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Prejudice: It's what's for dinner

Well it was in 1967, anyway. Courtesy of Popsucker, here's a 41-year-old ad from the Rice Council of America that's about as un-PC as you can get. And, really, we have our doubts that the pictured serving of rice topped with butter is going to have the... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Fri, Jul 25 2008

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