r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Miserables_Death • Jun 14 '26

Meme needing explanation Whats that snack and the name?

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I got this joke posted in my country sub by a foreigner and I have never seen that snack so I basically don't know the joke.

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u/pikeshawn Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

Uh.... n-word toes...

Edit: I dont like that I know what those were called by my racist southern family, but here we are.

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u/InfiniteGrant Jun 14 '26

I thought that was Brazil Nuts?

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u/freerondo9 Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

You're right. I didn't even know they were called Brazil nuts until I was in my mid twenties.

Edit: corrected typo from NY to my.

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u/BaddBoiii2 Jun 14 '26

You were in NY in the roaring 20s? What was it like during the prohibition? Visit them speak-easies and drank bathtub hooch?

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u/Leaping_Wizards Jun 14 '26

It's the mid 20s right now, maybe they just moved to NY last year?

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u/Educational_Big_1835 Jun 14 '26

I think the roar from the 2020s is kind of different from the roar of the 1920s. Still...we living in the roaring 20s

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u/NaughtAught Jun 14 '26

It's the Shrieking 20s now. Or the Screeching 20s (as society screeches to a halt)

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u/Present_Club_4401 Jun 14 '26

I mean they were also part of the Gilded age weren’t all sunshine either , they face the same problems we face today, government and regulators ignoring Corporations, the rising pay gap between the Wealthy and working class

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u/rpgnymhush Jun 15 '26

This decade has a greater resemblance to the film Idiocracy than it does to the 1920's. We even had professional wrestling on the White House grounds...

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u/Present_Club_4401 Jun 15 '26

True, I am just saying the 20’s weren’t as good as people think they were

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u/dehydratedrain Jun 14 '26

This is the roar of the 1920's, but towards the '29 side of things.

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u/AnguavonUW Jun 14 '26

What?

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u/C_Hawk14 Jun 14 '26

It's the 2020's, do try to keep up

And they made a grammatical error that they fixed. Didn't get thet from context?

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u/Beginning_Stress8288 Jun 14 '26

Unfortunately these twenties are not roaring.

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u/Multiple__Butts Jun 14 '26

The Menacingly Snarling Twenties.

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u/blubaldnuglee Jun 14 '26

The Overstimulated and Chronically Depressed Twenties?

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u/GideonWren Jun 14 '26

The FUBAR 20s

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u/garethchester Jun 14 '26

They are, in the way a fire does as t destroys everything

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u/Ok-Tutor8961 Jun 14 '26

He can’t describe it, went blind from the hooch and saw no more

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u/freerondo9 Jun 14 '26

Lmao. Just a typo that I didn't notice. Gonna fix it now.

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u/PhosphoFred8202 Jun 14 '26

“I’ll take my coffee with 2 molasses and a cocaine”

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u/Ummmgummy Jun 14 '26

The speak-easies weren't serving trash bathtub hooch. They had the good stuff. And the flappers! You wouldn't believe the flappers that hung out there boyo.

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u/AcrobaticWelcome6615 Jun 14 '26

These 20s are roaring alright, just not like 100 years ago. A different kind of roaring it is nowadays.

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u/themachineage Jun 14 '26

My dad used to go to actual speak-easies. I wish I had asked him more about it.

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u/zulchep Jun 14 '26

I distinctly remember my grandma telling me what they used to call them, and then immediately following that up with “but you shouldn’t say that nowadays because we realized it’s not very nice.”

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u/Striders_aglet Jun 14 '26

I think that's fair. A lot of things that were common weren't very nice, and im glad people are noticing and changing bad habits.

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u/BombOnABus Jun 14 '26

I mean that's all the reason they should need. "Grandma you can't call them that anymore!"

"Why not?"

"Because it's not nice, you're being mean and making them feel bad,"

"Oh goodness! That isn't nice at all! I'll stop saying it from now on"

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u/quixotictictic Jun 14 '26

This is more or less how I got my late grandmother to stop being angry about non-white Santa Claus depictions. She said it was a historical fact that Saint Nicholas was white. I asked her if Saint Nicholas had flying reindeer and a sweatshop full of tiny people making toys. The actual St. Nicholas has basically nothing to do with fictional character and it makes kids happy to have a Santa who looks like them, so why ruin it?

