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Ya coulda named it anything else
Aug 20, 2025 10:30 AM
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Ya coulda named it anything else
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Krackajak78
Are this toes?
TattoosAndTENS
BECAUSE THEY’RE BLACK
LIKE HP LOVECRAFT’S CAT
YOU KNOW THE ONE
Kimsgrim
Spooky shadow ghosts? Crazy what they were called and people were just like 'yeah okay.' Black licorice is gross. I know some people love them, tastes like strong chemicals to me.
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RainierAlt
Amazon affiliate spam bot. Downvote and report as spam.
cousteau
I am so happy to not see any spam links in this post. Thank you for your effort!
daguq
Hey, @OP - where's the problem?
NeynasGhost
Apparently the problem is not obvious unless you know that "licorice pals" is the new name. Couple people in the comments say these used to be called something, uh, way worse.
Spiderhammulaney
Turns out the word for the color black in a few latin based languages is now a slur in English because of history and slavery and stuff
Whitemannatee
That is horrible!! The taste of black licorice, I mean.
ximzadix
Allens had to change the names of these ones a few years back -
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-16/red-ripper-and-cheekies-the-new-name-of-allens-red-skin-chicos/12887278
anjeleyezjr
Am I the only one that thinks those look like peices of shit? Cuz they totally do.
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Munchman347
I only bought those if they were out of 'chocolate' babies...😉
HereticNoNumber
We had a candy called kiss from dark skinned person. (yes you can guess the spelling on that one) They decided to change the name back in 2001.
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RainierAlt
Downvote and report. The bots keep re-adding the links after the previous ones reach zero or get deleted.
GrenithTheSkald
For those who don't know, let me explain it in a simple way.
You need the N-word pass to use their old name.
Bubbertubs
I cannot I'm good consicence post the old name, but I found this reddit post. this one hits all the bases : r/oldpeoplefacebook https://share.google/hvH8dG9E1DZPlb0pu
Dedmunkey
Wow! I'm a bit on the old side and live in Texas. Guess I lived in a different part of Texas. We called it liquorice and nuts. Lol
Bubbertubs
I'm from TN, I actually came across this by accident a few months ago.
andwings2go
Oh. OH. I thought it was just cause licorice is gross.
DimwitF
Hey, that's subjective there
DocWino
Brazil nuts had a similar negative connotation when I was a kid.
lasergunpewpewpew
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don’t get it.
Evenmoreuselessname
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WhatisBug
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/30/453210765/tainted-treats-racism-and-the-rise-of-big-candy Plenty of offensive candy in the past!
casualgenderquestion2718
old peopled called them “n* babies” apparently. because I guess they had nothing better to do than pretend they were eating black babies like a klansman giant from jack and the beanstalk??
LerryV2
My mom used to call them that, because her mom called them that. She of course stopped once she realize that i was massively offensive, but when your a little kid you dont know better some times.
lasergunpewpewpew
Well then. :aggressive-thumbs-down:
SleveDugnutt
Couple years ago 50 Cent visited Hungary and found a hard candy called “Negro“. They made a big fuss about it, there was a comment war on Instagram. We never had colonies or black slaves, and the candy is named after the inventor, Pietro Negro.
cousteau
Funny how "the word for 'black' in another language" came to be a racial slur and a hate term. Well, not funny at all. Just interesting.
Hammerwell
Don't let them buy black paint in spain.
cousteau
Or Italy, for that matter. I think the name of Montenegro (Crna Gora in Montenegrin) comes from Italian (meaning the same as it would in Spanish).
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Probably a language barrier since English is not my native language, but ... what? Pals is bad?
Manakini
This product's name used to imply that the black people you were eating were Black People.
poscduke
I think it's because Europeans used to eat mummies?
cajunguy82
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1emJocXZkNjVxNTM5MDlvc3RiazM4YXk3dWw3b3FqZW1ob2YwM3c1NCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/14bDMRUYVrzOIo/200w.webp
Mewmus
English is my first language and I dont get it either. "Pals" is a synonym for "friends"
IAmTheEarlyEvening
Not old enough to know better? They used to call these n****r babies.
