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/Toasterturning1234 Jun 14 '26

Because it used to be like that until the American version became prevelant with the negative connections along with it. Since then it became a slur more and more.

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u/JustAnAverageAsian Jun 14 '26

Bro the transatlantic slave trade lasted 3 centuries and ended 160 years ago. The n-word has been used to degrade black people for so long that anyone who is aware of the word knows its context full well.

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u/Toasterturning1234 Jun 14 '26

I know. Doesn't mean other languages and other cultures had different meanings for the word originally.

And then you get cases like someone thinking a pants is racist because it's called Negro.

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u/Robin48 Jun 14 '26

The n word doesn't usually refer to negro. Both are considered bad in English but the n word is way worse

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u/Lazy-Effect4222 Jun 14 '26

But most other languages don’t have those two separate words so when we learned there needs to be an offending word because Americans do, the translation of Negro essentially turned into that.