To contact this jazz band and tell them to stop using this word?

Thank you.

I spent a lot of time in hospital as a child. That was something euphemistically named ‘baby orange’ and as I remember served up in white ceramic jugs !! I also remember blue plastic bed covers spread out at mealtimes for those who were bedbound, massive ‘meatballs’ and baked beans served on Wednesdays and fish, chips and peas served every Friday !!. Saturday was Scouse - it was Alder Hey in Liverpool !! The toothpaste I remember as being pink powder - you had to wet your toothbrush and scrub it around the surface of the tin - was called ‘Euthymol’. Shuddering at the memory of both.

I agree that it is very unlike New Orleans!

I was trying to think of somewhere that was very unlike New Orleans.

Though I hear the Bridlington Mardi Gras is getting wilder and wilder. The things people will do for Smarties.

@PointsSouth what do you have against Bridlington?

Dixieland - one word - just refers to music that originated in the southern states. It's not intrinsically racist.

The Dixie Chicks didn't drop the word because it's racist. They dropped it because White Southerners (who probably are racist) were co-opting them an example of white southern culture. And they didn't want to be identified with that because they don't feel they are, specifically.

I don't think this is really a problem for a band playing at a fete in Bridlington.

While we're at it though "rock'n'roll" started as slang for fucking. So that's gotta go.

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I hate fish!!

That was marketed forc mokers! The stuff I vaguely remember was Gibbs Dentitice:

From www.madsensmemories.com/memories/2018/10/16/foaming-gibbs-dentifrice
It came in a round tin with a dome-like tin cover, and looked like a cylindrical cake of pink soap sitting on the base. You had to brush a wet toothbrush across it a few times to whip up a foam, rather as men did with shaving cream. With this somewhat gritty pink foam you cleaned your teeth.
I must have used it thousands of times as a child. It cost about 7.5d in the old money, or about 3p for a tin. It had flavour added, a sweet, slightly soapy, slightly sickly taste to it, and it was pink.

Dixie may be derived from Jeremiah Dixon, one of the surveyors of the Mason–Dixon line,

Oh God .

@FauxWhiteOrchid I just joined the thread very late to say I am sorry you have been the centre of a pile on. The nastiness of the replies are a horrible window into the minds of many here.
It is perfectly possible to disagree without mocking the OP but that is not what has happened on this thread.
FWIW I don’t think the band using the word dixie is that bad but I would support any black people who did. As a disabled person I frequently find non disabled people feel they can decide what is and is not acceptable for me to have a right to be upset about which really rankles so I am not going to do it to others.

Fake plastic orchid …. Just not done in a Tory neighborhood.

Currently sitting having a BBQ with some ( black) friends . They are laughing their heads off as their cockapoo is named Dixie .

I've lived in New Orleans for a long time, you would be laughed out of town if you launched a campaign to rename Dixieland Jazz OP. If you are interested in the history of Dixie and Dixieland, I will tell you the consensus of local historians is the term is more likely to have evolved from the usage of "dix" for $10 notes by French speaking traders prior to the Civil War. NO had a sound, well respected banking system/currency, thanks to a booming commerce. In the 1800s it was one of the busiest ports in the US due to many factors such being one of the cheapest ports for ships to enter, proximity to South America and the Caribbean, and of course being the mouth of the Mississippi. The song Dixie then became one of the popular Confederate marching songs, so it became associated with all of the states in the confederacy and therefore associated with pro-slavery and the Mason-Dixon line, which was the demarcation of the slave owing states and the free soil states. Dixieland jazz really didn't emerge until the beginning of the 20th century and it was born in New Orleans, Louis Armstrong being one of the most famous Dixieland artists and of course, he was born and bred here.

So yeah, this is not the hill

@FauxWhiteOrchid You should only use et al in academic writing.

OP: Am I right?

MN: No, you're wrong!

OP: I hate you all flounce...

Tell the band by all means but be prepared to make yourself look an utter dick

Oh, you’ve given it away now. I thought this was half serious!

suuuun blest the sign of good bread

I'm willing to bet the sneaky buggers were giving you cod liver oil mixed with concentrated orange juice. I've heard tell of such a monstrosity, at least.

I don't know about you, since you were actually there, while my mental images of the time are all from films and archive footage/photos and Matchbox models — but I think for me the Sunkist brand has somehow got muddled up with Sunblest, which definitely was a fifties brand.

eucryl tooth powder, mint flavoured Ajax.

Obviously hard for you to accept that 86% think you are wrong? Maybe you are wrong? The word does not have a precise meaning, so I don't see a case for censoring it.

To my knowledge it means the area south of the Mason Dixon line, and can mean someone from that area, and and can also refer to a style of music.

Its a bit of a streach to suggest that the word celebrates slavery and inequality?

(Not a Tory or Reform supporter, but I support freedom if speech)

As a child in hospital, when Florence was a lass, we were given some orange concoction, almost a concentrated version of squash. It had a uniquely weird taste.
In other news, toothpaste also came in a tin - less of a paste, more a compacted powder that you had to moisten!