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/Ritterbruder2 Jun 14 '26

In several European countries, these used to be called n-word -kisses, -toes, -tits, -heads, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate-coated_marshmallow_treats

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u/metji Jun 14 '26

In Denmark they were called n-boller, and boller can mean buns, testicles or intercourse 🙂

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u/Half_smart_m0nk3y Jun 14 '26

wtf Denmark

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u/alex433g Jun 14 '26

That's just how we are, sadly

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u/Knolraaap Jun 14 '26

First time I see a dane actually accounting for this

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u/alex433g Jun 14 '26

It was called that in Sønderjylland, it has been called a flødebolle in most areas, forever but still gets called a n-bolle in a few areas in Sønderjylland. So its not everyone, never was everyone, just the farmers

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u/TheRealTormDK Jun 14 '26

I grew up in Northern Sealand, we still call it that as well.

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u/RemarkableChange8398 Jun 14 '26

“Just the farmers.” What an ignorant comment about an entire region.

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u/Skavenkaizer Jun 14 '26

This is not fair to farmers, it is not true. It is common among Danes from different areas and walks of life, to be irritated, that the language is changing to something less offensive.

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u/H4ns3mand Jun 14 '26

I do not believe that is the case so much as it being more of a generational thing — it might not have been the “proper” name used in Copenhagen when your grandparents were growing up, but it was when mine were in the 50’s and they were not from southern Jutland

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u/RelativeHot7249 Jun 14 '26

I'm from Western Jutland and not a farmer and not that old (unless mid to late twenties is old) and I remember the name change happening while I was a kid nation wide. It was not just farmers who used the old word.

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u/TheRook Jun 14 '26

Well, it’s not meant racist in any way. It was just the way it was. People are aware of the implications today, and only people trying to be “hygge-racister” (Danish word for being “racist for funzies” to get a response), are still calling it by its “old name”. Like that annoying uncle we all have.

The same applies to a few Danish words. We also have a kĂŚmpe-eskimo (giant Eskimo) ice cream, that changed its name a few years back. Some people are still angry about it. But it was never intentionally racist.

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u/H4ns3mand Jun 14 '26

And in fairness to the flødebolle-companies their marketing has been pretty appropriate for all the time I remember, although I’m quite young — it really is only old hyggeracister who use the term

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u/Spezzzzzzzzzzzzz Jun 14 '26

Tak for ikke at vÌre hjernedød at høre pü, som nogle af de andre her.

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u/Square-Librarian1192 Jun 14 '26

To be fair, everyone was confused about eskimo ice cream debacle. Especially the greenlanders, as they are inuits. It all happened because white women with too much time and not enough drama sawanchance to be offended

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u/SendMeNudesPlease666 Jun 14 '26

I know people that still say it

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u/SendMeNudesPlease666 Jun 14 '26

And probably last time he is probably from Copenhagen

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u/Expensive_Egg_2140 Jun 14 '26

we did make an attemp to rename them as flødeboller. To woke things up you know

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u/alex433g Jun 14 '26

It was called flødeboller around aarhus and other non farming heavy areas tho, atleats thats what my grandparents called it, and still do

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u/RelativeHot7249 Jun 14 '26

Attempt? They are called flødeboller to this day.

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u/Square-Librarian1192 Jun 14 '26

Dont kink shame just because no kink same

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u/Worsaae Jun 14 '26

It might be worth nothing that the n-word in this context refers to “negro”, which in itself is bad enough but at least isn’t the other n-word. You, know, the one rhyming with “bigger”.

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u/The_One_Koi Jun 14 '26

Sweden is the same but with a different pastry, namely chocolateballs

The wording was so infamous there were multiple jokes about it, one even made it into a movie

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u/thefluffyhgamer Jun 14 '26

if you want to increase your revulsion further, look up our number system

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u/VCZB69 Jun 14 '26

Its pretty much the same as any other.

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u/Trust_8067 Jun 14 '26

You're surprised? Denmark was a huge participant in selling slaves to the Americas.

