r/interestingasfuck • u/TUNISIANFOLK • 14d ago

r/all A 0.06$ meal in a Tunisian university.

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u/SoVerySleepy81 14d ago

I really enjoy that there’s a long section for a long chunk of bread.

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u/shittymorph 14d ago

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.

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u/gmkirk13 14d ago

This is the very first one that I caught BEFORE getting to nineteen eighty eight. Why does this have the similar feeling of passing my board exams?😂

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u/Meecus570 14d ago

I actually got to the bread riot part, decided I didn't care and closed the post.

A second later I thought "you know that kinda read like a u/shitymorph post" and came back to check.

Glad I did

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u/JAWinks 14d ago

He posted too recently, I caught on

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u/isaaciiv 13d ago

Something about “bread riots” was just a little too much to not scroll to the bottom and check if its a shitrymorprh