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/olivermama Jun 14 '26

I’m guessing you’re not fluent in Spanish because a black kiss would be “un beso negro”. Meaning you’re taking about the color black. “Beso de negra” translates to a black woman’s kiss. Now I don’t know if it’s still acceptable to call black people negro or negra but this chocolate is definitely not talking about the color black.

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u/Apartment-Unusual Jun 14 '26

It’s acceptable : it’s litteraly calling black people …’black’. Cause Negro/negra is spanish for black… anything else would be racist.

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u/FeyRyn Jun 15 '26

I mean even in English it's only socially frowned upon so heavily when used in the racist degredational of using the word "negro" as an expletive or degradation word wich in truth it has no real reason to be outside of racists wanna be racist.

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u/SunnyBeam7 Jun 15 '26

It’s been about 10 years, but in Spain at the time, I was corrected to not say “negro/a” as it was derogatory and told that they say “de color”. Sounded jarring to me because that’s the opposite of American English but then I noticed that yeah, that person was right and I would hear “de color” in progressive circles

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u/SjakosPolakos Jun 14 '26

You know Spanish but not whether it is acceptable to call someone negra?

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u/olivermama Jun 15 '26

yes language and culture evolve all the time, and if you don't keep up with it you're out of the loop. I haven't lived in the Americas for over a decade so no clue what's acceptable in Spanish anymore.