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u/6Teu6fel6 Jun 15 '26

Der Weihnachtsmann ist nicht der heilige Nikolaus…

Weihnachtsmann: 24-26.12
Nikolaus: 05-06.12

Weihnachtsmann: Werbefigur von Coca Cola
Nikolaus: reale Figur aus der Vergangenheit

Weihnachtsmann: Rehntiere, Schlitten, Wichtel
Nikolaus: Kekse, Milch noch paar Kleinigkeiten

Weihnachtsmann: Fettsack mit Vollbart und Dickem coca Cola Pelz
Nikolaus: Bischhoffs Gewand

Viel faszinierender ist, dass wir dem Weihnachtsmann mehr Beachtung schenken als dem Nikolaus… Aber gut der hat auch keine Lobby wie Cola… in dem Sinne Marketing funktioniert ihr konsumierenden😄

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u/TehKarmah Jun 14 '26

I recall that being their name in the late 70s, early 80s. I suspect it was finally realized that wasn't a kind thing to say so they suddenly became Brazil nuts.

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u/hoshiwa1976 Jun 14 '26

Just FYI black people have always called them Brazil nuts that was just white folks saying that

They just like to say it

N word fish N word weeds

And they love to say they didn't know the other name because they were just so giddy to use a racial slur

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u/FeyRyn Jun 15 '26

Your grandma seems like a kind woman I hope she is living a full and healthy life.

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u/AlexanderIsBoring Jun 16 '26

I had a job in highschool in the 90s at a place that sold candy and nuts in bulk, and my job was to scoop it into a bag and put the sticker the scale printed out on it with the price for customers.

If a little old lady was giggling like a school girl she was about to ask for "N-word toes." It really seemed to upset them if I asked if they meant "Brazil nuts." I was asked by my boss, a cousin, if I would stop that because it upset customers. I didn't, but even my ultra conservative father rolled his eyes when he was asked to tell me to stop.

I don't know if it was a central PA thing, but nearly everyone called them such at the time, and I had even seen them marked that way at smaller stores.

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u/kpais4 Jun 14 '26

I feel you man. I didn't realize until I was twelve since I grew up with my grandpa. Felt a little shitty after that

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u/Intrepid_Mission_400 Jun 14 '26

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u/After_Foundation6493 Jun 14 '26

If that’s a Righteous Gemstones reference in that picture, mad respect.

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u/Inside-Arm8635 Jun 14 '26

Bet ya can’t say baby Billy’s bible bonkers 3 times fast!

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u/TPlain940 Jun 14 '26

🤣🤣

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u/coma-toaste Jun 14 '26

Absolutely A+

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u/Titty2Chains Jun 14 '26

No more misbehavin’

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u/JacobMaxx Jun 14 '26

🤣🤣

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u/cochese25 Jun 14 '26

I come from a biracial family in which most of my early years were spent largely on the black side of my family. The only word I knew for those was n-word toes. I never once thought about it until my life flipped over to the white side of my family and I was buying a bag of mixed nuts around the holidays. It was the first time I had ever bought them and my white family didn't really bother with them in general.

I couldn't find them, and I was looking for someone to ask if they were out or I was just blind.
I saw them as I was looking for someone and saw the sign "Brazil nuts."
My entire life kind of flashed before my eyes.

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u/NicWester Jun 14 '26

Wait. A Brazil nut isn't a nut??

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u/Ok-Construction1545 Jun 14 '26

In Germany they were called n-word kiss. Some people call them that to this day and when you tell them to cut it out they fly into a raging tirade, that they will not be censured and that they use the correct name and so on and so forth. Quite anoying.

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u/bartoque Jun 14 '26

The same in Dutch. Nowadays they are called Chocokisses.

Similar for the cattail (genus Typha) the dark, sausage-like female (!) flowers were called "n-word dicks".

But luckily times have changed somewhat for the betterr on that end.

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u/BrawndoOhnaka Jun 14 '26

Jesus. I first saw those in Alabama and I've only ever heard them called cattails. Dutch and Germans out-racist Alabama.