Mewmus
I had no idea until I saw some of the comments
IAmTheEarlyEvening
Yaaaaaa, it's kinda fucking insane right?
Mewmus
Yeah, just goes to show how times change, and so does the culture. What is considered ok in one era is considered an atrocity in the next
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Exactly
JacktheKind
Greetings from germany: Guess what Schoko-Küsse (Chocolate kisses) were called well into the 90's:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGcjAFsqRjQA3Gp8TKpTyQ21hzf1ABvbX_yXy9NDe6nzwNwNiaWKlCfOgSfGg7ZE6-bxrzkhuJ7fqqv3LA-o9hNiVnCJpd0O50NxbeYWOjGQ69nrsslsHvUk2cykQmNZ1X5EOi0ZGkkZk7v2LPSIsfeqgsnhPEQc_BARxEUnnztM03gEN5ICTWZYS-/w640-h640/negerkuesse-4.jpg
However... the word in german doesn't nearly have the same history as in the US.
circlebreaker
OMFG the platter for a hat too...
Geeknip
Yeah in Belgium there is a cookie that in the common tongue is still called "n word titties", not sure if they are common in other countries but they're called Melo Cakes.
Grandpaedd
In Belgium they were colloquially called N- Tits
FlaccidSpleen
LIDL sold Negerküsse here in Denmark up until _very_ recently (def. later than the 90s).
"Neger" is the Danish version of the (non-hard R) N-word and "Kusse" is a vulgar term for vagina.
StrokeFlavoured
Hust *Nogger* Hust.
BlueSheep
In France those was called "N-word heads" the name was banned in early 2000's but some old stubborn continue to calls them like that
RecurringNightmare
okay, sure, the word wasnt that bad and all, but holy shiat that picture is maximum racist, people were wildly naive back in the day and really didnt think of anything while pulling shit like that...
JohnEdwa
Sweden raises with their chocolate balls.
WarlockSniper
Same in the Netherlands, both with the name, and with the candy.
Shits goddamned tasty too. Now they are just called "Kisses"
breadedfishstrip
In Belgium we went for the slightly more crude version which is not kisses but tits. Yes, n-Word tits.
WarlockSniper
Hmm tiddies. With a slight racism tinge.
KitteyWolf
looks like the old name was N*word babies :x
SPQAAE
I googled it and found that they were called Chocolate babes but people called then that instead as a slur even further. It looks like they were chocolate and not Licorice too. https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckImOld/comments/1itkww8/before_there_were_sugar_babies_we_had_these_babies/
SPQAAE
*Babies
Clayman8
Hmmm... in france and maybe parts of Europe (switzerland at least) we got those thin chocolate..."mounds" ? filled with kind of semi-solid whip cream. So these used to be called "Tetes de Nègre" before, it was literally on the packaging and all. Pretty wild. They got renamed obviously (much later though) to simply "Tete de Chocolat". No idea why they changed *that* name /s
ForestRed
Yeah, they were called "negerboller" ("negro buns") here in Norway as well
imaginaryPeppers
Neekerin suukko - negro kiss in Finnish. Just wild stuff man. Nowadays they are called chocolate kisses. Does the french name translate to titties btw lol
Ularsawa
Same in Germany (Negerküsse - Kisses of a N*word)
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Same in Denmark :-)
Timetoupdatemyusername
Negro kisses in the Netherlands. "Negerzoenen" . We also had cookies called Jew cookies. "Jodenkoeken".
Clayman8
My ex was from the Neth and of mixed blood. Im somehow not surprised she never mentionned those to me despite knowing i have a sweet tooth 😆
casualgenderquestion2718
my grandma called brazil nuts “n* toes,” what the fuck was actually wrong with people
tylerlarson
It didn't START OUT as a racial slur.
How offensive a given word can be depends on what's going on socially at the time. Around your grandma's time, this word was suddenly becoming VERY offensive, but depending on where they lived, the idea may not have sunk in yet.
I know that in rural areas at the time, especially in the western states, they were often isolated from current events enough that culture only shifted when someone moved away and then came back with a new perspective.
casualgenderquestion2718
brooklyn in the 70s lol,sometimes ppl are just racist
BeefiusMaximus1
Look around you, the same thing that's wrong with them today.
