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arctanthrope@lemmy.world · 91 pts · 13d (18 replies)

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

LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works · 49 pts · 13d (1 reply)

I am a slut for cheesecake

eurodyne@piefed.world · 6 pts · 13d

Oh my goooooood……

curbstickle@anarchist.nexus · 18 pts · 13d (2 replies)

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.zip · 3 pts · 13d

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.

somethingsnappy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 13d

I'm not gluten free, bur I hate cheesecake. Just add sugar to old cream cheese with no crust. Problem solved.

huquad@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 13d

That's way too much for cheesecake, who's your cake guy?

turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 13d

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).

scytale@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 13d

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.

protist@retrofed.com · 3 pts · 13d (2 replies)

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 pts · 13d

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.world · 2 pts · 13d

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?

theedqueen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 13d (3 replies)

You can freeze leftover cheesecake.

darkdemize@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 13d

Leftover cheesecake is my new favorite oxymoron.

LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 13d

I can attest that you cannot freeze leftover cheesecake simply because there never is any left over

fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com · 1 pts · 12d

I've never heard of this kind of cheesecake

SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 13d

Cake mix is $5.

PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 13d

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.

eurodyne@piefed.world · 1 pts · 13d
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9point6@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 13d (1 reply)
OddDeer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 13d

There really is one for everything huh

Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au · 30 pts · 13d (3 replies)

Then you do it, and your body punishes you for it this time, instead of your parents.

snowsuit2654@piefed.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 13d (2 replies)

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 😆

Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au · 5 pts · 13d (1 reply)

Yeah, your body will only accept so much sugar before everything gets out of whack

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 13d

If the smell of your pee drives you out of the bathroom, you might be eating too much sugar.

JoShmoe@ani.social · 25 pts · 13d (2 replies)

But can you consume the cake without suffering consequences?

DmMacniel@feddit.org · 9 pts · 13d

The consequence is that there won't be any cake left, right?

TheSambassador@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 13d

The me with cake in me is a better me than the me without cake in me. There is no suffering from cake.

hedge_lord@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 13d (1 reply)

Ah but you see I bike there, which means that it is healthy! Fitness is my passion.

Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 13d

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.works · 16 pts · 13d (7 replies)

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.

quarkquasar@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 13d (4 replies)

The child in me screams for cake

The stomach in my adult body screams for pepto

nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 13d (3 replies)

What's pepto?

quarkquasar@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 13d (1 reply)

Pepto-Bismol.

Using science to fight bad decisions. It's the American way.

Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 13d

buying poison and buying medicine to maximise profit

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 13d

Bismuth subsalicylate, or pink bismuth.

oppy1984@lemdro.id · 3 pts · 13d

Yep, if I really want cake I'll pay the ridiculous price for a single slice. Yes it's expensive, but it's cheaper than buying a whole cake, and I know after that one piece I won't want anymore for a long time.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 13d

i just take breaks in my cake eating binge to binge tacos. get enough protein in there and you're fine.

Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 13d

I can do it without a car.

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 12d (8 replies)

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.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 12d

This is a lie

CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 12d (4 replies)

I actually installed it this week to give it another go, this timing is golden haha

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 12d (3 replies)

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.lol · 6 pts · 12d (2 replies)

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 pts · 12d (1 reply)

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.lol · 4 pts · 12d

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

white_nrdy@programming.dev · 4 pts · 12d (1 reply)

Are you a lab mouse?

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 12d

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.

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 13d (1 reply)

This is a dangerous realization for some.

protist@retrofed.com · 5 pts · 13d

CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 13d

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

Doomsider@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 13d

Nice try cake making industry.

kyub@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 13d (7 replies)

As a kid, you have the time but not the money.

As an adult, you have the money but not the time.

skisnow@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 13d (2 replies)

or the metabolism

boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 13d (1 reply)

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 pts · 13d

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 pts · 13d (3 replies)

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".

gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org · 7 pts · 13d (1 reply)

for me it's not that i think that i shouldn't, but i can't. i just cannot ingest that much sugar at once, i get really bad feelings from that!

mig@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 13d

My knee swells up. Highfive, we're old.

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 13d

I started feeling like an adult when I stopped doing things just because my mother had told me not to.

PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 12d (1 reply)

Pouring one out for all the folks out there who have to get in a car to go to a bakery

LodeMike@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 12d

Yeah! I get baked at home!

mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 13d (1 reply)

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 pts · 13d

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"

modestmeme@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 13d

Forgetting is sometimes a survival instinct

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 9 pts · 13d

I sometimes want to do this but then I realize I can make a better cake myself.

TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 13d (6 replies)

I had a patient who almost died from acute pancreatitis after eating 3 pounds of fudge in one sitting. So your pancreas may not stop you from buying or eating the cake, it can definitely stop you from doing it twice.

cheers_queers@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 13d (3 replies)

when i first moved out, i realized i could fry and eat an entire pound of bacon in one night. i found out that just because you can, doesnt mean you should. lmao

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 13d

Shit, I could eat a pound of bacon while standing at the stove frying a pound of bacon.

TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 13d

Gotta make that blood nice and thick.

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 13d

There was a semester in college where I basically lived off fried chicken, fried potatoes, and bismuth subsalicylate. I don't ever want to live that way again.

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 13d (1 reply)

Shit, in my fat phases over the years I would eat in the neighborhood of 6000 calories a day (I would be literally gaining a pound a day since that's 3500 calories over my normal daily intake). It's easy to do when you can basically inhale a box of Little Debbie's zebra cakes in one sitting. It never really occurred to me that I was literally risking immediate death from this behavior.

TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 13d

Well, a pound of fudge is a bit over 2k calories, so this guy was doing 6k calories in like an hour. The dangerous part was that like over half of those calories are from fat. So what you were doing prob wasn't great , but not likely to cause acute pancreatitis.

snoons@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 13d

Except the beetus demon.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 13d (1 reply)

When I was kid, I loved bananas, but my mom wouldn't buy them because she felt they were too expensive, so bananas became even more rare and precious to me.

I grew up, got my own place, and did my own grocery shopping. I remember walking through the grocery store, and passing the bananas, thinking they were too expensive, but I noticed they were 69 cents a pound. That didn't seem so much, so I weighed a few, and it was less that 2 pounds. I could buy a bunch of bananas for $1.50! That wasn't so much!

So I bought the bananas. That was many years ago, and I still buy bananas almost every shopping trip. That preciousness still exists though. Whenever I eat a banana, it feels like I'm eating a candy bar.

wieson@feddit.org · 3 pts · 12d

Did you grow up in East Germany? xD

darthelmet@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 13d

The death of innocence is reaching the point where you could do that, but it wouldn’t even make you happy because of health reasons.

Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 13d

You could make one too.

anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 13d (1 reply)

Can also bake one.

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 12d

On top of probably tasting better, it's also more fun.

doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 8 pts · 13d (5 replies)

As an adult, I can't stand cake and refuse to eat it no matter whose birthday or wedding or whatever it is, and I don't care who I piss off.

darkdemize@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 13d (1 reply)

Of all the opinions I've ever heard, this is certainly one of them.

Darkmuch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 13d

I can kind of get it when overly generous people bring in food and want everyone to eat and join in the good vibes. Some can be rather pushy. But definitely too extreme.

MimicJar@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 13d (1 reply)

Why would I be pissed that you don't eat cake? That's more cake for me.

village604@adultswim.fan · 9 pts · 13d

People get oddly offended about that sort of thing.

Lemminary@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 13d

I hate this about growing up. Once you can do the thing, you no longer wanna. :(

SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 13d

Every time I see this meme, I get sad that there's nobody selling cake in my car. But also glad, because why would they be in there?

daannii@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 13d

I buy myself a 8 inch cake one day a year. My birthday.

I'm in my 40s. But I love cake. But cake not great for health.

1 cake is acceptable.

HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 12d (1 reply)

Bypass that drama and eat the icing straight from the jar.

rmuk@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 12d

"Eat the icing from the jar" in the style of "let the bodies hit the floor".

AA5B@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 13d (1 reply)

Huh …. Then I remember all those cakes I made as a kid with my moms help were so much better than crap from a grocery, but I no longer have time or practice to do that

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 13d

The girls that lived across the street from me had an Easy-Bake oven. Even as a kid I knew those little cakes were fucking terrible. I ate them anyway. Thank god for LED lightbulbs.

sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 13d

This is one of the best parts of adulthood. And drinking out of the milk carton. Often these things go together. 😉

eurodyne@piefed.world · 4 pts · 13d

It’s 2026. I can literally say, “hey Siri order me a chocolate cake” and a chocolate cake will be delivered to me in 15 to 20 minutes.

Now that I think of it, right now is the perfect time for a chocolate cake…

kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 13d

Cake store closed :(

DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 13d

You can choose an afternoon of sweet tastes followed by sugar crashing, tweaking and twitching on the couch and extending the habits of early onset diabetes.

It will take you years of disciplined exercise to reverse the effects!

jambudz@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 12d (3 replies)

A good cake is like $60. Who got money for that?

Etterra@discuss.online · 4 pts · 12d (1 reply)

They said cake; they did not specify good cake.

JIMMERZ@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 12d

Cheap cake is still cake. It eats the same.

LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 12d

I'm thinking that I might be making a ridiculously moist chocolate cake in my future. I'm thinking last week of September, I'm sure I could make it for $20 I hope haha

ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 13d

Right up until I consult my bank account. That stops me

TomMasz@piefed.social · 3 pts · 13d (1 reply)

Your wallet may disagree.

CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 12d

My local supermarket has a lot of fresh cake in stock, usually half of the display is 40% off because of the expiration date is "today" or some goof held the box at a silly angle causing a visually ruined cake.

I'll happily snack away on the poor whip cream squashed sugary treat. Especially when it's super cheap.

MajesticTechie@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 13d

I've done this for a while. I'll just buy a birthday cake and snack on it. 33 now, still skinny... But for how long 😬

Obnomus@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 13d

Lifetime of healthy eating discipline made me think that this is gross. Forgive me op.

JIMMERZ@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 12d

I once did this. I went to a grocery store and picked out a chocolate cake, brought it up to the checkout and the cashier asked me “what’s the cake for, special occasion?”. To which I replied “nah, it’s for eating.” No more words were exchanged.

m3t00@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 12d

walking to the car all happy. also some chocolate ice cream and a party hat 🔺

UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 13d

Diabetus, by L Ron Hubbard

https://youtu.be/N595TpC1-Fg

Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 13d

I eat my dessert first...cause no one can tell me no and I'll still be hungry for an entree afterwards...

Kanda@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 12d

If you always forget it, does that mean you're trapped in an eternal loop of remembering and then instantly forgetting it again?

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 13d

I forget this on purpose, just like how I can just make one myself and my wife won't stop me

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