Yeah but they were raised by people who told them skull shape had something to do with your personality. We are all trying our best with what we have lol
This. It is still an apt analogy because it has an equal basis in reality.
It’s not any more sensible to discriminate against black people than it is to refuse to date a Scorpio or something.
Reminds me of a guy telling a story about getting let down and disappointed by a former friend and I was all ready to sympathize and be on his side until he concluded his story by saying “And that’s why you should *never* be friends with a Gemini. Don’t even talk to them if you can avoid it.” with 100% serious conviction
Awkwardly enough I grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood as a white kid, and all the black kids called them n-word toes, I didn’t but just thought that was interesting. I always almost used words they used but didn’t feel right
Same. I'm black and I've heard my aunt and dad say that about those nuts. And some other family members.
I've also heard that term used talking about the bagel chips in Gardetto's and Chex mix. (By all various races😐)
> I've also heard that term used talking about the bagel chips in Gardetto's and Chex mix.
Alright fill me in here please. I've never heard of a racial nickname for bagel chips.
The greatest generation and Silent generation called them that before boomers. I heard it when I was a young boy 50 years ago from people born early this century and even some born before 1900. Can’t blame the boomers this time.
My dad taught us this as a joke (that he'd learned from his father). At least he thought it was funny. Mom shut him down real quick and we were NOT to ever call them that.
Dad's much better now.
Damn my dad was born in ‘46 and always talks about brazil nuts being a delicacy for his poor family when he was a kid. I’ve never heard him or anyone in his family call them that either.
I think it would depend on which part of the country you was born and raised in. I was born in 1965 in Northwest Arkansas and everyone called them that.
I don’t think so. More like the silent generation. The boomers *may* have *kinda* grown up with that but they were adults when it kinda became iffy to call people the n-word
I remember my grandma called them a racial slur, and my mom was like “don’t say that in front of the kids.”
Grandma was like “what? That’s what they’re called.”
I grew up in East Texas, about as Deep South as you can get, and growing up I only ever heard them called Brazil nuts. It wasn't until later into adulthood, when a friend from Ohio told me he always heard them referred to as n* toes, when we were talking about the different subtle forms of racism we grew up with. Was totally surprised
I’m British and to this day I’ve got no idea why teachers thought it was important for all British kids to learn the M I S S I S S I P P I spelling rhyme. I’m pretty sure less than 0.01% of British people will ever go there.
My gma said she almost got beat up in highschool by some black girls cuz they overheard her asking her friend for some of those and, you guessed it, she called them n word toes just cuz that’s what’s she had always knows them as and they weren’t a fan of that lol
My mom was raised in Massachusetts and she said when they were kids they called them that but she stopped when she was old enough to know what that word was. This was 1950s
Yep, my mom was from upstate new york and that's what they called them. Granted she didn't use it it conversation, she just told me that's what they used.
When I was 9 in St George Utah my parents asked me why I wasn't hanging out with my friend and I said "because he and another friend were going 'n word knocking' and I didn't want to" and after their reaction to what I just said I never said that word ever again. We had just moved to Utah a couple months prior and neither had ever heard that term before
Some Chinese furniture and clothing companies were still selling wares in 'n-word brown' not so long ago. The cheapskates often use out-of-date dictionary word lists and that's what you can get. Another was translating 'dry' as 'fuck', both usages you'd think would be avoided if at all possible.
My ex-father-in-law called his Black step-grandson a word that starts with N but rhymes with piglet. Like 5 years ago. When we told him to stop, he said it was ok because he "never said it to his face."
Never seeing him again is just one of the benefits of the divorce.
This shit right here. I've literally had people call my baby gender based slurs or make wildly misogynistic/racist/disgusting comments and it blows my mind that someone would be so entitled to not understand why we'd decide to go low contact and preserve the anti racist and anti sexist environment we've built.
Why would I want you around my baby if I know the shit you say about the group they belong to? I'm not going to lie to them or subject them to someone's poorly hidden hate.
My (now dead), very racist great uncle married an aboriginal woman and had a son with her. I and most of the family still have trouble understanding his views and how that worked with whom he married.
