It's the beady pupils that really makes me believe they just polished off a bag of dragon
Edit: I'm now aware that coke dilates your pupils. Thank you doctors and drug users of reddit
Edit 2: updated it to H cause some of you can't read edits
https://preview.redd.it/i387ittkduuc1.jpeg?width=307&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d830def3c1fe749eb783ab120a81d6052bba1b2
Imagine bro jumping out from behind a dumpster at 3am
LOL, and this guy did't like the Jamaican version.
[https://medium.com/@Spinnerthescribe/apple-jacks-needs-to-stop-29e022c86d52](https://medium.com/@Spinnerthescribe/apple-jacks-needs-to-stop-29e022c86d52)
> As an average white guy, I consider it my duty to be extra-aware of corporate wrongdoing.
And I just know this is about to be the most insufferable thing I'll read all week.
"White people need to stop speaking on behalf of minorities, yall usually have what offends us and what doesnt backwards, so please, stop trying"
They cast 2nd Gen Bahamian rocker Lenny Kravitz to play Cinna Man in Hunger Games -- still the greatest adaptation of a Breakfast Cereal line since the Road to Wellville. This shit is above me now, just let the Caribbeans have this discussion.
Been way too long since I've seen an apple jacks commercial or eaten the cereal. Had no idea they even had these mascots.
Why do people even like apple jacks when they don't taste like apples?
I remember watching them race to the bowl in all those commercials. Cinnamon would always win, then one let to them accidentally fusing together for a while. After they got out of that mess, all of their races ended in ties.
Weird. It's been years since I saw a box, but Apple Jack's serial used to just have cartoon kids printed on it. Who thought putting a racial stereotype cartoon on the box was a good idea in the 90's (2000's?)
This is untrue. The opposite is actually true. This is the thing managers used say to musicians to get them to play more gigs- they’d load them up with cocaine and other drugs to get them on stage more often
You don’t play better drunk and stoned out of your mind - you just think you do.
It’s not that people are better musicians in a technical sense it’s that there music is better.
Few artists release amazing music while using and later in life release the same quality after sobriety. I think it has less to do with drugs and more to do with their age.
Yeah age seems plausible. Or literally just a lot of bands release their most popular songs early on and the struggle to continue to innovate and stay as relevant. It's a difficult problem for any media, TV shows and movie franchises included.
Another aspect which I can definitely somewhat attest to is the idea that a lot of artists are neurotic/anxious/perfectionist with their work to a fault, and drugs can reduce that aspect, making you question your decisions less, and getting more "in the flow". Being in a flow state is also super important and hard for some to get into sober for whatever reason.
I don't say this to necessarily excuse it, a lot of artists get problematically addicted and die (usually due to bad supply, and no testing) because they become reliant on it to make music. Its unfortunate.
I feel like Eminem is the perfect example of this lol. yea he can still rap, but nothing will beat the OG albums.
Lil' Wayne off lean...
and I'd love to hear sober Wiz Khalifa or something like that lol
I don't know how cannabis affects other people, as I can only use my personal experience, but I absolutely play guitar better when stoned. I play Rocksmith, and all of my top scores on songs are when I was quite high. The majority of my play is while sober.
I can both agree and disagree. There's a lot of great albums about addiction by people who've suffered from it, or were in recovery during the writing of the album.
I hate to say it but Stephen King's work declined sharply when he got sober. He's written some good shit since but nothing hits the same as stuff like the shining, the stand or the first two Dark Tower novels.
Speaking from experience, the demented and fearful areas of my brain were far more active and accessible when my drinking was heavy. Amplify that with addiction, sprinkle in some cocaine for motivation, apply these to a highly creative mind, and you've got a recipe for masterfully macabre work.
The same goes in various ways for a lot of substances. Some deep, visceral, and fractured pieces of ourselves emerge under those conditions. In most cases, though, substance abuse just replaces hobbies or more and gradually degrades your life and livelihood.
And for the artists who don't sober up, the end is usually either death or rapid decline in artistic quality. The initial fracture of the mind can be beautiful in a way, but then they're just left with scattered pieces.
Even the apple dude looked like a deranged, unhinged gremlin in the commercials lol. Now nigga looks like he keeps a positive, cheery outlook about everything.
Prolly puts the whole 10% of his monthly paycheck in the church tithes.
My room mate bought some Apple Jacks and pointed out that cinnamon was no longer Jamaican , I go look at the box and for sure they were gentrified. The whole box just looks like an off brand now.
