Timothy Noah of Slate has been running continual updates on racist ice cream names. It started with Dairy Queen's Moolatte, which sounds unpleasantly close to 'mulatto'. (It was dubbed the 'tragic Moolatte' by Noah). This was then followed by Nogger Black, an ice cream bar from Sweden coated in (ick!) salted licorice. But the one that took the cake was Negerkuss, a German ice cream bar.

The Moolatte aside, I noticed that these other examples are European. It seems like it's somehow easier to get away with this sort of thing in Europe; I don't really know why. When I was in Spain, there was a cookie called Filipinos. They were doughnut-shaped and covered in chocolate. (The Filipino example of an 'Oreo cookie': yellow on the inside, brown on the outside!) However, the U.S. has the derogatory-to-Filipinos-only pretzel cookie called Flipz.

Slate: More Racist Ice Cream!
Deebeedee: Pasalubong

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posted by sheryl | 11:27 PM |

And then, of course, there's Red Indian ice cream, flavored with Red Hots. Melted in with the milk and cream, then topped with them as well. I think it was an East Coast thing originally.
By  Anonymous 5/27/05 8:37 AM  

It's uncanny!
By  john patrick 1/21/06 6:13 PM  

hee - great minds think alike. :)
By  sheryl 1/21/06 11:04 PM  

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