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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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??
