Christmas cracker joke leaves hundreds baffled: ‘I have no idea what this means’
Hundreds of people are left scratching their heads over a bizarre Christmas cracker joke that 'makes no sense'.
One woman was excited when she read the joke in her chocolate at Christmas lunch, but she and her guests didn't know what it meant.
The joke asked, “What kind of cough medicine does Dracula use?” and the punch line was 'Con Medicine'.
'Please help? We have no idea what this joke means,” the woman asked in a Reddit post after.
Many users were baffled by the “nonsense” joke, while others had a theory that the punch line was a typo or technical glitch.
A woman was excited to read the joke in her chocolate at Christmas lunch, but she and her guests didn't know what it meant
Some people shared what they thought the strange joke meant.
'Dracula is immortal. He doesn't need medication, but maybe he wants you to think he does so you don't know he's actually Dracula. So his medicine is a scam. It's probably just blood. Secretly,” one user guessed.
“Con is short for count and sounds a bit like cough,” wrote another.
“It means the crackers are cheap,” a third joked.
However, others thought it was a typo and the answer should be “Coffin medicine.” According to many, the broken chocolate has been circulating in stores for years.
“This came up in one of my crackers years ago and made me laugh more than the intended joke. It was supposed to be 'coffin medicine' but I think it's even funnier that it's still in print after all these years,” one person laughed.
'Ha! I got this five years ago, good to see it hasn't been corrected!' replied a second.
'I had exactly that a few years ago. Good to see it's still making the rounds,” one person commented, and another added: My dad thinks “con” is funnier. Staff'.
One investigator came up with a detailed explanation behind the hysterical error.
'It is the result of typographical problems. It should be 'coffin medicine, but lowercase FFI causes some problems because of the way some fonts use a specific ffi character for clarity,' they explained.
'When switching to another font, this is completely omitted if that font does not work, and so we end up with Con Medicine.'
'FFI' stands for 'Foreign Function Interface' and acts as a kind of code in certain software.
“I think it's just a typo… This joke turned out to be very educational in the end!”, one person responded.