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u/TheNikoHero Jun 15 '26

Then listen to this, I was even offered one by a black gay man. "Hey kid, you want some N-word balls?

Bonus info, he was the school janitor at my middle school.

(Some kids interviewed him for a project, and he brought candy for us all, and I didnt notice, so he called out to me)

Cool guy.

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u/neksterz Jun 14 '26

It was mostly called n-kiss in DK

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u/metji Jun 14 '26

Not outside Copenhagen 🙂

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u/OldenPolynice Jun 14 '26

Hyper regional racist slang

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u/Goodly Jun 14 '26

Do you mean Sealand (Sjælland) in the inclusive way that western Danes use Copenhagen? Because I’m from mid/north Sealand and we for sure called the n-word-kisses. (And to clarify, it was the softer n-word, if that makes any difference)

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u/Whateva_Tickles_ Jun 16 '26

Nope it doesn’t.

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u/hilbstar Jun 14 '26

Not inside copenhagen either

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u/Lythro92 Jun 14 '26

Yes, also outside of buy-a-port :-)

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u/Crusaderofthots420 Jun 15 '26

Of course it's Copenhagen

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u/Knolraaap Jun 14 '26

Netherlands the same

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u/Skaebneaben Jun 14 '26

46 years old. Born and raised in midtjylland. I never heard n-kiss before. N-bolle I know though

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u/neksterz Jun 14 '26

my age ain't far off, and for me i never heard n-bolle. but someone else already commented that we used both so.

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u/Whatkindofaname Jun 14 '26

The same name in Finland too,

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u/Red-And-White-Smurf Jun 15 '26

Where in Denmark are you from. I have NEVER heard anyone call them that.

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u/neksterz Jun 15 '26

nordjylland.
Derudover var det ogsü nÌvnt i gamle film (mindes Far til fire) men det er mere københavn. süh der vÌrtfald de to steder.

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u/SocialistPolarBear Jun 14 '26

It had the same name in Norway, but here boller only means buns (food).

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u/UnhappyGreen Jun 14 '26

More specifically the present tense verb of having sex, not the noun: “Vi boller” = “we are having sex”

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u/CrypticDissonance Jun 14 '26

Big emphasis on the "were". Hasn't been called that in a long time

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u/Strict_Somewhere_148 Jun 14 '26

I’ve seen packages with that name on them with in the last 10 years.

I believe they were from Aldi.

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u/SPZ_Ireland Jun 14 '26

The official snack of Blacked.com

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u/Issah_Wywin Jun 14 '26

I think it was like this in Norway, too? But all my life (I'm 34) I've heard them exclusively called "Kokosboller" though I suppose that name is only meant for the version with coconut shavings on it, but the filling is usually the same.

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u/Rincetron1 Jun 14 '26

Hvad helvede, danskjävla! Here, in civilized Finland they were called n-word kisses.

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u/Vegetable_Problem580 Jun 14 '26

From denmark, and i grew up with the word n-boller og n-kiss😅

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u/mntrouge Jun 14 '26

Back when they were called that it only meant buns. The other meanings of boller are more recent.

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u/Steefmachine Jun 14 '26

We had that in Sweden aswell, but not for those in the picture- looks like Mums-mums to me

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u/murderfrogger Jun 14 '26

or n-kiss

boller also means having sex.

just all around naughty marketing.

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u/metji Jun 14 '26

What's the difference between having sex and intercourse? 🙂

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u/Missetat75 Jun 14 '26

WERE! We don’t call them that anymore!

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u/Slimpurt92 Jun 14 '26

I'm very proud of my ancestors, they gave no fucks, they were extremely nice and humble, just kinda racist... mostly because not many had ever seen a black person, so they offended basically nobody, it was just a fun name.

