So if Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben are gone, where does that leave Cracker Jack?

Cracker Jack isn’t pejorative.

People who go to Cracker Barrel are self identifying.

Cracker Jack isn’t based on a demeaning racial stereotype.

Even though the Sailor Boy on the Cracker Jack box is white, that is not what the name refers to. The phrase “Cracker Jack” means “Exceptionally Good”, as in, “That was a Cracker Jack idea.”

I can’t wait til we have heavyset people decrying the Michelin man and Poppin Fresh the Pillsbury doughboy.

@stanleybmanly It might be called “fat-shaming”.

Have you noticed the Campbell Kids evolution over the years from pudgy to athletic?

@cookieman The phrase “Cracker Jack” means “Exceptionally Good”, as in, “That was a Cracker Jack idea.”
What was the meaning behind the expression “that was mighty white of you!”?
Isn’t that a positive comment? Isn’t it at the cost of the inverse?

This sounds so much like the Saturday Night Live skit: Aunt Jemima .

There was a guy in the 1800s names Crocker Jacques (of French heritage)who apparently was a good fellow, an accomplished hunter and outdoorsman – sort of a Paul Bunyan kind of guy but from up in northern NY State not far from Canada. (His real was Crocker Jacques Dubois, but his friends shortened it because it sounded better).

Anyway, his name was pronounced Crocker Jock – in other words, they shortened and anglicized his last name.

About that time (roughly 1874–1875) the Bike company first manufactured the Jock Strap (see the following wikipedia. Those were called Jocks.

So Crocker Jacques didn’t like being confused with jock straps, and since he wasn’t going to convince corporate America to change, he decided to change his pronunciation to

Cracker Jack – as we know it today.

The bottom line is that a old time of French background had to change his name in order not to sound like a testicle holder.

Has nothing to do with being a cracker.

@elbanditoroso That’s a Crocker Jock story if I ever heard one!

and DuBois means wooden, if I’m not mistaken!

What a great story!

They go to the place where all the other cancelled items go. This apparently makes perfect sense to the cancel culture. Eliminate pronouns. Stop “systemic racism”?