Its been a week since the John Mayer frenzy and one day since the condemning post regarding said record artist, i'm listening to a track that says "here, they come to snuff the rooster" yup Alice N Chains. I'm not sure if that's a step up or down the hallway of no return, but i think i'm liking the mood. After all, six hours ago i was listening to Johnny boy sing about dancing in a burning room.
Now, getting on to the the topic at hand which certainly isn't my taste for morbid lyrics. I'd say is funny how companies tend to have certain racist tendencies regarding naming merchandising if only it really were funny. Introducing the negro biscuit. The prime rib to this mess-up feast; Eti's choco/vanilla biscuits are called -yup you guessed right- 'Negro'.
Well, it is a chocolate cookie after all, and a black one at that. I can't help but roll my eyes at that. Hasn't anyone noticed these racist cookies of doom? And i don't mean those extra fleshy pounds on my ass kinda doom at that, i mean a totally different kind of doom. I've known about them since i was about ten. Other sold foodstuff that had been in the market for a long timer have been pulled out and renamed and i'm talking about a country that just happens to be in the sinking hellhole located exactly in the middle of war and nowhere. Particularly, a really good chocolate bar; im not sure if it qualifies as a bar if not a ball -haha get it? chocolate ball?get it? -that had a name that literally translates as "Head of the slave" or 'Ras i 3abed' in Arabic. I think one or two years ago the Lebanese company 'Ghandour' changed the name to 'Tarboush Ghandour' or 'Ghandour's Hat' where tarboush is a kind of Lebanese traditional head-wear that people normal in the head no longer wear, and by that i don't mean in the physical sense but more of the mental health sense.
Sadly, other companies did not follow suit or restrict themselves to teaching kids how to eat Negro cookies and Slave heads, they decided to teach household wives the proper way to deal with a slave's head. That is to clean pans with Negro Steel Wool; its name helpfully being translated to 'Seef il 3abed' in arabic on the packet or translated to 'Slave's Steel Wool' the darn thing simply states 'Negro' on the darn package.
Now, getting on to the the topic at hand which certainly isn't my taste for morbid lyrics. I'd say is funny how companies tend to have certain racist tendencies regarding naming merchandising if only it really were funny. Introducing the negro biscuit. The prime rib to this mess-up feast; Eti's choco/vanilla biscuits are called -yup you guessed right- 'Negro'. 
Well, it is a chocolate cookie after all, and a black one at that. I can't help but roll my eyes at that. Hasn't anyone noticed these racist cookies of doom? And i don't mean those extra fleshy pounds on my ass kinda doom at that, i mean a totally different kind of doom. I've known about them since i was about ten. Other sold foodstuff that had been in the market for a long timer have been pulled out and renamed and i'm talking about a country that just happens to be in the sinking hellhole located exactly in the middle of war and nowhere. Particularly, a really good chocolate bar; im not sure if it qualifies as a bar if not a ball -haha get it? chocolate ball?get it? -that had a name that literally translates as "Head of the slave" or 'Ras i 3abed' in Arabic. I think one or two years ago the Lebanese company 'Ghandour' changed the name to 'Tarboush Ghandour' or 'Ghandour's Hat' where tarboush is a kind of Lebanese traditional head-wear that people normal in the head no longer wear, and by that i don't mean in the physical sense but more of the mental health sense.
Sadly, other companies did not follow suit or restrict themselves to teaching kids how to eat Negro cookies and Slave heads, they decided to teach household wives the proper way to deal with a slave's head. That is to clean pans with Negro Steel Wool; its name helpfully being translated to 'Seef il 3abed' in arabic on the packet or translated to 'Slave's Steel Wool' the darn thing simply states 'Negro' on the darn package. I'm sure the list of racist offences do not stop here and we sure are bringing up our children around a lot of social baggage and hate.I'm not sure the rest of the world would be able to bring their ideals up to date.Name editing should be a simple enough task if we want to make sure our kids don't grow up like a special version of hicks. Funny that, Lebanese hick version 1.0
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