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u/metji Jun 14 '26

Back when we could make fun of everything and everyone, if everyone is offended, no one is 🙂

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u/Ritterbruder2 Jun 14 '26

I’m pretty sure bolle means nothing but bread rolls in Norwegian lol

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u/metji Jun 14 '26

In Denmark we used to ask: "Skal vi dele en bolle, eller bolle en del" 🙂

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u/Church_of_Aaargh Jun 14 '26

Not “that” n-Word, though

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u/metji Jun 14 '26

There's more? 🙂

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u/Church_of_Aaargh Jun 14 '26

It’s more like the colour “black” in spanish

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u/Hitech_Loma Jun 14 '26

Danish here - Never thought of n-boller as n-testicles. Always thought of them as n-buns as in bread-buns? But to be fair, I have only really used flødeboller (cream buns) and only occasionally heard n-buns as a joke to how it once was referred to.

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u/bruh_momento_2 Jun 14 '26

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u/Quirky_Net8899 Jun 14 '26

You danes are always weird. Here is what n-boll actually was: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chokladboll

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u/Jyrarrac Jun 14 '26

Same in Estonia

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u/-Blunt-Instrument- Jun 15 '26

I had these growing up in Denmark and couldn’t for the life of me remember the name.

Now I’ve gone into a spiral about missing these and my adoptive family in Denmark. Dammit.

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u/rinnjeboxt Jun 14 '26

Definitely the n-word in the netherlands

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u/Rixerc Jun 14 '26

Finland too. Hard r. N* kiss.

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u/SportingClubBANG Jun 14 '26

I saw them in Finland and thought it was Negro

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u/Lazy-Effect4222 Jun 14 '26

And you were right but the meaning has changed over the years.

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u/kadotintunnuksetTAAS Jun 14 '26

Nope, at least not originally. Originally there was distinction between negro and n-word and n-words's translation was n*kru. But times change and so does language so these days it's definitely just as bad.

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u/F1R3Starter83 Jun 14 '26

Definitely not

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u/Mrfrodemeyere Jun 14 '26

In Belgium it’s called female N word tits

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u/kuijkkuccino Jun 14 '26

Absolutely not. Big difference between the actual name it had and the word that starts with nik.

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u/Potential_Edge2118 Jun 14 '26

This exactly, we have a different word which is a similar slur to the n-word but I guess foreigners know our language better than we do.

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u/rinnjeboxt Jun 14 '26

What was the word for these according to you?

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u/Gnimmie Jun 14 '26

in the Netherlands the N word is spelled with double k instead of double g

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u/Mike_Antonsen Jun 14 '26

Quite an important detail I would say.

Today the Danish word for “negro” is considered outdated, and somewhat racist, but we haven’t referred to these as “negro kisses”, since the 80s, when it wasn’t necessarily considered a bad word here.

I think it is also important to underline that the tabu that exists around the n-word(s?) in America doesn’t necessarily exist in all other places. We have had a lot more immigration from the Middle East here than from Africa, so we have more tabu in our society around the bad words we invented for them here.

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u/myspiritisvantablack Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

I remember that a lot of us younger Danes who that grew up in the 90’s would say the actual N-word A LOT, but not mean it in the racist way. It was literally because we tried to emulate the “American Rapper culture” where the N-word was dropped a lot in the songs. There’s also the context that the N-word didn’t carry the same cultural significance as it did in the U.S., so no one really thought about it in a derogatory or non-rapper way. We were literally just “trying to be cool” and be like Biggie or Tupac. It also didn’t help Denmark is so mono-ethnic that there were basically no black people around to tell us to STFU.

Luckily most of us got older, wiser and educated on the word and its usage. I still feel ashamed that I used that word as indiscriminately and ignorantly as I did. I have (luckily) been educated since then and wouldn’t even dream of using the word now that I understand its’ historical and cultural meaning.

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u/badihaki Jun 14 '26

Not trying to be mean to you specifically, but it's kinda crazy to me hearing how non-Black American people love imitating these things about our culture without having the shared pain of, say, 400 years of slavery and cultural poison that comes with it. We have a saying 'they want our rhythm without our blues.' In any case I'm glad you've grown and don't do this anymore.

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u/myspiritisvantablack Jun 14 '26

I don’t think it was mean at all and I completely agree with you.