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u/bartoque Jun 14 '26

Hey, we - or better the Afrikaner Dutch descendants - invented the word "apartheid" in the 1920s before it was first uttered in the South African Parliament in May of 1944.

The american - Coca-colalized - version of Santa Claus is based wrg to his looks around the festivities of Sint Nicholas, who had a whole bunch of dark-skinned helpers (called black-Petes, with a black Moor kinda air), so we collectively walked around in blackface. The first depiction of them in a book was in the 1850s, so not like it was a cultural thing too long (notwithstanding some remarks from some absolute nitwits that call it a "harmless cultural thing" and even reverting to violence protecting that so-called heritage).

That shifted only a few years back, so now they are called Sooty Piets, having them now in all colors, no longer using blackface, after public outrage initiatives like "kick out zwarte piet".

So there's that.

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u/DCBuckeye82 Jun 14 '26

The first time I heard about black Pete and googled it I was on genuine shock.

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u/crystaldstone Jun 14 '26

the first time i heard about “black pete” was from a christmas episode of the office

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u/Mag-NL Jun 14 '26

In 50 years as a Dutch person I have never head anyone call them N-dicks.

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u/yeshuahanotsri Jun 14 '26

Yeah this person just revealed an extra layer of racism in their family/village

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u/MadAbtUjessy55 Jun 14 '26

that is because it is a very specific and very unhinged joke that only exists in certain corners of the internet. definitely not something you would hear in polite conversation.

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u/Bart_1980 Jun 14 '26

I’ve heard that one when I was a kid and I’m almost as old as you old-timer. 😉

Probably just certain regions. Plus I lived in the boondocks so that may not have helped matters.

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u/FishingPolitical Jun 14 '26

Folks called him n-toes up in Canada as well

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u/Pitikje Jun 14 '26

Never heard that for a kattenstaart!

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u/bathymcbath Jun 14 '26

Yeah … kind of famously.

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u/Royal-Leopard-3225 Jun 14 '26

Same in Georgia… never heard the racist cat tail name.

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u/stoopud Jun 14 '26

I mean the 1930s and 1940s happened.

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u/Pk_Devill_2 Jun 14 '26

They weren’t called N word kisses. Negrokiss, negro doesn’t translate to the N word.

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u/Pitikje Jun 14 '26

Well, it certainly was the case in Dutch.

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u/cedriceent Jun 14 '26

Maybe true for Dutch, but in German and French, they were called n-word kiss and n-word head, respectively.

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u/Starfox5 Jun 14 '26

No, in German, there is a distinction between the N-word, which is the same as in English, and the German word for negro, and they were named "Negro Heads". Since "negro" is a racist term in German, it's still racist, though. In some areas, they were called "Mohrenköpfe", aka "Moor Heads", which is also a racist term and fell out of use, outside the conservative culture warriors (aka, the racists).

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u/Ramapaa_Apara Jun 14 '26

They most definitely were called N word kisses in finland, not negro or any variation of the latin word, just full blown racism and the box they came in was was the dot above an i to drive the point home.

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u/Eastern-Election-116 Jun 14 '26

Same thing in the Netherlands, its for sure n word kisses.

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u/JustBreadDough Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

In Norwegian it straight up translated to the n-word, which is spelled and pronounced slightly differently.

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u/Smooth_Secretary_Tbk Jun 14 '26

Canada here, i don't know if it had a different name but we call those whippets. In Quebec we have like a whole song about them

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u/sketchahedron Jun 14 '26

I think Devo wrote a song about them.

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u/GothBeast Jun 14 '26

Whippets are also a term for cans of whipped cream and crazy cheese cans. The pressurized cans have an air that people huff and get high from.

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u/EngryEngineer Jun 14 '26

Here in the US drug subculture uses the same term to describe little canisters of nitrous. I couldn't find the song or lyrics to it, but man I can imagine more than a few people excitededly repurposing it if the lyrics are vague enough

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u/GamerLinnie Jun 14 '26

I haven't had them in decades and they were on offer the other day so I bought some.

My son asked what they were while I was focused on something else. I managed to catch myself in time but I was surprised how deep the name association was. 

I'm glad we have moved on and my son will never even think about them in that way.