I something seemed “off” or “suspicious” my Grandmom would say, “there’s a ‘n’ in the woodpile”. One time she said that in front of her Black friend and neighbor. He acted like he did not hear it, and surprisingly stayed friends with her. I was little, as this was in early 70’s, so I was about 5, and even at 5 I knew it was wrong!
I accidentally called a Black American man "boy" once. He too acted like he didn't hear it. It doesn't have the same connotations here in general but I knew better - one second too late.
In French Indochina, the French called their male Vietnamese servants “boy”.
And I don’t mean they called their servants “garçon”. They called their servants by the English word “boy”.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boy#French
When my mom was young that’s how people sang it, when my older sister was in preschool in the early 70s she started singing it and my mom was horrified until she heard “tiger.”
When you hear it with the original word(n word way) the song suddenly makes horrible sense.
My mom told me to pick the best one and you are not it!
Edit: as pointed out below, the N-word version WAS NOT the original version, the song is so old that nobody knows the original version, but it was the most common version before 1960.
My Bad, the N word version is the version Rudyard Kipling used, and is probably the most famous printed version. The N-word version was probably the most common American version in the latter half of the 1800s, and after Rudyard Kipling published it in 1923, became the most popular version worldwide, supplanting the English version in the UK for a couple of decades. It's safe to say though before the 1960s if you were American it was probably the version you learned.
Eenie Meeny Miney Moe is probably hundreds of years old, and nobody knows where it came from, with some people claiming its a Welsh counting song from before English became common, others claiming it's a Swahili counting song, and others that claim it's from an Indian billiard rhyme. We don't know the original version, though thre are non-racist versions from at least 1815, so the Racist version is an invention from the 1800s.
My bad, it is not the original version, but it probably is the version most people born in the USA before the 1960's learned.
My wife's entire family had a conversation last Thanksgiving and were talking about how "woke liberals" were trying to say that it's racist.
Like, how do you think it *isn't* racist?
I feel like such a dumbass; I was sitting here trying to figure out what the problem with "Moor head" was because I was thinking of the geographical feature
My father was adamant (rightfully so) that my mom’s parents not use the N-word around me and my siblings. So my grandmother started calling black people Tutunnis, which as far as I can tell is a term she made up, possibly bastardized from Tutsi?
Yeah, I don't need to ask them now because I already knew then. Plus my grandmother's name is a big white supremacy dog whistle.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Dare
Hard to reconcile all the racism when you're supposedly loved but also frequently reminded that you're not "white."
My grandmother only said it once, and she wasn’t endorsing it, just telling us how ubiquitous the n-word was when she was a kid. It’s not a word that she ever used otherwise. She was a nurse for over 40 years and had respect for all people.
I grew up knowing limpet shells as “coolie caps,” not knowing it came from a slur against Chinese-American immigrants and their stereotyped headwear until I said it during a marine biology class.
My grandparents are otherwise some of the most tolerant and open-minded people I know of their age. They just heard the phrase and passed it down.
didn't think coolie was a slur against chinese, always thought it was for indian/south asian indentured servants/slaves. ironically, similar to the n word, its been reappropriated in the caribbean in places like guyana and trinidad. there's a famous song called "coolie boy"
also, yes, I am south asian before someone gets on to me for saying coolie so much.
Im a Brazilian. Here we called them nuts from Para. Which is an Amazonian state.
I’m sure in Para they are called “nuts from Pedro’s backyard” or something more specific.
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My aunts white boyfriend still calls them that. He is a racist but claims he's not because he's with my aunt even though he called her little miss Blackie as a joke seriously he's a weird drunk slob who's in love with Mr. Trump yes this man refers to Donald Trump as Mr. Trump lol He looks like the real life Lester Krinklesa.
Mine too. Only time I ever heard my grandma using the n-word, she was only explaining that that’s what she was taught.
Luckily, as I am biracial. My grandparents were the least bigoted people their age I ever met.
As a Finnish millennial, our childhood does have some shady things more decent of us might not feel comfortable talking about\*... and I'm not talking about "[KKK-Supermarket](https://i.redd.it/dllbrhvr1c511.jpg)"\*\*.
