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Woolworths changes item name after it was called ‘disrespectful’ – Yahoo News Australia
The name of the cut of chicken meat was branded ‘unnecessary cultural appropriation’.
Woolworths has been forced to change the name of a type of raw chicken wing sold in their supermarkets after it was labelled as “disrespectful” to Aboriginal people.
A type of the supermarket’s Macro Wholefoods Market free range wing pieces – which are wing pieces of chicken with the wing tips cut off – had previously been called “Boomerang Wings”.
The name caught the eye of a shopper on Saturday who pointed out in a post on Twitter that naming the chicken pieces after the Aboriginal throw tool…
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