Pancake flap: Aunt Jemima heirs seek dough

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by Jere Downs

Born a slave in Kentucky in 1834, Nancy Green was the first Aunt Jemima "Mammy."

Nearly a century has gone by and Aunt Jemima no longer resembles a servant, having swapped her red bandanna for pearls and soft curls in 1989.

Now a lawsuit claims that Green's heirs as well as the descendants of other black women who appeared as Aunt Jemima deserve $2 billion and a share of future revenue from sales of the popular brand.

The federal suit, filed in Chicago in August by two great-grandsons of Anna S. Harrington, says that she and Green were key in formulating the recipe for the nation's first self-rising pancake mix, and that Green came up with the idea of adding powdered milk for extra flavor.

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http://www.courier-journal.com/story/money/2014/10/03/pancake-flap-aunt-jemima-heirs-seek-dough/16654599/

[riverwalker]

1. Mrs. Butterworth to be key witness n/t

[customerserviceguy]

3. That could get sticky for the defense

I wonder if the plaintiff's attorney buttered her up?

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. her name is tasty.... Butterworth... yummm

[Arugula Latte]

6. Hmm, I heard that Hungry Jack is batter at testifying.

[Generic Other]

2. I heard Uncle Ben and Betty Crocker

are considering a class action lawsuit.

[Arugula Latte]

5. Well, if the heirs win I hope they don't fritter away their award...

[Aristus]

7. If they do win the lawsuit,

they'll flip!...

[leftstreet]

8. Eeeeww. What is 'potato grease?'

The lawsuit contends that Harrington was recruited to become Aunt Jemima by the company while flipping pancakes in a booth at the New York State Fair in 1935. It says she then enhanced the recipe with "potato grease."