issue of any kind" yet they don't understand why anyone would be offended. Isn't being "mortified" even more extreme of a reaction than being "offended"?

Yeah, but they're apparently only mortified that it became an issue. Not that it happened.

ah, a pasta holocaust

Cookbooks really ARE redonkulously hard to copy edit because of all the abbreviations and numbers, and the copy editor has no way of knowing which are right or wrong. (The mistake itt is an obvious one, but it's not surprising that something was overlooked.) Actually it's probably a success for a cookbook if they didn't make any mistakes that make the recipes turn out wrong (apart from the ridiculous) because that also makes the AUTHOR look bad (this way only the publisher does).

Shorter publishing seasons and a more market-driven book idea also make every project a rush, means there's less time for editing and proofing of all kinds. Pretty much sucks!

Do they publish cookbook errata?

i hadn't read that ronaldinho thread until just now. don't suppose anyone wants to talk about it?

Abbs: Yes! Although I think the general use of errata has declined since publishers tend to only print the copies they think they can sell in a short time -- the production cycle has gotten away from extended warehousing and toward a more on-demand market. So books are off the shelves faster and the pub can reprint the book w corrections already made.

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/129173074737196776.jpg

Beat this: racism, sexism, ageism, and a soupcon of paedophilia.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3399/4619185217_f036a10534_b.jpg

Holy shit!

Indeed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uneOOclsaPs

???are these naacp whores serious???

wau

feel bad for the Rutgers astronomy dept.

i don't know about this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eswOEG7Mndo

also, something tells me d1pl0 is somehow responsible for major company obsessing over homegrown dance music/"get your island on"/trinidadian soca etc

my buddy in SC noticed these in a store recently:

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg602/scaled.php?tn=0&server=602&filename=h93v.jpg

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg602/scaled.php?tn=0&server=602&filename=h93v.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640