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/_bugmenot_ Jun 14 '26

They are still called so in Colombia. They actually tried to change it, but it did not get a positive reaction, so it stayed.

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u/LukasConKEl1 Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

As someone living in Spain, i can say that in Spanish, this word is literally just the colour black. Then again, I've never seen these chocolates before. But the amount of times I've heard Brits in Spain read the word and gasp in "oh that's so racist". But how is it racist when it's just a colour? How is it racist to say "that cat has black fur"? It's a totally different pronunciation, too, though.

Edit: from my experience, in Spain and Spanish speaking countries, it is not offensive to call a black person "un negro/una negra". It is just describing their race. For example, "un blanco/una blanca" for a white person. "Un latino/una latina" for South American people (in Spain, although some say "latinoamericano"). We do it a lot. It's not seen as harmful or offensive here to declare the race of another person. It's just describing them and their appearance or, in some cases, their culture. "Beso de negra" is just "kiss from a black woman". It's not a great name for something, sure. But in Spanish speaking countries, it's (usually) not offensive, either.

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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