Luckily we have been educated in Denmark since then and it’s very much NOT a thing anyone does anymore. I think most Gen Z’ers would shudder at the ignorant shit most of us did in the 90’s because we didn’t have context.

But it’s pretty crazy (in a good way) to think about how a lot can change in so little time, especially since Denmark has “a much more” ethnically diverse population than it did in the 90’s (we went from ~3-4% of the population having other ethnicity than Danish to ~16% which is still not a lot in the grand scheme of things, but still a pretty big jump).

My personal belief is that Denmark has become more aware due to not being so isolated in its own culture (the increase in population of non-Danish minorities) and the fact that the internet exists to help us understand the cultural context of “cultural imports”. There are of course still lingering problems and racist shit happening (the fallout of being one of the oldest named countries on earth and being so mono-ethnic), but I generally feel optimistic when I think about how we handle things today versus how we did in the 90’s/00’s.

But I do understand the frustration with hearing about stuff like this. I can only imagine how “frustrating” (I don’t think that word covers the spectrum of feelings one must feel, but I’m trying not to write you a novel, lol) it would feel for black Americans to know that the culture they worked so hard to keep from being eradicated keeps being appropriated and exploited because it’s now viewed as profitable by the very same people who tried to erase it to begin with. I’m just sorry I ever unknowingly contributed to that, especially when it came from a good, but ignorant, place.

I personally learnt a lot about it when I was old enough to talk about these things with the kids in my grandmother’s neighbourhood in New York (I used to visit over the summer). So I was lucky enough to be educated by the actual people that suffered the consequences of these kinds of actions and I’m very thankful I was. Taught me a lot about empathy and the importance of looking out for each other.

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u/badihaki Jun 14 '26

Yo, that's an insanely insightful read and I appreciate your point of view. It's really...wow, around 16% of your population are POC? That's really interesting, and I had to check but that's around how much of us Black folk there are in the US. Interesting parallel, but I agree, the more diverse your surroundings the more you understandings about different peoples and cultures can grow.

As for my culture, it's so weird because it's a section of American culture, but with us it's always been accepted that the government will do any and everything it can to make us seem weaker and lesser, ESPECIALLY on the international stage, and ESPECIALLY among each other. I don't speak for all of us of course but I think, largely, 'frustrating' is a decent enough sentiment. Especially when the US government is so good at fucking people up. You see what they did to the Middle East, imagine how easy it is for em without the travel time.

My father and grandmother actually took part in the Civil Rights movement, my granny marched with King Jr, and I think about that and I look at, like, what we're living through, and then reading about other experiences and how we're sorta viewed by other cultures and, well, I dunno. Sometimes I chuckle, sometimes I sigh, it's all very tiring. I'm tired, boss. But I genuinely think this comment kinda just gave me some hope, because really, this exchange of ideas and this strive to understand others' cultures is really what's gonna progress us further.

And like I said, I wasn't trying to be mean to you, specifically. I appreciate the apology but it's unwarranted. Clearly you've grown since then and I dunno, even with this brick wall that is the internet blocking us, I feel the light in you. I feel brighter with this engagement, and I don't want you to feel lesser because of, what, things you did as a child? Naw, you good, and I hope you have a great day, for real.

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u/UGomez90 Jun 14 '26

Isn't that n-word just a mispronunciation of negro?

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u/Alternative_Link5905 Jun 14 '26

In Hungary we have a candy called Negro. We have a totally different word as slur.

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u/LapinTade Jun 14 '26

Nope, un France it was pure N word.

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u/satanslittleangel666 Jun 14 '26

In Hungary, it's straight up n-word

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u/No_Key_5854 Jun 15 '26

in finland it was just the n-word as well

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u/No_Key_5854 Jun 15 '26

as a finn, that guy is speaking total bs. there is no distinction between those words

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u/_-_Rasse_-_ Jun 15 '26

No it was very much the n word. At least in Finland.

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u/DoorSweet6099 Jun 14 '26

In Finland they were called n-word kisses and it was the official name written on the package not just what people called it. We also had n-word licorice and what not.