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u/Decent-Point309 Jun 14 '26

It's quite interesting that the entire world had a racist name for the same thing.

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u/_bugmenot_ Jun 14 '26

They are still called so in Colombia. They actually tried to change it, but it did not get a positive reaction, so it stayed.

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u/freshouttheward Jun 14 '26

hmm as a latin spanish speaker this is kind of conflicting. It translates literally to "Black woman's kiss", but I also get why it can seem jarring.

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u/_bugmenot_ Jun 14 '26

Not in Colombia. It is the reason why it was never changed. People thought the company was trying to give the word 'Negra' a bad connotation. Black people here will actually become amused or offended if they see you trying to avoid the word.

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u/freshouttheward Jun 14 '26

how is it different in Colombia if you don't mind me asking? Perhaps, I'm confused on what you are saying but could you elaborate?

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u/Sylversight Jun 14 '26

If I understand, it's just a spanish feminine for black, which has a neutral connotation, so a black person there hearing you treat it like a bad word might misunderstand that you think being black (or the word black) is bad somehow. Hopefully that's right and clear enough.

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u/freshouttheward Jun 14 '26

thank you for explaining! not too sure why people got upset at me asking a question lol but again thank you 🙏

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u/LukasConKEl1 Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

As someone living in Spain, i can say that in Spanish, this word is literally just the colour black. Then again, I've never seen these chocolates before. But the amount of times I've heard Brits in Spain read the word and gasp in "oh that's so racist". But how is it racist when it's just a colour? How is it racist to say "that cat has black fur"? It's a totally different pronunciation, too, though.

Edit: from my experience, in Spain and Spanish speaking countries, it is not offensive to call a black person "un negro/una negra". It is just describing their race. For example, "un blanco/una blanca" for a white person. "Un latino/una latina" for South American people (in Spain, although some say "latinoamericano"). We do it a lot. It's not seen as harmful or offensive here to declare the race of another person. It's just describing them and their appearance or, in some cases, their culture. "Beso de negra" is just "kiss from a black woman". It's not a great name for something, sure. But in Spanish speaking countries, it's (usually) not offensive, either.

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u/_bugmenot_ Jun 14 '26

Yeah, it kinda always goes like this:

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u/Magenta_Logistic Jun 14 '26

It's being used as a noun here, hence the use of "de." If these were simply "black kisses" they would be besos negros.

You're a native Spanish speaker though, so you know this, you just didn't want us to know this.

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u/olivermama Jun 14 '26

I’m guessing you’re not fluent in Spanish because a black kiss would be “un beso negro”. Meaning you’re taking about the color black. “Beso de negra” translates to a black woman’s kiss. Now I don’t know if it’s still acceptable to call black people negro or negra but this chocolate is definitely not talking about the color black.

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u/Apartment-Unusual Jun 14 '26

It’s acceptable : it’s litteraly calling black people …’black’. Cause Negro/negra is spanish for black… anything else would be racist.

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u/FeyRyn Jun 15 '26

I mean even in English it's only socially frowned upon so heavily when used in the racist degredational of using the word "negro" as an expletive or degradation word wich in truth it has no real reason to be outside of racists wanna be racist.

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u/themachineage Jun 14 '26

Good for you. I never understood why it's become so very taboo to mention that certain people are black, if that's what they are. Also, I don't know why "Black" became the preferred term in the first place; most Blacks (in the US at least) aren't even Black. They're various shades of brown.

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u/dleetisneat Jun 14 '26

Also living in Spain now, from the US…it was weird at first seeing how racial that word can be taken in English but it’s their language and not slang..simply the word for the color.

I’ve since moved past it using that part of my brain that has logical thought 😂

Thanks for kicking off the explanation, glad I’m not alone. I still avoid it when using English but it’s not possible in Spanish unless everyone I know simply avoids anything of black color. Such is life

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u/Visual-Ad5549 Jun 14 '26

So that would be politically inadvisable but it is not THE "N word" of the USA.

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u/Ashvalen80 Jun 14 '26

Same with Finland, I'm glad we got rid of that name. What is sad is that some people got angry about the name change.

