I made this mistake with “Ruffles” - a chocolate-covered coconut snack.
I mentioned I liked them, and for the next year or two, every week my grandpa would stop by to give us 2-3 boxes of ruffles. We had a cupboard literally full of them, we were giving them away, and I ate so many that the thought of them makes me feel queasy now. We kept telling him to stop, but the man was on a mission.
Sadly, he passed away last year, and I made sure to bring a couple boxes of Ruffles to the service.
Both my grandfathers have been dead since before I was born and my grandmother resents my father so much that she doesn’t talk to me
… wanna trade? 🫶
My late grandmother did exactly the same thing with Speculaas, a kind of Christmas biscuit you get in Europe. I used to love that stuff, made the mistake of saying so one day, and then every time I went to visit her, she got me a stash of the stuff. A year later I was absolutely over it, and to this day I eat Speculaas very sparingly.
There seems to be a pattern in this thread. Like it is elderly people doing this for their young relatives.
This is literally the situation with my mother in law.
My SO is an only child and I would describe her mom as having more money than sense (at least when it comes to her kid), so we’re careful about mentioning anything that we need to go and buy or anything like that around her, or we’re going to get a month’s supply of that thing, every time we visit for the next six months.
I’m pretty sure we said little more than “we should pick up toilet paper on the way home”… Next time we were there, my trunk was filled with the stuff.
So we’re rather careful about what we mention around her. She means well, but I don’t have the space to support her filling up my home with toiletries on the mention of having to buy it.
I appreciate that she cares but we take care of ourselves in that respect.
A friend of the family is like that. I don’t know what I am supposed to do with a machine that makes grilled cheese. Like okay one in a while, I don’t need to make 40 at a time.
Want. Gimme dat grilled cheese specialized device!
Seriously? You want one of those seen on TV kitchen appliances that if you act now comes with a tote bag and is probably going to catch on fire?
I gave it to Goodwill if you must know.
Awh, I just got fired from Goodwill!
Was it for stealing a grilled cheesemaker?
Nah, it was for a technicality. I’m in a dramatically better company now. No more fake nonprofit nonsense.
This honestly would have been kind of nice. My grandparents were the old school “children should be seen and not heard” types and would have condemned orange juice in this instance as a reckless extravagance.
Probaby has a lot to do with if their generation overlapped the great depression. Scarcity mindset scars for life
I recently saw some videos about people freeze drying orange juice. Could be an option here.
I don’t know about freeze drying, but when I was a kid, I remember most people getting orange juice concentrate in a frozen tube that you would defrost and add water to.
Frozen concentrate is still common.
I think it was the only affordable option when I was a kid.
We get a lemonade or a lime concentrate and mix that with 2L of chilled seltzer. It is delicious!
I grew up with Five Alive. I believe it also came in a tube version.
I still use frozen juice tubes! The stores near me used to have a great selection but now it’s apple or orange. Honestly tastes similar to most of the name brand stuff.
That stuff was so good. Gonna have to look for it now.
you can still get frozen concentrate. but what was once 2 or 3 doors worth of freezer section in the grocery store is now just one or two shelves.
I still get it. I feel like it saves space and trips to the store, and plastic waste.
But yeah it’s much less popular than it was in the 80s. Not sure why that shift occurred. People don’t want extra work maybe.
Buying the juice feels more “natural” and the American consumer has a section that wants to eat healthy without actually buying produce.
lol but even the bottles say it’s from concentrate. So I don’t get it. And it’s more expensive to ship. Water is heavy.
the higher profit margin “not from concentrate” also exists and is what’s advertised more.
That’s why I said “feels” and not “is.”
My grandmother always had hard boiled eggs in the fridge and seltzer in the siphon. How did she do that? Do you know how many times I’ve tried to accomplish that on a regular basis?
Grandmas are on some other fucking level, man. Do you know what kind of unrealistic expectations I got from never seeing dust in her house as a kid??
The behind-the-scenes is brutal.
Source: I live with someone else’s grandmother. As soon as the grandkid visit ends, she goes to bed for the rest of the day to recover from all the prep.
Mine always had a literal year’s supply of homemade berry juice, cloudberries and fresh cinnamon rolls
Imagine having a grandpa
Can someone please mention to their grandparents they like the Barbie movie? Thanks.
This is how you wind up in a fridge, Margot.
😭
Me: “yeah, David [the toy from bd] is pretty nice”
Grandpa: fucking dies
If you can, please drink freshly squeezed OJ, otherwise you’re tasting… Dunno, it tastes nothing like actual oranges…
Turns out the flavorful chemicals in fresh orange juice go bad really quickly. Standard industrial practice is to treat the juice to remove the flavor for bulk storage, then each brand has a proprietary “flavor mix” they add at the time of filling the individual containers.
That sounds like an urban legend
Keep in mind the flavour packs are typically made from oranges (that’s how they can still call it 100% orange juice) but it’s still weird to think about. This is also how different brands can have their own distinct and consistent flavour.
Doesn’t have to be that old, man: my first is in college now. I no longer consume enough for Costco to be a good value, but you bet that if he mentions he wants something, I’m on my way to Costco
Weird how grandparents work. My parents treat my kids like their little angels, they want to take em on day trips constantly and always ask to borrow them for an outing. My wife’s parents have never once taken the kids or spent much time with them beyond family gatherings. I once asked me wife’s mom if she ever wanted to take the kids for the day and hang out, she actually said “Ugh I’m done with cleaning up after kids”. They love the kids but they just want them to exist and now interact with them much.
