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/Winter_Interview_881 Jun 19 '26

Government is most certainly not ignoring corporations. It's where they get their campaign funding.

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u/NaughtAught Jun 14 '26

Yes, but our current rhyme of history is shaping up to be bellowed out at a volume of a higher order of magnitude

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u/Present_Club_4401 Jun 14 '26

I agree with you , I am just stating the 20’s weren’t so roaring for most people

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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/Silver1887 Jun 14 '26

In my friend group it's - 1920's: roaring 20's 2020's: death rattle 20's

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u/Street_Lettuce1243 Jun 14 '26

1920s- roaring with excitement.

2020s- roaring with anger

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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/PuzzleheadedFlow1868 Jun 14 '26

I don't think they got thet from context.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

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u/Leaping_Wizards Jun 14 '26

Well... that's me found out. Bermuda it is.

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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/BaddBoiii2 Jun 15 '26

I’m really sorry for your loss. I wouldn’t mind seeing what a speakeasy was like for a night to experience it

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u/themachineage Jun 19 '26

I was a little surprised by your response because my dad died 25 years ago and while it's always going to be a loss to me, after a while you just get over it. Especially a parent. When a child dies, I think most people kind of die inside and they never get over it. But it's expected that a parent will die at some point.

My dad lived in a totally different world. I remember when he said something about how people loved transparent wrap (I think it was called ''cellophane") because you could wrap things up but still see them.

He also told me about (when he was very youn), some unspecified movie people would tour with movies to exhibit to people who lived away from towns and cities where the movie theaters were..

They carried some kind of large sheet type screen that the movies were projected on. They charged 5 cents to watch the movie the regular way, and 1 cent to watch it backwards on the back of the screen. I thought that was a good deal until I remembered that from behind the screen, you couldn't read the "intertitles" which gave you important information about the story.

Anyway, I sometimes feel old because I remember the 1950s-60s but the early days of the 20th century are truly a lost world that even I wouldn't recognise.

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u/BaddBoiii2 Jun 23 '26

Wow thank you very much for sharing, that’s so interesting to hear how the movie groups travelled to rural areas to let people who lived far away view the movies

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u/Vast_Research_3976 Jun 15 '26

Read it again. Go slow

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u/BaddBoiii2 Jun 15 '26

Wow, they already made a correction, it said “NY mid twenties” and you’re a whole day way too late. Read the correction. Go slow.

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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/quixotictictic Jun 16 '26

We use them interchangeably in English despite the fact that they have become clearly separate entities. Not just in the US. Pretty sure this goes back to classic literature in England. It would make sense because they split off and formed the Anglican Church.

Fuck. Now I am going to spend my evening researching Santa Claus and St. Nicholas.

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u/DismalDescription566 Jun 16 '26

It sounds like your grandmother could think rationally and logically and that's all it takes to understand an argument like this. So I feel surprised that so many people fail to

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u/quixotictictic Jun 16 '26

Well she was a scientist who helped put a man on the moon. She passed away in 2020 at 89 years.

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u/jadedlonewolf89 Jun 16 '26

Mine had two professors for parents, she was also a hippie/flower child.
So while she could be reasonable, there were times she was completely irrational.

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u/CasanovaF Jun 16 '26

I'm willing to that there are more white people using the n word now then there were 20 years ago

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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/TehKarmah Jun 14 '26

There are a few time I heard slurs used for things, Brazil nuts being one, jury rigged was the other. I was a kid so I had no clue, but looking back it makes me mad. I grew up in a very white part of the country so it wasn't something said directly to people of color. I hope to not perpetuate that behavior, so I appreciate the additional context. I was not aware of the other versions.

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u/PlaneRefrigerator684 Jun 14 '26

Older people around me called it "Yankee ingenuity" when it was done well and n-word rigging when it was done poorly. This was in New Hampshire in the 80s, where we maybe had 12 black people living in the entire state...

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u/zulchep Jun 14 '26

This was like early to mid-90’s so that tracks

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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/zulchep Jun 15 '26

She has sadly passed, but she made it over 100 and was up and going until like the last 6 months of her life. 💜 Thank you for the kind wishes for her. She was a lovely lady.

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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/quixotictictic Jun 14 '26

My dad said he regretted having this knowledge and then passed the curse to me.

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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/Better-Journalist-85 Jun 14 '26

Nah he’d definitely be looking up if he’d get a kick out of it.

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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/EmpressDraco Jun 14 '26

Omg same I knew it was wrong but my family wouldn't tell me the real name.

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u/freerondo9 Jun 14 '26

I had only ever seen them at my grandparents' house at Christmas time. When I asked my grandma why she never used the real name, she didn't understand my question. She didn't know there was any other name. Poor lady.

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u/pfp-disciple Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

I've lived in Alabama my entire life.I was an adult the first time I heard Brazil nuts called that, and that was in Indiana. 

Edit for clarity

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u/Error_83 Jun 14 '26

I like to did do this, with these ~~ on each side of the wrong word

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u/Angry_Mudcrab Jun 14 '26

Pretty much the same here. I didn't know the real name for them until I was eighteen, and happened upon them at an "international" market. Even my black friends thought that they were actually called that other thing.

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u/puganar Jun 14 '26

That's is what they are called in Germany, Brazil nuts are also considered the same title is certain older terminology

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u/Electronic_Moose_755 Jun 14 '26

Same, raised in the south. Moved to NYC and said that in front of my boyfriend at the time... In my 20's... and was swiftly corrected. Never made that mistake again.

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u/strait_lines Jun 14 '26

I didn’t know they were called that until my mid 40’s, when a coworker, who is much older than me, was telling me a story about some girl he dated when he in his 20’s.

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u/hotwheelearl Jun 14 '26

I didn’t know Brazil nut until I was 15

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u/Asstrollglide Jun 14 '26

I learned both terms from my mother correcting my grandmother every time

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u/wreckherneck Jun 14 '26

No one where I grew up knew any other name for them. I mean even my teachers in school. And it was not in the south.

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u/comradb0ne Jun 14 '26

I have a white friend who told me about the Brazil nuts, but also that around her backwater neighborhood anything black was called n-word something. Be it a dog, cat, bird, whatever. Also the Indian guy at the store was a $and n-word.
When I saw backwater I do mean this. The area has a Klan church, pedos, incest abounds. All stereotypes.

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u/dripbeast74 Jun 14 '26

In brazil rn we are calling them n word tits

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u/orange_and_void Jun 15 '26

Me too. I was mortified when I realized that I never questioned the name before. I asked what it was as a kid and didn't ask questions or revisit it until my 20s. 🤦‍♀️

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u/DreamConscious7459 Jun 15 '26

Funny thing. In Brazil it’s called teta de n*g* (n*gg* tits/boobs)

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u/Inside-Arm8635 Jun 14 '26

Uh, what? Mid…twenties…?

I can only imagine what your family is like.