March 9, 2013 at 4:51 pm
An American pickle firm has changed the name of one of its products after someone objected to the word “Midget”. They call it the “M-word”.
A mother has a young child who has a form of dwarfism complained…and while I certainly agree that calling people midgets is no longer tolerable, I do think that applying it to pickles is going a bit far.
After all, my faithful Oxford dictionary lists midget as an small person or object.
I wonder if MG wil retroactively send out new nameplates?
http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/02/21/pickle-protest?cmpid=tp-ad-outbrain-general