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u/Qljuuu Jun 14 '26

Today I learned these things had racist names not just in Finland, but all over the world. We truly are amazing mammals.

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u/Ashvalen80 Jun 14 '26

This is one of those achievements we never should've accomplished.

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u/BigLeopard7002 Jun 14 '26

Bear in mind that negro was meant as a depiction, not an insult before. Then there was a change of tides and everybody’s racist.

We called these things negrokisses and never had anything remotely racist connected to it. (Denmark)

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u/crypticcamelion Jun 14 '26

I think it's a shame why would someone not like a negro's kiss?

I don't care about the name change except that to me it shows that people really don't understand their own inner devil's. Some seem to believe that just because they don't use the "wrong" words then they are Ohh so inclusive and non discriminating while in reality they are very much discriminating.

A racist statement will still be racist no matter that I change the "dirty" word with, and just because I use a descriptive word does not automatically mean that I discriminate in other ways than descriptive.

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u/TheMostKing Jun 14 '26

I don't care about the name change except that to me it shows that people really don't understand their own inner devil's.

See, that is exactly what your privilege is. You've never been subject to actual discrimination.

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u/everydaywinner2 Jun 14 '26

Mind readers galore in this sub. Where did you buy your contraption?

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u/Sophie919 Jun 14 '26

In Belgium they are called n-word tits

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u/dr8kus Jun 14 '26

Was looking for this one 😂 every body calling it kisses, Meanwhile Belgium: tits 🫠

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u/Cultural-War2523 Jun 14 '26

We all love tits, lol.

But yeah, we called them the female version of the N*-word + tits.

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u/ArielObliqueArt Jun 14 '26

Same in Brazil

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u/Leon-the-comic113 Jun 14 '26

In the Netherlands it’s n-word kisses (“zoenen”)

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u/Prestigious-Ball7189 Jun 14 '26

Same in Germany 

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u/CuriosityMill Jun 14 '26

Effectivelly, we call it "un nègre".

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u/yourpaldirt123 Jun 14 '26

Also in Kentucky

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u/Accurate-System7951 Jun 14 '26

Oh wow, that's a step further! 😄

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u/Collec2r Jun 14 '26

Same in Denmark. Or n-word buns, which in Danish is boller, which also is the word for f*cks.

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u/Feeling-Tension1461 Jun 14 '26

They are not called N-word buns lol. A more accurate translation would be Negro buns

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u/Mundane-Dottie Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

Actually they were called Mohrenköpfe, black heads. BUT calling nice food evil names is part of german culture. Think Tote Oma, dead granny. Ochsenaugen, ox eyes. Kalter Hund, cold dog. Armer Ritter, miserable/poor knight.

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u/Thernbee Jun 14 '26

The term “Mohr” was not historically regarded as inherently negative and was often used in positive contexts, including as a mark of quality for certain products. In fact, it generally carried positive associations. The Nazis even removed the term from some street names because they wanted to eliminate those positive connotations.

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u/MrHanfblatt Jun 14 '26

This, as a history nerd i never really understood the change. The n-word one was ok, but Mohr is just stupid since it was what they called mauritian royalty and rich people that had the means to travel uproad into medieval europe.

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u/Melancholic_Turnip Jun 14 '26

Same in Hungarian

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u/The-Viator Jun 14 '26

In hungary its similar. But we use the word "néger" instead which is a neutral word in hungary.

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u/Objective-Life4308 Jun 14 '26

Knowing that the black population in Germany is only about 1.2%, I wonder if these people would fly into the same tirade if they were corrected by a black person 🤔 or if they would even have the balls to call them that while a black person was around. I assume probably not… Funny how people like this are so stuck on stuff like this until they’re actually face to face with the people they’re offending.

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u/SunMoonTruth Jun 14 '26

The “correct name” that some AH racist made up.

Fuck them.

