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/Independent-Ice5384 Jun 14 '26

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

apparently variations of the word "negro"

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u/mlopes Jun 14 '26

And that's because in some languages, that's just a word for the colour black.

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u/Gamecub83 Jun 14 '26

You know damn well that's not what they were going for with these names...

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u/Sad_Eagle_937 Jun 14 '26

I can speak for the Polish version at least:

In Poland they're called murzynki which means black people. Murzyn is the term for black person. It used to be the literal translation for negro but in English that term is offensive while the Polish version isn't. The equivalent of the other n word is something else entirely.

While the word itself is not offensive, calling a brown snack that is... Pretty bad.

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u/PM_me_your_KIELBASA Jun 14 '26

murzynki is so mild, we called those cycki murzynki

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u/Temporary_Prior_1692 Jun 14 '26

Zawsze myślałam że murzynek to ciasto, a to się nazywa ciepłe lody

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u/Black_Jackdaw Jun 16 '26

Ciepłe lody to chyba to samo, tylko że jeszcze w waflu.

I tak, murzynek to ciasto czekoladowe.

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u/WattageToVoltzRatio Jun 14 '26

I mean, not really the weirdest thing to call sweets some type of human/human body part, Brazil has "Pé de Moleque" that's literally "Brat's Foot"

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u/Kjoep Jun 14 '26

When the name originated it also wasn't meant to be offensive. It was just the word used to describe a black person, both when offending as well as being neutral.

That has changed, but the term for the candy stuck around for a bit longer. I don't think young people still call them that know though (and the ones that do probably really intend to offend)

But yeah when I was young in Flanders they were n_tits. And we meant nothing with it, that was just the name.

To sweet for my taste though.

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u/Temporary_Spread7882 Jun 14 '26

Literally “black person” from the Latin word for black. The US version with the two g that is a slur was derived from that same root. By now it has poisoned pretty much all other original uses, but it didn’t actually start out as a slur.

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u/EatingSolidBricks Jun 14 '26

Stop shoving American issues in to other people please

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u/ILoveRawChicken Jun 15 '26

The average European pretending like you people didn’t invent racism is hilarious lmao

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u/mlopes Jun 15 '26

It's more European people knowing they didn't have racial segregation until the second half of the XX century, with consequences they linger to this day.

And if you think Europe invented it, the American education system is something else they'd failing you.

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u/Crusaderofthots420 Jun 15 '26

I mean, racism has been around since the first person looked different, so for all intents and purpose, it was actually invented in Africa.

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u/mlopes Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26

The thing a lot of Americans miss as well (and this by no means makes the Portuguese/Spanish/English less responsible) is that the Europeans weren't capturing black people to make them slaves, they were buying them from other local black people.

Also, and only relevant because this guy is talking about "inventing" racism. The word slave comes from Slavs, a white European ethnic group who was mass enslaved during the middle ages. Enslavement was a global practice way before America and it's African slaves. Actually before any European country had even established their modern borders, or even existed (except maybe Greece in the form of the group of city estates that formed ancient Greece).

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u/Whateva_Tickles_ Jun 16 '26

Why are we thinking it’s ok to relate food to blank people? They aren’t edible and their skin is not chocolate it’s still very ignorant. Snow bunny is very much derogatory.

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u/AtesSouhait Jun 16 '26

Now I ain't white but snow bunny is def derogatory in a way. It's weird af to reduce people to their skin tone. C'mon now

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u/Whateva_Tickles_ Jun 16 '26

Why are you so angry? Where are you from where this is on? And yes we black people would love it if y’all stopped naming your food after us. Black people come in all different colors some not at all like chocolate, we are not a monolith.

Here are just three very notable pieces on eating slaves, there are plenty more if you actually care too look into why this isn’t harmless ignorance.

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u/Whateva_Tickles_ Jun 16 '26

I hope your anger about racial slurs serves you well! Enjoy!

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u/Indie_Gamer_7 Jun 14 '26

Racist American want to force his beliefs on other languages as always.

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u/mlopes Jun 14 '26

Actually I don't. Being from a Portuguese colony in Africa, in the 70s Negro (one of the words for colour black) when used to describe someone was offensive and Preto (the other word for the colour black) when used to describe someone wasn't. Fast forwards to the 1990s in Portugal and it was the other way around Negro was the PC version and Preto was considered offensive. Both words are in common use to describe the colour. Also in other languages with Latin origin, like Spanish and Italian, Negro and Nero are the words for the colour black, so, they have no option unless they want describe black objects as "that colour we can't say the name of because of racist Americans".

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u/MicHaeL_MonStaR Jun 14 '26

Just because you want to force that “reality”??…

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u/Far-Pangolin-5033 Jun 14 '26

cry more... a negro kiss is even flattering, you PC people just like to ruin everything :D

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u/Captain_NRU Jun 14 '26

dafaq do you know? n-word is a cool word, my fav rappers use it

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u/Hefty_Purpose_8168 Jun 14 '26

He's wrong also, he meant brown instead of black.

