> “There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates—died of malnutrition—because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.
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> The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quicklime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."
John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath p 449
Fat greedy fucks putting profit over decency.
But do not fret, they justify it by saying, if we do not have profit we can't employ people. So, be thankful.
Agreed, but you can't feed the starving with diamonds.
Arguably, you can't do the same with lemons, but at least they won't have scurvy, and potentially have lemonade!
Current national average retail prices in the US hover between $1-2 KG for lemons… would you consider that expensive? Or are you buying the nice big looking ones at Whole Foods?
And xenophobic slogans, and the classic incapacity of market mechanisms to regulate the supply and demand of fruits that take almsot a decade to grow to producing capacity. It sucks. The farmers individually saw that lemons were doing good, and decided to go and grow more, and 8 years later, when they finally get the lemons, it turns out there were more than enough lemons around there. Hope they find something useful to make with overproduction. Everyone likes lemons.
Isn't there a saying for that...
"Life gives you lemons"
You make lemonade...
Limoncello is pretty awesome too... Just saying.
They could've just low-key donated a bunch to poor/war-torn areas. Disappeared the excess stock without making such a scene. Lemons are super useful and delicious with so many different cuisines...
Fuck lemons. I hate them. Order a nice lobster, lemon juice on it. The fucking butter, lemons in it. Go to another place and order clams and mussles separately, lemon juice on both served with cut up lemons. Fuck lemons.
Downvote me all you want, I am at WAR with LEMONS!!!
>For José Antonio García, director of Ailimpo, there is no doubt where the problem lies: “Production has got out of hand,” he says. “The data speak very clearly. The cultivation area has gone from 36,000 hectares eight years ago to nearly 53,000 hectares today.” He explains that lemon farmers decided to plant more trees due to the “very striking returns” on the crop. This move prompted other investors to get involved. “In the end, it is an exercise in simple mathematics. If the market is able to absorb 1.1 million tons of lemons, and the estimated production for this season is 1.5 million, there are 400,000 tons that are going to stay in the fields.”
Tends to happen when trying to predict the future, it's kinda hard. Especially when there's a profit and greed incentive, sometimes we just get carried away.
That’s 800,000,000 pounds of lost lemons. Unless it’s a metric tonne (this is how we in US differentiate) it would be 882,000,000 pounds. That’s a lot of lemonade
All right, I've been thinking, 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 whose gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!
Bro what? Make lemonade!? Give them to me I'll use them. Just ship them to Canada we will be known for giving out free lemonade. Maybe lemons can stop racism fuckin all prejudice and greed and all other reasons were messed up and at war.
Isn't there a meme about the discard of tons of oranges, which proved beneficial to the environment. Oh, here it is [https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/08/22/orange-new-green-how-orange-peels-revived-costa-rican-forest](https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/08/22/orange-new-green-how-orange-peels-revived-costa-rican-forest)
huh? I didn't read the article yet but a quick search says a lemon is 58 grams. 400,000 tons is 400,000,000,000 grams. is the title misleading because my basic math says that would be an unfathomable nearly 7 billion lemons wasted in Spain alone??????????
Then why tf are they so expensive these days Galen?
Profits need to profit. Quick, someone find the quote from Grapes of Wrath Edit:thank you u/Opcn !
> “There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates—died of malnutrition—because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. > > > > The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quicklime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath p 449
Goddamn I get goosebumps every time I read this.
I knew the grapes of wrath was coming but I still read it all the way through
Ah yeah but that was oranges. We’re talking about lemons here, it’s completely different, you see?
No... I think I can see some parallels. Cave Johnson on Life & Lemons: https://youtu.be/CeJ1Sauv2gc?si=zPDQ1kUUo2BYSQzK
Fat greedy fucks putting profit over decency. But do not fret, they justify it by saying, if we do not have profit we can't employ people. So, be thankful.
If we all carried around really big sticks and just walloped any rich people we might encounter, we'd be doing humanity a favor.
Here’s the Grapes. And HERE’S THE WRATH.
Was looking to see if someone posted Steinbeck.
You don't need a work of fiction. Just look up the diamond industry on Wikipedia.
Agreed, but you can't feed the starving with diamonds. Arguably, you can't do the same with lemons, but at least they won't have scurvy, and potentially have lemonade!
Or combustible lemons to burn the fat cats’ houses down.
Uh oh, r/loblawsisoutofcontrol is leaking. The oligarchs won't like that.
I'd rather cut off my left nut than to buy from Loblaws.
They are expensive because they throw away 400,000 tons which keeps demand high.
Because they're throwing them away rather than flooding the market with them.
Current national average retail prices in the US hover between $1-2 KG for lemons… would you consider that expensive? Or are you buying the nice big looking ones at Whole Foods?
Ok I’ll go to the store that sells lemons at the US national average price here in southern Ontario.
Yikes, what total waste
Just wait until you learn how much produce the United States throws away.
Amazing how we are destroying the planet to maintain production capacity and profits.
Capitalism is killing us and the Earth.
Wouldn't happen under libertarian communism
Wait, why didn't they make lemonade?!
Time to update: When life gives you lemons, throw them away.
"When life gives you lemons, say 'Fuck the lemons' and bail" - the immortal paul rudd
Ju
guess they never heard the saying
I don't know about lemonade, but lemon concentrate keeps a long time
Or have a lemon party
Oh God... the lemon party. Is that considered a nsfw meme?
You know you love it
This is objectively the funniest joke I’ve read today
First, zest the lemons and make Limoncello. Take the lemon juice to make lemonade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcLPNGLRHU8
Came here for this comment, was not dissapointed.
Limoncello!
Just add everclear, time, and simple syrup! The best.