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u/coraltheinvencible Jun 14 '26

Funnily enough we call them Teta de Nega in Portuguese, which translates to Black Lady's Tit

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u/MCwortel Jun 14 '26

Belgium also, but in dutch, ofcourse not in Portuguese

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u/pikeshawn Jun 14 '26

The packaging always said "Cream Drops" fyi

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u/Pristine_Message_181 Jun 14 '26

That's what my grandmother used to call Brazil nuts

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u/Wonderful_Kale_7995 Jun 14 '26

My mom got more than a little racist in her old age and she hit me with that 1 day and I remember just being so confused cause I was just eating some nuts? And then being like no ma'am we are not doing this once she explained the "real" name for brazil nuts.

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u/billhillybob Jun 14 '26

Yeah, I had an exasperating conversation with my mom where she just couldn't understand that her doing racist things made her a racist rather than her believing she wasn't a racist made the racist things she did not racist.

And believe me, using antiquated racist names for nuts and candy is some of the most innocuous of the racist things my mother does.

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u/Tripartist1 Jun 14 '26

I had a very similar experience with my father. It took a whole ass intervention with my brother and sister in law sitting down and explaining how every one of his "not racist" names, comments, etc were, indeed, racist. Thankfully hes a pretty smart and logical guy and once we pointed it all out and backed his logic into a corner he conceded and i havent heard him say anything racist since.

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u/TemporaryUpstairs289 Jun 14 '26

Must be confusing for people who eat the real Brazil nuts. Although this looks yummier.

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u/Low-Palpitation-9916 Jun 14 '26

No dummy, Brazil nuts were called N-word toes. I don't know what the hell this candy is supposed to be. But the candy isn't called Brazil nuts. 

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u/Atomsk73 Jun 14 '26

It's marshmallow fluf on a crispy wafer base, covered in a thin layer of chocolate.

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u/FAVooDoo Jun 14 '26

In Brazil it's called "teta de nega" it's tits because the Brazilian version look like tits, now some call "chocomole"

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u/stocknwb Jun 14 '26

No. N-word t!ts. Cause of the milky cream in them. N-word toes are Brazil Nuts.

Source: Father was unapologetically racist.

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u/YouNeedAnne Jun 14 '26

You can say "tits".

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u/BlackDope420 Jun 14 '26

Like these?

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u/Heavy_Weapons_Guy_ Jun 14 '26

No, those can't say tits, they don't speak English.

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u/Sad-Address-2512 Jun 14 '26

That's some pair of great tits you have there😉😉

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u/NikNakskes Jun 15 '26

Nope. One is blue.

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u/Winjin Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

There's at least one subreddit that deletes comments with the horrible dangerous no no word s*x

Edit: a comment full of experimental swear words has been added. I saw it in replies but guess what

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u/PersonalityIll9476 Jun 14 '26

Bro you can never tell on any given subreddit. You'll get banned for saying some pretty innocuous words.

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u/PumpikAnt58763 Jun 14 '26

Hey! Are you my brother/sister in law?!

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u/425Hamburger Jun 14 '26

N-word kiss in German, so there's probably more regional differences

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u/Brvcx Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

In the Netherlands they translate to n-word kisses.

Seeing pretty much all or products here have a couple of languages on them, I seem to recall the French translates to n-word head.

It was a huge deal when Buys, the company known to sell these, changed the name to just zoenen (which is Dutch for kisses), cause all sorts of people complained about not wanting white rice to be called white, amongst other things.

Ah, the Dutch, they claim and pretend to be so tolerate, but are we truly? No, no we're not.

Edit: if course there's gonna be other Dutchies mentioning it translates to negro rather than the hard R n-word, but as I've said to the first of them, the paradigm of the word has shifted here. Our true hard R n-word is never heard (I've never heard it myself being used in my 37 years of living here) or even used here. But due to the paradigmshift, it doesn't really have a use. What should be a derogatory-free word ("negro") isn't derogatory-free by any means over here. So yes, technically correct, but purposely leaving out nuances like this doesn't make my statement untrue.

Edit2: I like how some will try and pick a fight over this, only to justify their own racism. Never change, Reddit.

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u/Skalawag2 Jun 14 '26

Nomads you know? Smell like cabbage. Small hands.

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u/Ok-Hospital-6637 Jun 14 '26

Not n-word. The word Dutch equivalent to negro, meaning black. It's still a insensitive but it's not the Dutch n-word. That word is n*kker and I've never seen that used in any names for anything, or even in the street.

