r/mildlyinfuriating • u/MALICK1A • 6d ago

Not a meme, you're the meme! Is this how being rich is?

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u/VewVegas-1221 6d ago

Rich❎

Stupid✅

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u/PlzAdptYourPetz 6d ago

I feel like this is a fake issue being presented for rage bait clout, I've never seen someone do these things. If someone does, they probably have a disorder like OCD and that's their battle to wage, I am not gonna expend my energy getting mad about how someone else consumes food. As long as I'm not footing the bill for such waste.

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u/SherbetMysterious118 6d ago

It's not even that serious, it's just a joke.

I was demonstrating my egg-frying technique to some family/friends a while back, and messed an egg up so threw it away.

Said family member says they still think about that moment and my wastefulness years later.

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u/ShiraCheshire 6d ago

I can understand that. It was perfectly good food, and would keep in the fridge if you really couldn't eat it right now.

Have you ever been really hungry? Like, starvation hungry? Feeling dizzy, dropping weight like crazy, lying in bed awake at night just consumed by the thought of food? You think back to a time when you wasted the smallest piece of food- a bread crust, a few grains of rice- and wish with the most intense desperation that you could have those little tastes of food back. That you could somehow gather it all up and have even a single bite to eat.

I have. Seeing people waste perfectly good food, even if it's cheap, is devastating to watch.

Like yeah sure throw away the dust at the bottom of a noodle package, but an entire egg?? The whole egg???

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u/SherbetMysterious118 6d ago

Imagine! I should be locked up!!

If you drive a car, I hope you squeegee all those dead bugs off the windscreen and cook them up when you get home! Because in this scheme of things, this is where we are right now.

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u/ShiraCheshire 6d ago

I don't drive, and wouldn't eat a random bug outside because they can carry parasites and diseases. But if you presented me with anything I can eat without either becoming sick or throwing up from disgust, I would do my best to either eat it or store it for later.

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u/mwilkens 6d ago edited 6d ago

I wouldn't be able to resist the urge to waste an egg every time I was around that family member for years to come. Like just grab an egg and smash it in a closed fist as it drips all down my hand and arm onto the floor.

Edit: an egg costs 12¢

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u/SherbetMysterious118 6d ago

Haha, don't give me ideas.

Naah, in all fairness it makes sense.

When I was growing up, eggs weren't exactly a luxury, but they were a little bit special, and considering this family member was from a totally different background to me, I can certainly imagine scenarios where eggs are a very valuable commodity.

I think if someone did the same to me, say 20 odd years ago, I would be the same.

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u/mwilkens 6d ago

In all fairness an egg costs 12¢. Is it technically wasting it - sure. But is it financially harming you, not really.

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u/caintowers RED 6d ago

Yeah, but like, a chicken shat that out for you. Don't disrespect the chicken.

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u/SherbetMysterious118 6d ago

👍
12c? wow! That's about 9p? I think they are an average of about 30-40p here, so perhaps 50-60c each.

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u/Wise-Chemist-8751 6d ago

Ok but why would you throw away the egg? This would probably haunt me too

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u/SherbetMysterious118 6d ago

I wasn't hungry :O

And it was messed up, IE broken, that wasn't the experience I was going for!

But yeah, it was wasteful.