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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

Reminds me of that "how much sawdust can you put in rice krispies before someone notices" thing.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The piss one would probably sell alot actually...

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

As shown by the fact that people buy beer made in the US

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Spoken like someone that's never had U.S. beer that isn't one of the mass produced ones like Miller, Bud, etc.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The craft brew movement was great right up until it got a bit too successful. Now a bunch of the indies have been gobbled up. Anheuser-Busch InBev has bought up Goose Island, Elysian, Devils Backbone, and Karbach, just to name a few of note.

Sapporo famously bought up century-old Anchor Brewery during COVID, tried to convert their steam-beer brewing equipment into Japanese style production, failed, and ended up shuttering the plant.

Then you've got the Sam Adams and Coors success stories, which ultimately ended up becoming more of the same big labels. If you've ever actually been to Boston or Denver, you can still get the more traditionally made beers and they're miles ahead of the generic crap distributed nationally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

In the Midwest there's still lots of local breweries that are good

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

Oh American beer is piss, haven't heard that tired joke before. You should try different beer that isn't Coors or miller sometime

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Do they do factory tours?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Depends whose piss is advertised.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

As long as you called it Trump Piss.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

where's the lemonade stand that has a side hustle of nuclear/chemical waste disposal?

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

This is completely absurd, why would they want to make the straws last longer?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Use paper straws for greenwashing, people complain that they're shit, they add in the chemicals

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Because then you'd really have to suck to enjoy capitalist cost cutting lemonade.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's not dilluted so much as, this cheap cancer inducing chemical can flavor it strongly for not much money... But we know it's associated with cancer... Good thing we own the FDA too.

.... and then they make a lot of money.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

There should be a third panel with text from this HB comment:

Even more reality:

Capitalist 1: I launched a fascist coup in el salvador to gain easier access for tropical fruits

Capitalist 2: I cut away all my lemonade production to invest in AI

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

that "original" is translated from somewhere as well. did this meme go full circle?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I believe the English one is the original. The "original" one (the one in Chinese) was probably translated from English.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The piss and pink hair make reference to Belle Delphine's bath water sale, right?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

It had just been long enough that I forgot about that shit. Now you had to go and remind me.

I return the favor.

THE GAME

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I couldn't help myself...

Edit - probably should have left "Reality:" in. See revised meme below.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To all the people downvoting: plastering the political compass in contexts where it makes no fucking sense is a kind of ironic humor meant to highlight the reductive nature of judging political ideology by two axes. It's a shitpost, and a top-tier one at that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

- Immanuel Kant, Critic of the political compass shitposts

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

I think it's more like

Red: State owned brewery is best

Blue: I diluted mine for more profit

Green: mine is just piss (horny)

Yellow: mine is just piss (no sanitation laws)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Authentic horseco piss or the imitation shit

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

Honestly, there's some HFCS bullshit, but mostly storebought lemonade seems to be just lemon juice and cane sugar.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because of food safety regulations

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Food safety regulations don't ban dilution.

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

I don't wanna get into a fight over this, but they do regulate dilution. At least where I'm from.

It can only be called "juice" if it has got at least x% of juice in it. If it's made from concentrate, it says so on the front.

Companies mustn't lie about the percentage of juice content and all ingredients are listed on the back in order of content.

In the UK, there's a sugar tax, so that's another form of regulation.

Customers may decide whether they want to buy 25% or 100% juice, but this competition only works because of the rules I listed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Lemonade in particular is very low % juice. Dunno exactly but probably above 10% it starts tasting too strong.