In the discussion about racist terms, Unilever has now announced that Knorr's popular "Gypsy Sauce" will soon have a new name:
Against the background of the discussion about racist names and terms, the Knorr brand “Gypsy Sauce” is being renamed *. "Since the term" gypsy sauce "can be interpreted negatively, we have decided to give our Knorr Sauce a new name," the parent company Unilever informed BILD am Sonntag upon request. The term "gypsies" is an old collective term for various ethnic groups that probably spread from India, especially through south-east Europe. The Central Council of the Sinti and Roma ethnic groups living in Germany calls the term “a foreign term for the majority society, superimposed by clichés, which is rejected as discriminatory by most members of the minority”. The term
is also perceived this way in public usage .
HEIDELBERG24 * reports under which name the "gypsy sauce" will be found on supermarket shelves in the future - and how the Central Council reacted to the renaming of the popular product. * HEIDELBERG24 is part of the Ippen-Digital network.