Title: Racial Stereotypes and Food Product Marketing
Headings: Do Your Food Products Have Racist Roots?
Do Your Food Products Have Racist Roots?
Frito Bandito
Uncle Ben's Rice
Chiquita Bananas
Land O' Lakes Butter
Eskimo Pie
Cream of Wheat
Aunt Jemima
Wrapping Up

Content: Mars, the owner of the rice brand, debuted a website in which Uncle Ben is portrayed as the chairman of the board in a posh office. This virtual facelift was a way for Mars to bring Ben, an outdated racial stereotype of the Black man as sharecropper-servant, into the 21st century. Chiquita Bananas
Generations of Americans have grown up eating Chiquita bananas. But it's not just the bananas they remember fondly, it's Miss Chiquita, the comely figure the banana company has used to brand the fruit since 1944. With a sensual swagger and flamboyant Latin American attire, the bilingual Miss Chiquita makes the men swoon, as vintage advertisements of the bombshell demonstrate. Miss Chiquita is widely thought to have been inspired by Brazilian beauty Carmen Miranda who appeared in ads for Chiquita bananas. The actress has been accused of promoting the exotic Latina stereotype because she achieved fame wearing pieces of fruit on her head and revealing tropical clothing. Some critics argue that it’s all the more insulting for a banana company to play into this stereotype because the women, men, and children who worked in banana farms toiled in grueling conditions, often falling gravely ill as a result of pesticide exposure. Land O' Lakes Butter
Make a trip to the dairy section of your grocery store, and you'll find the Indigenous woman on Land O' Lakes butter. How did this woman come to be featured on Land O'Lakes products?