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blue9 said:
I think white people made up the stereotype that black people like watermelon because they liked watermelon and just wanted to look like they were down - co-opting culture through the dissemination of false stereotypes.
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I read recently that the stereotype originated with freed black land owners who grew watermelon crops because the seeds were cheap and readily available. Not necessarily anything to do with black people loving them. It would be like saying all Irish people love potatoes. Kind of silly.
 
dviss1 said:
I truly don't like the flavor and the seeds get on my nerves.
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That's what she said.

I'm sorry. Really. I just had to. On the real though, watermelon milkshakes are amazing. Try making one sometime. Fantastic.
 
Natebishop3 said:
I read recently that the stereotype originated with freed black land owners who grew watermelon crops because the seeds were cheap and readily available. Not necessarily anything to do with black people loving them. It would be like saying all Irish people love potatoes. Kind of silly.
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This could be correct. Got a link?

Looking up racial stereotypes?
 
Boston with a 7 point first quarter. If points were potatoes, these Celts sure wouldn't fit the stereotype.
 
dviss1 said:
This could be correct. Got a link?

Looking up racial stereotypes?
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It was on the front page of reddit a few days ago.

Here is the link

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/12/how-watermelons-became-a-racist-trope/383529/

The trope came into full force when slaves won their emancipation during the Civil War. Free black people grew, ate, and sold watermelons, and in doing so made the fruit a symbol of their freedom. Southern whites, threatened by blacks’ newfound freedom, responded by making the fruit a symbol of black people’s perceived uncleanliness, laziness, childishness, and unwanted public presence. This racist trope then exploded in American popular culture, becoming so pervasive that its historical origin became obscure. Few Americans in 1900 would’ve guessed the stereotype was less than half a century old.

Not that the raw material for the racist watermelon trope didn’t exist before emancipation. In the early modern European imagination, the typical watermelon-eater was an Italian or Arab peasant. The watermelon, noted a British officer stationed in Egypt in 1801, was “a poor Arab’s feast,” a meager substitute for a proper meal.
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dviss1 said:
For what? To put watermelon flavored soda in the stadium?
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Whether or not they do anything sensible with the data, they want to identify their demographics for targeted advertising.
 
handiman said:
Whether or not they do anything sensible with the data, they want to identify their demographics for targeted advertising.
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How do you Market to black people? Those fucking McDonald's "I'm lovin it" commercials (with strategic music) make me want to go slap their head of marketing.
 
Natebishop3 said:
I read recently that the stereotype originated with freed black land owners who grew watermelon crops because the seeds were cheap and readily available. Not necessarily anything to do with black people loving them. It would be like saying all Irish people love potatoes. Kind of silly.
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Hadn't heard this before, thanks for sharing.

Also, saying all of anybody anything is silly. That's why you don't clump groups of people together based on the majority opinion.
 
theprunetang said:
I always just made them up as I went. But yeah, vanilla icecream, milk, fresh watermelon, an egg, and malted milk if you got it. Blend that mother up.
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That almost sounds...disgusting... Then again sometimes things that sound nasty are really the best.
 
Fonzthecpt1 said:
That almost sounds...disgusting... Then again sometimes things that sound nasty are really the best.
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To each their own. It is surprisingly delicious. If you ever find yourself with extra watermelon, have vanilla icecream, milk, and a blender, do yourself a favor.
 
dviss1 said:
Watermelon flavor I guess is ok. But I certainly don't fit the stereotype. I hate real watermelon.
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Well, it is a pretty dumb stereotype. In fact, it's so absurd it's like a stereotype of a stereotype.
 
Natebishop3 said:
I read recently that the stereotype originated with freed black land owners who grew watermelon crops because the seeds were cheap and readily available. Not necessarily anything to do with black people loving them. It would be like saying all Irish people love potatoes. Kind of silly.
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OIC

If anything, under those circumstances it seems the person would be more likely to end up hating them.
 
dviss1 said:
How do you Market to black people? Those fucking McDonald's "I'm lovin it" commercials (with strategic music) make me want to go slap their head of marketing.
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I never said marketers were geniuses... I would guess a lot of it goes toward arena merchandising and community outreach, not the commercials themselves.
 
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