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Posted: 10/5/2023 9:53:26 PM EDT
You are older than dirt.
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We used to eat at Sambos every Sunday after church when I was a kid.
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The book title was later changed to LITTLE BRAVE SAMBO.
The story, for you youngsters was, a tiger is chasing Sambo. He finds a palm tree and starts running around it with the tiger in hot pursuit. He runs faster and faster and the tiger turns into butter. |
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In the 90's I had a 1/2 black lab, 1/2 pit that I got from a shelter. He was black as night.
I named him Sambo because in the 70's I worked at Sambo's restaurant and to me he was the same as the Sambo character. I took him to a training class and at one point the instructor asked me "Can I use your dog for a demo and I said sure. She then asked me his name and I told her. She looked at me in confusion and said "I'll just call him Sam". |
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Quoted: The book title was later changed to LITTLE BRAVE SAMBO. The story, for you youngsters was, a tiger is chasing Sambo. He finds a palm tree and starts running around it with the tiger in hot pursuit. He runs faster and faster and the tiger turns into butter. View Quote Attached File |
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1975 Sambo's Restaurant Commercial |
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That book had a golden stamp on it when i read it.
And I ain't older than dirt. |
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I've got a Sambo's thermos and coffee cup on display in my china cabinet. The coffee cup has a few wooden nickels in the bottom.
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Read it? Shit, my kindergarten class did that story as a play in during the 72-73 school year. I got to play a tiger and the only black kid in the class played Sambo.
If a teacher tried that these days, she would be fired quickly. The funny thing about my experience is that the teacher was a young woman who always struck me as something of a hippie. |
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Quoted: Read it? Shit, my kindergarten class did that story as a play in during the 72-73 school year. I got to play a tiger and the only black kid in the class played Sambo. If a teacher tried that these days, she would be fired quickly. The funny thing about my experience is that the teacher was a young woman who always struck me as something of a hippie. View Quote They were around. |
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Quoted: We used to eat at Sambos every Sunday after church when I was a kid. View Quote Recall those until not that many years ago, web says they had 1100 locations, last one closed several years ago. Did they serve genuine Aunt Jemima syrup? (which at one time had no fructose poison) For decades, Disney's Flagship Song was Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Uncle Remus, the movie focal point, had good lessons for kids of all ages In a banned 1946 movie, Song Of The South was set in the Pre-War Confederacy starring the great Hattie McDaniel. She ran the O'Hara household in Gone With The Wind The Media: "Hattie, how do you feel about playing so many maids?" Oscar Winner: "I'd rather play one than be one..." |
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Quoted: Read it? Shit, my kindergarten class did that story as a play in during the 72-73 school year. I got to play a tiger and the only black kid in the class played Sambo. If a teacher tried that these days, she would be fired quickly. The funny thing about my experience is that the teacher was a young woman who always struck me as something of a hippie. View Quote Sambo is Indian. |
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Quoted: The book title was later changed to LITTLE BRAVE SAMBO. The story, for you youngsters was, a tiger is chasing Sambo. He finds a palm tree and starts running around it with the tiger in hot pursuit. He runs faster and faster and the tiger turns into butter. View Quote The funny thing is it's about an Indian/Bengal kid and his family but it's a British story and they call Asians black. |
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Quoted: The funny thing is it's about an Indian/Bengal kid and his family but it's a British story and they call Asians black. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: The book title was later changed to LITTLE BRAVE SAMBO. The story, for you youngsters was, a tiger is chasing Sambo. He finds a palm tree and starts running around it with the tiger in hot pursuit. He runs faster and faster and the tiger turns into butter. The funny thing is it's about an Indian/Bengal kid and his family but it's a British story and they call Asians black. The British were a bit fucked up on racial issues. Well. They still are. |
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True story: I was born in Tucson AZ and as a small boy I would play in the sun and heat. Subsequently I was called Sambo because I got so dark.
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When I was born my parents had 2 cats, one was named Sambo, the other Irish. And of course we ate at the restaurant.
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Quoted: You are older than dirt. View Quote I had it Mom threw it out around 1969 |
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The Story of Little Black Sambo is a children's book written and illustrated by Scottish author Helen Bannerman and published by Grant Richards in October 1899. As one in a series of small-format books called The Dumpy Books for Children, the story was popular for more than half a century.
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Quoted: I don’t remember that. Did Sambo get pancakes after the tiger turned into butter? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I liked that book as a kid. Made me want pancakes. I don’t remember that. Did Sambo get pancakes after the tiger turned into butter? Yes, his mom made pancakes and served them with the tiger melted butter. |
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Sambo is a South Indian boy who lives with his father and mother, named Black Jumbo and Black Mumbo respectively. While out walking, Sambo encounters four hungry tigers, and he surrenders his colourful new clothes, shoes and umbrella so that they will not eat him. The tigers are vain and each thinks that it is better dressed than the others. They have a massive argument and chase each other around a tree until they are reduced to a pool of ghee (clarified butter). Sambo recovers his clothes and goes home, and his father later collects the ghee, which his mother uses to make pancakes.[3]
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Who knew tigers turned into butter if you make them run around a tree a few times?!
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My son's name is Sam and I call him Sambo all the time. We were walking out of a restaurant and my son was standing in the exit doorway and there was a man standing behind him wanting to leave. I looked at my son and said "move Sambo".
This gentleman just so happened to be black. He got the most incredulous look on his face like "I just heard the most racism thing in my life". I said "Sam Move out of this man's way". That dude realized my sons name was Sam and I was referencing my son when I said "Sambo" and started dying laughing. It was pretty funny. |
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