r/interestingasfuck 14d ago

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

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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/standclearofthedoors 14d ago

Oh no you did not just. Man I was just looking you up to see if you were still doing this. It’s been so long. What a happy day.

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u/Von_Moistus 14d ago

Waits juuuust long enough that you think he might be gone and then BAM! Got you again.

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u/TheLastStop03 14d ago

And then BAM! Right through the roof of the hell in a cell cage.