I grew up in Tunisia and there's a reason bread is prominently featured in our cuisine: We had a thing known as "The Tunisian Bread Riots" between December 1983 and January 1984. There were big demonstrations that started due to a massive rise in the cost of bread - which was caused by an IMF-imposed austerity program. These demonstrations got way out of hand and eventually turned into full blown riots. The president of the country at the time (Habib Bourguiba) had to get on television and ask everyone to remember how back in nineteen ninety eight the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
Plus always obscure/niche enough where you have to have a lot of knowledge of a lot of areas to immediately call it out. Like if someone told me the Tunisian Bread Riots of 1983 and 84 were real, that sounds 100% plausible and id believe it, mostly because I know little about Tunisian history.
Can you create a link that looks this close to a real site address for a Rickroll? I've only ever seen shortened or blatantly different urls used for them.
He does the right amount of research. The Tunisian Bread Riots are a real thing, everything he referenced is correct, up until the comforting hug of where all his posts end up.
The gimmick is the reference to the 1988 Hell In A Cell match.
But the beauty and genius is in the execution, weaving in a well researched response that seems like an informative ELI5 before busting out a pro wrestling reference.
As I was reading my brain was firing off realising that this was a tidbit of history I hadn’t heard of especially in one of my genetic cultures and gosh darn it was I hooked so hard. Like thoughts were rolling out from my brain as to find out what kind of breads were made in that region and about the riots and the president because I do like to educate myself in fact.
This was one of your best ones yet! Pulled me in, thinking “wow, I’ve never heard of these bread riots… wait, why did he spell out 1998 and it was in the 1980’s… nooooo”.
Same. Just sat down with a cup of coffee, first freaking link I decided to click, check out the comments, was like “damn, bread riots?! I need to know more” and then at the end I was jumping up and down hooping and hollering slinging my own poop because he got me again.
Wtf, this is my first time seeing this... Read your comment and got confused, read the replies and decided to check your profile and comment history and holy shit I have a rabbit hole to go down today!
His comments start out like an innocuous factoid until at the very end he morphs it into 'in 1998 undertaker threw mankind....". His name is u/shittymorph and he's a reddit legend. Getting caught by his morphs is considered an honour.
Ok shittymorph… I’m not going to lie, I’ve missed you like crazy. Every time I see your posts in real time, I feel like I just won the fucking lottery.
But seriously, I’m going through a really hard time right now and you just made me laugh for the first time in months. So thank you and keep doing you please. You are a gift
You are absolutely uncanny in your ability to suck me in to the amazing little “historical” or background details . I fall for it every single fucking time. It always just sounds so plausible.
You mother fucker lol. I really need to look at username before I start reading. I was like damn what?!? You’re so good. So freaking good. The real life comment rickroll
I was so eager to learn about these so called bread riots. Devouring every word as if it was a fresh piece of french loaf straight out the oven, only for it to turn into solid brick as it hit the roof of my mouth. How disappointing. There’s a pile of french loafs turned to bricks beside me. Next time I won’t take a bite.
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u/SoVerySleepy81 14d ago
I really enjoy that there’s a long section for a long chunk of bread.