Filipinos Cookie in Europe and its controversy

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While buying snacks here in Amsterdam, I came across Filipinos biscuits 🤣. My friend mentioned that it’s actually a Spanish brand. I bought it as a joke since we’re Pinoy.

Out of curiosity, I looked up its origin and was surprised to find out that there was even a lawsuit and controversy involving racial slurs surrounding it. Just sharing- anyways OK naman yung lasa nya. Saks lang

From wiki - claimed that the name of the cookie was offensive due to the apparent reference to their color, "dark outside and white inside".[3] His resolution stated "These food items could be appropriately called by any other label, but the manufacturers have chosen our racial identity, and they are now making money out of these food items."[2] On August 26, 1999, the Philippine president Joseph Estrada called the brand "an insult".[2]