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Cream of Wheat could soon become the latest recognizable food brand to alter the image on its boxes due to concerns of racial insensitivity, which would follow moves made by Aunt Jemima and others.… ...
B&G Foods, Inc., the owner of Cream of Wheat, has become the latest company to revisit its branding, following complaints on social media that its century-old logo of a black chef had racist origins.
The government of Saskatchewan is replacing the iconic wheat sheaf (left) with this new logo (right) on its news releases. The government of Saskatchewan has quietly replaced the iconic wheat ...
Cream of Wheat's logo depicts a smiling black chef known as "Rastus," a name that appeared in the Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris and carries pejorative connotations for African-Americans.