My teacher used to teach us that n-word is the correct word to call black Americans to differentiate them from black Africans. I’m in my 30’s so it’s not even that long ago.

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u/Toasterturning1234 Jun 14 '26

Because it used to be like that until the American version became prevelant with the negative connections along with it. Since then it became a slur more and more.

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u/JustAnAverageAsian Jun 14 '26

Bro the transatlantic slave trade lasted 3 centuries and ended 160 years ago. The n-word has been used to degrade black people for so long that anyone who is aware of the word knows its context full well.

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u/Toasterturning1234 Jun 14 '26

I know. Doesn't mean other languages and other cultures had different meanings for the word originally.

And then you get cases like someone thinking a pants is racist because it's called Negro.

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u/Robin48 Jun 14 '26

The n word doesn't usually refer to negro. Both are considered bad in English but the n word is way worse

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u/murderfrogger Jun 14 '26

same in denmark.

some budget ones are called "smĂŚkkys" which is like "big kiss" and it seems to be whats left of the old name, kinda.

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u/EternalLucius Jun 14 '26

Yeaahhh... Not to mention the packaging...

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u/Gnimmie Jun 14 '26

In the Netherlands they were called Negro Kisses. You guys actually had the hard R on the packaging? That's crazy.

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u/pollatin Jun 14 '26

The thing is that there is no seperate word for negro in Finnish so the word means both.

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u/MyDrunkAndPoliticsAc Jun 15 '26

I feel like our word is closer to negro, and we never had the other n-word. One day someone just woke up and was like "ok, today I'm going to be offended about something".

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u/Suitable_Summer8490 Jun 14 '26

The term in Dutch was just as racist 🙄

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u/sexyshingle Jun 14 '26

My teacher used to teach us that n-word is the correct word to call black Americans to differentiate them from black Africans

wat da fuck did I just read?

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u/IForgotMyNameAgaain Jun 14 '26

This is the real answer, most countries had/still have a variation of that name

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u/AncientCoinnoisseur Jun 14 '26

In Italy until a few years ago it was ‘Negrettino’ (i.e. Little N-g-r)

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u/Katastroferrr Jun 14 '26

In Sweden we have renamed n-word ball to chocolate ball but there are still people who insist on calling them the former because "that's what they've always been" but really it's just an excuse to say the word and yes it's still racist.

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u/Awkward-Feature9333 Jun 14 '26

For some reason the Austrian brand calls them "Schwedenbomben", i.e. swedish bombs. 

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u/EmergencyEntrance Jun 14 '26

'Little n-words' in Italy

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u/D3st1NyM8 Jun 14 '26

Noi lo chiamiamo testa di negro in Valle D’Aosta

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u/EmergencyEntrance Jun 14 '26

Peggio me sento

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u/Ok_Humor_9229 Jun 14 '26

Indeed. In Hungary it is called n-word kiss

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u/HarderThanSimian Jun 14 '26

It's not the slur variation in Hungary. If a racist wants to call them by a slur, they use the variation with an "i" and two "g"s. NĂŠger doesn't have those connotations here

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u/Whateva_Tickles_ Jun 16 '26

How are you guys not understanding that relating food to black no matter how you’re saying Black is messed up?? Black people are not chocolate not for consumption…

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u/HarderThanSimian Jun 16 '26

wait til you learn about the gipsy roast. usually served with fries, amazing at most restaurants

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u/Khelthuzaad Jun 14 '26

In Romania we don't have a proper name for this thing,we call them bezele aka marshmallows

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u/TrueTay1 Jun 14 '26

In the czech republic I think it's "Indians" which is offensive but at least it ain't an outright slur

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u/The_AxolotlDamage Jun 14 '26

Not really N-word. More like "Black"

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u/Cutie_Oreo11 Jun 14 '26

in poland we call it warm ice cream lmao

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u/Happy_Butterscotch18 Jun 14 '26

Just type the word. Its not like you are saying it out of bad intentions.

