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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
Haha I forgot it even meant that, I did just pick it at random from a food label :p
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.
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.
That’s really beautiful… in a sick, sad, & apt sort of way.