An Ice Cream Truck Jingle's Racist History Has Caught Up To It
Good Humor ice cream asked the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA to come up with a new jingle to replace "Turkey in the Straw," a ubiquitous ice-cream truck song with a racist past.
by Natalie Escobar
Aug 14, 2020
2 minutes
Back in June, Good Humor ice cream's . Instead, viewers saw a post about the racist history of popular ice cream truck jingles. Notably, "Turkey in the Straw," a melody that — despite a long, racist past — has piped through the speakers of ice cream trucks and into
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