r/mildlyinfuriating • u/marcus_dobre_lover • Sep 01 '26

I just wanted a hot dog Mom bought 150 lemons.

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She randomly comes back with a butt load of food items once in a while

Any lemon recipe suggestions

\she’s 44, for people asking her age\.

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u/Full_Performer5159 Sep 01 '26

When Mom buys you lemons, make lemonade!

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u/Krell356 Sep 01 '26

Instructions unclear

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u/Bearstrum Sep 01 '26

Finally! The engineers made the combustible lemons that burn your house down

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u/ImpostersAreUs Sep 01 '26

Cave Johnson here!

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u/druex Sep 01 '26

We're done here.

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u/Ciubowski Sep 01 '26

Chariots

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u/The_Gift_of_Men Sep 01 '26

Chariotschariotschariots-

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u/LoveRBS Sep 01 '26

I'm holding a memo from the President, and it turns out that soylent green is... let's see here... doubling in price. Now listen up: I don't care how good people tastes. This stuff's costing me more than lobster, so we're going back to fishsticks.

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u/tenebrigakdo Sep 01 '26

I'd go with Bloody Stupid Johnson, but possibly this isn't architecture enough.

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u/The_Gypsy_Smyth Sep 01 '26

When did that ever stop B. S. Johnson?? A pipe organ is not, technically, architecture.

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u/tenebrigakdo Sep 01 '26

It is still more architecture-adjacent compared to lemon grenades. Similarly, a bathroom is not technically architecture.

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u/The_Gypsy_Smyth Sep 01 '26

You may be right about the lemon grenades. However, I will argue heavily about the bathroom statement. There are Greek and roman baths, The hammam, the Victorian Turkish bath, and likely so many other examples across culture and time. And this does not even begin to touch on ones which I have seen, and had to draw floor plans for. Admittedly, lots of modern architecture is bland and very copy paste in appearance, but it is still technically architecture (even if it is a crime against aesthetics).

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u/tenebrigakdo Sep 01 '26

I think it was more a water installation project in that case than an architectural one. However you make a good point about the baths.

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u/Apprehensive-Pin518 Sep 01 '26

It is hilarious that all I had to do was Crtl+F for cave and I found you. I knew you would be here.

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u/Galactinaut_001 Sep 01 '26

What? I thought it was supposed to burn Life's house down.

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u/FalenAlter Sep 01 '26

What if you are life?

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u/Galactinaut_001 Sep 01 '26

I'm not. If I was Life, my childhood dog wouldn't have grown old.

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u/ComfortableSalt8631 Sep 01 '26

Ouch brother, that one really hurt 🤕

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u/-o-DildoGaggins-o- Sep 01 '26

Yeah that turned dark real quick. I’m sorry, Galactinaut. ☹️ I miss my childhood dog, too. 🫶🏻

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u/pchlster Sep 01 '26

Futball is life!

https://giphy.com/gifs/r10DsbqjFHkqiJXu8Z

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u/FalenAlter Sep 01 '26

Just binged the first three seasons and mostly caught up to the 4th and damnit I see why people love it.

https://giphy.com/gifs/aBDcRyOlJalDcLrD3N

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u/pchlster Sep 01 '26

Roy Kunt is great and so is Danny, even if they're about as different from each other as people get.

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u/FalenAlter Sep 01 '26

Brett Goldstein is also really good in Shrinking (my current binge) but Shrinking is not nearly as good as Ted Lasso

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u/atmoose Sep 01 '26

Life is the name of the whale I live in. Thankfully I don't think he's flammable. Life would explode pretty good though

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u/cavejhonsonslemons Sep 01 '26

Hey, that's my line!

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u/Bubbaj75 Sep 01 '26

This will be in book nine of Dungeon Crawler Carl.

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u/hudvv__ Sep 01 '26

Love this

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u/No_Key469 Sep 01 '26

They’re bursting with flavor!

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u/Skg42 Sep 01 '26

Stop I’m getting lemon tree Reddit post flashbacks

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u/DharmaLuke Sep 01 '26

Booming*

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u/malenkylizards Sep 01 '26

Don't give me no flak

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u/Far-Computer8825 Sep 01 '26

If these have live fuses … It’s the best smelling explosive in existence. Non lethal, 100% the biggest mess. But refreshing!

