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Maggoty@lemmy.world 11 months agoNo. That was simply the man who originally posed for the picture. The brand was officially named after a sharecropper. However Uncle was also a common title for an older male house slave. Same with Aunt. Both the original rice farmer and pancake mix inventor were born into slavery and had their products lifted from them by white corporations.
eatthecake@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have no ides about this, being Australian. Are you saying that the people on the boxes represent real people who had their recipes stolen?
Maggoty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They weren’t stolen in the legal sense. There was a contract but it wasn’t an equal contract. The US actually has a history of this from the Reconstruction period right through the Civil Rights period (about 1865-1965). Especially with black musicians who supported white bands via record companies buying the songs off of them for a pittance compared to what they were worth.