r/mildlyinfuriating • u/marcus_dobre_lover • 19h ago

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/WinterSector8317 19h ago

Well, at least you won’t get scurvy 

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u/Aggressive-Plant-934 19h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Yx4sDmie0yZTaimvlx

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u/DAS_FX 18h ago

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u/drfunkensteinnn 16h ago

Dope name

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u/DAS_FX 15h ago

Werd, that there’s recognition still!

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u/LegendaryMutha 2h ago

They want efx…

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u/Beneficial_Put1771 3h ago

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGG

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u/Toastie1721 13h ago

That one joke that squidward made 😭

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u/robin-bunny 2h ago

Oh I love movies Rated ARRRRR!

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u/tomboyades 16h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/4dbpcNJ09vp2x2YERx

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u/Alienhaslanded 15h ago

Please try not to use that twat's gifs. That guy is poison to the internet.

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u/DAS_FX 15h ago

Who is that?

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u/Pixax_theLotl 13h ago

Benjaminss or some shit, essentially made versions of every popular gif but with himself on them, which is just hyper annoying. Pretty sure he may also have done something else to make the entire internet hate him, but I forget what he did, if anything.

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u/MuslimCarLover 12h ago

He tries to get the originals removed to replace with his own

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u/Pixax_theLotl 12h ago

Ah, yeah that would do it. Whats he trying to sell? Most of the time when people do shit like what he's done, they're trying to profit off is it somehow.

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u/MuslimCarLover 11h ago

Honestly, I don’t know. I think he’s just a moron with some sort of superiority complex

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u/DarthOtas 6h ago

Pirate shows up to a bar with a mast wheel tied to his pants.. Bartender asks, “what’s with the wheel on your pants?” The pirate replies, “Arrrr, it drivin’ me nuts!”😂

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u/Excellent-Theory5770 59m ago

What’s a pirates favorite letter!??

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u/Playpolly 10h ago

Okay Lemony

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u/Fall_Water 19h ago

But you may erode all the enamel off your teeth

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u/bellegroves 18h ago

My MIL was sucking on lemons to treat her sore throat that she was causing by sucking on lemons.

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u/Wanksters_Paradise 17h ago

The lemon doom loop

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u/MechanicalTurkish 16h ago

Yeah, there’s no escape from that. RIP OP’s MIL

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u/RogerClyneIsAGod2 4h ago

That would be a great band name though, The Lemon Doom Loop. It could also be a Krofft kids show.

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u/sayaxat 18h ago

I have no words. WTH?

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u/Everything_you 17h ago

Yeah- like why 🤔

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u/bellegroves 17h ago

I would also like to know why. Home reme-don't.

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u/Beautiful_Lie629 16h ago

My grandmother made homemade cough syrup by mixing 1/3 lemon juice, 1/3 honey, and 1/3 whisky. My mother told me that it worked well! A sleep aid for the kids too! This was around 1930, I suppose they were lucky they weren't given over-the-counter opioids.

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u/michaelyup 15h ago

That’s a Hot Toddy. Good for what ails ya! Just repeat until you feel no pain.

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u/alady12 11h ago

You are still sick, but you don't care.

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u/floorplanner2 5h ago

When my mom was little, she was given Hot Toddies by her German mother. This was in the '30s-'40s and she remembered never really caring that she was sick. She grew up to be a non-drinker, surprisingly enough.

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u/mellow0324 15h ago

Add steaming hot water to that mix and you have a drink called hot toddy. I swear by it in the winter for colds, sore throats, headaches, etc.

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u/FreddyNoodles 14h ago

They are excellent. I introduced my Swedish bf to them when he got a really nasty flu one year while we were in Stockholm. He started drinking them just for enjoyment in the winter. They really do help, imo.

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u/Powerful_Frame_4239 11h ago

My husband gives these the unappetising name of “homemade lemsip”

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u/Difficult_Ask_1686 10h ago

I’m happy it helps. He probably feels no pain all winter.

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u/wiscosherm 11h ago

When I was a kid and had a bad cold or sore throat my mom would make a hot toddy heavy on the honey and lighter on the whiskey. I would take about two swallows and and then decide I wanted a nap. She would finish the rest. Looking back on it it was an absolutely brilliant way to get a sick whiny kid to sleep.

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u/redditcancelculture 11h ago

Y'all's mother's are amateurs.

My mom would give me hot toddy's light on the Whiskey, honey, and water and heavy on the tussin.

It worked so well I slept straight through the divorce.

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u/LickingSmegma Mamaleek are king 13h ago

You can make an excellent cure for colds and sore throats by carving a funnel out of a radish root and filtering honey through it. The resulting liquid tastes so extraordinarily foul that the body goes belligerently berserk on the illness for fear of getting the evil and depraved treatment again. I hated this atrocity of a concoction without reserve, but it helped every time.

