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
I’ve done this for a while. I’ll just buy a birthday cake and snack on it. 33 now, still skinny… But for how long 😬
I sometimes remember this, but then I get to the store and a cheesecake is $17 and I suddenly remember I don’t actually need it that bad
My local grocery store’s bakeshop sometimes puts up an 8-inch boston cream cake for only $12. I don’t know why it’s so cheap (a similar sized chocolate cake is $18-$22), but I can’t stop myself from buying it when it’s available. I can’t believe a cake that good costs just $12.
Cake mix is $5.
Key lime pie is our benchmark, a new brand will appear for $7.99 or something, and then 3 weeks later they hike the price up to $14. I am not eating a $14 key lime pie from Kroger. Fuck right off with that.
It’s funny tho how junk food like pies, cakes, and especially CANDY have taken such an inflationary hike - it’s definitely got me eating better, and I am kind of glad for it (and we prove yet again that excise taxes work towards public health, these ones were just done for profit instead of funding waterways or clean air or some shit).
I am a slut for cheesecake
Oh my goooooood……
That’s way too much for cheesecake, who’s your cake guy?
The main ingredient in cheesecake is cream cheese, and you need like 2 lbs (32 oz) for an average cake, so that’s immediately like $9 before all other ingredients
At LiDL or Aldi an 8 oz. brick of cream cheese is like $1.50, so a little less. What blows my mind is that a 16 oz. plastic tub of cream cheese is like $8 at most places. Like, why the fuck does the plastic tub make it 5X as expensive?
yeah my mom makes cheesecakes to sell and never goes under 30 bucks. but i can guarantee it will be the best cheesecake of your life, and that is independantly verified
You can freeze leftover cheesecake.
Leftover cheesecake is my new favorite oxymoron.
I can attest that you cannot freeze leftover cheesecake simply because there never is any left over
Unfortunately I need to be gluten free.
Which makes it a $35 cheesecake thats also smaller. Fuck you shoprite, and fuck you gastrointestinal system in my body.
I’m not gluten free, bur I hate cheesecake. Just add sugar to old cream cheese with no crust. Problem solved.
I know the pain. Reminds me of my last road trip, where the best hot food option available was a pizza place that charged an extra $4 for a chickpea crust. $19 for a tiny, shittier pizza. No, thanks. Doritos and soda FTL.
I can do it without a car.
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There really is one for everything huh
Then you do it, and your body punishes you for it this time, instead of your parents.
I remember one time as a young adult eating a cake for dinner, paired with a large beer.
I think realized in the midst of my severe tummy ache that perhaps there are reasons why my parents didn’t let me do such things 😆
Yeah, your body will only accept so much sugar before everything gets out of whack
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!
Except the beetus demon.
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 can’t stand cake and refuse to eat it no matter whose birthday or wedding or whatever it is, and I don’t care who I piss off.
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.
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.
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”
Cake store closed :(
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?
