That's racist!

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evillawyer said:
My mother gave the neighbors an earful when they called them that in front of her. They were shocked. I think they had unreflectively called them that their entire lives.
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I've never heard anyone actually say that. I had to google it after seeing the ancient can.
That being said, I didnt know what the hell Brazil nuts were in the first place.
 
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evillawyer said:
Oh, we had some neighbors that called them that. Rhymed with bigger nose.
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I had NEVER heard them called that till about ten years ago. Number one, we were absolutely not allowed to use that N word at our house growing up. So when a woman who was at my house referenced Brazil nuts (we had several small bowls of mixed nuts throughout the house for a party we were hosting) as “ ******* toes” thinking she was being funny, I told her I had never heard that before and didn’t really care for it either. I’m Southern born and bred, but just never heard that growing up wrt Brazil nuts.
 
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VolStrom said:
I personally always liked Log Cabin syrup and margarine until I became uppity and started buying real maple syrup and Irish butter.
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White privilege. I too suffer from white privilege. My wife’s family is from Vermont so I get tons of fresh real syrup whenever I want it and I will never go back to store bought
 
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VolStrom said:
I never heard them called anything other than Brazil nuts my entire life until I met a guy from New Orleans that called them (t)igger toes. I'd put the real word in but apparently the words used in the past is not allowed in todays hypersensitive world.
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My grandfather called them that . He was a racist ( for real ) because of how he was raised . Oddest thing to me was knowing his running around buddy , his ride to work partner, and his drinking buddy was a black man I had known all my life . I always thought how strange that was .
 
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hog88 said:
I think NY and VA, maybe a few other states just designated Junteenth as a state holiday. It's like rewarding your toddler for throwing a temper tantrum.
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Yup ..I saw the new signs they put out . They made up signs and stuck them all over saying the garbage collection would be interrupted because of the new holiday .
 
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hog88 said:
I think NY and VA, maybe a few other states just designated Junteenth as a state holiday. It's like rewarding your toddler for throwing a temper tantrum.
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I don't mind the discussion and making it a holiday but none of these people care. They just panicked and tried to not get cancelled for something 98% of Americans didn't even know.
 
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