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• MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  From 1946 to 2020, Uncle Ben’s products carried the image of an elderly African-American man dressed in a bow tie, which is said to have been based on a Chicago maître d’hôtel named Frank Brown with the name “Ben” being a possible reference to a shrewd rice farmer from Houston. In 2020, Mars told Ad Age, “We don’t know if a real ‘Ben’ ever existed.” According to Mars, Uncle Ben was an African-American rice grower known for the quality of his rice. Gordon L. Harwell, an entrepreneur who had supplied rice to the armed forces in World War II, chose the name “Uncle Ben’s” as a means to expand his marketing efforts to the general public.

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• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Uncle Ben helps one grow the most excellent Golden Teachers.

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Based

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• Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Only the picture. There was an actual Uncle Ben who was a rice farmer. And an actual Aunt Jemima making pancake mix. Both were born into slavery, both had white corporations exploit them. Uncle and Aunt are also both titles used in the Antebellum South for older house slaves trusted by the family.

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