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Petition Seeks to Give Almonds Their Own Emoji
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 826" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.foodandwine.com/news/almond-emoji-petition" target="_blank"><strong>Petition Seeks to Give Almonds Their Own Emoji - Food and Wine</strong></a></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The chestnut has an emoji, so why not?</em></p><p></p><p>Frank Zappa famously quipped that you can’t be a real country unless you have a beer. Well, a modern spin on that concept might be that you can’t be a real food unless you have an emoji. Currently, the Unicode Standard has 2,823 emojis, but a mere 105 of those are in the food and drink category <a href="https://emojipedia.org/food-drink/" target="_blank">according to Emojipedia</a>. As a result, we’ve seen plenty of petitions for different items to finally get the icon they deserve. The avocado, for example, had plenty of interest <a href="https://www.foodandwine.com/fwx/food/we-still-have-wait-avocado-or-bacon-emoji" target="_blank">before it was added</a>. In 2017, Butterball pushed for <a href="https://www.foodandwine.com/news/butterball-turkey-emoji-video" target="_blank">a cooked Thanksgiving turkey emoji</a> despite the fact that a live turkey emoji already exists. (Don’t ask for two emojis when some foods don’t have any!) And last year, Kendall-Jackson filed <a href="https://www.foodandwine.com/white-wine-emoji" target="_blank">a 15-page petition for a white wine emoji</a> to compliment the current red wine one. (See my previous note.) </p><p></p><p>Well, it’s 2019, and here we go again. In the lead up to National Almond Day on February 16 (not every food may have an emoji, but they all have a day), the Almond Board of California has created an <a href="http://www.almonds.com/consumers/emoji-signup" target="_blank">Almond Emoji Petition</a> to help convince the Unicode Consortium that you shouldn’t need six characters to let your friends know you’re eating an almond. You should only need one character. An almond emoji.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 826, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.foodandwine.com/news/almond-emoji-petition'][B]Petition Seeks to Give Almonds Their Own Emoji - Food and Wine[/B][/URL] [I] The chestnut has an emoji, so why not?[/I] Frank Zappa famously quipped that you can’t be a real country unless you have a beer. Well, a modern spin on that concept might be that you can’t be a real food unless you have an emoji. Currently, the Unicode Standard has 2,823 emojis, but a mere 105 of those are in the food and drink category [URL='https://emojipedia.org/food-drink/']according to Emojipedia[/URL]. As a result, we’ve seen plenty of petitions for different items to finally get the icon they deserve. The avocado, for example, had plenty of interest [URL='https://www.foodandwine.com/fwx/food/we-still-have-wait-avocado-or-bacon-emoji']before it was added[/URL]. In 2017, Butterball pushed for [URL='https://www.foodandwine.com/news/butterball-turkey-emoji-video']a cooked Thanksgiving turkey emoji[/URL] despite the fact that a live turkey emoji already exists. (Don’t ask for two emojis when some foods don’t have any!) And last year, Kendall-Jackson filed [URL='https://www.foodandwine.com/white-wine-emoji']a 15-page petition for a white wine emoji[/URL] to compliment the current red wine one. (See my previous note.) Well, it’s 2019, and here we go again. In the lead up to National Almond Day on February 16 (not every food may have an emoji, but they all have a day), the Almond Board of California has created an [URL='http://www.almonds.com/consumers/emoji-signup']Almond Emoji Petition[/URL] to help convince the Unicode Consortium that you shouldn’t need six characters to let your friends know you’re eating an almond. You should only need one character. An almond emoji. [/QUOTE]
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