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[-] guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago
[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago

I think it's like, "You get what you pay for." but I'm not really sure either.

[-] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's a classic simple joke probably decades old, but the humor is in the implication they want a bigger portion of something bad. Edit: ah it seems to be from the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4151-there-s-an-old-joke---um-two-elderly-women-are

There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.

[-] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago

Ah I get it now. I think it’s a joke that’s more obvious if you’ve never been poor. I suppose quality and quantity are not necessarily connected in the same way for everyone.

[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

Commenting again to say, I don't know if it's the baader-meinhof phenomenon or not, but I just read an ingredient label and, "tocopherol" got stuck in my head for the past 2 days... Just now, and I usually don't do this, but I went back to check your username after replying & hey, what's up vitamin E? Lol

[-] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

Haha I forgot it even meant that, I did just pick it at random from a food label :p

[-] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

To me the comments make sense?

If you're going to have lower quality food I'd expect the portion to be bigger than a fine dining restaurant where the food quality is high but the portion size is expected to be smaller.

[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

That's really beautiful... in a sick, sad, & apt sort of way.

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