I vaguely remember from the very late 1960s, when I lived in Georgia, a line of artificially sweetened (with cyclamates) fruit flavored drinks. IIRC, they were called Uncle Tom. No idea what the different flavor names were.
That team was created generations ago. You couldn’t name a new team “Redskins” or similar.
It’s not really that simple.
First of all, I don’t think “redskin” would necessarily be considered offensive unless it was somehow indicated that it was a descriptive term for people. Redskin peanuts are peanuts with red skins. No problem there.
Second, there are circumstances surrounding the name “Washington Redskins” and the Cleveland Indians’ Chief Wahoo logo, principally that they were adopted in a pre-civil rights era. There are plenty of people who consider both extremely offensive, but because of the commercial value of those things as trademarks and because of the attachment that many sports fans have, those clubs are resisting making any changes.
I would think that any new sports organization or other commercial entity that started using race-based caricatures would be universally criticized.
In the USA, to be lollies (aka suckers, pops) they’d have to have a stick up their little asses! :eek:
Nobody would hear you referring to the team with an (allegedly) racist term. They’d be too busy laughing at the term “footy” used for an (allegedly) manly endeavor.
I haven’t seen these stateside. On a tangent, you are sorta correct about Wonka. My dad was the president of Sunmark, a St. Louis candymaker who makes Pixie Stix, Sweetarts, Lik-M-Aid, Sprees, Nerds, David’s Sunflower Seeds, etc. They were also licensed by Quaker to make the Wonka line (Oompahs, Skrunch Bars, etc.), though there was never a Wonka company. Sunmark was a privately held company that sold out to Rowntree, a British outfit (according to a web search, though I could have sworn it was German), who was later acquired by Nestlē’s.
You mean Nestlé?
I think it was as late as the 1970s that we had Nigger Boy Soap Pads which later changed to Bigger Boy. I’m pretty sure they are Brillo pads in the US.
MY ex-wife used to make one of the few funny food items I know of using Golliwog biscuits. From memory all it consisted of was the biscuits and thickened cream whipped with coffee or chocolate liqueur. She would knock one up in just a few minutes before we went visiting people. She would whip up a huge bowl of cream and a little liqueur. She would use the cream to “paste” together the biscuits, place the long “log” on a flat platter and then coat the whole lot with the remaining cream. By the time it came out of the fridge late at night and was sliced up for with coffee the biscuits had softened. The highlight for first-time eaters was that each slice, when looked at, clearly contained Golliwogs.
Due to the amount of certain herbaceous substances that we used in those days the Golliwog “cake” or maybe “log” always produced much merriment.
As other people have said, the athletic teams that use American Indian names are preserved only by a sort of grandfather clause. There are dozens of them, perhaps hundreds of them if you go all the way down to college and high school teams, but no one is creating such names for new teams. Every year a few more of the already existing teams that use American Indian names change those names to something else. Eventually they will all disappear.
It’s enough to make a bloke take a sicky. Even kids in kindy know enough of the lingo so that in the arvo if you ask them to play footy they know that it’s not poofy, they see it all the time on the telly while dad has a tinny. Still if it seems iffy to you I shouldn’t chuck a wobbly or I’ll end up in the dunny.
And, in fact, the NCAA has a new policy that took effect this year “prohibiting colleges or universities with hostile or abusive mascots, nicknames or imagery from hosting any NCAA championship competitions”.
I remember reading somewhere a while back that the Florida Seminoles teams actually had the blessing of the Seminole tribe. Is this still the case? Would Florida fall into the NCAA category of “hostile or abusive”?
Florida State, not Florida. Florida is the Gators, Florida State is the Seminoles.
Florida State does have the blessing of the Seminole Tribe, although one tribal lawyer did pitch a small fit last year over it.
Illinois has a similar problem with their mascot (the Illini,) but there is no actual Illini tribe. The Illini were a confederation of tribes that no longer exist.
Hey! Board rules say you’re supposed to post in English! 
Here’s the press report from 2005, and as you can see, Florida State is on the list of schools that may be affected:
Remember, though, the NCAA decision doesn’t ban the use of Indian mascots or symbols, but just ones that, according to the NCAA are “hostile or abusive”.