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I don’t get it
If it's inedible why does the amount you can't eat matter?
Why would you want bigger portions of bad food (is my guess)
Me neither
I think it's like, "You get what you pay for." but I'm not really sure either.
It's a classic simple joke probably decades old, but the humor is in the implication they want a bigger portion of something bad. Edit: ah it seems to be from the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4151-there-s-an-old-joke---um-two-elderly-women-are
Commenting again to say, I don't know if it's the baader-meinhof phenomenon or not, but I just read an ingredient label and, "tocopherol" got stuck in my head for the past 2 days... Just now, and I usually don't do this, but I went back to check your username after replying & hey, what's up vitamin E? Lol
Haha I forgot it even meant that, I did just pick it at random from a food label :p
Ah I get it now. I think it’s a joke that’s more obvious if you’ve never been poor. I suppose quality and quantity are not necessarily connected in the same way for everyone.
To me the comments make sense?
If you're going to have lower quality food I'd expect the portion to be bigger than a fine dining restaurant where the food quality is high but the portion size is expected to be smaller.
That's really beautiful... in a sick, sad, & apt sort of way.