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u/Flashy_Trash6771 9h ago

Dying!🤣🤣🤣

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u/multipocalypse 13h ago

If you add a packet of Theraflu, a packet of instant apple cider (lots of vitamin C) and a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, it works even better 😆

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u/donttextspeaktome 12h ago

Add a cinnamon stick for extra flavor

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u/Ready_Revolution5023 6h ago

We make ours with Throat Coat tea - it’s actually super helpful for my musician husband when he has to perform when he has a sore throat.

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u/Vegetable-Hand-6770 15h ago

This still works with my kid, i just cut out the lemon and honey.

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u/Suspicious-Water-973 14h ago

I was at a friends house (many years ago) and was feeling a bit rough. Her mother (French) took pity on me and made me a drink - warm milk, vanilla, little bit of sugar and a large splash of brandy. After that I wasn’t sure if I fancied the mum or the daughter more…

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u/NoDay4343 14h ago

There is scientific evidence backing up both honey and lemon as cough treatment. It won't cure it but it does soothe it. Alcohol in cough syrups was, I believe, primarily included as a solvent. But the fact is that it can be a sleep aid of sorts (helps you fall asleep but reduces the quality of your sleep), and if a cough is keeping you awake, that's useful. Low quality sleep is better than no sleep. My mother only used the lemon honey, no alcohol, but I can attest that it works surprisingly well. I still use it.

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u/Clean-Fisherman-4601 13h ago

My mom would give us tea with lemon, honey and whiskey when we had a cold. Having a cold wasn't as unpleasant with that concoction.

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u/Useful-Emphasis-6787 13h ago

I think gripe water previously had alcohol, given to colic babies. And people used to rub babies gums with alcohol or something when they were teething.

People were truly wild back then.

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u/Suspicious_Bear42 10h ago

Anecdotal, but I can verify. I'm an 80s baby, and my parents still have the bottle of brandy they used on my gums while I was teething.

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u/Suspicious-Water-973 3h ago

4-9% alcohol

You can still get something similar for teething (at least in the UK) - Anbesol - lidocaine and alcohol to rub on the gums. There is an adult version as wells

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u/Accomplished_Will226 12h ago

It still works. Well I would not give kids the whisky but my MIL made the same remedy.

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u/bookworthy 12h ago

My great-great grandfather had a patented liniment which called for “tincture of opium”. So you might still hurt all over, but maybe you wouldn’t care?

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u/Any_Poet4127 11h ago

The only OTC opiods around then were weak codeine mixtures and addiction/overdose was a well known phenomena by then so I doubt your great grandmother would give her crazy amounts. There are much worse things you can give someone with a cough 🤷

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u/Difficult_Ask_1686 10h ago

My grandmother did that in the 70s. She’s from WV.

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u/tourchy2 9h ago

Double the whiskey and shake with ice and you have a Goldrush

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u/edgerton2026 9h ago

We were. Paregoric for tummy aches. Made you fell warm all over. 1950s-60s.

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u/MuchGrounded 8h ago

We were given this growing up. My Dad mixed it up calling it ‘Honey whiskey and lemon’. Yes it did make you sleepy this was in the 70s.

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u/bellegroves 7h ago

Yeah, my grandma and her teetotaler bestie both kept whiskey on hand for hot toddies. Straight up lemon when your throat is already sore just sounds like torture.

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u/Born-Substance-1987 7h ago

Whiskey is medicine but when I try to get my FSA to pay for it I suddenly have a problem.

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u/highknees69 7h ago

Ahh, the Irish cough syrup.

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 6h ago

It was more like, shut these kids up, here take this! My stupid friend use to give her daughter nyquil for the same reason! 🤬

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u/BravestBlossom 5h ago

My great grandmother had a cough syrup, which is pour peach schnapps into a small (shot) glass, and sip as slowly as possible.

It's perfect. Soothes the throat and chills you out😂😉

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u/tequila_23_sheila 3h ago

My dad would give me a Hot Toddy as a child. Only thing, alcohol is stimulant for me, so it didn’t put me to sleep. 😅 Today, it’s still the only I go for to set me body straight when all ails me! ☘️✨

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u/wannastayhome 2h ago

cough cough ...cough cough… 🍋 🍯 🥃

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u/Aleja72 2h ago

Mine too! It totally works 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

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u/Former_Matter49 1h ago

My grandma poured this same recipe into hot tea. She called it the Two Hat Cure. You put your hat on the bedpost, lie back, and sip tea until you see two hats. LOL

You can tell it's an older cure. Who has a hat and a bedpost? Still works though

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u/LeatherPurple9284 4h ago

You had me thinking the original word was remedo. >:(

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u/Beneficial_Put1771 3h ago

Make LEMONadE , it’s the adage

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u/peonyseahorse 12h ago

My mil eroded the enamel off of her teeth too. Her dentist was shocked. Mil had some bright idea that drinking squeezed lemon with hot water was healthy. As usual she always goes overboard with her crazy health fads thinking that more is better. She has also literally turned orange before from drinking too much carrot juice.

