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by geon 3560 days ago
A very common joke among children where I live is a word play on "catch up" vs "ketchup".

However, I live in Sweden, and the joke makes avsolutely no sense in swedish. I was 15 before I got it.

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Haha, we have the same thing in Iceland. It basically turns it into "Two tomatoes were walking across the road when one was hit by a car. The other one said, 'come here you tomato sauce'", which is a terrible terrible joke :)

My daughter messed it up even more and started with "Two tomato sauces were walking across the road..." at which point it's no longer a joke, just a story about a traffic accident...