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[โ€“] 11 points 11 months ago* (43 children)

People keep giving me lemon curd. Help.

We have a massive, decades-old lemon tree so guests and family keep asking "can i take some lemons?" And i am "please god take some lemons they are everywhere and the ones i miss that drop make the yard smell like pine o cleen as they rot yes please take the fucking lemons here's a large bag fill it, fill it to the brim for christ's sake And lo, they taketh of the lemon.

And then. Aaaaaand then. They feel bad about rescuing us from lemons and GIVE US FUCKING LEMON CURD IN RETURN. Always lemon curd. No tarts no cheesecake, no marmalades, no limoncello, no lemonade, no lemon cakes, no lemongeddon solo derivatives no, just lemon curd. Curd upon curd upon curd. My life is becoming a hell of small repurposed cream cheese jars.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    a big box of lemons on your nature strip should help get rid of lemons

    the strangers won't feel compelled to give you lemon curd or anything really, they know they are doing you a favour by taking them

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    @Taleya @YarraByte @stib preserved lemons? As per Moroccan tradition?

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  • [+] 3 points 11 months ago (10 children)
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  • [โ€“] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    He's a true classic beast, came with the house. Farken pear tree is three times the size!

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)
  • [โ€“] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    kinda, but in that way that you don't really notice if you get what I mean

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    @Taleya @YarraByte how sad for you. I also have a loads and loads of lemons from the lemon tree, but noone wants to take them away and return them as curd to me. Why don't you try giving the curd away.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

    @Taleya :blobcatsurprised: oh! how demanding of them!

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I feel you are failing to understand the sequence.

    I am drowning in lemon curd. I Cannot on gift this lemon curd because the original gifters want the jars back. These jars therefore cannot in good faith be passed to yet another party who may fail to return them. I am now their custodian, the one to guarantee their safe return. They have become chinese obligations.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)
  • [โ€“] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    so I do not understand the sarcasm you appeared to employ when I reply to "can you give them to someone else" with "They want the jars back", you see my quandary?

    Or it may have not been sarcasm I'm kinda working against both text interface and a peak ASD day here

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 11 months ago (11 children)

    I don't see the problem. Love the stuff.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    So do I. That should give you an idea of how much curd is being inflicted.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

    Hahaha. I get it. It's like when every year for birthdays, Christmas, Easter I receive boxes and tubs of Maltesers from friends and family. I love 'em but please stop.

    My inlaws give me massive jars of olives. I love olives but not those olives. I've had to decline at times which leaves them sad.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah. They are the biggest jars I've ever seen in my life. They don't fit in my fridge.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)
  • [โ€“] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Teach me cos I don't know what that means.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    spanish stuffed olives are the ones you get at any grocery store, the green ones in vinegar that have had the pips cored out and stuffed with peppers (well pimento) instead.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Right got it.

    You know how you say you have a large lemon tree well they have TREES plural. Buckets and buckets of olives. Enough to make litres of olive oil which is delicious. Happy to take that. Pipping and stuffing ain't an option.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    !!!!! I can swap you pears or apples - two kinds - grapefruit, fejoia, bananas, oranges, limes, nectarines, nectazees, pomegranates, babaco, boysenberries, chillis, tomatillos or even black tea!

    (I really fuckin' like olives and my tree is still a baby)

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