Feds to Stop Calling Midget Raisins ‘Midget’
21st August 2015
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a regulation on Thursday to stop referring to midget raisins as “midget” after an activist group called the term offensive.
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The government said the change was prompted by a request from the Little People of America, a nonprofit membership organization for people of short stature.
I am not making this up. (Cue Randy Newman.)