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.
Ah but you see I bike there, which means that it is healthy! Fitness is my passion.
I run often, and unfortunately it’s a lot harder to stay thin as I’m pushing 40 than it was when I was pushing 20. And by stay thin I mean stay average.
Kurzgesagt had a good video on exercise that basically talked about how, if you exercise regularly, your body basically doesn’t burn the calories the same. If you’re a couch potato and then you start to exercise, you will get a benefit, but then there’s diminishing returns from continuing to exercise, to the point your body now says “hey, this is my new normal,” and essentially burns the same calories whether you’re on the couch or exercising. There’s a lot more nuance to it in the video.
It seems we’re all doomed to just get old.
As a kid, you have the time but not the money.
As an adult, you have the money but not the time.
I use the example in the meme a lot. As adults we’re in a post-scarcity mindset. If you tell a kid you can eat chocolate ice cream for 3 meals a day and don’t do it because you don’t want to (because you know you shouldn’t), it would blow their minds. You’re growing up when you get access to things and stop thinking “if you can” and start thinking “if you should”.
for me it’s not that i think that i shouldn’t, but i can’t. i just cannot ingest that much sugar at once, i get really bad feelings from that!
My knee swells up. Highfive, we’re old.
or the metabolism
It’s the metabolism one.
I could consume 4000 kcal most days as a teenager without putting on weight. That is no longer the case and adjusting has been difficult. I’d need to go near 2000 to lose weight.
Yeah, as a kid in high school, one of my go-to high snacks was an Entenmann’s All Butter French Crumb Cake (~1740 calories) and a half gallon of 2% milk (~950 calories). It wasn’t an everyday thing, but I’d house it no problem, and it wasn’t the only thing I’d eat that day. I also swam competitively, although as I’ve grown older I’ve learned that it’s essentially unrelated, and that your metabolism is just your metabolism, essentially regardless if your activity levels. I had trouble breaking 140 pounds at 5’8.
That all stopped. It’s pretty incredible how it all just stops. I’m still fairly active, but I wouldn’t consider eating more than a serving at this point, and I instead have trouble cracking 165 (except from above this time). Oh well, this is life.
Forgetting is sometimes a survival instinct
Nice try cake making industry.
But can you consume the cake without suffering consequences?
The consequence is that there won’t be any cake left, right?
The me with cake in me is a better me than the me without cake in me. There is no suffering from cake.
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.
i just take breaks in my cake eating binge to binge tacos. get enough protein in there and you’re fine.
The child in me screams for cake
The stomach in my adult body screams for pepto
What’s pepto?
Bismuth subsalicylate, or pink bismuth.
Pepto-Bismol.
Using science to fight bad decisions. It’s the American way.
buying poison and buying medicine to maximise profit
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.
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
I am a slut for cheesecake
Oh my goooooood……
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 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’m not gluten free, bur I hate cheesecake. Just add sugar to old cream cheese with no crust. Problem solved.
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
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).
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.
Idk, depends how good it is. In today’s market, ≤$2/serving is actually pretty good even for middling handmade baked goods. One slice at a restaurant would be 3 times that, on the low end, the high end could be the whole $17 or more. But also, yeah, no one needs cheesecake lol.
Cake mix is $5.
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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
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”
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
There really is one for everything huh
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
Gotta make that blood nice and thick.
Shit, I could eat a pound of bacon while standing at the stove frying a pound of bacon.
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.
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.
I hate this about growing up. Once you can do the thing, you no longer wanna. :(
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 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
If the smell of your pee drives you out of the bathroom, you might be eating too much sugar.
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?