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u/Bob_Newshart Sep 01 '26

That's easy to say - until you get some of the juice and pulp shrapnel in your eyes!!

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u/Far-Computer8825 Sep 01 '26

I’d imagine that specific feeling is how Mr clean’s kids felt when he got home and they hadn’t picked up said toys they were told to.
“ Dad!!! I love you .. please stop!! It burns so much!”

Edit: MY EYES*** holy piss that looks a whole lot worse now that I’m actually reading it aloud

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u/Crazyguy_123 Sep 01 '26

“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!”

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u/yozymandias Sep 01 '26

Cave Johnson was something else

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u/dylans-alias Sep 01 '26

He says what we’re all thinking.

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u/Crazyguy_123 Sep 02 '26

Absolutely and his lines are kinda hilarious. I saw in an interview with JK Simmons and he actually considers Cave Johnson to be his favorite voice acting role he has done.

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u/Caffin8tor Sep 01 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/fWDGc1vqxlrWw

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u/Crazyguy_123 Sep 02 '26

"(clap clap clap) Oh good my slow clap processor made it into this thing. So we have that."

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u/WoolBearTiger Sep 01 '26

Had to think of this guy

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u/Elysium_Chronicle Sep 01 '26

The fact that this guy somehow exists independently of Portal 2 memes is kinda wild.

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u/Annyeongnymous Sep 01 '26

Bungo Stray Dogs reference!!!!!

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u/cclmcl Sep 01 '26

Im glad you said that cause same

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u/Cottoncandy903 Sep 01 '26

I’m so glad to see that someone else had the same thought

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u/Sixelona Sep 01 '26

Crazy seeing my dude Motojiro Kajii out in the wild 🍋💥

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u/RecommendationIll504 Sep 01 '26

Fun note. In russian, grenades nickname is literally lemons. With a small word twist but the point still stands

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u/FrostyConsequence97 Sep 01 '26

Ok Cave Johnson.

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u/IAmLexica Sep 01 '26

Cave Johnson. We're done here.

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u/Different_Stable_351 Sep 01 '26

Cave Johnson had to have been behind this.

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u/8_2_many_Hotpockets Sep 01 '26

Damn it..... You won Reddit tonight. Goodnight everybody.

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u/Goblinpiss23 Sep 01 '26

Dungeon Crawler Krell up in here

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u/Otheus Sep 01 '26

Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons!

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '26

Lemons are a hybrid fruit. Life didn't give us lemons, we demanded and made our own lemons.

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u/cabronfavarito Sep 01 '26

This is infuriatingly good

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u/JskWa Sep 01 '26

Might have to steal this for next time somebody says this to me

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u/Krell356 Sep 01 '26

Do eet. Build your collection so thay you have a tactical meme for every occasion.

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u/PoraDora PURPLE Sep 01 '26

you win

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u/Smear_Leader Sep 01 '26

Yeah, I’ve seen Bungou Stray Dogs

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u/UseOk7699 Sep 01 '26

This make look just like your ordinary lemon...

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u/mightylordredbeard Sep 01 '26

These lemon-nades seem like it’d be a COD skin that some 12 year kid would blow you to hell and back with from the other side of the map over and over again while they emote some quirky modern pop dance.

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u/KyeeLim Sep 01 '26

life never gave us lemon, we invented it all by ourselves

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u/FaliureToCat Sep 01 '26

a lemon isn't naturally occurring and is a hybrid by cross breeding a bitter orange and a citron, which means life never gave us lemons; we invented them all by ourselves

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u/Ritaredditonce Sep 01 '26

Or 12 bottles of Limoncello.

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u/seoulgleaux Sep 01 '26

Great thing is you can make both because limoncello uses the rinds while lemonade uses the juice.

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u/StagedC0mbustion Sep 01 '26

Only if they’re organic lemons (or so I’m told)

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u/DutchRudderShotgun Sep 01 '26

Is she a witch?

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u/honeybeelioness Sep 01 '26

Hahaha that's cute

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u/BuilderStill8694 Sep 01 '26

So he thinks he’s summoning a ‘demon’ but it’s cursive writing and looks a lot like ‘lemon’ as well….so he’s confused when a lemon is summoned and not a ‘demon’.