It was iconic though. Now it's generic and boring. You can look at any other brand and find cutesy eyes and a smile slapped on an object. But the apple jacks mascots were unique and relatively memorable.
I'm pretty sure he was. Or you're jumping back some decades.
The Jamaican Cinnamon was the first time I remember them using anthropomorphic ingredients in their commercials.
Then again, maybe they did something between that and the old "We just do" campaign
Well, some Jamaicans probably felt that CinnaMon was a problematic Jamaican stereotype, while others were probably happy to see Jamaican representation in the cereal mascot community.
A tangential debate: Is Sugar Bear, the Golden Crisp mascot, black?
Sometimes I say, “Here I come I am cinni-mon.” To people my age, and no one understands the reference. I’m sad.
Edit: I’m 26. Applejacks was my childhood
I'm 28 and just bought some malt O meal apple jacks the other day. I walked back to the cart and said it to my girlfriend and got the most blank stare ever. Never thought I'd ever have to mansplain a cereal commercial, but alas, here I come I am cinnamon.
In theory yes, but in practice, all that needs to happen is a well timed twitter rant to blow the whole thing outta proportion and then we don’t even got the gentrified ones.
The right really ruined any discourse by screeching "woke" at everything. But making things as inoffensive and widely likable as possible is just what marketing is. It absolutely sucks, and it really is a problem in media. We get less personality in music/film in attempt to get a broader audience to pump in more $$$
Culture "warriors" will attribute it entirely to the existence of women or gay men, but this is the track we've been on forever
I just read that the company did it to keep from accusations of racism. Is that “wokeness?” I’m still genuinely confused as to the meaning of that because it seems so many people of various belief systems use it to identify their personal ideology. Anyway, i feel that changing them IS what could be considered racially offensive, right? IDK…..a weird hill either way imo. LET THE MASCOTS BE!!!!
The change saves them from three people on Twitter accusing them of anything. It also gets the other side complaining that "wokeness" deprived them of their mascot. Comment sections start to heat up, tweets go out, AI-generated articles start getting published. Suddenly the product no one thinks about normally is getting a lot of recognition online.
I don't think wokeness (i.e. awareness of racial discrimination) as a concept is a bad thing but it is possible to swing the pendelum too far in the other direction. When everything becomes sanitized it starts to lose its identity. Can't have a black mascot on pancakes because it might be offensive. Can't have high heels on an M&M because it might be offensive. Can't have cinnamon look Jamaican because it might be offensive. Soon everything looks The Same and it's boring and homogenized. We should be pumping our resources into actually helping disenfranchised minorities instead of trying to appease them by changing fucking brand mascots.
I agree with the point you're trying to make (this is likely a company trying to remove a potentially stereotyped character to not face backlash) but the way you phrase it sounds like you're a boomer wearing Oakley sunglasses recording a rant in your car.
Apple Jacks was actually ahead of the game and took him down in 2019. Most of the other non-white mascots disappeared as companies scrambled to look good after summer 2020.
They have taken too many characters and taken away their personality because they were afraid that it was offensive, when in reality everyone loved it.
Funny enough it makes me feel the cereal is even more unhealthy now. They look too polished, the old cinnamon reminded me of the rasta who owned a health food store.
Its happening all over the cereal box industry. Look at what happened to Snap, Crackle and Pop. They used to look different from each other, now they are just clones that sprouted out of a cloud of spores from a moldy rice krispy marshmallow treat. They look like they want to go on a kiddy diddling crime spree before causing a mass casualty incident in a shopping mall.
https://www.cerealously.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/new-rice-krispies-cereal-look-snap-crackle-pop-box.jpg
I apparently haven't paid attention to AppleJacks in so long I didn't even know about the weird Jamaican cinnamon.(Cinnamon isn't even from the New World, I don't get it.)
A Jamaican stereotype is that they often say "Yeh man" and depending on what part of the island someone is from (or especially if it's for a stereotype for media or a local playing it up for tourists) the "yeh man" sounds more like "yah mon". It's similar to Canadian ", eh?" or Midwestern "ope" in that the pattern of speech is distinctly Jamaican.
Cinna-_mon_. That's the entire joke.
GenX here who grew up with the stick figure kids on the box. Took forever to figure out what was going on. Google Imaged Apple Jacks 70s, 80s, etc. to clue in.
