{"id":48,"date":"2023-03-01T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/?p=48"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:51:08","slug":"aww-not-you-too-chester-cheetah-of-frito-lay-makes-antisemitic-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Aww, not you too! \u201cChester Cheetah\u201d of Frito-Lay makes antisemitic comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In some disappointing news, The Rutabaga has found that \u201cChester Cheetah,\u201d best known for his appearances in Frito-Lay commercials and chip branding, has made several antisemitic comments in the past week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While The Rutabaga has not confirmed a specific comment that Mr. Cheetah has made, we know that he tied a lot of the success of opposing chip companies to \u201cJewish-looking mascots.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After asking Frito-Lay what consequences Mr. Cheetah will receive after his comments, the verdict is unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChester Cheetah will be attending several roundtable discussions about why Jews make more money than non-Jews,\u201d read a statement from the company. Wait, that\u2019s not what we meant! Wait! Stop!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This story was written by a Jewish student.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some disappointing news, The Rutabaga has found that \u201cChester Cheetah,\u201d best known for his appearances in Frito-Lay commercials and chip branding, has made several antisemitic comments in the past week. While The Rutabaga has not confirmed a specific comment that Mr. Cheetah has made, we know that he tied a lot of the success [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}