Go woke, go broke... Land of Lakes BOGO
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We want the Indian back.
Why? They took the Indian out and we kept the land!
This is literally my favorite butter. Haven't bought a bar since they took the beautiful Native American chick off.
I didn't hear of their woke declaration. Is it the missing Indian on the logo, or did they do other stuff too?
Whether or not they did, they still pandered to wokeness by removing the Indian from the land.
How white colonialist of them.
Totally. I just missed it when this hit the news (Don'cha know: So distraught over Aunt Jemimah and Uncle Ben! Guilt-ridden over Betty Crocker!), and wondered about the details.
I have a stock of original Aunt Jemima syrup. I won't buy the new "Pearl Milling" stuff.
I hear they still sell the classic stuff in Mexico. 😁
And to make amends in the meantime, I think we should start a campaign to change Betty Crocker into Barry Crocker- the spitting image of a grown-up Little Sambo.
Or, Barry Cracker, the spitting image of a grown-up Little Sambo.
Years ago, we would eat at Black Sambo's Restaurants in CA.;
Yeah, that was one of my first red pills. Especially after I learned that the character was from India.
There's still one Sambo's left. In Santa Barbara, I think.
Used to go to the one in Downey, (I think it was Downey.)
Don't mess with Betty Crocker. She's my cousin. At least her radio show voice was my cousin.
That's pretty cool. You've convinced me. The change.org petition is officially cancelled. After all, I don't want to offend anyone.
(I have a Betty Crocker cookbook from the 60's. It's full of great stuff like "If you care about pleasing a man--- bake a pie. But make it a perfect pie." Good recipes, too, and without ads.)
Here's my cousin's obit. She was 99 when she died, and her tombstone says she was the "voice of Betty Crocker."
"Betty Bucholz Voice of Betty Crocker ALBION, N.Y. Betty Bucholz died May 24. She was 99. Born Agnes Barbara Lutz in Princeton, she lived in New York City, Fillmore, Calif., Chicago, and Connecticut. She was the radio voice of Betty Crocker for many years on NBC Radio Network’s "Cooking School of the Air." She was the daughter of parents who emigrated from Germany in 1900 and from an early age helped her father in his Princeton bakery. During her youth in Princeton she worked as a baby sitter, personal secretary and secretary to the Princeton Summer School. She played women’s basketball at Princeton High School. In 1923 she moved to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and was a "greeting hostess" for a radio station later becoming a morning announcer and hostess for its "Women’s Hour" show. In 1927 the NBC affiliate began to broadcast "Cooking School of the Air" and she became one of five or six Betty Crockers across the country who announced 15 minutes of recipes and homespun philosophy. In 1929 she moved to California to join her new husband in his newspaper publishing business, the Fillmore Herald. After the paper failed during the Great Depression she returned to broadcasting in Los Angeles. In 1934 General Mills named her the single national voice of Betty Crocker and she moved to Chicago, hosting NBC’s "Cooking School of the Air" three times a week for the next 17 years. She received upwards of 5,000 letters a week from the show’s million members. Announcers included Hugh Downs, Vincent Peleteri and Don Ameche. In 1951 she moved to New York and took the role of Anne Marshall, Campbell Soup’s national media voice. She worked for the Eisenhower presidential campaign in 1952 and retired from broadcasting in 1955. She volunteered for Reading for the Blind in Great Neck, N.Y. and the Connecticut State Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in Hartford, Conn. Daughter of the late Jacob and Anne Lutz wife of the late Arden Bucholz, she is survived by son and daughter-in-law Arden and Sue Bucholz of Waterport, N.Y.; brothers Jake Lutz of Princeton and Carl Lutz of Winsted, Conn.; grandsons Merritt Bucholz of Dublin, Ireland and Mark Bucholz of New York City; and two great-granddaughters. Memorial services will be held in Princeton later this year."
I slept with Betty Crocker. Got a yeast infection
I really tried to come up with a snappy reply, but I got nothing. :)
Aunt jemima is still sold to restaurants under original name
Actually, here in TX it is sold as Pearl Mill & Company. I want my Aunt Jemima back, too.
Do these companies ever think to talk with the families portrayed on packages or the tribes to see if they are offended?
Does that say $8/ea!?!