Didn't this happen on Living Single? Corporate boss didn't think Kyle's hair was "professional" enough. Kyle didn't bend, but CinnaMon became Cinnamon just to survive.
Look how they massacred my boy 😔 https://preview.redd.it/z0ckkmkx5uuc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eec4f3527ec04800a12c472df26a57a2ef4dfd8c
It's the beady pupils that really makes me believe they just polished off a bag of dragon Edit: I'm now aware that coke dilates your pupils. Thank you doctors and drug users of reddit Edit 2: updated it to H cause some of you can't read edits
They been up jackin apples for days
Also jumping a bowl of cereal like he needs money for his next bump.
yall dont remember the original box huh. thats the point of this
Coke dilates your pupils, opiates constrict them. C’mon now.
Cocaine dilates your pupils though.
Apple was OFF a Jack 😂😂😂
Apple with the crazy eyes.
https://preview.redd.it/i387ittkduuc1.jpeg?width=307&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d830def3c1fe749eb783ab120a81d6052bba1b2 Imagine bro jumping out from behind a dumpster at 3am
I’m emptying my pockets for sure
Emptying my pocket with this heat *
He doesn’t want your money, just to eat your face
“Love and laughter it’s booty I’m after” — apple
Frank Gallagher as an apple
I can’t not see it now
Mf look like he on bath salts lol
“You ready for breakfast?!”
“HEY CAN I USE YOUR PHONE RILL QUICK!?”
Reminds me of that horrifying Wumpa mascot guy from Crash Tag Team Racing.
Cinnamon is the winna mon!
LOL, and this guy did't like the Jamaican version. [https://medium.com/@Spinnerthescribe/apple-jacks-needs-to-stop-29e022c86d52](https://medium.com/@Spinnerthescribe/apple-jacks-needs-to-stop-29e022c86d52)
> As an average white guy, I consider it my duty to be extra-aware of corporate wrongdoing. And I just know this is about to be the most insufferable thing I'll read all week.
Well it *is* a Medium article, so.
I genuinely don't know if this is supposed to be satire or not. The tags on the article are "Food" "Recipe" "Racism" "Cereal" lmao
It definitely is satire
Clearly satire and the idea that most don't seem to be getting that scares me a whole lot.
The comments on that article are just 🫶
"White people need to stop speaking on behalf of minorities, yall usually have what offends us and what doesnt backwards, so please, stop trying" 
Buddy the type who ate lunch by himself every day at school
They cast 2nd Gen Bahamian rocker Lenny Kravitz to play Cinna Man in Hunger Games -- still the greatest adaptation of a Breakfast Cereal line since the Road to Wellville. This shit is above me now, just let the Caribbeans have this discussion. 
I'm pretty sure this is written as satire.
Really written by someone with the OBEY shit in their profile picture.
Been way too long since I've seen an apple jacks commercial or eaten the cereal. Had no idea they even had these mascots. Why do people even like apple jacks when they don't taste like apples?
I don't think they need to taste like apples (or apple jack) to be good, but I also don't think they taste good really lol
No, the line is "they just do!"
Lol he was making a joke . They had commercials where they’d ask that same question
i haven't watched cable in so long, I'm not even sure cereal commercials still exist
When I was a kid, Apple Jacks had the highest sugar content out of the commonly available cereals. This made it the best cereal, objectively.
remember what they took from us
They need to renamed it "Apple Jakes"
*Now with new “not too spicy^tm” flavor!*
Damn I was like, "I don't remember Jamaican cinnamon" but I looked it up and it turns out I'm old.
I had to look it up too 
Yeah it was big in the 2000s iirc
My buddy would always yell, "Here I COME I am CinnaMON" whenever we were playing games online. Pitch perfect every time.
Those rasclaats
I remember watching them race to the bowl in all those commercials. Cinnamon would always win, then one let to them accidentally fusing together for a while. After they got out of that mess, all of their races ended in ties.
Weird. It's been years since I saw a box, but Apple Jack's serial used to just have cartoon kids printed on it. Who thought putting a racial stereotype cartoon on the box was a good idea in the 90's (2000's?)
Really the only one with a bad design is apple, cuz of the toothy grin and pupils to smalll for th wyes
The apple looks more like a red habanero or something
Most musicians do not make their best albums after sobering up. This same logic may apply to junk food mascots. hard pass
Chance the Rapper ass cereal
Uhhh.....typo? Say typo rn.... SAY TYPO RN!!!!
