British egg producers saddened by Google salad emoji update

Diversity deficiency

Hmmm. That's a very white-looking bowl.... just saying, that's all.

Here we go again...

...with the vegan bashing. Perish the thought some people actually care enough about animal welfare to take action and actively choose not to participate in what is a horribly cruel industry.

Anyway, vegan or not eggs have no place in a salad.

Google needs to put bacon bits on the salad emoji.

Essential quote here:

...Then there was the opposite school. There was Mr. Edward Carpenter, who thought we should in a very short time return to Nature, and live simply and slowly as the animals do. And Edward Carpenter was followed by James Pickie, D.D. (of Pocohontas College), who said that men were immensely improved by grazing, or taking their food slowly and continuously, after the manner of cows. And he said that he had, with the most encouraging results, turned city men out on all fours in a field covered with veal cutlets. Then Tolstoy and the Humanitarians said that the world was growing more merciful, and therefore no one would ever desire to kill. And Mr. Mick not only became a vegetarian, but at length declared vegetarianism doomed ("shedding," as he called it finely, "the green blood of the silent animals"), and predicted that men in a better age would live on[Pg 17] nothing but salt. And then came the pamphlet from Oregon (where the thing was tried), the pamphlet called "Why should Salt suffer?" and there was more trouble....

G K Chesterton: The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)

I literally cannot think of a more useless job than “UX manager for emojis”. How does this person even get up in the mornings?

Bigger Question

They've updated the "family" emoji to have mum,dad,kid, mum,mum,kid and dad,dad,kid. But the kid is always a boy. Female infanticide in their "inclusive" world?

A limp excuse of a salad

I've never seen a salad with just green leaves (*) and a tomato. Where are the spring onions, radishes, cucumber, mushroom, beansprouts and the dressing.

* What type of lettuce, any spinach, watercress.to liven it up a bit ?

This doesn't look like any salad I've seen !!

Should it also be smaller, since most are side salads for something more interesting such as a large juicy steak ?

Whoever hatched that idea failed to ovoid getting egg on their face...?

Vegetable Salad - that's no vegetable

So why's there a fruit in there...???

Platonic form

Surely the platonic form of the salad is just vegetables / fruits (e.g. tomato is a fruit)

You can have "extras" such as egg, tuna whatever but most (UK) person would regard just the "veg" stuff as salad - and stuff like dressing should be regarded as optional too.

Perhaps this idea was thought up by the brain boxes at Heinz that think that Salad Cream needs to be renamed 'Sandwich cream' because people use it on sandwiches more than they do on salads.

Well if the young generation have to have instructions on how to use it in the name of the product they are going to struggle to know what to do with Brown Sauce and perhaps put it down the toilet?

Right, that’s it – I’m stopping using all emoji’s over this!

Oh, wait, I’ve never used them due to not being born in Egypt 5,000 years ago and sufficiently old enough to use words.

Is it just me..

.. that doesn't measure an OS's capibility, security, utility and usability in terms of it having added some extra emojis?

I'd rather they concentrated on trivia like security. Or stability. Or useful[1] functionality..

[1] No, I don't mean in terms of being able to have dynamic, battery-sapping animatronics and AR. You know, trivia like being able to control who/what has access to your data..

What! Did the egg producers fail to payoff Google Well that will learn you.

Confused

What is this sa-lad that you talk about?

Pork pie!

The egg people say "Eggs are the perfect salad accompaniment", which by definition means they are not a part of the salad, just something to go with one. Me, I think a pork pie is the perfect salad accompaniment, but I will understand if the salad emoji doesn't show it. Wait, what? There is no separate pork pie emoji? You'll be telling me there are no Cornish pastie or black pudding emojis next. As for the pork pie with an egg in, that is simply an abomination - does it even have a name, let alone an emoji? Pig-egg pie?

Hm.

It seems that is not inclusive enough. There are those, as has been pointed out, that cannot eat tomatoes. Then there are those that are left out because they cannot have green leafies (ie those on blood thinners, yes they can technically eat green leafies, but it must be consistent and is a medical angle not a dietary choice like with vegans)

So if we remove the green leafies and the tomatoes are we being all-inclusive? Not yet, we have those that are being left out because they do not have a bowl (such as third world types) and cannot identify with it readily. So if we remove the bowl....

I think we have an emoji that everyone can get behind. It's a blank square, but everyone is free to imagine it however they want. True all-inclusiveness. XD

Now, if that logic is applied to all emoji, the problem of not being diverse enough goes away. Win-win right Google?

I heard of a thing

called "virtue signalling"

and just now I've seen it

and smelled something like shSSHHHHKKK POWDERMILK BISCUITS

Heavens, they're tasty and expeditious!

They're made from whole wheat, to give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done.

POWDERMILK BISCUITS

Buy them ready-made in the big blue box with the picture of the biscuit on the front, or in the brown bag with the dark stains that indicate freshness.

Modifiers

Isn't this what Unicode modifiers were designed to address? You start with a bowl symbol then add modifiers for lettuce, spinach, sunflower seeds, tomato, bacon, cheese, a dash of medium salsa, and steak. Even better if I can text that to a take-out restaurant. Damn, I'm hungry now.

Can't imagine why British egg producers would want their product associated with a bowl of pet fodder anyway.

If Google are trying to be more inclusive...

...they should also remove the face from the poo emoji. That would be less discriminatory against those of us who don't do poos with faces.

I'm sure they had an egg cellent reason to remove it. excellent

Think of the meat eaters!

Won't someone think of the meat eaters? This is not inclusion. I prefer my salads with ham'n stuff.

That salad isn't inclusive of my kids. One would only eat the lettuce and the other would throw the salad away and fill the bowl with crisps. He would have eaten the egg though.

Why do you hate my kids Google?

Eggism, Adolf Hitler would be proud.