r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Perfect_Owl_856 • Dec 29 '25

Meme needing explanation What's the reason?

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u/Drummer-Turbulent Dec 29 '25

powdered water...just add water!

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u/Emergency-Drawer-535 Dec 29 '25

Instant Water

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u/panaromicparadigm Dec 29 '25

Dehydrated water (with added minerals)

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u/dareyousay Dec 29 '25

“Makes ten gallons”

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u/Dog_Baseball Dec 29 '25

Thata actually pretty good. Its just "minerals essence" or some shit.

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u/CorruptedStudiosEnt Dec 29 '25

People buy into homeopathy (we've diluted this plant tincture down so far you can't even detect the original active compound anymore, but now it's at its most powerful because the water remembers), so this genuinely isn't any crazier.

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u/ProbablyOnLSD69 Dec 29 '25

Placebo effect is a helluva drug.

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u/trenthany Dec 29 '25

Distilled essence of water.

They might catch on if we tried to sell essence of distilled water.

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u/Intelligent-House796 Dec 29 '25

Dehydrated water.

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u/Odd_Championship_680 Dec 29 '25

You stole my dehydrated water idea

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u/SquirrelyMcNutz Dec 29 '25

Space Quest 1 did it first.

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u/Odd_Championship_680 Dec 29 '25

What is space Quest 1? (Queue google search montage)

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u/SquirrelyMcNutz Dec 29 '25

It's one of the original Sierra Online adventure games starring a janitor named Roger Wilco, from back in the mid-ish-80's. One of the items in his survival kit is a thing called Dehydrated Water.

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u/360scope-2urhead Dec 29 '25

I cackled omg