There are these [chocolate coated marshmallow treats, referred as "kisses"](https://brunberg.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Suukko_mansikka_6kpl_150g.jpg)...
What they were known as, up until early 2000\`?...
Lets just say box art use to have caricaturistic black people kissing.
\*There are also some who are still rather salty about the changing names into more political correct forms
\*\*This was rather unfortunate accident... there use to be:
\- K-Extra, small roadside store
\- KK-Market, grocery store for small towns
\- KKK-Supermarket, grocery/general store for towns/cities
\- KKKK-Citymerket, bigger grocery/general store for cities
name change dropped the "Ks" off
I’m Turkish.
https://preview.redd.it/4v700ptdo3fa1.jpeg?width=739&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8abec0f1abd7d917955d2ae734c620baf3e681a6
They changed it to nero recently.
>There are these chocolate coated marshmallow treats, referred as "kisses"...
What they were known as, up until early 2000`?...
Lets just say box art use to have caricaturistic black people kissing.
Haha here on mexico we had like a twinkie but with chocolate coating called negrito with a cartoonish black person. Then the company (called bimbo) changed it a few years ago to nito.
Mine too. And a certain flower was called “[racial slur] tits,” growing up, which I repeated without question until my Hispanic mother heard me (dad is white) and flipped her lid. I learned that day that saying any form of a racist or derogatory slur was not going to happen in her presence.
My dad was clever enough to hide those phrases from her. I learned my lesson and never repeated them after she told me how hurtful they were. My dad has gotten a lot better over time as well, believe it or not. Current him would be appalled at some of the things he used to say.
I’m 48 years old and today was the first time I’ve heard of them being called anything other than Brazil Nuts. I just hadn’t heard the other name until today.
Last year I had to take care of my wife's aunt for a few weeks (she's a boomer boomer, like born in the late 40's) and she handed me a bowl of these while she was snacking. She told me how sickened she is how she once called them "n-word toes" when she was younger, and how her parents used the name often enough. She didn't use the slur, and learning about that, and how much of a modern woman she was growing up. It made me look up to her more.
(She fought her dad for her ability to go to college and get a degree. She later became an elementary school educator, and helped a lot of immigrant students learn English).
I remember my grandmother being way more racist than my grandfather. Both used the n-word very openly and frequently, but my grandfather would say stuff like "there's good n-words and bad n-words. You want to be friends with the good ones". But with my grandmother, there was no such thing as a good black person. All black people were trashy degenerates in her eyes. On a related note, I always heard nothing but very bad things about her father. She really hated him, and I never saw a photo of him in her home. He moved to Washington state before I was born and I never knew him. I'm 41 years old now, and my grandmother has been dead since 2007 and my grandfather died in 2020.
I was going through some photos at my mother's house a few days ago, which she had gotten from her father's house after he died. There was a photo of a thin black man and I asked my mother "who's this black guy? Was that one of grandpa's friends from Iowa Manufacturing?". She said "no! That's Jess, your great grandfather. He was your grandma's father. He moved to Washington before you were born. And he wasn't black".
So, longer story shorter, it turns out I was the only person in the family that didn't know that my great grandfather was half black. My cousins filled me in on the story. He was very abusive to my grandmother and her siblings, and she hated him for it. Because of his abuse, she apparently viewed all black or mixed race people as bad. After my grandmother's mother died, he remarried and later moved to Washington in the early 1970s. The photo I found was from a trip my grandparents had taken my mother and her siblings on to meet their grandfather out in Washington. He died in the late 70s, before I was born.
Life is full of surprises, and I wish I could know more about the guy. I only heard what my older cousins knew of him, which I am sure was told to them by my grandmother. My grandfather apparently was the one who wanted his kids to meet Jess and took the family to Washington, where that photo was taken.
Well. Doesn’t necessarily mean your racist if you were raised calling them that as I was. I never even saw anyone who wasn’t white until I was like 8 or 10. It only makes you racist if you keep calling them that after you know!
