# "freshly ground black people" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freshly-ground-black-people/536482 "2010-04-17T20:48:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freshly-ground-black-people/536482/1 "2010-04-17T20:48:48Z")
> **[BBC News - Cook-book misprint costs Australian publishers dear](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8627335.stm)** > > An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of black pepper. Not often that a BBC news website article is this amusing šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freshly-ground-black-people/536482/2 "2010-04-17T21:44:27Z")
Another modest proposalā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freshly-ground-black-people/536482/3 "2010-04-17T22:39:31Z")
ā€œFreshly ground colored peopleā€ would have been much worse. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freshly-ground-black-people/536482/4 "2010-04-17T23:28:20Z")
ā€œ. . . why anyone would be offended, we donā€™t know.ā€ šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freshly-ground-black-people/536482/5 "2010-04-18T01:08:49Z")
They werenā€™t offended, they were a-salted! With a people grinder! ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freshly-ground-black-people/536482/6 "2010-04-18T01:18:26Z")
[ITā€™S A COOKBOOK!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_%28The_Twilight_Zone%29) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freshly-ground-black-people/536482/7 "2010-04-18T01:22:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Penguin said almost every one of the more than 150 recipes in the book listed salt and freshly ground black pepper, but a misprint occurred on just one page. People keep forgetting that there were 149 recipes which DIDNā€™T feature freshly-ground black people. Must we always harp on the negative? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freshly-ground-black-people/536482/8 "2010-04-18T02:20:10Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > People keep forgetting that there were 149 recipes which DIDNā€™T feature freshly-ground black people. ā€¦ Using the clearly inferior store bought pre-ground black people instead. ā˜¹ Hmm somehow theres no troubble speeling _tagliatelle_ and _prosciutto_ but i can see how _peopel_ would be a reallly comon mispelling of _peper_. :rolleyes: At least this (Australian) cookbook didnā€™t call for freshly ground African Americans, the far more common mistake! šŸ˜ƒ CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freshly-ground-black-people/536482/9 "2010-04-18T02:53:41Z")
For some reason this incident reminds me of the Dick Gregory routine early in his career as a comedian, where he talks about going into a restaurant in the South. Waitress: ā€œWe donā€™t serve colored people.ā€ Gregory: ā€œThatā€™s alright, I donā€™t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freshly-ground-black-people/536482/10 "2010-04-18T05:33:40Z")
Soylent black is made of negros! ---
**Author:** ![Teacake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freshly-ground-black-people/536482/11 "2010-04-18T12:27:34Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Hmm somehow theres no troubble speeling _tagliatelle_ and _prosciutto_ but i can see how _peopel_ would be a reallly comon mispelling of _peper_. :rolleyes: > > CMC fnord! Well, you know, while you were implying that somehow they may have done it on purpose, _you_ managed to spell tagliatelle and prosciutto correctly too, despite ten other spelling or punctuation mistakes in the sentence. Funny that. Maybe people think harder about unfamiliar or uncommon words? Just maybe it wasnā€™t on purpose? :rolleyes: to you too. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freshly-ground-black-people/536482/12 "2010-04-18T14:15:22Z")
Freshly ground black people, black pepperā€¦ Itā€™s all delicious! Serioulsy, I can see someone making a typo like ā€œpeoperā€ and the spellchecker offering a few possibilities, and people was accidentially chosen. Besides, if you use freshly ground white pepper? Totally racist. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freshly-ground-black-people/536482/13 "2010-04-18T14:55:14Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Freshly ground black people, black pepperā€¦ Itā€™s all delicious! > > Serioulsy, I can see someone making a typo like ā€œpeoperā€ and the spellchecker offering a few possibilities, and people was accidentially chosen. > > Besides, if you use freshly ground white pepper? Totally racist. Weā€™re all pink on the insideā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freshly-ground-black-people/536482/14 "2010-04-18T15:48:45Z")
> [@Pyper](#): > > [ITā€™S A COOKBOOK!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_%28The_Twilight_Zone%29) Reminds me of the simpsonsā€¦ [![](http://tvmedia.ign.com/tv/image/article/742/742680/thesimpsons-hungryarethedamned_1162263247.jpg) ](http://tvmedia.ign.com/tv/image/article/742/742680/thesimpsons-hungryarethedamned_1162263247.jpg) How to cook humans. How to cook for humans. How to cook forty humans. How to cook for forty humans.