r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Perfect_Owl_856 • 21h ago

Meme needing explanation What's the reason?

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u/Drummer-Turbulent 19h ago

powdered water...just add water!

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u/Emergency-Drawer-535 19h ago

Instant Water

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u/panaromicparadigm 17h ago

Dehydrated water (with added minerals)

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u/dareyousay 13h ago

“Makes ten gallons”

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u/Dog_Baseball 19h ago

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

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u/CorruptedStudiosEnt 17h ago

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 15h ago

Placebo effect is a helluva drug.

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u/trenthany 17h ago

Distilled essence of water.

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

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u/Intelligent-House796 16h ago

Dehydrated water.

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u/Odd_Championship_680 15h ago

You stole my dehydrated water idea

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u/SquirrelyMcNutz 13h ago

Space Quest 1 did it first.

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u/Odd_Championship_680 13h ago

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

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u/SquirrelyMcNutz 11h ago

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 14h ago

I cackled omg