If anyone else is curious, the nickname was "n**ger toes". Had to look that up.

big yikes

I don’t think so. I think they were called that because of their shape and their dark color with parts of the skin on. It’s not uncommon to name foods after body parts (ladyfingers come to mind).

The mascot above doesn’t have toes.

Yeah I’m almost a little surprised they didn’t use the uh cough other name.

Which I’ve only heard from my very elderly grandpa. He doesn’t call them that, but he hit me with a fun fact a while back lol

My Midwestern grandparents would apparently tell their kids: "roll up the windows and lock the doors, we're going through n-town." when they drove through the city.

Considering the mascot has no toes or discernable "race", I'm gonna go with no.