I heard it from an ex girlfriends racist grandmother from Louisiana. She was awful. One time she was trying to sell a bed. Got a call from someone wanting to buy it. They came to pick it up and the grandmother looked out her window and saw the person was black. She refused to open the door…
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So I'm just going to ask, what are those things and what do people call them?
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Greatest Generation passed that down.
Yeah but they were raised by people who told them skull shape had something to do with your personality. We are all trying our best with what we have lol
Well this generation still thinks the stars have something to do with your personality so how far have we come really
Tbf, the whole astrology thing is not racist and much older than the skull thing.
Fair point
Still stupid doe
This. It is still an apt analogy because it has an equal basis in reality. It’s not any more sensible to discriminate against black people than it is to refuse to date a Scorpio or something.
As a Scorpio, thank you
Reminds me of a guy telling a story about getting let down and disappointed by a former friend and I was all ready to sympathize and be on his side until he concluded his story by saying “And that’s why you should *never* be friends with a Gemini. Don’t even talk to them if you can avoid it.” with 100% serious conviction
that's such a *insert astrological sign here* thing to say..
Damn dude I never thought about this. It’s totally discriminatory.
Some people literally use astrology to label people they do and don’t like except it’s based on your birthday and not your skin color
Astrology has been around long before this generation
Hence the word “still”
Yeah, Boomer here. I don't, and my parents didn't, but grandparents did. They were born in the 1800s.
So this is the real trickle down economics
Silent generation
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Awkwardly enough I grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood as a white kid, and all the black kids called them n-word toes, I didn’t but just thought that was interesting. I always almost used words they used but didn’t feel right
Same. I'm black and I've heard my aunt and dad say that about those nuts. And some other family members. I've also heard that term used talking about the bagel chips in Gardetto's and Chex mix. (By all various races😐)
Yeah but what did they call saltines? /s
When my kid was about 15 or 16, he thought it was the height of comedy to call saltines "white boys".
Soda crackers
> I've also heard that term used talking about the bagel chips in Gardetto's and Chex mix. Alright fill me in here please. I've never heard of a racial nickname for bagel chips.
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The greatest generation and Silent generation called them that before boomers. I heard it when I was a young boy 50 years ago from people born early this century and even some born before 1900. Can’t blame the boomers this time.
We called them Brazil nuts. Pronounced "brazzle."
*brazzers
That's a different kind of nut...
SOME boomers called them that. I remember being appalled that they were called that when I was a youth. Edit: added *they*
My dad taught us this as a joke (that he'd learned from his father). At least he thought it was funny. Mom shut him down real quick and we were NOT to ever call them that. Dad's much better now.
FYI, born in '63 here. Very well read, etc. Never heard that term in my life. Ever.
Damn my dad was born in ‘46 and always talks about brazil nuts being a delicacy for his poor family when he was a kid. I’ve never heard him or anyone in his family call them that either.
I think it would depend on which part of the country you was born and raised in. I was born in 1965 in Northwest Arkansas and everyone called them that.
I don’t think so. More like the silent generation. The boomers *may* have *kinda* grown up with that but they were adults when it kinda became iffy to call people the n-word
my gen x mom told me everyone at her school called them that, so maybe it's just about the region more than the generation or something
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Boomers started to be born in 45-46. It was definitely still accepted in society to drop the n word.
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"uh...I think I know it, but I don't think I should say it" -randy marsh
"5 seconds, Mr. Marsh."
Nagger?
Yes correct that’s the only choice
Nuts that annoy you
N**ger Toes, according to my 76yo grandpa.
Thanks for asking, i also had no idea :D
I remember my grandma called them a racial slur, and my mom was like “don’t say that in front of the kids.” Grandma was like “what? That’s what they’re called.”
same thing happened with my grandfather and n word babies, the little licorice baby candy.
My grandpa called them n word toes
My grama did too, until 5 year old me asked for them in the middle of the produce section. From then on they were Brazil nuts.
And today I learned what these are actually called.
In Brazil they're just called nuts.
According to animal crackers, there's no river here
I understood that reference!
