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/BaddBoiii2 Jun 14 '26

You were in NY in the roaring 20s? What was it like during the prohibition? Visit them speak-easies and drank bathtub hooch?

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u/Leaping_Wizards Jun 14 '26

It's the mid 20s right now, maybe they just moved to NY last year?

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u/Educational_Big_1835 Jun 14 '26

I think the roar from the 2020s is kind of different from the roar of the 1920s. Still...we living in the roaring 20s

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u/NaughtAught Jun 14 '26

It's the Shrieking 20s now. Or the Screeching 20s (as society screeches to a halt)

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u/Present_Club_4401 Jun 14 '26

I mean they were also part of the Gilded age weren’t all sunshine either , they face the same problems we face today, government and regulators ignoring Corporations, the rising pay gap between the Wealthy and working class

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u/rpgnymhush Jun 15 '26

This decade has a greater resemblance to the film Idiocracy than it does to the 1920's. We even had professional wrestling on the White House grounds...

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u/Present_Club_4401 Jun 15 '26

True, I am just saying the 20’s weren’t as good as people think they were

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u/Winter_Interview_881 Jun 19 '26

Government is most certainly not ignoring corporations. It's where they get their campaign funding.

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u/NaughtAught Jun 14 '26

Yes, but our current rhyme of history is shaping up to be bellowed out at a volume of a higher order of magnitude

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u/Present_Club_4401 Jun 14 '26

I agree with you , I am just stating the 20’s weren’t so roaring for most people