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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Sometimes you don't have sugar or water onhand and can't actually make lemonade. You just gotta eat the lemons. It sucks but you gotta.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Throw them at the clown who gave them to you while you were asking for something to eat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Make lemonade. - Get mad!! Make life take the lemons back!!

dramatic crossroads

When life gives you lemons...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Demand to see life’s manager! Invent combustible lemons and burn life’s house down!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Make love

Not war

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Cave Johnson answered that but I can't recall and quote all that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

If life also gives you copper wire and a USB-C plug, you could make a comically large and inefficient charger.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Salted preserved lemons are delicious. Quarter them lengthwise but not all the way to the end, then smash them down into a jar with lots of salt, pack in as many as you can. Seal it up and give it a shake off and on for a few days, then leave it in the refrigerator for a month. Yum. Use the peels in cooking, they are salty, sour, bright tasting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Build a lemon cannon and fire them right back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I agree. Give them to this person. ^^

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I mean, you make lemonade. Not just because of the adage, but because lemonade is delicious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Make lemonade.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I like to buy discounted old lemons. I wrap them up and toss them in the freezer. They thaw ugly but are still good for cooking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Good idea In what do you wrap them? Aluminium foil? Or caj I put them in freezer bags?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Plastic wrap, but a freezer bag with the air squeezed out would work too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Squeeze half of the lemon, put it into shaker. Add a lot of ice and two teaspoons of powdered sugar. Shake it hard. Pour everything into a glass and add 5cl of gin. Steer it gently and enjoy your gin fix.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is that like a gin Old-Fashioned?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I know it as "gin fix".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Make lemon cake 🍰

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'll do you one further : Cocainade

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Hell yes, rocket propelled cocainades

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Does it work on a frying pan (without oil, of course)? Asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes! You can put them facedown while you're roasting a chicken in the pan, for example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Thank you! I'm gonna do it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

"Alright lemons, I'm asking the questions round here, you got that?”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's amazing. The sugars caramelize and the bitterness falls away, leaving you with the perfect accompaniment to grilled meats or veggies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Sounds cool but also sacrilege.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

pull out the zester and take off that outer rine. slice it into haves and squeeze out all of the juice, and throw the pulp away. sprinkle the juice over a nice piece of fish and some salad. cook the fish and serve the salad. problems solved.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Find a fuck-load of sugar and carbonated water

Good luck :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The last time life gave me lemons, I gave them to someone starving on the streets.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Honestly if I was homeless and someone handed me a lemon… like, just a lemon… desperate times I guess

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

No risk of scurvy at least.

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