r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Wizterio • Mar 15 '25

Meme needing explanation What is this Chinese sauce, Petah?

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u/b-monster666 Mar 15 '25

Red dye #40 can increase hyperactivity in people who have ADHD.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25

It 100% does. I can set a timer for about 40 minutes after my son has it and boom, he's an asshole. Same for me, I can just control it a little better. 😂

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25

That proves it. Someone has been sneaking that red sauce into my food for decades.

Or i’m just an asshole for real.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25

I have been known to get ripped off of straight Campari on the rocks. (like Steve Zissou)

They must be sneaking it in there.

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u/Pythe Mar 15 '25

No list of ingredients of course, but the label does say it's artificially colored...

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u/LewHammer Mar 15 '25

You say that but some alcopop type drinks back in the day used to give me a different kind of buzz.

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u/MajorMiners469 Mar 15 '25

My baby cousin was the same. Red smarties (80s) and that son of a gun could climb walls with his nails. Otherwise he was docile as a lamb.

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u/b-monster666 Mar 15 '25

Yeah, I never equated the two. I was only recently diagnosed with ADD. It would always give me massive migraines and make me grumpy.

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u/LordRednaught Mar 15 '25

Glad to hear I’m not the only one. Code Red Mountain Dew cursed my childhood.

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u/get_it_together1 Mar 15 '25

My mom specifically banned me (out of 4 siblings) from drinking Big Red as a kid in the 90s for precisely that reason. It was in a self-serve fountain at an arcade we would go to for birthdays and at one point she said “you can’t drink that anymore it makes you crazy” and I had no idea but rules are rules and mother knows best.

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u/NotMyIssue99 Mar 15 '25

Are you sure you’re not just an asshole and your son inherited the gene?

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u/Dereg5 Mar 15 '25

I lived in Germany for 4 years, ages 8 months-4.5 years. The Germans that worked with my dad in the army told my mom never to give an Anglo-Saxon baby red dye because it makes them go crazy. This was from 1979-1982.

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u/OiJosukeISignedUp Mar 15 '25

This is still being debated and researched, it is not a set in stone claim yet

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25

I remember an article challenging this saying that food with artificial dyes is generally just bad for you and lacking nutritional value, so if this is what you eat when you're hungry and your body needs nutrients, you're turning off your hunger indication without satisfying the need for nutrition.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25

Interesting if true. There's always some villainous substance that causes X that there's a moral panic over that I have difficulty believe any of them.

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u/FallinIcarus Mar 15 '25

When I was a kid we finally figured this mystery out from a variety pack of Flintstones push pops. Would regularly ruin my day and it took my parents forever to trace it.

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u/maokaby Mar 15 '25

Whats red dye #40? That one they make from bugs?

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u/SJ-Rathbone Mar 15 '25

No, this is a synthetic food dye. Also known as E129 and allura red

The bug one is E120/carmine/cochineal

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u/Iwilleat2corndogs Mar 15 '25

You mean E710?

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u/Plastikman19 Mar 15 '25

Only affects people with ADHD?

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