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/ElcidBarrett 16h ago

When I was growing up in the 90s and 00s, my parents always put an orange in my stocking. I never quite got it, but it was apparently quite the treat when they were growing up.

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u/Negative_Fruit_1800 16h ago

We could only get fruit in season back then so getting an orange at Christmas was like the holy grail.

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u/Hiraeth1968 48m ago

Cue the scene in the Godfather of the Don buying fruit.

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u/Serious-Fun7379 1m ago

I swear that, and walnuts in the shell were part of the reason I was so desperate to move to CA from DC. NEVER looked back

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u/SpaceGypsy27 15h ago

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u/Hiraeth1968 49m ago

I was born in the late 60s. I remember my parents buying a box of oranges and grapefruit every year and keeping it in our front closet because it was cool in there. Those were the sweetest grapefruit I ever had. I, too, got an orange in the toe of my stocking each year.