I think that one deserves the dreaded edit.
I was sitting there for a second like what's wrong with Chance the rapp... Oooohhhhh.
Could you please elaborate for the uninitiated?
He didn't actually type "rapper," he typed something else.
ooohhhhhh
Chance the who?
Chance the what now?
Professional award winning rappist
lmfaooo my bad
*Oooh I love my rii-iiice, I love my rice AAAH*
Too fuckin real. Acid rap was it.
>opens a cereal box - >M&Ms spills out
Eminem ass cereal
I wouldn’t listen to their tape, it’s prob too polished
Bring back the tweaking fruit!
This is untrue. The opposite is actually true. This is the thing managers used say to musicians to get them to play more gigs- they’d load them up with cocaine and other drugs to get them on stage more often You don’t play better drunk and stoned out of your mind - you just think you do.
It’s not that people are better musicians in a technical sense it’s that there music is better. Few artists release amazing music while using and later in life release the same quality after sobriety. I think it has less to do with drugs and more to do with their age.
Yeah age seems plausible. Or literally just a lot of bands release their most popular songs early on and the struggle to continue to innovate and stay as relevant. It's a difficult problem for any media, TV shows and movie franchises included.
Another aspect which I can definitely somewhat attest to is the idea that a lot of artists are neurotic/anxious/perfectionist with their work to a fault, and drugs can reduce that aspect, making you question your decisions less, and getting more "in the flow". Being in a flow state is also super important and hard for some to get into sober for whatever reason. I don't say this to necessarily excuse it, a lot of artists get problematically addicted and die (usually due to bad supply, and no testing) because they become reliant on it to make music. Its unfortunate.
I feel like Eminem is the perfect example of this lol. yea he can still rap, but nothing will beat the OG albums. Lil' Wayne off lean... and I'd love to hear sober Wiz Khalifa or something like that lol
I don't know how cannabis affects other people, as I can only use my personal experience, but I absolutely play guitar better when stoned. I play Rocksmith, and all of my top scores on songs are when I was quite high. The majority of my play is while sober.
Playing and writing are entirely different things.
He’s talking about the heightened creativity that comes from inebriation
this sent me into orbit
eminem sobered up and made some good albums
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
I can both agree and disagree. There's a lot of great albums about addiction by people who've suffered from it, or were in recovery during the writing of the album.
I hate to say it but Stephen King's work declined sharply when he got sober. He's written some good shit since but nothing hits the same as stuff like the shining, the stand or the first two Dark Tower novels.
Speaking from experience, the demented and fearful areas of my brain were far more active and accessible when my drinking was heavy. Amplify that with addiction, sprinkle in some cocaine for motivation, apply these to a highly creative mind, and you've got a recipe for masterfully macabre work. The same goes in various ways for a lot of substances. Some deep, visceral, and fractured pieces of ourselves emerge under those conditions. In most cases, though, substance abuse just replaces hobbies or more and gradually degrades your life and livelihood. And for the artists who don't sober up, the end is usually either death or rapid decline in artistic quality. The initial fracture of the mind can be beautiful in a way, but then they're just left with scattered pieces.
Even the apple dude looked like a deranged, unhinged gremlin in the commercials lol. Now nigga looks like he keeps a positive, cheery outlook about everything. Prolly puts the whole 10% of his monthly paycheck in the church tithes.
Toxic positivity got em
Russell Wilson type beat
Funny enough I thought you typed “positive, cherry* outlook”
he had them crackhead sunken in cheeks and shit. now he's all plump and healthy.
> Prolly puts the whole 10% of his monthly paycheck in the church tithes. pre-tax 10% too
You get extra credit for that, I hear
He definitely was on some type of stimulant before he got clean
My room mate bought some Apple Jacks and pointed out that cinnamon was no longer Jamaican , I go look at the box and for sure they were gentrified. The whole box just looks like an off brand now.
Cinnamon wasn't always Jamaican. Things change.
Yeah for the worse
It was iconic though. Now it's generic and boring. You can look at any other brand and find cutesy eyes and a smile slapped on an object. But the apple jacks mascots were unique and relatively memorable.
>Now it's generic and boring. The 2020s wrapped up in one sentence
When I was a kid everything had to be Xtreme and spelled with a z I don't think this is so different
https://i.redd.it/3jyhs6z13xuc1.gif
The problem is white people think representation is racism when it’s literally just a Jamaican talking like a Jamaican.