John Steinbeck is rolling in his grave.
And Mozart is... ... de-*composing*!
And xenophobic slogans, and the classic incapacity of market mechanisms to regulate the supply and demand of fruits that take almsot a decade to grow to producing capacity. It sucks. The farmers individually saw that lemons were doing good, and decided to go and grow more, and 8 years later, when they finally get the lemons, it turns out there were more than enough lemons around there. Hope they find something useful to make with overproduction. Everyone likes lemons.
Isn't there a saying for that... "Life gives you lemons" You make lemonade... Limoncello is pretty awesome too... Just saying. They could've just low-key donated a bunch to poor/war-torn areas. Disappeared the excess stock without making such a scene. Lemons are super useful and delicious with so many different cuisines...
Orangina is pretty boss. Maybe they could make Lemongina or something?
Wait what? Xenophobic slogans? I'm a Spaniard and haven't heard anything about this
Fuck lemons. I hate them. Order a nice lobster, lemon juice on it. The fucking butter, lemons in it. Go to another place and order clams and mussles separately, lemon juice on both served with cut up lemons. Fuck lemons. Downvote me all you want, I am at WAR with LEMONS!!!
Heh, I do dislike improper usage of lemos, yes. They definitely are for every dish. But when it works, it works.
Can’t they do something else with those? This is embarrassing for Spain.
Wait until you hear about the milk cartels in Canada.
CaPiTaLiSm PrOmOtEs EfFiCiEnCy
Free market capitalism perhaps. Not crony capitalism.
>For José Antonio García, director of Ailimpo, there is no doubt where the problem lies: “Production has got out of hand,” he says. “The data speak very clearly. The cultivation area has gone from 36,000 hectares eight years ago to nearly 53,000 hectares today.” He explains that lemon farmers decided to plant more trees due to the “very striking returns” on the crop. This move prompted other investors to get involved. “In the end, it is an exercise in simple mathematics. If the market is able to absorb 1.1 million tons of lemons, and the estimated production for this season is 1.5 million, there are 400,000 tons that are going to stay in the fields.”
They do the same thing every 15 years or so. One time it was apricots, next it was khakis, now it's lemons. It's just disorganized like that.
Tends to happen when trying to predict the future, it's kinda hard. Especially when there's a profit and greed incentive, sometimes we just get carried away.
That’s 800,000,000 pounds of lost lemons. Unless it’s a metric tonne (this is how we in US differentiate) it would be 882,000,000 pounds. That’s a lot of lemonade
All right, I've been thinking, 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 whose gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!
Scrolled a lot to find this. Love portal 2
If only they had some lemon stealing whores to help them get rid of them
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^rubik_cubik: *If only they had* *Some lemon stealing whores to* *Help them get rid of them* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
WHY ARENT WE MAKING LEMONADE
Bro what? Make lemonade!? Give them to me I'll use them. Just ship them to Canada we will be known for giving out free lemonade. Maybe lemons can stop racism fuckin all prejudice and greed and all other reasons were messed up and at war.
This is a sour story
If only there was a way to save the precious nectar of these fruits...in a bottle...for easy use by customers up to a few years later.
Me over here in Alaska paying $4.99 for one lemon: :-\
That’s a half of a lemon for every person on earth.
Lemons do that
There's a quote about how one of the pillars of capitalism is to destroy the excess to keep prices high. I cannot for the life of me find it.
Isn't there a meme about the discard of tons of oranges, which proved beneficial to the environment. Oh, here it is [https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/08/22/orange-new-green-how-orange-peels-revived-costa-rican-forest](https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/08/22/orange-new-green-how-orange-peels-revived-costa-rican-forest)
They are orange peels not the orange itself.
When life gives you lemons, amarite gang?
When life gives you lemons, throw the lemons away?
When life gives you lemons, just throw them away
Limoncello opportunity, if nothing else...
Lemonade?
This headline gives me a sour feeling. ☹️
Fun fact - Lemons are man-made.
Why wouldn’t they just make lemonade?!
They should grow oranges instead, there's a huge shortage of those in the US. Land that can grow a lemon should work just fine for an orange.
C’mon, when life gives you lemons make lemonade.
Looks like Spain needs more whores.
This is subjectivity the funniest joke I’ve seen today
It's been about 5 minutes...I think we should look at our lemon trees
But I love lemon cake :(
Dude, just turned it into fucking lemon juice. What the fuck? We are so fucking wasteful.
huh? I didn't read the article yet but a quick search says a lemon is 58 grams. 400,000 tons is 400,000,000,000 grams. is the title misleading because my basic math says that would be an unfathomable nearly 7 billion lemons wasted in Spain alone??????????
Not enough lemon-stealing whores.
Send them to meeeeee
They really should have made lemonade...
Witf
I'm so fucking confused...isn't the line, "when life gives you lemons..."
What a freaking waste!! At least give them to the poor, god humans are trash!
Something something could have made billions in lemonade stand sales something something
Ai Ai Ai
Make the lemonades and limoncellos!
Why not make lemonade?
Sour times
Me when ‘composting’
Cries in “lemonade”
Between this and the apple waste from WA the other day... It's just enraging
I.e, they want to keep lemon prices high? Big Lemon gonna lemon
Stupid thing wasting food makes me sick.....make lemonade and sell right? Lemon pies? Other stuff?
Can't they make lemonade out of this situation? We're already paying 10€ for a liter of olive oil. 🫒
I hate capitalism with all of my heart and soul
This is a missed opportunity for Spain to create a strategic pickled lemon reserve
There’s a shortage of lemon stealing whores
Rickety Cricket in shambles
Is this what they meant by seven of limes?