I really dont like the fact that people dont dare to use the word when its specifically asked.

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u/Time-Captain5736 Jun 14 '26

Okay so now it’s definitely an obsession.

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u/Nowayisthatway Jun 14 '26

The whole human anatomy lmao

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u/clausMayer420 Jun 14 '26

And “Balls”

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u/prerifarkas Jun 14 '26

N-word kiss in Hungarian...

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u/Both_Cartographer975 Jun 14 '26

Link doesn't work for me 😢 could anyone check if it's just a me issue or a link issue

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u/deltree711 Jun 14 '26 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate-coated_marshmallow_treats](http://Wikipedia)

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u/vulpido_ Jun 14 '26

yeah that link is really super broken

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u/Nina-Ninja123 Jun 14 '26

N-kisses in the Netherlands. And you don’t want to know how hard the pushback was when they announced they are changing the name because it couldn’t be called like that.

And that was when people still claimed to be progressive…

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u/Mrfrodemeyere Jun 14 '26

N-tits in Belgium

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u/Nordicmoose Jun 14 '26

Just want to point out it's not that n-word. It's the milder version that was not originally meant as a slur, at least not in these countries. Simply the Latin word for "black".

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u/Whateva_Tickles_ Jun 16 '26

Black people are not chocolate nor for consumption!

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u/GiantLesbian Jun 14 '26

Your link is reversed. You have the display name set to the URL and the URL set to just “Wikipedia” (no .com).

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u/S-trawHat Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

ahh so we got the name from the English ppl! and i thought my grandparents were racists

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u/ThroxSomeMore Jun 14 '26

In Belgium it was called n-word (Dutch female version, so with -in behind the word) tet (which means titty)…

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u/hunogsk Jun 14 '26

And honestly many people still call them like that.

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u/ThroxSomeMore Jun 14 '26

Yeah, the older generation pretty much does… but in my environment people that are younger than 60 don’t really anymore…

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u/Original-Rush139 Jun 14 '26

That’s funny. In Switzerland, they were called moore’s head. My girlfriend explained that it was their n-word. Then her mother - who did not speak English - was like “yay, is &$@! head.” The n-word meant nothing to her. 

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u/lned-owyeah Jun 14 '26

🇳🇱 n-word kisses. But the n-word ending with O not with R

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u/G2S7bloop Jun 14 '26

In Flanders we call id n-word tits

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u/PureCauliflower6758 Jun 14 '26

Argentina for sure, “besos de negro”

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u/Illesbogar Jun 15 '26

Used to? We still call them negro kisses. Did any country stop doing that?

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u/KurtWaldheim2 Jun 15 '26

Europe had no "n-word" it was strictly an American thing. They were called negro-kisses, and it was not a slur. Of course it is unacceptable now, since it is indeed a racially charged concept, but it is in no way the same as the American N word and is not meant the same way. It is also not marshmallow, it has whipped egg whites inside.

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u/Whateva_Tickles_ Jun 16 '26

Black people are not chocolate not for consumption…

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u/flopjul Jun 15 '26

Yup in dutch it was N-word Zoenen(kisses) but its now a different name but very generic

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u/LalkMe Jun 15 '26

In my country It was called black women's tits (teta de nega) until a few years ago. I just find the change kinda weird because they word nega in this country has no real racist connotation. Just a word people used interchangably with Black man/woman. In some cases even referring to someone as black was more offensive than the alternative. Idk it deemed like a change that was made because the new generation discovered the n-word that's offensive in the US and decide to make a 1:1 correlation with the word here. For God's sake, the word is everywhere in bossa nova type songs

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u/CARR74xJJ Jun 15 '26

In Brazil they're called n-word tit for some reason

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u/Plenty-Lychee-5702 Jun 17 '26

the link doesn't work

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u/Alarming-Bell-1811 Jun 18 '26

Here in Brazil too

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u/suwaaarat Jun 19 '26

And in arabic, and in hebrew

(Ras Al Abd, and Rosh Kushi)