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u/MizzPizz 16h ago

This made my night. Thank you. 🙏

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u/HallucinateZ 11h ago

I do this but with cigarettes & a cough. It’s perfect.

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u/someolbulshit 10h ago

It's like me drinking to solve the problems that the bottle brought me.

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u/zenoob 14h ago

Lemonsatemyface

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u/FigMassive4505 13h ago

I think older people have this idea that some foods, like lemons or honey or oranges, are a universal antidote

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u/Accomplished_Will226 12h ago

Now that’s funny!

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u/digitalclock1 10h ago

Neva ending lemon cycle

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u/rrt1984 8h ago

These parents are so hard to raise

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u/No-Minimum1058 16h ago

Awesome 👏

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u/ericaswxrldd 1h ago

poor woman needs some honey😭

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u/SpaceGypsy27 19h ago

And the lining of your stomach

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u/Boring_Intern_6394 16h ago

Stomach acid is waaaay stronger than lemon juice. It has a pH as low as 1.5, which is strong enough to cause chemical burns on skin.

I don’t see how lemon juice could cause issues in the one body part specifically adapted for high acidity

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u/DedTV 15h ago

You add acidic substances to your stomach, your stomach releases more acid to digest it, eventually the natural acid regulation system gets overwhelmed, upward pressure increases the risk of reflux, and you risk stomach and esophageal ulcers and gastritus. Acidic foods can also relax the lower esophageal sphincter, increasing the risk of reflux and esophageal damage.

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u/Boring_Intern_6394 15h ago

In unhealthy individuals, maybe. But in healthy individuals, stomach pH is tightly regulated via homeostatic systems, excess acidity is able to be buffered and the sphincter keeps stomach contents in the stomach.

Citric acid is a weak acid so responds well to a buffer system and because it is a weak acid, the stomach lining is well protected against it, as the tissue is evolved to deal with the strong acids used for digestion. The pH of lemon juice remains the same (2-3) whether you have 1mL or 1L and a healthy stomach can easily deal with pH 1.5 acidity.

It may aggravate pre-existing issues, but is unlikely to cause them.

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u/Stephen_Is_handsome Stephen Harris 15h ago

Does the lemons help with his thoat?

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u/Herredness16 13h ago

If I have herd it will

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u/BubiMannKuschelForce 15h ago

You can easily get a sore throat thru lemons or sour candy.

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u/Boring_Intern_6394 14h ago

Your oesophagus is not the one body part specifically adapted for high acidity

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u/BubiMannKuschelForce 6h ago

As a chemist I can asure you that lemon juice at a pH of 2 CAN irritate your throat.

We never talked about caustic destruction.

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u/cuntybunty73 17h ago

And get a stomach ache with acid reflux 😭

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u/Tiny-Reading5982 16h ago

Yeah I was addicted to oranges one year and ended up with a cavity on one of my front teeth which has never happened before.

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u/Fall_Water 10h ago

That's terrible, I'm so sorry. I love anything acidic, but my skin does not- horrible deep acne... even at 39

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u/RedToast711 16h ago

thats not enough at all dude unless maybe there using lemons almost like a retainer

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u/Fall_Water 10h ago

Or have an existing condition where they have weak enamel

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u/Snuffles689 16h ago

I rarely got sick, but the enamel on my front teeth suffered greatly.

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u/anondreamitgirl 12h ago

Equally she may turn into a lemon 🍋

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u/Apart_Ad9308 12h ago

I can say yes. My brother used to eat saladitos stuck in half a lemon. Almost ruined his teeth. A saladito is a salted, dried plum.

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u/Fall_Water 10h ago

That sounds delicious

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u/Apart_Ad9308 7h ago

They are.

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u/IdRatherProlaspe 8h ago

I did this with lemon head candy. I get really bad cotton mouth and would keep em in my cheek. They destroyed my bottom molars.

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u/m05hm05h 6h ago

Well, mix it with gin and tonic water.

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u/Level_Abrocoma8925 4h ago

Worth it to avoid scurvy.

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u/TheDayman_240 18h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/XIse2rqf1RlToHmpCu

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u/DethNik 7h ago

Hips and nips baby. Hips and nips.

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u/TheDayman_240 6h ago

You gotta make it sexy!

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u/-o-DildoGaggins-o- 13h ago

I could watch this all day. Lmao

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u/Mypitbullatemygafs 3h ago

The 10 comments above this gift are all minimized I have no contacts and I'm so confused...