Time4Peace
1 - My mom use to do that, too, until I told her it was really offensive. Took a few times of when she'd say it that I'd automatically correct her by saying 'Brazil nuts' instead for her to stop.
Same with N* rigging instead of just saying tinkered with / worked on.
As for what was wrong with these people? Born and raised in a different era altogether, and where the majority of people who were saying it came from the south where it was 'normal'. It's taken time for next generations of kids to
cyclone0619
I didn't even know the name Brazilian Nuts until my 20s. My parents aren't even rasist just ignorant. Heck they're both genetic mutts.
YippeeKayakOB
You spelled 'is' wrong
thehedgeofhog
In Norway there's a small chocolate cake known as 'N* dung/poo'.
Time4Peace
2 - go 'that's not right' and for people who actually bothered to get to know other people from different ethnicities and skin tones were like 'that's not okay to say to my friend!' when change really started to happen, mentalities began shifting, and where we're at today where it's NOT okay and NOT normal to say it.
Just a shame it's only been within decades this positive move away from old toxic ways has happened. Not centuries.
DianNaoChong
My father said people used to use the word for peanuts. Pretty sure bigots just call everything slurs as a default.
terdfergusonuf
They hear something other people think is funny and mimic it elsewhere only to find out most people don’t find it funny. Then they tell themselves people can’t take a joke. Ignorance even amongst the educated make no mistake.
PolarHailStorm
This is what happens when you're raised in a society that deems this shit 'okay'. Everyone did it; it was *normal*. Crazy times.
RustyLongshanks
My grandmother called them that. Couldn't understand what was wrong with it.
CatEyebrows
My grandparents and parents said that as well. I’m GenX
casualgenderquestion2718
I’d like to say it’s the leaded gasoline, but the cynic in me knows better.
blakeatwork
Same. I had no idea the n-word was a slur until I was like 4
ThatsJustWhatWeCallPillowTalkBaby
I hav e heard that one from an old racist too. ...tbh, what the fuck is wwrong with people now too.
madcatii
Old candy in Germany. Die Küsse means kisses.
mockingbird75
Max und Moritz
miertfoglaltmindenfelhasznalonev
We had this too in Hungary, they renamed it to “black prince”
ThisGostakIsHereForTheDoshes
In Germany, it is Schaumkuss = foam kiss now.
dffksh
Ayyup.
Had these in Finland as well.
Those were renamed to "kisses" around 2001.
AVaguelyFamiliarUsername
And yet old people who grew up with these still call them that. That, or "Mohrenkopf" which losely translates to N-word head".
WeekendWarriorMark
Used to mean Northern Africa Arabs/Berber that ruled Iberia until they all got thrown in the same pot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors
iDrawStuff
Hell, my DAD called them that >_<
pollypocketfullofposies
My dad STILL calls them that. Yeah, we don't talk much.
PrincessPuffyPants
We grew up with all the N weird sayings and as children we never connected that it was derogatory towards black people (I know, it feels crazy even saying that). We lived in a very small conservative town in Colorado in the 70s & 80s and that was just part of the lingo there. As an adult I recognize just how fucked up that is, it was just how things were said there.
Theniyaal
I'll never forget the day I learned that "Eeny Minnie Miney Moe" wasn't originally followed up by "catch a tiger by the toe" after an old lady sang it out while selecting her scratch ticket in front of me at the gas station.
ThisGostakIsHereForTheDoshes
To be honest, I think those words are not inherently bad, but because of how they are associated with people's behavior. Other slurs for sure can be more directly hurtful. But a kid can only see the surface-level stuff. It doesn't know that below, there are much deeper running roots of racism that can resurface at any time. An adult knows that using these words with their connotations even in an innocent context is working to keep those roots alive and close to the surface.
casualgenderquestion2718
Not your fault, as long as you took the time to learn better. That’s the insidious part, is that it’s deep enough that “It’s just how things are done,” and questioning the way things work is so often met with punishment and ridicule.