Racist coffee

[DimPrawn]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...e_id=1770&ct=5

The makers of Camp Coffee have changed the label on their famous jars - after complaints of racism.

The makers of the chicory-flavoured essence are now using an image of a Scottish soldier sitting side by side drinking coffee with a turbanned Sikh.

Earlier labels showed the Indian apparently serving the kilted soldier which provoked a storm of protest from race equality groups who claimed at the time that the label delivered "an offensive and racist" message.

As an interim move the firm removed the tray from the servant's hand but now the label depicts the bearer and the Gordon Highlander officer sitting as equals - no longer promoting the master-servant Days of the Raj message.


Camp coffee racist? Sounds gay to me.

[Xenophon]

Camp coffee racist? Sounds gay to me.

[oraclesmith]

Camp coffee racist?

I'll have mine bla....er.. without milk, please !

[EternalOptimist]

I'll have mine bla....er.. without milk, please !

About thirty years ago I was doing an electronics course, there were two guys from Malawi who had been personally sponsored by their president to do the three year course.
You may not know that electronic components were(still are ?) color coded
0 was black through to 9 being white.
They complained and asked for white to made into zero and black promoted to nine.
Idiots.

[AtW]

They complained and asked for white to made into zero and black promoted to nine. Idiots.

Yes, ridiculous - it would have been much fairer to just repaint black with white, and white with black without change in numbering scheme.

[EternalOptimist]

Yes, ridiculous - it would have been much fairer to just repaint black with white, and white with black without change in numbering scheme.

We did consider that, but the thought of the thirty of us spending the next billion years repainting the innards of Japanese transistor radios put us off.

[oraclesmith]

What if black was number one and white was number nine ? Is it better to be a high number than a low number? What about yellow ? And red ?

[AtW]

We did consider that, but the thought of the thirty of us spending the next billion years repainting the innards of Japanese transistor radios put us off.

That would have provided you with work until the end of time - not a bad thing really. To make things less hard you could have just issued glasses with inverted colours.

Or declare that 0 on black actually meant 10, thus higher than white.

[ratewhore]

camp coffee tasted like tulip anyway. Probably still does...

...as for race equality groups, they seem to be the most racist barstewards around!!

[Troll]

You may not know that electronic components were(still are ?) color coded 0 was black through to 9 being white.

Idiots.

Bob Dylan sang about that on 'Hard Rain' - I didn't know he was into electronic!!