1922: Eskimo Pie

June 24, 2021

By AHNZ

New Zealand has had Eskimo Pies, unchanged, since about 1922. So nearly 100 years now. It took Millennial Victimhood Culture to end it.

“ESKIMO PIE—A NEW- SWEET
“Eskimo pie” is the invention of an ingenious confectioner, C. K. Nelson, who a few months ago presided over a small shop in an obscure town in lowa. To-day he is literally rolling in wealth, and may possibly become as great in the confectionery trade as Henry Ford has become in the automobile industry. After a long series of experiments, Nelson discovered a method of concocting a chocolate mixture that would act as a sort of refrigerator, and prevent ice cream from melting when enclosed in it.”– Evening Star (Duendin) (1922)

The same product has re-emerged as ‘Polar Pie’. Another institution toppled. Happens all the time but it’s a real bonfire in the early 2020s! Statues toppled or covered, government department names changed, Canterbury Crusaders lost their branding and warriors on horseback.

The Alaska Native Language Centre website states the name Eskimo is used in Alaska to refer to Inuit and Yupik people. But the name is considered derogatory in places such as Canada and Greenland as the term was invented by non-Inuit people.” – Tip Top’s Eskimo Pies to be renamed, Newshub (2020)

An idea is not “derogatory” because the wrong race coined the term. Eskimos are quite happy to adopt Western ideas and technology, such as snowmobiles and state welfare, rather than stick to their old traditional developmental pathway.

However, I have made the argument myself that a culture that wishes to survive must be self-identified and not call itself by a name given to it by another culture. New Zealand must be the only settler society where Europeans call themselves by a name the natives gave them. We submit to a slur if we take up the name someone else has for us which means ‘outsider’ or ‘alien’. Referring to our children as “tamariki” and ourselves as “pakeha” is an act of ethnomasochism.

Self-esteem for Eskimos and Maoris is about lifting those people up not dragging other cultures down. Demonising an out-group doesn’t make you an angel. It is not by jailing your neighbor that you convince yourself that you’re innocent. Destroying our institutions, even our ice creams, is an avoidant way of dealing with the problem of different people with living together without conflict. Successful race-relations consists of live-and-let-live, of accepting one another for who we are and not trying to change them. We repress these tensions, ensuring they will erupt with more force later, when we substitute conflict resolution for self-erasure.

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Note: “To-day he is literally rolling in wealth” goes to show that the misuse of the word ‘literally’ has been going on for a long time now.

Image ref. Eskimo Pie, NZ Herald

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