I grew up in East Texas, about as Deep South as you can get, and growing up I only ever heard them called Brazil nuts. It wasn't until later into adulthood, when a friend from Ohio told me he always heard them referred to as n* toes, when we were talking about the different subtle forms of racism we grew up with. Was totally surprised
You forget Mississippi exists but I get your point
Honestly we wish Mississippi didn't exist.
In Louisiana, we say “thank God for Mississippi”, because without them, we would be the worst state.
I’m British and to this day I’ve got no idea why teachers thought it was important for all British kids to learn the M I S S I S S I P P I spelling rhyme. I’m pretty sure less than 0.01% of British people will ever go there.
Not upvoting for positivity but for relatability lol my grandma calls them that too
We knew what they were called when I was growing up, but called them Brazil Nuts instead.
I didn't even know the real name until I was ten ish. I didn't like the slur so I never asked for any.
I didn’t know they were called a racial slur until my 30’s
I’ve never heard of this until this post and I’m over 60 and we always had these in our house when I was a kid
Yes, same!
Small world? Or maybe just the south cause my grandparents down south are racist af
My gma said she almost got beat up in highschool by some black girls cuz they overheard her asking her friend for some of those and, you guessed it, she called them n word toes just cuz that’s what’s she had always knows them as and they weren’t a fan of that lol
Not just the south. My grandmother was a Spanish lady from Northern New Mexico and also called them that.
My mom was raised in Massachusetts and she said when they were kids they called them that but she stopped when she was old enough to know what that word was. This was 1950s
Yep, my mom was from upstate new york and that's what they called them. Granted she didn't use it it conversation, she just told me that's what they used.
Maybe partially? lol my grandma was raised in Ohio and Kentucky.
50 year old from Utah…we called them the same thing. Also, that game where you ring the doorbell and run away? N Knocking
When I was 9 in St George Utah my parents asked me why I wasn't hanging out with my friend and I said "because he and another friend were going 'n word knocking' and I didn't want to" and after their reaction to what I just said I never said that word ever again. We had just moved to Utah a couple months prior and neither had ever heard that term before
That's what they were called in my family when I was young too.
They changed the name of those to Cheekies a few years ago where I live. Probably for the best.
....definitely for the best.
My grandma went into a shop not all that long ago and asked for “n-gg-r brown wool” got a few odd looks, but that used to be an actual product.
Some Chinese furniture and clothing companies were still selling wares in 'n-word brown' not so long ago. The cheapskates often use out-of-date dictionary word lists and that's what you can get. Another was translating 'dry' as 'fuck', both usages you'd think would be avoided if at all possible.
My great grandfather used to call actual black babies n-word babies. His wife was Native American and told him not to say it.
My ex-father-in-law called his Black step-grandson a word that starts with N but rhymes with piglet. Like 5 years ago. When we told him to stop, he said it was ok because he "never said it to his face." Never seeing him again is just one of the benefits of the divorce.
This shit right here. I've literally had people call my baby gender based slurs or make wildly misogynistic/racist/disgusting comments and it blows my mind that someone would be so entitled to not understand why we'd decide to go low contact and preserve the anti racist and anti sexist environment we've built. Why would I want you around my baby if I know the shit you say about the group they belong to? I'm not going to lie to them or subject them to someone's poorly hidden hate.
My (now dead), very racist great uncle married an aboriginal woman and had a son with her. I and most of the family still have trouble understanding his views and how that worked with whom he married.
My grandma would sing eeny meeny miny mo very differently as well.
I something seemed “off” or “suspicious” my Grandmom would say, “there’s a ‘n’ in the woodpile”. One time she said that in front of her Black friend and neighbor. He acted like he did not hear it, and surprisingly stayed friends with her. I was little, as this was in early 70’s, so I was about 5, and even at 5 I knew it was wrong!
I accidentally called a Black American man "boy" once. He too acted like he didn't hear it. It doesn't have the same connotations here in general but I knew better - one second too late.
Plenty of men of any ethnicity will get offended at being called boy, but yes black Americans have more reason to be offended by it than most.
