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[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 114 points 7 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 7 months ago

Combustible lemons, aka lemon-nades.

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Was waiting for the Cave Johnson comment.

[–] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

This is such a wonderful throw-back

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[–] qooqie@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago (4 children)

If you understand this person you’re officially old

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 7 months ago

Old and looking to PARTY!

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

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

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

What if I understand but wish I didn't?

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 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 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Arson is usually the answer, I concur

[–] weariedfae@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago
[–] Kolli@sopuli.xyz 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 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!

[–] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago (2 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.

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[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago
[–] dukatos@lemm.ee 7 points 7 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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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 6 points 7 months ago (5 children)
[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

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

[–] NightmareQueenJune@beehaw.org 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Nemo@midwest.social 4 points 7 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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[–] Luvon@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Alice@beehaw.org 4 points 7 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.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 4 points 7 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.

[–] masto@lemmy.masto.community 4 points 7 months ago

I've made this cake a couple of times. It's quite good.

https://youtu.be/Yi1W5qgtNYU?si=l6cvn5YZTbAsZZzb

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'll do you one further : Cocainade

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 3 points 7 months ago

Hell yes, rocket propelled cocainades

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Make lemon cake 🍰

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 3 points 7 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.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 7 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.

[–] Eryn6844@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

pull out the zester and take off that outer rine. slice it into haves and squeeze out all of the juice, and throw the pulp away. sprinkle the juice over a nice piece of fish and some salad. cook the fish and serve the salad. problems solved.

[–] giacomo@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

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

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Find a fuck-load of sugar and carbonated water

Good luck :)

[–] 0_0j@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 months ago (1 children)

Egyptians didn't have cranes

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

[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When life gives you storks...

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[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The last time life gave me lemons, I gave them to someone starving on the streets.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Honestly if I was homeless and someone handed me a lemon… like, just a lemon… desperate times I guess

[–] Lath@kbin.earth 6 points 7 months ago

No risk of scurvy at least.

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