Yet wanted to reassert the wider repercussions of such casually incendiary representation. Their view of Pillsbury's intent was charitable, professing they doubted Pillsbury was malicious in intent. This wasn't the first time AAIA had successfully lobbied to get rid of a tasteless food mascot earlier that decade, it'd persuaded Clavert Distillers Company to reverse the mascot-making of an Indian brave to sell whiskey. The group hadn't yet realized Pillsbury had already course-corrected. Early in 1966, the Association on American Indian Affairs, a nonprofit advocacy group, penned a strongly worded missive to Pillsbury on behalf of both Native Americans and Chinese-Americans, contending that Funny Face’s caricatures “hold up to ridicule and derision some 55,000 American Indian citizens and 700,000 American citizens of Oriental descent face.” We quickly saw our fault.” Yet even after this shift, a number of the old packages were still in rotation. “We admit guilt all over the lot,” the unnamed Pillsbury spokesman told The New York Times in February of 1966. In July of 1965, Pillsbury recognized error and amended accordingly, transforming the two into Choo Choo Cherry, an pleasant train engineer, and the daft, gleeful Jolly Olly Orange.
It began with spores of fury from Chinese grocers in Sacramento, California, who objected to the drink mixes being sold in their stores. Mere months after releasing the Funny Face flavors, Pillsbury was inundated with a flurry of complaints. It didn't take very long for Pillsbury to change the characters. (A few pockets of the internet contend that Pillsbury kowtowed to “PC culture,” before the words 'PC culture' meant anything at all in our cultural vernacular.) Yet, in most corners, they’re cited as relics of America's ugly advertising past, wherein someone’s personhood was greater America’s punchline. Today, they’ve accrued quite a deserved reputation for being outwardly racist caricatures. Time-rightly-hasn't been kind to these flavors. Chinese Cherry was a fleshy drupe with slanted eyes, a Hop Sing pigtail, and buck teeth, his arrival in the commercial accompanied by the strum of a gong. Injun Orange was a rotund orange with two smears of war paint on each cheek and topped with a feather headdress. Silverman conceived of specific characters for each of the drink's flavors, meant, initially, to serve as something of a tribute to his four-year-old daughter whom he called "Freckle Face." Goofy Grape was the leader of the gang, and he'd be accompanied by Freckle Face Strawberry, Loud Mouth Lime, Rootin’ Tootin’ Raspberry, along with Chinese Cherry and Injun Orange. What resulted was the genesis of Funny Face in early 1965, pre-sweetened drink powders that came in small pouches.
They wanted to create a drink mix to rival that of Kool-Aid, which Kraft had produced to rapturous success since 1927.
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