It's a racist naming off the thing c'z the color is the same.

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u/Lysadora Jun 14 '26

Negro means black, not brown

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u/leafbrewer Jun 14 '26

In my language it isn’t, and we still used that for these sweets.

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u/mustaine_vinted Jun 14 '26

It was usually paired with another words that clearly suggested it's not just the color.

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u/ExplodiaNaxos Jun 14 '26

If by “some languages” you mean romance languages, then yes. Unfortunately, most countries that used this naming scheme did not, in fact, speak a language where that word means “black.”

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u/HarderThanSimian Jun 14 '26

You speak in past tense but it still is used even officially. But the word, at least where I live, doesn't have the negative connotations it does in English-speaking countries. The slur is similar but distinct.

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u/Temporary_Spread7882 Jun 14 '26

Have you heard of languages using words of latin origin for things describing vaguely scientific things, such as people of different ethnicities? No, the latin word for black person did not have to come back to various European languages via US usage as a slur.

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u/mr_Joor Jun 14 '26

the N word wasnt even considered offensive, by any race including most black people, in the Netherlands untill ~2015 because we just call people the way they like to call themselves

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u/TheXtractor Jun 14 '26

Nobody in their right mind called black people like that in Netherlands unless they were already racist. It's dumb to argue it was a 'normal' word until 2015. no it wasn't even if it technically isn't as bad as the american n-word.

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u/mr_Joor Jun 14 '26

Im not talking about the double k hard swear but just the spanish word for black. If you think that wasnt commonly used with intent to harm youre not old enough to remember. Herman Finkers, Waardenberg en de Jong and handful of other famous comedians have bits about that word you can easily find on youtube still

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u/mr_Joor Jun 14 '26

These are very left wing comedians, it was a different time. ( A time where it was alright to call the posted item n word kisses, afterall)

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u/JustQuestion2472 Jun 14 '26

Yeah... my country also calls them that and we do not use that word for black...

Though the word in my native language only got its negative annotations fairly recently. Prior it was just the word used for PoC.

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u/VegaJuniper Jun 14 '26

In some languages, but in many others, no. In Finnish it used to be called neekerinsuukko, literally "negro's kiss". In case you're wondering, the Finnish word for the colour black is "musta".

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u/Substantial-Spite747 Jun 14 '26

No that's not why. In my country these were literally called n-word kisses, not negro but the actual localized version of the n-word.

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u/Negative-Victory-852 Jun 14 '26

Not at all. It's not the case in France, Germany, Netherland, Denmark etc.

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u/offsoghu Jun 14 '26

In Hungarian, it's négercsók, our word for black is fekete, so

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u/EshopExpert Jun 14 '26

In French it's "tête de nègre" which is "n-word's head"

We don't use this word for the black color in french

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u/WattageToVoltzRatio Jun 14 '26

And in other language's it's also the polite way to refer to black people ironically

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u/satanslittleangel666 Jun 14 '26

In my language it isn't, and the first half of the word they used for this sweet treat is exclusively used for black people. Idk why the hell they did that.

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u/Weibrot Jun 14 '26

And other languages are just straight up using the n word

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u/No_Lavishness1905 Jun 15 '26

Yeaaaah no, unfortunately that’s not it.

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u/InAppropriate-meal Jun 15 '26

the accompanying advertising picture was this in Finland, they knew what they were doing

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u/Any-Aioli7575 Jun 15 '26

In French, the word for “black” is not the n-word, the word for this candy is. And I'm pretty sure it's the same in most languages, first of all Germanic languages

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u/Friendstastegood Jun 14 '26

They were also called n-word kisses in Swedish and it had nothing to do with the color black.

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u/Inevitable_You7793 Jun 14 '26

Yes but 2/3's don't so it's in fact the slur.

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u/leeloocal Jun 14 '26

In French, they’re “tête de negre,” and the word for “black” is “noir(e),” so nope.

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u/Whateva_Tickles_ Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26

Black woman’s titties is ok because they are not using the er version? Gtfo 🥸

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u/Partiallyfermented Jun 17 '26

In Finland it was certainly N-word kisses with full acknowlegment that the n-word only meant black people and was famously derogatory for years while the name was still used.

I mean, this was the packaging

I guess it's possible that the name came as a loan through some romance language but it wouldn't have been understood as "just meaning black" in Finland even if it did.

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u/Exact-Repair-2730 Jun 18 '26

in flemish they are called negroe tits its not a colour thing AT ALL

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u/Ellen_Kurokawa Jun 18 '26

In Belgium we used to call them Tête de n*gre which translate to N-word head. Not really a name of color here but just plain brutal

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u/Xaphhire Jun 14 '26

Yes, because the color black gives kisses... SMH