• arctanthrope@lemmy.world
    90·
    9 天前

    I sometimes remember this, but then I get to the store and a cheesecake is $17 and I suddenly remember I don’t actually need it that bad

    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      18·
      9 天前

      Unfortunately I need to be gluten free.

      Which makes it a $35 cheesecake thats also smaller. Fuck you shoprite, and fuck you gastrointestinal system in my body.

      • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipEnglish
        3·
        9 天前

        I know the pain. Reminds me of my last road trip, where the best hot food option available was a pizza place that charged an extra $4 for a chickpea crust. $19 for a tiny, shittier pizza. No, thanks. Doritos and soda FTL.

    • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
      3·
      9 天前

      My local grocery store’s bakeshop sometimes puts up an 8-inch boston cream cake for only $12. I don’t know why it’s so cheap (a similar sized chocolate cake is $18-$22), but I can’t stop myself from buying it when it’s available. I can’t believe a cake that good costs just $12.

    • turtlesareneat@piefed.caEnglish
      3·
      9 天前

      Key lime pie is our benchmark, a new brand will appear for $7.99 or something, and then 3 weeks later they hike the price up to $14. I am not eating a $14 key lime pie from Kroger. Fuck right off with that.

      It’s funny tho how junk food like pies, cakes, and especially CANDY have taken such an inflationary hike - it’s definitely got me eating better, and I am kind of glad for it (and we prove yet again that excise taxes work towards public health, these ones were just done for profit instead of funding waterways or clean air or some shit).

    • protist@retrofed.comEnglish
      3·
      9 天前

      The main ingredient in cheesecake is cream cheese, and you need like 2 lbs (32 oz) for an average cake, so that’s immediately like $9 before all other ingredients

      • cheers_queers@lemmy.zip
        4·
        9 天前

        yeah my mom makes cheesecakes to sell and never goes under 30 bucks. but i can guarantee it will be the best cheesecake of your life, and that is independantly verified

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 天前

        At LiDL or Aldi an 8 oz. brick of cream cheese is like $1.50, so a little less. What blows my mind is that a 16 oz. plastic tub of cream cheese is like $8 at most places. Like, why the fuck does the plastic tub make it 5X as expensive?

    • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 天前

      Idk, depends how good it is. In today’s market, ≤$2/serving is actually pretty good even for middling handmade baked goods. One slice at a restaurant would be 3 times that, on the low end, the high end could be the whole $17 or more. But also, yeah, no one needs cheesecake lol.

    • snowsuit2654@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      10·
      9 天前

      I remember one time as a young adult eating a cake for dinner, paired with a large beer.

      I realized in the midst of my severe tummy ache that perhaps there are reasons why my parents didn’t let me do such things 😆

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 天前

      I run often, and unfortunately it’s a lot harder to stay thin as I’m pushing 40 than it was when I was pushing 20. And by stay thin I mean stay average.

      Kurzgesagt had a good video on exercise that basically talked about how, if you exercise regularly, your body basically doesn’t burn the calories the same. If you’re a couch potato and then you start to exercise, you will get a benefit, but then there’s diminishing returns from continuing to exercise, to the point your body now says “hey, this is my new normal,” and essentially burns the same calories whether you’re on the couch or exercising. There’s a lot more nuance to it in the video.

      It seems we’re all doomed to just get old.

  • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    9 天前

    As an adult I’ve had enough stomach aches, and gained enough belly fat, and developed enough of a palette, to viscerally dislike eating lots of cake.

  • CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world
    15·
    9 天前

    Tried this once while watching Matilda when I got to that scene. Paused it and went to the store and bought a gallon of milk, then stopped by portillos and got a chocolate cake.

    Later that night I had big regrets

  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
    15·
    8 天前

    One time I was promised cake if I just did a series of tests on a prototype, though the tests seemed more like they were testing my problem solving skills rather than the prototype itself.

    Anyways, the cake was great, so delicious and moist.

    It was overall a very rewarding experience that I recommend everyone sign up for.

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
        4·
        8 天前

        I’m trying to nudge my daughter into playing it, but I guess I shared too many other interesting looking games with the family. A Game About Digging A Hole caught her eye first lol.

        • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
          6·
          8 天前

          My son had beaten both Portal & Portal 2: before his fourth birthday. He’s 16 now and I guess he likes cats.

          • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
            3·
            8 天前

            Lol at that age I remember my daughter thinking Mario Kart was like a movie where you picked your character and their vehicle, then watched them race (because auto steer and accelerate were on, which is good enough to finish middle of the pack, at least for 50cc).

            These days she spends most of her gaming time on Minecraft.

            • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
              4·
              8 天前

              My son still plays Roblox at 16. And other games, but he has some friends who like to play Roblox together.

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
        7·
        8 天前

        Aperture Science doesn’t test on animals, all tests are ethically done on humans, of which I am one who is definitely still alive after finishing all the tests and full of cake.

  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    9 天前

    what’s the relevance of the car. who is selling cakes in their car? do they eat the cake in the car? is this an american thing?

    • Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      8 天前

      option C)

      Instead of “I will do such-n-such”, they have to say “I will get in my car and do such-n-such”

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
        7·
        8 天前

        It’s the metabolism one.

        I could consume 4000 kcal most days as a teenager without putting on weight. That is no longer the case and adjusting has been difficult. I’d need to go near 2000 to lose weight.

        • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
          2·
          8 天前

          Yeah, as a kid in high school, one of my go-to high snacks was an Entenmann’s All Butter French Crumb Cake (~1740 calories) and a half gallon of 2% milk (~950 calories). It wasn’t an everyday thing, but I’d house it no problem, and it wasn’t the only thing I’d eat that day. I also swam competitively, although as I’ve grown older I’ve learned that it’s essentially unrelated, and that your metabolism is just your metabolism, essentially regardless if your activity levels. I had trouble breaking 140 pounds at 5’8.

          That all stopped. It’s pretty incredible how it all just stops. I’m still fairly active, but I wouldn’t consider eating more than a serving at this point, and I instead have trouble cracking 165 (except from above this time). Oh well, this is life.

    • cRazi_man@europe.pub
      8·
      8 天前

      I use the example in the meme a lot. As adults we’re in a post-scarcity mindset. If you tell a kid you can eat chocolate ice cream for 3 meals a day and don’t do it because you don’t want to (because you know you shouldn’t), it would blow their minds. You’re growing up when you get access to things and stop thinking “if you can” and start thinking “if you should”.