I get butter on sale when it's $2.50-3, and some of the more expensive ones (these included) have been on sale at that price lately where I live. Couldn't imagine spending that much on butter. 😳
7.39 each, weird.
Aldi has still had butter pounds in stock quarters for 1.89. Filled whatever space we had in the freezer.
Right now, our local Aldi has butter a whole lot cheaper than Walmart. Walmart's is almost $4 a pound now, and a few months ago, it was a little over $2. Aldi is less than $2 now.
I buy butter when it goes on sale ( $2.00 or less for 16oz., a loss leader) and stock up. I cherry pick from the weekly ads.
This is one of the dumbest posts I've ever seen here. This has to do with overstocking a product and getting it out the door before it goes bad, or another shipment is coming in. Nothing to do with going broke.
No. Not dumb. They order product based on how quickly they sell. So if they are selling less.... yep, overstocked.
Such bullshit, and absolutely untrue. Stores often preorder larger lots based on lower price and/or demand (Easter). It's not a guarantee that perishable items are sold, and rather than throw out a lot (can not be resold, or even donated in most cases), they will bulk sell it. Fridge space is very expensive in grocery stores and at an absolute premium. You go back next week and show me a smaller section for this product, or better yet it "going broke" and not being there at all, and I'll agree. Hint: it will be in likely exactly the same spot, with exactly the same real estate, most likely at original price.
You could totally be right. But from what you said- I might be too?... if the display is smaller there might be a downsizing. We don’t know the outcome there. I appreciate the point you made though - thank you!!
I wouldn't be so harsh on OP, of course it's better to look at retail sales figures or stock price than a single market shelf. And their sales have actually declined since their nonsense.
This is a much more comprehensive assertion.
Winn Dixie and Publix both had no problem jacking the prices and telling anyone that bitched that they were shopping at the wrong store if they were looking for discount groceries.
Even better with coupons. Stock up before its $12/lb
Local stuff is now cheaper- find a dairy farm or small store that stocks local, and get fresh butter and cream-top milk.
There's definitely a big hOle in their box.
Walmart ~ 16 oz (Buy One Get One FREE)... I bet the 36 oz next to it is Cheaper than two half sticks by weight! HAHA...
maybe they can put Aunt Jemimah on the butter box... she's been unemployed for some time now....
kozy shack pudding is owned by Land o Lakes also.
Looks like they have to give away half their products now.
They did quadruple the price over the last 18 or so months, though.
Kept the land but got rid of the Native. How government of them.
This.
Edit: kerrygold isn’t local but is grass fed. 🍀
That is my choice. At least they have taken the European "Irish" out of the name yet.
I used to buy Land O Lakes, but I won't ever be rewarding woke idiots for their posturing.
Same here...it's the only one I use.
Cows are grassfed most of the time it's cheaper to put them in a pasture than it is to feed them corn and grain. Farmers will use other feed if they don't have a choice.
We had a drought last year and I saw truckloads of hay being moved for cattle, and I know some farmers had to downsize their herds due to the drought and them not having hay to feed them. It also can depend on the protein content of the grass if it is providing them enough nutrition otherwise farmers will have to supplemental feed too. Grass fed sounds perfect and great and all, but it's not always ideal depending on the land for that season.
At least that's how it is here in North Dakota. I don't know how it is in other states.
In many southern states the cattle are grass-fed until close to slaughter then they grain feed them to fatten them up for the extra weight.
Yeah its common practice wheat also provides protein. It technically is a grass lol, and is better than corn.
Hay fields are usually alfalfa.farmers also do cut the grass in ditches here once the waterfowl are done nesting for the season.
I talk to a lot of farmers at work. The drought here last year was really bad now we had a giant spring blizzard just when they are calving. .14 inches in my area and we are on the lower end. Another eight inches this weekend.
This has been a punishing winter extreme cold now snowmageddon.
Sorry to hear this. I hope the forecast is wrong and it isn't too bad the rest of the weekend.
Than you. I worked the day it hit thanking have four wheel drive truck. Our store was closed down by district manager the next day but because it was company decision we got paid for it.
Not many are so lucky. I'm a snow shoveling madwoman and this storm outdid me lol.
They've been comparing this to the big blizzards of 66 and 97.
Unbelievable...please stay safe and don't overdo it.
Thanks, I'm getting a snowblower.for next winter. Would have before now but was just a home renter now I'm going to buy the house we've been living in for six years.