The Revenge of the Ojibwe

Every Christmas, a friend sends me a package of foodstuffs from the Native Harvest website, run by the Ojibwe tribe. It's all wonderful goodies, and today I broke out the Maple Butter for toast.

That's when I noticed the native name given for the product: "Anishinaabe Doodooshaaboo-bimide."

Yeah, right. You just know this is a joke the Native Americans are playing on us politically correct and guilty invaders, trying to get us to pronounce a bunch of doo-wop lyrics and sound like Frankie Valli.

But it does taste great!

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Posted By: Paul - Sat May 22, 2010
Category: Food | Languages | Native Americans

Comments

Made me search !! First hit was Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojibwe_language :D

Posted by ANON in Nowhere on 05/22/10 at 10:51 AM

If Maple Butter fits on pancakes I'll have to look into it this winter.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 05/22/10 at 12:17 PM

that sounds really good.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 05/23/10 at 12:37 AM

Ok, Anishinaabe is literally 'native person' and Doodooshaaboo-bimide is 'butter'. My guess is they mean "Butter made by Native Persons" and not butter made from natives 😉

Posted by Nethie on 05/23/10 at 08:20 PM

'its made from peeeeepoleeeee' 🐛

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 05/23/10 at 10:37 PM

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