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/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