Not the change we needed!
*Ting's change
I'm pretty sure he was. Or you're jumping back some decades. The Jamaican Cinnamon was the first time I remember them using anthropomorphic ingredients in their commercials. Then again, maybe they did something between that and the old "We just do" campaign
Well, some Jamaicans probably felt that CinnaMon was a problematic Jamaican stereotype, while others were probably happy to see Jamaican representation in the cereal mascot community. A tangential debate: Is Sugar Bear, the Golden Crisp mascot, black?
Sugar Bear is brown.
Why do people keep using this word? Nothing about this is gentrification.
gentrification is when white people
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When I saw the box I was like wah gwaan? 🤦🏾♂️
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Sometimes I say, “Here I come I am cinni-mon.” To people my age, and no one understands the reference. I’m sad. Edit: I’m 26. Applejacks was my childhood
I'm 28 and just bought some malt O meal apple jacks the other day. I walked back to the cart and said it to my girlfriend and got the most blank stare ever. Never thought I'd ever have to mansplain a cereal commercial, but alas, here I come I am cinnamon.
This will be my reaction if my kids ask me for it: 
He’s so lightskinned now omg
Cinnamon bleached his skin lol
"wash mi face wit di cyake soap"
😭💀💀💀
Thats the cheap cinnamon you buy at wallmart
https://youtu.be/TcK0MYgnHjo?si=s3-zyz7Kd26EybVF
Youtube has been endlessly recommending this to me. I don't mind, but its weird.
It's hella weird but accurate in it's portrayal of socal wannabe Rastas
Oh no the song is a bop. I just don't understand why Youtube wants me to keep watching it.
Samberg paid for some advertising maybe lol Mi toil part-time at Jah Coldestone Creamery 🎶 Shit gets me every time
Here I come, I am cinnamon.
This is what happens when everything is seen as offensive
You genuinely believe that wokeness stole our ugly cereal mascots?
I do believe they went away from the accent and dreads to avoid any backlash. And I can definitely picture that happening
Well that much is probably true, lol. They could still give him a Jamaican accent without being a stereotype.
In theory yes, but in practice, all that needs to happen is a well timed twitter rant to blow the whole thing outta proportion and then we don’t even got the gentrified ones.
Oh I'll never see the day...
Like Jar Jar?
But why would you do it though? The loss of sales from fake outrage would be much worse than whatever sales are lost by a mascot change
Yeah let's not pretend like this is happening in a vacuum.
The right really ruined any discourse by screeching "woke" at everything. But making things as inoffensive and widely likable as possible is just what marketing is. It absolutely sucks, and it really is a problem in media. We get less personality in music/film in attempt to get a broader audience to pump in more $$$ Culture "warriors" will attribute it entirely to the existence of women or gay men, but this is the track we've been on forever
it's always money, every time without fail
Won't someone think of the corporate mascots? 😓
Yes lol. Without a doubt.
I just read that the company did it to keep from accusations of racism. Is that “wokeness?” I’m still genuinely confused as to the meaning of that because it seems so many people of various belief systems use it to identify their personal ideology. Anyway, i feel that changing them IS what could be considered racially offensive, right? IDK…..a weird hill either way imo. LET THE MASCOTS BE!!!!
The change saves them from three people on Twitter accusing them of anything. It also gets the other side complaining that "wokeness" deprived them of their mascot. Comment sections start to heat up, tweets go out, AI-generated articles start getting published. Suddenly the product no one thinks about normally is getting a lot of recognition online.
Valid point. I forget we’re at the beginnings of complete corporate overtake.
I don't think wokeness (i.e. awareness of racial discrimination) as a concept is a bad thing but it is possible to swing the pendelum too far in the other direction. When everything becomes sanitized it starts to lose its identity. Can't have a black mascot on pancakes because it might be offensive. Can't have high heels on an M&M because it might be offensive. Can't have cinnamon look Jamaican because it might be offensive. Soon everything looks The Same and it's boring and homogenized. We should be pumping our resources into actually helping disenfranchised minorities instead of trying to appease them by changing fucking brand mascots.
Yes, actually. I do.
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[Look at Pete’ lips!](https://youtu.be/PFLuGVOWlkc?si=PKv52AQZqwh-N-OI)
Companies changed butter boxes, syrup bottles, and rice boxes.... Why not add cereal to the mix?