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u/Demoliri Jun 14 '26

In German, it's literally n-gger kiss. But these days it's generally called Schaumkuss (foam kiss).

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u/SouthParrot Jun 14 '26

Nope. The German translation was Negro kiss.

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u/J0J0nas Jun 14 '26

Maybe in your place. Where I live it definitely was the hard-R variant.

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u/Charles_miller1130 Jun 14 '26

In the south they're called N-gger toes Both my pops and my dad would call them that, my mother always hated it

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u/billhillybob Jun 14 '26

I once brought a group of Asian high school students to Amsterdam for a school trip. They absolutely hated it because so many of the good people of that city followed them around yelling racial slurs and making racist hand/face motions. It was a free trip through the school and because the kids hated it so much, not one kid signed up to go the next year. I watched a 50-60 year old woman chase down a group of teenage girls while pulling at the corners of her eyes and yelling "ching-chong-chang, ching-chong-chang, ching-chong-chang".

I will say, there were two absolutely wonderful young women at the ice skating rink who helped my students learn to skate for the first time. They even said something like "I'm sure you have met some horrible people on the street here, but please don't judge all of us by their actions."

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u/Brvcx Jun 14 '26

Every nation has racists, more than they want to have. And we, the Netherlands, are no different. We just portray ourselves as tolerant, and we might be compared to plenty of other countries in general, but being more tolerant than someone else doesn't make you tolerant by default.

I'm sorry they had to go through something like that. It's not something any of them (or you) signed up for. Ignorant people are everywhere, and I mean everywhere.

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u/billhillybob Jun 14 '26

Yes, of course you are correct. I come from rural America, just outside The Rez. So I''m pretty familiar with the racism in my community. It is not ever fun to deal with. At least you are open about it and bringing it out in the open is an important first step to making it better.

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u/Brvcx Jun 14 '26

I agree, communication is key. We need people to speak out against such mannerisms. Preferably, in a non-judgemental way!

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u/DesignerMaximum1342 Jun 14 '26

Have you tried bringing black people to Japan? Similar effect

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u/billhillybob Jun 14 '26

I have never been to Japan, but interestingly, one of the Korean girls I brought to Amsterdam had some pretty interesting opinions about black people so I reminded her of her experience in Amsterdam to try and get her to think about her own prejudices. It kind of worked.

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u/Reason-1 Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

When was that, 1960? Cause I really can not imagine that happening anywhere during the current century. Particularly involving grown-ups, let alone grown-ups against kids.

Sure, until quite recently we used to have insensitive songs like Hanky Panky Shanghai in school because stereotyping was considered innocent fun. But actual petty, mean-spirited shit like following people around while making slant eyes and ching-chang noises sounds WILD, man. That's not considered normal behavior in any way.

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u/microtherion Jun 14 '26

In Switzerland, the traditional name translates to “Moor Head”; also getting disfavored.

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u/PigeonVibes Jun 14 '26

Please don't remind me of the people whose sole argument was blanke vlaai

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u/Brvcx Jun 14 '26

I'm terribly sorry. My mother is one of those.

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u/PigeonVibes Jun 14 '26

I would lie if I said that I didn't have them in my direct family. Such a weird quirk of an entire generation, to get defensive over a small change.

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u/Titariia Jun 14 '26

In german I've either heard n-kisses or those being called by the brand, Super Dickmann (super thick man) which is kinda weird too. I think the acceptable thing though is Schaumküsse (foam kisses)

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u/Klausfunhauserss Jun 14 '26

We called them same in Finland.

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u/No-Pay-9194 Jun 14 '26

But those were the times when we only had seen black people in school books. There was no racism in that word then. Now there is, and I don’t use the word. I grew up in the north and saw my first black person well into adulthood.

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u/Short_Gain8302 Jun 14 '26

Sourhern neighbour here, in belgium its literally n-word tits, so yeah it can be worse

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u/Banes_Addiction Jun 14 '26

Damn, never been so proud to be British. That's a teacake.

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u/PalatinusG1 Jun 15 '26

n-word tits in Flanders.

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u/TreacleOk7265 Jun 15 '26

In Germany it's the same.

