For me, it was bananas. I love them, but as a kid, my mom wouldn’t buy them, because she thought they were too expensive.
As an adult with a good job and my first apartment, I would pass bananas in the grocery store, automatically thinking they were too expensive, but one day I noticed the price, and thought “That’s not expensive, I can afford that,” and I bought bananas for the first time.
That was decades ago, and now I buy bananas on almost every grocery trip.
That’s bananas.
Bananas expensive?? They’re usually the cheapest fruit around. My mother loved giving them to us. Sometimes we’d slice them long wise so they’d have a flat top, then put chocolate chips on there! Great after school snack.
It’s one banana, Michael! What could it possibly cost? $10?
There are old fucks around here. Back in the war things were different.
They’re definitely the cheapest right now. I can get a large bunch of bananas for the price of one peach locally
That’s nice that your family can afford them. Back in the 60s, my family couldn’t.
Me, age 50, with hypertension: I want to be 30 so I can eat as many pickles as I want.
Me as a kid: “I wish I had a tail!”
Me as an adult: “I wish my tail was real and not just hanging outta my butt.”
Meanwhile blood pressure: screaming intensifies
Pickles come with alcohol if intended to be eaten in significant amounts. So yeah.
Define “significant”. I, for one, have never had an insignificant number of pickles.
1-liter jar is significant enough to demand a mandatory bottle of vodka to be consumed with.
After consuming all the salt from a 1L jar of pickles and a quart of vodka:
In my culture we have a proverb: “Vodka without a beer is just a waste of money”.
I am intrigued. Most of the cultures I’d expect to have that proverb have neither definite nor indefinite articles in their language.
Most of the cultures … have neither definite nor indefinite articles in their language.
Not sure what you’re talking about. I’m Ukrainian. Was born in the Soviet Union.
Was expecting it to be “vodka without beer is just waste of money”, in that case.
Looking it up, most sources seem to have it the other way around - “beer without vodka”, as in there’s no point wasting money on drinking unless you’re going to do some hard drinking?
Unless I’m misunderstanding, you add those when translating so you don’t get broken English?
It’s so good to have simple dreams. Where’s my ancient wisdom? Cool beard? Humanitarian organization fighting to provide a decent life for almost every human?
Tread lightly, pickle-loving anon.
i bought pickling weights for my wife just because this summer and she looked about as happy as when we brought home kittens
Knowing you can go to the store and buy a whole rotisserie chicken and eat it in your car is powerful stuff…
Better : I can buy them, any brand, any size. Living the dream indeed.