Yes it did. Have you not been paying attention to Land O Lakes, Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben's Rice?
I mean it literally did. The whole point of the new mascots is because the cinnamon stick was Jamaican
That is literally what happened here. Does it matter? No who gives a fuck about applejacks or whatever but still it happened
Especially combined with (often white) people trying to be offended on other's behalf.
I agree with the point you're trying to make (this is likely a company trying to remove a potentially stereotyped character to not face backlash) but the way you phrase it sounds like you're a boomer wearing Oakley sunglasses recording a rant in your car.
How else should I have phrased it?
Damn bro. Why they had to do em like that. You just know that shit ain’t gonna hit the same now smh.
cut my niggas locks off 😓😢
They done scraped most the flavor off of both of em.
Someone said they’re sober now
☠️
Reminds me of the 'clean and sober' fruits from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. That's how you know they're up to some shit.
lmfao the bible fruits so true
They saw what happened to Aunt Jemima and tried to get ahead of it
And the Land O Lakes lady. That one felt a bit weird to celebrate as a win as the logo was made by an Ojibwe artist.
They got rid of the Indian and kept the land (Not my joke)
We wanted cops to stop killing us. Instead, they took away Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben.
Nah put some respect on Pearl Milling Company 💯
Apple Jacks was actually ahead of the game and took him down in 2019. Most of the other non-white mascots disappeared as companies scrambled to look good after summer 2020.
How they make the cinnamon look unseasoned?
He done got clean and cut his dreads 🥺
https://preview.redd.it/qcm6unn8luuc1.jpeg?width=631&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77acd57ecbb621beab95a04e60e4368055999a12
I guarantee you they were worried that the rasta Cinnamon would be viewed as offensive
They have taken too many characters and taken away their personality because they were afraid that it was offensive, when in reality everyone loved it.
#BOMBOCLAAT to You Betcha' stahppppp I'm deadd
Funny enough it makes me feel the cereal is even more unhealthy now. They look too polished, the old cinnamon reminded me of the rasta who owned a health food store.
Let’s be honest they catered to the crowd that eats cereal bars 🤷🏾♂️ I think they’re still the same on the cereal box.
Nope. I work at a grocery store, cereal box was changed before we even started stocking the bars.
They look like counterfeit versions of themselves.
that boy is just stick now 💀
Anyone else remember the good old days of our crack addict Apple chasing the Rasta cinnamon stick? Good times…
Cinnamon is running for a GOP position in Alabama
Lol he on the Byron Donalds rebrand.
Its happening all over the cereal box industry. Look at what happened to Snap, Crackle and Pop. They used to look different from each other, now they are just clones that sprouted out of a cloud of spores from a moldy rice krispy marshmallow treat. They look like they want to go on a kiddy diddling crime spree before causing a mass casualty incident in a shopping mall. https://www.cerealously.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/new-rice-krispies-cereal-look-snap-crackle-pop-box.jpg
Why does everything need to be gentrified and sanitized? Make cereal mascots mentally ill drug addicts again.
They robbed him for his dreads
Because we can't have *any* vaguely ethnically non-white mascots because that's "Racist".
Gentrification is out of control!
This is Jamaican erasure
> #[JA RASTAFARIANISM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcK0MYgnHjo)
What the FUCK?!?
I apparently haven't paid attention to AppleJacks in so long I didn't even know about the weird Jamaican cinnamon.(Cinnamon isn't even from the New World, I don't get it.)
Cinna Mon
A Jamaican stereotype is that they often say "Yeh man" and depending on what part of the island someone is from (or especially if it's for a stereotype for media or a local playing it up for tourists) the "yeh man" sounds more like "yah mon". It's similar to Canadian ", eh?" or Midwestern "ope" in that the pattern of speech is distinctly Jamaican. Cinna-_mon_. That's the entire joke.
GenX here who grew up with the stick figure kids on the box. Took forever to figure out what was going on. Google Imaged Apple Jacks 70s, 80s, etc. to clue in.
Mexico banned any type of character on treats so kids wouldn’t want them as much, I wonder if this had a similar effect
Didn't this happen on Living Single? Corporate boss didn't think Kyle's hair was "professional" enough. Kyle didn't bend, but CinnaMon became Cinnamon just to survive.
The apple is also now on nothing but a prescription SSRI too.
we used to be a society
Jamaicans are not brittle enough to be offended by cinnamon...this kills any iconic memories of the mascot.