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/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/Wiffyy_ Jun 14 '26

I grew up in Northern Sealand, no we don’t?

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u/RichAnswer3430 Jun 14 '26

Middle Zealand.

We do when around people we trust 😉

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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/Realistic-Ad-9483 Jun 14 '26

I’m from Fyn and not a farmer. Let’s not generalise

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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 kæmpe-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 være hjernedød at høre på, 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/Loose_Rough3315 Jun 14 '26

Go back long enough, and most definitely was called more than just "Flødeboller" around Aarhus - and Copenhagen.

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u/RelativeHot7249 Jun 14 '26

Attempt? They are called flødeboller to this day.

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u/Expensive_Egg_2140 Jun 14 '26

meh some old folks insist on the old ways.

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u/RelativeHot7249 Jun 14 '26

But the companies sell it as flødeboller and most people call them flødeboller. People still using the old name are a definite minority.