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Aunt Jemima brand gets new name

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The Aunt Jemima pancake mix and syrup brand is getting a new name.

Quaker Oats announced the product line would be renamed to Pearl Milling Co. It's a reference to a company formed in 1888 in St. Joseph, Missouri, that was the originator of self-rising pancake mix.

Quaker Oats officials said last year the company would retire the Aunt Jemima brand because the character’s origins are “based on a racial stereotype.”

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