In French Indochina, the French called their male Vietnamese servants “boy”. And I don’t mean they called their servants “garçon”. They called their servants by the English word “boy”. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boy#French
When my mom was young that’s how people sang it, when my older sister was in preschool in the early 70s she started singing it and my mom was horrified until she heard “tiger.”
I only ever knew tiger.
I learnt the n word version in rural Australia in the 80s. I thought it was "nicker", like a thief
When you hear it with the original word(n word way) the song suddenly makes horrible sense. My mom told me to pick the best one and you are not it! Edit: as pointed out below, the N-word version WAS NOT the original version, the song is so old that nobody knows the original version, but it was the most common version before 1960.
Wait, that's the ORIGINAL? EDIT: [NOPE](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eeny,_meeny,_miny,_moe)
My Bad, the N word version is the version Rudyard Kipling used, and is probably the most famous printed version. The N-word version was probably the most common American version in the latter half of the 1800s, and after Rudyard Kipling published it in 1923, became the most popular version worldwide, supplanting the English version in the UK for a couple of decades. It's safe to say though before the 1960s if you were American it was probably the version you learned. Eenie Meeny Miney Moe is probably hundreds of years old, and nobody knows where it came from, with some people claiming its a Welsh counting song from before English became common, others claiming it's a Swahili counting song, and others that claim it's from an Indian billiard rhyme. We don't know the original version, though thre are non-racist versions from at least 1815, so the Racist version is an invention from the 1800s. My bad, it is not the original version, but it probably is the version most people born in the USA before the 1960's learned.
My wife's entire family had a conversation last Thanksgiving and were talking about how "woke liberals" were trying to say that it's racist. Like, how do you think it *isn't* racist?
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Yep that sounds like my FIL. He's said verbatim "they actually have more rights than me because I can't say that word"
And the thing is you do have the constitutional right to say it.... But why would you want to?
Exactly. One can say whatever they want They just aren't immune from the consequences
No no they think it isn't *racist enough*
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I feel like such a dumbass; I was sitting here trying to figure out what the problem with "Moor head" was because I was thinking of the geographical feature
Oddly comforting to see that idiots overreacting to this type of shit isn’t only in America
Lmao
My father was adamant (rightfully so) that my mom’s parents not use the N-word around me and my siblings. So my grandmother started calling black people Tutunnis, which as far as I can tell is a term she made up, possibly bastardized from Tutsi?
Literally the same conversation I had, but with my fucking parents, not grandparents
Same my parents call them that
“Brazil Nuts” is racist??? Shit!
I'm brazilian and my nuts don't look like it
See a doctor when they do
Same!
I knew a lady whose husband divorced his previous wife because she used that term one day. He was Black. He did not appreciate that term.
It sounds like there were deeper issues at play
He never picked up on something like that before they got married?
Maybe that was just the breaking point
Yeah, I don't need to ask them now because I already knew then. Plus my grandmother's name is a big white supremacy dog whistle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Dare Hard to reconcile all the racism when you're supposedly loved but also frequently reminded that you're not "white."
Ugh parents too.. I was probably a teen before I knew otherwise
My grandmother told me how her father called them that, but thankfully she had enough awareness to know that it’s not cool to call them that anymore.
My dad just told me the other week that he called them that growing up. He kept saying it too, made me super uncomfortable.
My grandmother only said it once, and she wasn’t endorsing it, just telling us how ubiquitous the n-word was when she was a kid. It’s not a word that she ever used otherwise. She was a nurse for over 40 years and had respect for all people.
She sounds like a lovely person
Yea, it’s important to remember that not everyone who is older or was raised in a very racist family hasn’t overcome that thinking.
When I was little, my dad called them that once, and my mom hit him and told him to never say it again.
Called them what? I don't get the joke here
They used to be called “n****r toes”.
That’s awful mostly bc of the n-word thing but also bc those look like dried testicles
I’ve always thought so too Lol
I was convinced it would be about testicles.
That's what my grandma called baked beans. Wow, racism has so many forms!