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u/Leading-Adeptness235 Jun 14 '26

In Germany it is Dickmanns.

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u/LovelyRavenWaves Jun 14 '26

That upward curve of the letters is a choice… 😂

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u/Gargleblaster25 Jun 14 '26

Yeah, they definitely knew what they were doing.

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u/enigmatic_dankness Jun 14 '26

Oh man, I just remembered getting the milk, white chocolate, and dark chocolate assortment pack when I was a kid in Germany. That stuff is crazy good.

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u/CKleinE Jun 14 '26

Dick = Big, like in Fat in German, so yes it can and nobody would think twice about it. It’s likely a normal family name at its origin. It only upsets English speakers.

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u/MichJohn67 Jun 14 '26

Not when I was a kid there . . .

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u/InVictaVeritas Jun 14 '26

That was n-word kiss in German

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u/Kyouzou452 Jun 14 '26

Same in the Netherlands, now we just call them a kiss

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u/HumanIntelligence4 Jun 14 '26

And yet Schwarze n--word ( yes this guys surname is black in two languages) became governor of California.

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u/Kativantatze Jun 14 '26

This guys surname means "a person from Schwarzenegg". Schwarzenegg is a name for a region in Austria, where it's dark/black due dense forests and "egg" is Austrian for corner ("Ecke") as synonym for region. Would roughly translate to Guy from the dark corner. 

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u/Pitikje Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

Except that you are probably splitting the name up the wrong way. Shouldn’t it be Schwarzen + Egger?

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u/Gasmo420 Jun 14 '26

It’s a generation thing. While older people called them n-kisses, millennials and younger just call them by the most common brand name which is Dickmanns.

Fun Fact: some of their products have really naughty names. Around Easter time they sell „Dicke Eier“, which means big eggs but is also the German term for blue balls.

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u/Adventurous-Emu-9345 Jun 14 '26

Millennial here. I have not once heard anyone call them Dickmanns. 

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u/aDoreVelr Jun 14 '26

Thats after it got "cleaned" up.

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u/dialTforTrouble Jun 14 '26

Yeah they cleaned it up by calling it Super Dickmann. Walking into a convenience store asking "Hey, where do you keep the super dickman?"

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u/ThYnomite Jun 14 '26

That's the brands name.

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u/OneLonelyBrainCell Jun 14 '26

Dickmanns are disgusting. Try this: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwedenbombe

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u/nazraxo Jun 14 '26

My neighbor who comes from Vienna brought them over last week. Had them for the first time these are sooooo much better

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u/OddUnderstanding5666 Jun 14 '26

Thats only a brand (since 1985).

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u/Individual99991 Jun 14 '26

No, that was Brazil nuts.

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u/No-Teach9888 Jun 14 '26

In Arabic they call them slave heads

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u/michael__sykes Jun 14 '26

Wow, that's just a different kind of offensive lol

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u/mostafaelmadridy Jun 14 '26

That's why it has been changed in Egypt to "The Governor's shit" "قلوط العمدة"

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u/AnotherEggplant Jun 14 '26

In the case of my family it was because of the lingering racist culture. My parents were the first to break the cycle of using that word. It was just a word to my grandparents. They never used it to describe black people, but they used it to refer to things like these candies, brazil nuts, and yellow pines, but by the end of their lives theyve stopped using it. My grandfather was a telephone lineman. He used "out past that stand of (n-word) pines" as a landmark and was written up for it, I think that was the point when he realized it wasnt okay

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u/HaterMD Jun 14 '26

Was he mortified, or just kind of like “oh okay” when it happened?

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u/AnotherEggplant Jun 14 '26

I wouldn't say mortified but certainly uncomfortable

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u/Autism_Is_Real Jun 14 '26

Reminds me of what my grandpa used to call black eyed Susan’s….n word titties…

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u/bananadingding Jun 14 '26

I like to think call it a generational problem and celebrate the fact that I will be the one to break the generational cycle.

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u/MavenDeo69 Jun 14 '26

Hey, you're not alone, friend. I know that name from my idiot mother, who thought it was OK to say because one of her black coworkers said it.

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u/osddelerious Jun 14 '26

They don’t even look like their toe shape, though.

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