• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    12 days ago

    For me, it was bananas. I love them, but as a kid, my mom wouldn’t buy them, because she thought they were too expensive.

    As an adult with a good job and my first apartment, I would pass bananas in the grocery store, automatically thinking they were too expensive, but one day I noticed the price, and thought “That’s not expensive, I can afford that,” and I bought bananas for the first time.

    That was decades ago, and now I buy bananas on almost every grocery trip.

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      12 days ago

      Bananas expensive?? They’re usually the cheapest fruit around. My mother loved giving them to us. Sometimes we’d slice them long wise so they’d have a flat top, then put chocolate chips on there! Great after school snack.

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              12 days ago

              I am intrigued. Most of the cultures I’d expect to have that proverb have neither definite nor indefinite articles in their language.

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                12 days ago

                Unless I’m misunderstanding, you add those when translating so you don’t get broken English?

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                12 days ago

                Most of the cultures … have neither definite nor indefinite articles in their language.

                Not sure what you’re talking about. I’m Ukrainian. Was born in the Soviet Union.

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                  12 days ago

                  Was expecting it to be “vodka without beer is just waste of money”, in that case.

                  Looking it up, most sources seem to have it the other way around - “beer without vodka”, as in there’s no point wasting money on drinking unless you’re going to do some hard drinking?