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u/Dolphin_King21 Sep 01 '26

“All right, I've been thinking, 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 whose gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!” - Cave Johnson.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26

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u/Dont-be-lasagna12 Sep 01 '26

Saw a post earlier about how to make lemonade in 200 steps. Maybe that was OPs mom.

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u/batsofburden Sep 01 '26

That's a lot of steps.

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u/anusbeefsteak Sep 01 '26

Gotta get those steps in.

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u/FrontNegative8559 Sep 01 '26

It’s been a minute… we’re waiting! /s🤣

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u/piTehT_tsuJ Sep 01 '26

Their Dad just walked out to get cigarettes, he had the recipe...

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u/Upper_Goal_8569 Just here Sep 01 '26

6m hurry up!

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u/SpaceGypsy27 Sep 01 '26

8 min and counting. Good god man, are you hourly?

/s

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u/Shot_Revolution8828 Sep 01 '26

Water, sugar, lemons. Mix to taste. Throw in a dash of salt.

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u/RequiemQuilty Sep 01 '26

Best lemonade recipe ive ever had

https://fuzzyblog.io/recipes/beverage/2022/04/08/jason-asano-lemonade.html

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u/notthatcousingreg Sep 01 '26

Oooh cover lemon zest with sugar and boil it. Now i want this

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u/RequiemQuilty Sep 01 '26

Its a fairly famous recipe from the author of he who fights with monsters. The entire fandom loves it.

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u/meganjunes Sep 01 '26

Thank you!

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u/respectablepitch Sep 01 '26

That looks amazing!

Here’s another (in case she gets bored with the other 145 lemons)

https://mattsfitchef.com/frozen-lemonade/

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u/The-Batphone Sep 01 '26

But how does Clive's wife like it?

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u/RequiemQuilty Sep 01 '26

She drinks it with 3 ice cubes when she is writing a letter to Neils grandmother

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u/Pro_Caffeinated Sep 01 '26

Here’s a wild one. Make lemonade. It’s delicious. I did it once because I ran out of sugar and it was so good. It ends up tasting like an interesting iced tea. It’s really good. You have to use real maple syrup though.

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u/MMJtaPenguin Sep 01 '26

Don’t make lemonade! Make Mom take the lemons back!

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u/VerseChorusWumbo Sep 01 '26

Make Mom rue the day she gave marcus_dobre_lover Johnson lemons!

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u/archabaddon Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26

Do you know who he is? He's the man who's going to burn your house down! With the lemons!

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u/Vehement_Vulpes Sep 01 '26

Oh, I like this guy!

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u/eisbaerBorealis Sep 01 '26

He's saying what we're all thinking!

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u/Diedrogen Sep 01 '26

Do they live in the same house?

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u/Few_Enthusiasm5712 B L U E Sep 01 '26

DO YOU KNOW WHO SHE IS?! SHE'S THE WOMAN WHO'S GONNA BURN YOUR FRIDGE DOWN! WITH THE LEMON!

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u/berlandiera Sep 01 '26

There’s probably a Lemon Law that will allow her to do this.

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u/iam_Mr_McGibblets Sep 01 '26

Momma is the lemon Bubba Gump. You're going to have lemonade, lemon merengue, lemon curd, lemon bars, lemon pepper.... that's.. that's about it

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u/Specific-Window-8587 Sep 01 '26

Lemon loaf with blueberries,Lemon cake and course the good old give it to the neighbors.

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u/Iatayatayata Sep 01 '26

Lemon filled donuts, shrimp scampi with lemon, shrimp stew, ....

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u/Independent_Bite4682 Sep 01 '26

Lemon meringue pie

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u/MeanJohnBrown Sep 01 '26

Lemon Meringue hotdog.

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u/its_ya_human Sep 01 '26

Lemon meringue tie

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u/asicarii Sep 01 '26

Or Limoncello!

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u/HiZenBergh Sep 01 '26

When Mom buys me lemons. I do coke off it dude

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u/Familiar_Advantage35 Sep 01 '26

That could potentially burn really bad

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u/Bright_Ices Sep 01 '26

Wanna lose your nose doing coke, but faster? Try Lemon lines today!