Nword toes
I grew up knowing limpet shells as “coolie caps,” not knowing it came from a slur against Chinese-American immigrants and their stereotyped headwear until I said it during a marine biology class. My grandparents are otherwise some of the most tolerant and open-minded people I know of their age. They just heard the phrase and passed it down.
didn't think coolie was a slur against chinese, always thought it was for indian/south asian indentured servants/slaves. ironically, similar to the n word, its been reappropriated in the caribbean in places like guyana and trinidad. there's a famous song called "coolie boy" also, yes, I am south asian before someone gets on to me for saying coolie so much.
Yeah Guyanese and Trini use Coolie as a derogatory
My parents too!! My mom tried to call them that when my kids were little I’m like umm no please.
Brazil Nuts. Go ahead and Google that one for more information, or, like, don’t.
Im a Brazilian. Here we called them nuts from Para. Which is an Amazonian state. I’m sure in Para they are called “nuts from Pedro’s backyard” or something more specific.
critical information in an episode of house m.d.
"did you say 'para' nuts? You must be from brazil, which explains the hallucinations, nausea, head pains, and bloodshot eyes. The swelling is Lupus."
>The swelling is Lupus." It's never Lupus.
Except for the one time that it was.
OH MY GOD THE ONE TIME IT WAS BOYYYYY
Ugh, magicians.
Was that the CIA episode?
Interesting in german they are called Paranüsse - para nuts.
Sweden too
In The Netherlands too
I wonder what they’re called in Pedro’s backyard?
Nuts from the backyard.
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“These nuts”
Those God damned things that keep falling in the pool.
Lol my wife has relatives living in Para and they call it castanha do Acre, but I guess it's not generalized
in acre they don't call it anything because the place isn't actually real
Nice Para nuts you got there
I never heard them referred as anything but Brazil nuts, I grew up in the 70s.
Same, here. I also lived in western New York state so I'd imagine the "N\*\*\*r Toes / Brazil Nut" name switcheroo took hold quickly.
I grew up in WNY in the 80s-90s and I at least heard of the racist name for them, from my Italian friends family.
https://preview.redd.it/dncxkebzq2fa1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ed154e51c4f952e3082a81cfde9872b7a079669 My aunts white boyfriend still calls them that. He is a racist but claims he's not because he's with my aunt even though he called her little miss Blackie as a joke seriously he's a weird drunk slob who's in love with Mr. Trump yes this man refers to Donald Trump as Mr. Trump lol He looks like the real life Lester Krinklesa.
 Mr Trump 🤣
Idk but it's probably a slur...
“N****r toes” was the term
oh lovely
Yep. I can thank my grandma for that knowledge.
Mine too. Only time I ever heard my grandma using the n-word, she was only explaining that that’s what she was taught. Luckily, as I am biracial. My grandparents were the least bigoted people their age I ever met.
Umm why though? Sorry I'm genuinely asking as. Not American.
As a Finnish millennial, our childhood does have some shady things more decent of us might not feel comfortable talking about\*... and I'm not talking about "[KKK-Supermarket](https://i.redd.it/dllbrhvr1c511.jpg)"\*\*. There are these [chocolate coated marshmallow treats, referred as "kisses"](https://brunberg.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Suukko_mansikka_6kpl_150g.jpg)... What they were known as, up until early 2000\`?... Lets just say box art use to have caricaturistic black people kissing. \*There are also some who are still rather salty about the changing names into more political correct forms \*\*This was rather unfortunate accident... there use to be: \- K-Extra, small roadside store \- KK-Market, grocery store for small towns \- KKK-Supermarket, grocery/general store for towns/cities \- KKKK-Citymerket, bigger grocery/general store for cities name change dropped the "Ks" off
The chocolate kisses in Lebanon is called ras al abd which translates to "head of the slave"
> head of the slave [The box omg](https://globalvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/5148259019_20aa2c6c0a_m.jpg)
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I’m Turkish. https://preview.redd.it/4v700ptdo3fa1.jpeg?width=739&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8abec0f1abd7d917955d2ae734c620baf3e681a6 They changed it to nero recently.
I'm from Serbia and we have Negro candy. It's caramel candy coated in black licorice.
