Current Events > Why are "mayo" and "cracker" insults?

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Mayo crackers is a god-tier snack.

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I have never had mayonnaise and crackers together before, so I can't comment on how they taste.

I tried mayo and cheese together, though, and it was alright.

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*vomits*

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Solid Snake07 posted...

*vomits*

*Spreads it on cracker*
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obeseexplosive posted...

*Spreads it on cracker*

In other words, a hershey's cracker

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mayo I'm not really sure. but for cracker I'm also not really sure either

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mayo is a hit or miss condiment. but it isn't a known racial word.
adding in some sriracha to the mayo makes it alot better.
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Cracker comes from "crack the whip." An overseer type position from the pre-emancipation days that eventually got used to describe authoritative mannerisms within certain demographics of White people.

Something that might be used to describe that lady that called the police on the Black people who were barbecuing at the park for not following her rules, lol.

Dunno about mayo though. I haven't been called that one.
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Southern U.S. derogatory term for "poor, white trash" (1766), probably an agent noun from crack (v.) in the sense "to boast" (as in not what it's cracked up to be). Cracker "a boaster, a braggart" is attested from c. 1500; also see crack (n.). Compare Latin crepare "to rattle, crack, creak," with a secondary figurative sense of "boast of, prattle, make ado about."
But DARE compares corn-cracker "Kentuckian," also "poor, low-class white farmer of Georgia and North Carolina" (1835, U.S. Midwest colloquial).
The word was used especially of Georgians by 1808, though often extended to residents of northern Florida. Another name in mid-19c. use was sand-hiller "poor white in Georgia or South Carolina."

https://www.etymonline.com/word/cracker

A 1783 pejorative use of "crackers" specifies men who "are descended from convicts that were transported from Great Britain to Virginia at different times, and inherit so much profligacy from their ancestors, that they are the most abandoned set of men on earth".[3]Benjamin Franklin, in his memoirs (1790), referred to "a race of runnagates and crackers, equally wild and savage as the Indians" who inhabit the "desert[ed] woods and mountains".[4]
The term could have also derived from the Middle Englishcnac, craic, or crak, which originally meant the sound of a cracking whip but came to refer to "loud conversation, bragging talk".
The compound corn-cracker was used of poor white farmers (by 1808), especially of Georgians, but also extended to residents of northern Florida, from the cracked kernels of corn which formed the staple food of this class of people. This possibility is cited in the 1911 edition of Encyclopdia Britannica,[9] but the Oxford English Dictionary ("cracker", definition 4) says a derivation of the 18th-century simplex cracker from the 19th-century compound corn-cracker is doubtful.
It has been suggested that white slave foremen in the antebellum South were called "crackers" owing to their practice of "cracking the whip" to drive and punish slaves.[10][11][12] Whips were also cracked over pack animals, so "cracker" may have referred to whip cracking more generally.[13][14][15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(term)

tl;dr: Varied usage and origins.

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Mayo = white, unappealing vinegar smell
cracker = cracking of whips when you yanks used to beat and rape your slaves

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I dunno where the mayo one came from; I'm white and I hate mayo. *shrugs*

Cracker refers to cracking a whip, which in turn refers to slavery.

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Mayo is delicious. Such simple, basic ingredients too.

Too much God damn mayonnaise

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DevsBro posted...

I dunno where the mayo one came from; I'm white and I hate mayo. *shrugs*

Same here.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

Too much God damn mayonnaise

Mayonnaise on a plane
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If you get insulted by that, then I don't know what to say. Just laugh at the person who said it because it's such a shit tier insult. (If they are actually trying to insult you, anyway)

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They're not, only admiral thought they were.

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SilkPanties posted...

cracker = cracking of whips when you yanks used to beat and rape your slaves

Because the UK NEVER had slaves.

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DrizztLink posted...

Because the UK NEVER had slaves.

did

did anyone say they didn't

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Manaise

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Anti white racists were desperate for slurs and thats the best they could come up with.

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YourDrunkFather posted...

Anti white racists were desperate for slurs and thats the best they could come up with.

Are you, like, comparing racial slurs for quality?

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Evening_Dragon posted...

Are you, like, comparing racial slurs for quality?

Yes. Thats what Im doing. Im not trying to say cracker and mayo sound stupid in general. Im comparing racial slurs for quality.


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Evening_Dragon posted...

did

did anyone say they didn't

Just pointing out the dude's glass house.

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DrizztLink posted...

Just pointing out the dude's glass house.

In what way? What did he say that brought about your mention of the UK?

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Evening_Dragon posted...

In what way? What did he say that brought about your mention of the UK?

Yank tends to be a UK term.

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Huh. I did not know that. Carry on.

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Mayo is the worst condiment ever.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

Too much God damn mayonnaise

that a Breakfast Club reference lol?

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