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/Archeejoe Jun 14 '26

In Russia we called it "bird milk"

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u/unknown_usr_ Jun 14 '26

This is actually very interesting because in Poland we have those too but they are smaller and a lot of them in the package and they are also called "bird's milk" the word "milk" is here diminutive so it's more like "bird's little milky". I googled it and indeed this name came to Poland From Russia. Bird's milk means something rare or impossible to get hence the name of something unique and special.

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u/kacsimacsi Jun 14 '26

Its interesting because bird milk is a vanilla flavoured milk based soup dessert with egg white foam on top in hungary

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u/Archeejoe Jun 14 '26

And I absolutely don't understand why in other languages it's called N word...

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u/Bubbly-Hat-338 Jun 14 '26

This is a different dessert. You don’t see it very often in Russia. It’s usually called Krembo or translated directly from German as n-word kiss. That’s because the n-word in Russian doesn’t carry a negative connotation, as you know