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u/perton Sep 01 '26

That’s why you put the coke lemons up your poop chute, duh

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u/PackageNorth8984 Sep 01 '26

Or buy powdered sugar and make lemon bars. Mmmmm….lemon bars.

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u/bakingwhisperer Sep 01 '26

Limoncello is better

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u/bulk123 Sep 01 '26

When Mom buys you lemons you FIND A NEW MOM! 

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u/HerpDerp152 Sep 01 '26

No you make beef stew
https://giphy.com/gifs/KWdKswfaEMmFW

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u/AtlUtdGold Sep 01 '26

had to scroll this far

sigh were getting old

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u/Dense_Surround3071 Sep 01 '26

And dried lemon peel!!!

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u/jillvalenti3 Sep 01 '26

Literally. My wife has been blending lemons for lemonade and straining it, like 4-6 at a time. It’s sooooo gooood and makes enough for about a day.

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u/lr99999 Sep 01 '26

So… How does she get the good ppart away from  the pith?

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u/jillvalenti3 Sep 01 '26

Cut it in half and pull the center out ☺️
The rest comes out when you strain it

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u/ALWanders Sep 01 '26

or better yet limoncello

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u/False_Cookie8226 Sep 01 '26

Na... paint that shit gold.

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u/cloud_watcher Sep 01 '26

Right? There are clear instructions for this scenario

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u/Consistent-Plane7227 Sep 01 '26

When life gives you lemonade add vodka… this may be a polish saying.

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u/Preface Sep 01 '26

Just look out for those lemon stealing whores....

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u/Trogdor420 Sep 01 '26

Or whiskey sours

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u/Due_Draw319 Sep 01 '26

the way I'd also 100% misread simple instructions and end up with a worse result every time

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u/fallenmonk Sep 01 '26

First you roll out a multi-media campaign to convince people lemons are incredibly scarce, which only works if you stockpile lemons, control the supply, then a media blitz...

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u/CovenOfTheDamned Sep 01 '26

I want 55 lemons, I want 55 lemons, I want 55 lemons

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u/csbsju_guyyy Sep 01 '26

No silly you make BEEF STEW

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u/Responsible_Bunch_24 Sep 01 '26

Don't make lemonade!

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u/kebly Sep 01 '26

"I don't want you damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?" - Cave Johnson

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u/Upstairs_Pickle931 Sep 01 '26

Limoncello for me!

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u/tltltltltltltl Sep 01 '26

You need a ton of sugar to make lemonade. Instead, chuck the lemons and keep the sugar to make something good.

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u/Avatar_Goku Sep 01 '26

When life gives you lemons, fuck lemonade! Make lemon drop Martinis instead!

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u/BrilliantLeopard1922 Sep 01 '26

Just watch out for lemon stealing whores

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u/DadooDragoon Sep 01 '26

Nope. You let them all rot and hopefully she learns her lesson

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u/Ok_Carpet_9510 Sep 01 '26

Beat me to it.

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u/Useful-Emphasis-6787 Sep 01 '26

When life gives you lemonade, make lemons. Life will be like, What?

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u/Scienceboy7_uk Sep 01 '26

I knew something would have beaten 🤣

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u/DumOBrick Sep 01 '26

Or use them to burn someone's house down

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u/Gloomy_You_9533 Sep 01 '26

Now it is true but bot as a metafore

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u/fishead62 Sep 01 '26

Why, why, WHY did I have to scroll down so far to see this!

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u/trying_times_eggs Sep 02 '26

Say "fuck the lemons" and bail 

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u/Common-Adhesiveness6 Sep 02 '26

I swear to god i am not original i should really look at these comments before making my own

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u/IgottagoTT Sep 02 '26

I've always hated that phrase. As I said to my HR partner once, "Life is going to have to give me sugar and water too, otherwise I'm just drinking lemon juice."

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u/Gingersometimes Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26

Came here to say this Edit: typo

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u/SpaceGypsy27 Sep 01 '26

Well I won’t stand for that

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u/Gingersometimes Sep 01 '26

Lol...oops ! 🙄

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u/SpaceGypsy27 Sep 01 '26

Aww no eye roll! You got a plenty good chuckle out of me as I thought out a reply. Thanks for the giggle!

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u/Gingersometimes Sep 01 '26

Happy to have brightened your day 🙂