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u/TopBuy404 18h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7bukdSfSk0IwPbAQ

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u/KennyLog1n 18h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/9PcAmO7CwPw6sU4b6C

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u/Puzzled-Option9785 17h ago

Eeuuuuuuughh that is tart. That is really tart

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u/Clean-Fisherman-4601 13h ago

My oldest son loved eating lemon slices when he was a child, no sugar, just plain bitter lemons.

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u/fedexpoopracer 7h ago

I can't imagine he had any enamel left

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u/RatFabulous99 7h ago

Are you my mom by chance?

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u/operationpantydrop 18h ago

YOURE MAKING OUT WITH MY DOG

I know people shit on that episode but it has some genuinely big laughs in it

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u/gunsdrugsreddit 17h ago

“See, I’m from the streets, and now I’m gonna poke you full of holes.”

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u/LifeguardDry7372 18h ago

Does my scar look like a dogs vagina? you know maybe, Idk I'm not gonna sit here and try to get inside the mind of a dog. I mean that's gods work... (different ep but this made me think of it)

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u/OutrageousGrocery700 17h ago

I’m happy I came on to Reddit today

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u/GaiaOnlinee 18h ago

What was last month’s?

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u/mordecai98 18h ago

International Talk Like A Pirate Day is September 19, this is a great time to pregame vitamin C!

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u/EaglesGuy_52 16h ago

Nor will 149 of your closest friends. 😁. Alternatively, you could make a mint running a lemonade stand!

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u/Electrical-Speech-39 19h ago

I have a citrus allergy and when I was a kid my classmates would always ask how I didn’t get scurvy

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u/sam-sung-sv 18h ago

Or kidney Stones.

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u/Whatiswatt 18h ago

Well, at least life ain’t giving you much lemons

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u/Peaches4U2 18h ago

I can't link, but P!nk singing, "We got scurvy!" is my favorite.

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u/djpike 18h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/CrazyFoxLady37 17h ago

Sadly, they'll lose all their teeth anyway from all that acid!

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u/tulipz10 17h ago

I wish I was as quick as you. Best comment!

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u/internet-darling 16h ago

When life gives you 150 lemons instead of a hot dog

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u/HeroXeroV 16h ago

What is she, lemon-crazy?

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u/Kumba_Man 15h ago

Best comment i have seen ao far.. you're the

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u/Organic_Ad_2520 15h ago

😂😂😂

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u/TricellCEO 15h ago

A pirate’s not worthy
Until he’s got some scurvy

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u/BrilliantLeopard1922 14h ago

Scurvy terrifies me because I have ALOT of scars. If they open up I may actually just fall apart. Or at least my insides would become my outsides. Not a first but still unpleasant 

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u/13143 ERD 14h ago

Urrggghhhh that is- that is tart! That is really tart. I mean does my scar look like a dog's vagina? You know, maybe, I don't know, I'm not going to sit here and try to get inside the mind of a dog! I mean that's God's work. Well, not that I believe in God, I don't. Not since that chinaman stole my kidney.

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u/MarcoYTVA 13h ago

Is a vitamin c overdose better?

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u/LunaPetal_lady 12h ago

Exactly, gotta keep the vitamin C levels up somehow 😂

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u/WeAreHumanBeing 11h ago

I actually know a guy who got scurvy a couple years ago. He basically didn't eat food. Just drank soda for a month straight.

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u/Cetiketat 10h ago

Hmm, what do you mean by that

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u/rjross0623 9h ago

Best laugh I’ve had in a while. Take my free award!

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u/Teredia 8h ago

A 6 year old just died of Scurvy in Australia. He had never eaten fruits or vegetables in his life! It wasn’t made clear if he had ARFID or negligence in the article.

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u/mutt63 8h ago

Or scuzzy

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u/thalvo8 7h ago

Paging Yolanda Foster and Shannon Beador!

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u/Secret_Wrangler9211 5h ago

Ahoy matey! Your fridge is officially ready for a 6-month transatlantic voyage.

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u/Mother_Cloud_2455 2h ago

That good. The teeth don't go back in! Iykyk

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u/Sakbrat1 37m ago

🍋🍋🤣😂🤣😂🤣

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u/NeedsMoreCatsPlease 1m ago

Interestingly enough our ED saw a case recently and we were all pretty amazed to see that in 2026

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u/Impossible_Regret725 16h ago

Canuck here, I had a boyfriend from Kenya who didn't eat much produce (He is Massai) and thought we were nuts with the scurvy issue. We had a good laugh when my friend asked how they prevented it and the boyfriend succinctly told her "we eat chicken!" Friend was confused and replied with "so the chickens drink orange juice?". It was one of those times when you forget how different life can be throughout the world. I loved in being the audience for this conversation.