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Assyrian Tablets refers to clay blocks from ancient Assyria which were used as a means to send messages. After a picture of multiple tablets in a bowl was posted to Twitter, users commented that the bowl of tablets looked like a bowl of cereal or crackers, leading to a series of forbidden snacks jokes.

Origin

On October 13th, 2020, Twitter user @serbiaireland^[1] posted a picture of Assyrian tablets, writing, "Anyone hungry? A bowl of 4000-5000 years old Assyrian tablets, with letters, contracts and receipts." The tweet gained over 1,700 retweets and 2,700 likes (shown below).

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After the tweet was posted, multiple Twitter users made "forbidden snacks" jokes about the bowl of tablets, thinking they looked edible. For example, Twitter user @matt_heath^[2] called them "forbidden shreddies," gaining over 6,800 retweets and 58,000 likes (shown below, left). User @varsha_venkat_^[3] tweeted the image saying, "ancient cinnamon toast crunch" (shown below, right). Jokes were covered by the Daily Dot.^[4]

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