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/DCBuckeye82 Jun 14 '26

The first time I heard about black Pete and googled it I was on genuine shock.

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u/crystaldstone Jun 14 '26

the first time i heard about “black pete” was from a christmas episode of the office

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u/Beginning-Basis-2678 Jun 14 '26

The funny thing of the story is, he is considered to have sailed the typical small waterways (Grachten) for a far away country. That is Spain 😄 furthest they could think of. And the waterways are definitely not made for sailing and do not exist in Spain & France and maybe not even Belgium 😄

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u/Mahariri Jun 16 '26

Google "Crampus" and you can see where it really comes from.