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[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 115 points 11 months ago (5 children)

When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

[–] Thavron@lemmy.ca 33 points 11 months ago

Combustible lemons, aka lemon-nades.

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 11 months ago

Burning people! He says what we're all thinking!

[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Was waiting for the Cave Johnson comment.

[–] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

..arson again, you see! It's the way to go!

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago

This is such a wonderful throw-back

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] qooqie@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (5 children)

If you understand this person you’re officially old

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 11 months ago

Old and looking to PARTY!

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

It's weird being the same age as old people, tbh.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

What if I understand but wish I didn't?

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

That comment is goated, I think it's so goated that I think it's deserving of the adjective. It's a totally goatse comment.

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Arson is usually the answer, I concur

[–] weariedfae@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago
[–] Kolli@sopuli.xyz 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cave Johnson answered that but I can't recall and quote all that.

[–] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago
[–] dukatos@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Squeeze half of the lemon, put it into shaker. Add a lot of ice and two teaspoons of powdered sugar. Shake it hard. Pour everything into a glass and add 5cl of gin. Steer it gently and enjoy your gin fix.

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[–] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I like to buy discounted old lemons. I wrap them up and toss them in the freezer. They thaw ugly but are still good for cooking.

[–] Jonnsy@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Good idea In what do you wrap them? Aluminium foil? Or caj I put them in freezer bags?

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[–] Nemo@midwest.social 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)
[–] NightmareQueenJune@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Nemo@midwest.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's amazing. The sugars caramelize and the bitterness falls away, leaving you with the perfect accompaniment to grilled meats or veggies.

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[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

"Alright lemons, I'm asking the questions round here, you got that?”

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

If life also gives you copper wire and a USB-C plug, you could make a comically large and inefficient charger.

[–] masto@lemmy.masto.community 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Salted preserved lemons are delicious. Quarter them lengthwise but not all the way to the end, then smash them down into a jar with lots of salt, pack in as many as you can. Seal it up and give it a shake off and on for a few days, then leave it in the refrigerator for a month. Yum. Use the peels in cooking, they are salty, sour, bright tasting.

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

Sometimes you don't have sugar or water onhand and can't actually make lemonade. You just gotta eat the lemons. It sucks but you gotta.

[–] Luvon@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

I recently figured out that I can make fresh chopped baby spinach (and kale and chard) by chopping it up and frying it in my cast iron frying pan with some avo oil.

Top it off with lemon juice. Tastes great.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Make lemonade. - Get mad!! Make life take the lemons back!!

dramatic crossroads

When life gives you lemons...

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 11 months ago

Juice them and freeze the juice as ice cubes, then bag them, store in deep freezer.

Then you have delicious lemon juice ready at your finger tips for ever and ever.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago

You should take their seeds, irradiate them and set up a gamma garden

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'll do you one further : Cocainade

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 3 points 11 months ago

Hell yes, rocket propelled cocainades

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Make lemon cake 🍰

[–] 0_0j@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Egyptians didn't have cranes, but that didn't stop them, they used what they had (alot of /slaves/ workers died but that's not the point), and made amaizing pyramid structures that stand tall to this day.

I mean, lemonade came from a dude who only had lemons on his farm (at least it's what I believe)

What ever life gave you, it has potential that might not have been discovered, yet. I mean, who'd thought a long-cross screw and nuts on either side could be used to lift a tonne of vehicle for a tyre change?

Use what you have to bring about what you love.

[–] GroteStreet@aussie.zone 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Egyptians didn't have cranes

But they did have storks, which are almost as good.

[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When life gives you storks...

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[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Kinda depend how much lemon Life gave you. If it's one, maybe make a glass of lemonade with sugary syrup and salted dried sour plum. Add the dried plum into 1/10 mug of hot water, stir for a few second, add in the lemon juice and some ice, then fill it up with water and you got a glass of refreshing lemonade.

If it's a few, maybe you can make lemon pound cake or lemon cheese cake instead.

[–] giacomo@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

life gave you free lemons? #gifted. those shits are like $1 a pop in the grocery stores.

[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago

$1 a lemon is extremely expensive

[–] HowMany@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Throw them at the clown who gave them to you while you were asking for something to eat.

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