No name change for Eskimo sweets & Pie icecreams.


	No name change for Eskimo sweets & Pie icecreams.

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4-21-2009 4:57 AM

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4-21-2009 6:16 AM

Antara

LOL....sounds like she has a lot of time on her hands....

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continue to market its Eskimo marshmallow sweets, despite a
complaint from a Canadian tourist they are racist.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.3news.co.nz/No-name-change-for-Eskimo-sweets/tabid/423/articleID/100600/cat/64/Default.aspx"><P>Tip Top also said today it did not intend to rename its Eskimo
Pie icecreams.
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in Canada, said she was shocked when she found the Eskimo
marshmallows for sale last week, saying there were an insult to her
people.
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it negative racial connotations, she told the Taranaki Daily News.
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