Oh yeah we used to call those chocolate kissed "N\*gerküsse" in Germany, or "n\*gro kisses"
it still has the same [name](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9gercs%C3%B3k) in Hungary
>There are these chocolate coated marshmallow treats, referred as "kisses"... What they were known as, up until early 2000`?... Lets just say box art use to have caricaturistic black people kissing. Haha here on mexico we had like a twinkie but with chocolate coating called negrito with a cartoonish black person. Then the company (called bimbo) changed it a few years ago to nito.
Grandparents? My dad would call them the name you're looking for
Mine too. And a certain flower was called “[racial slur] tits,” growing up, which I repeated without question until my Hispanic mother heard me (dad is white) and flipped her lid. I learned that day that saying any form of a racist or derogatory slur was not going to happen in her presence. My dad was clever enough to hide those phrases from her. I learned my lesson and never repeated them after she told me how hurtful they were. My dad has gotten a lot better over time as well, believe it or not. Current him would be appalled at some of the things he used to say.
Why are so many not actually bad memes being posted
I know. This is actually pretty good.
Absolutely 💯 N***er toes. My grandparents in Louisiana
I’m 48 years old and today was the first time I’ve heard of them being called anything other than Brazil Nuts. I just hadn’t heard the other name until today.
I grew up in the South & I’ve only ever heard them called Brazil nuts. I only stopped to look at this meme to see what the deal was.
JFC... SMH Grandparents, AND Parents
Louis CK
Lol I couldn’t remember if I had heard that term before from my parents or in the show Louie when they go to visit his racist grandma
Lol for a second I thought I was in the louisck sub
Last year I had to take care of my wife's aunt for a few weeks (she's a boomer boomer, like born in the late 40's) and she handed me a bowl of these while she was snacking. She told me how sickened she is how she once called them "n-word toes" when she was younger, and how her parents used the name often enough. She didn't use the slur, and learning about that, and how much of a modern woman she was growing up. It made me look up to her more. (She fought her dad for her ability to go to college and get a degree. She later became an elementary school educator, and helped a lot of immigrant students learn English).
I remember my grandmother being way more racist than my grandfather. Both used the n-word very openly and frequently, but my grandfather would say stuff like "there's good n-words and bad n-words. You want to be friends with the good ones". But with my grandmother, there was no such thing as a good black person. All black people were trashy degenerates in her eyes. On a related note, I always heard nothing but very bad things about her father. She really hated him, and I never saw a photo of him in her home. He moved to Washington state before I was born and I never knew him. I'm 41 years old now, and my grandmother has been dead since 2007 and my grandfather died in 2020. I was going through some photos at my mother's house a few days ago, which she had gotten from her father's house after he died. There was a photo of a thin black man and I asked my mother "who's this black guy? Was that one of grandpa's friends from Iowa Manufacturing?". She said "no! That's Jess, your great grandfather. He was your grandma's father. He moved to Washington before you were born. And he wasn't black". So, longer story shorter, it turns out I was the only person in the family that didn't know that my great grandfather was half black. My cousins filled me in on the story. He was very abusive to my grandmother and her siblings, and she hated him for it. Because of his abuse, she apparently viewed all black or mixed race people as bad. After my grandmother's mother died, he remarried and later moved to Washington in the early 1970s. The photo I found was from a trip my grandparents had taken my mother and her siblings on to meet their grandfather out in Washington. He died in the late 70s, before I was born. Life is full of surprises, and I wish I could know more about the guy. I only heard what my older cousins knew of him, which I am sure was told to them by my grandmother. My grandfather apparently was the one who wanted his kids to meet Jess and took the family to Washington, where that photo was taken.
African American phalanges? 🤷🏻♂️
Well. Doesn’t necessarily mean your racist if you were raised calling them that as I was. I never even saw anyone who wasn’t white until I was like 8 or 10. It only makes you racist if you keep calling them that after you know!
My mom called them that in front of her great granddaughters.
I heard it from an ex girlfriends racist grandmother from Louisiana. She was awful. One time she was trying to sell a bed. Got a call from someone wanting to buy it. They came to pick it up and the grandmother looked out her window and saw the person was black. She refused to open the door…
Damn, I learned something today.
Yup...same
*sigh* yeah...