Coles will rename one of its brands of biscuits after claims their name - Creole Creams - is racist.
Sam Watson, deputy director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland, had complained the biscuits' name was unacceptable.
"The word Creole comes from a period when people's humanity was measured by the amount of white blood they had in their bloodstream," he told the Brisbane Times website. "This is the same kind of thought that underpinned horrific regimes like the Nazis."
The word Creole can be used to desribe a person of mixed European and African or Afro-Caribbean heritage.
Coles Spokesman Jim Cooper said the name of the chocolate and vanilla biscuits would be changed in the next three months as part of a redesign of packaging.
But he denied claims the cookies had been given a 'racist' brand-name.
"The biscuits in question were named in reference to the well-known Creole cuisine style that originated in the US," he said. "It was certainly not intended as a racial reference, nor intended to cause offence."
Source: Bribane Times