When I was kid, I loved bananas, but my mom wouldn’t buy them because she felt they were too expensive, so bananas became even more rare and precious to me.
I grew up, got my own place, and did my own grocery shopping. I remember walking through the grocery store, and passing the bananas, thing they were too expensive, but I noticed they were 69 cents a pound. That didn’t seem so much, so I weighed a few, and it was less that 2 pounds. I could buy a bunch of bananas for $1.50! That wasn’t so much!
So I bought the bananas. That was many years ago, and I still buy bananas almost every shopping trip. That preciousness still exists though. Whenever I eat a banana, it feels like I’m eating a candy car.
Did you grow up in East Germany? xD
The death of innocence is reaching the point where you could do that, but it wouldn’t even make you happy because of health reasons.
I can do it without a car.
You can choose an afternoon of sweet tastes followed by sugar crashing, tweaking and twitching on the couch and extending the habits of early onset diabetes.
It will take you years of disciplined exercise to reverse the effects!
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This is one of the best parts of adulthood. And drinking out of the milk carton. Often these things go together. 😉
Cake store closed :(
I buy myself a 8 inch cake one day a year. My birthday.
I’m in my 40s. But I love cake. But cake not great for health.
1 cake is acceptable.
Tried this once while watching Matilda when I got to that scene. Paused it and went to the store and bought a gallon of milk, then stopped by portillos and got a chocolate cake.
Later that night I had big regrets
As an adult I’ve had enough stomach aches, and gained enough belly fat, and developed enough of a palette, to viscerally dislike eating lots of cake.
The child in me screams for cake
The stomach in my adult body screams for pepto
What’s pepto?
Pepto-Bismol.
Using science to fight bad decisions. It’s the American way.
buying poison and buying medicine to maximise profit
Bismuth subsalicylate, or pink bismuth.
Yep, if I really want cake I’ll pay the ridiculous price for a single slice. Yes it’s expensive, but it’s cheaper than buying a whole cake, and I know after that one piece I won’t want anymore for a long time.
It’s 2026. I can literally say, “hey Siri order me a chocolate cake” and a chocolate cake will be delivered to me in 15 to 20 minutes.
Now that I think of it, right now is the perfect time for a chocolate cake…
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Why would I be pissed that you don’t eat cake? That’s more cake for me.
People get oddly offended about that sort of thing.
I hate this about growing up. Once you can do the thing, you no longer wanna. :(
Of all the opinions I’ve ever heard, this is certainly one of them.
I can kind of get it when overly generous people bring in food and want everyone to eat and join in the good vibes. Some can be rather pushy. But definitely too extreme.
I had a patient who almost died from acute pancreatitis after eating 3 pounds of fudge in one sitting. So your pancreas may not stop you from buying or eating the cake, it can definitely stop you from doing it twice.
Shit, in my fat phases over the years I would eat in the neighborhood of 6000 calories a day (I would be literally gaining a pound a day since that’s 3500 calories over my normal daily intake). It’s easy to do when you can basically inhale a box of Little Debbie’s zebra cakes in one sitting. It never really occurred to me that I was literally risking immediate death from this behavior.
Well, a pound of fudge is a bit over 2k calories, so this guy was doing 6k calories in like an hour. The dangerous part was that like over half of those calories are from fat. So what you were doing prob wasn’t great , but not likely to cause acute pancreatitis.
when i first moved out, i realized i could fry and eat an entire pound of bacon in one night. i found out that just because you can, doesnt mean you should. lmao
Shit, I could eat a pound of bacon while standing at the stove frying a pound of bacon.
Every time I see this meme, I get sad that there’s nobody selling cake in my car. But also glad, because why would they be in there?
what’s the relevance of the car. who is selling cakes in their car? do they eat the cake in the car? is this an american thing?
option C)
Instead of “I will do such-n-such”, they have to say “I will get in my car and do such-n-such”
