Anything to make their grandbaby happy

I made this mistake with "Ruffles" - a chocolate-covered coconut snack.

I mentioned I liked them, and for the next year or two, every week my grandpa would stop by to give us 2-3 boxes of ruffles. We had a cupboard literally full of them, we were giving them away, and I ate so many that the thought of them makes me feel queasy now. We kept telling him to stop, but the man was on a mission.

Sadly, he passed away last year, and I made sure to bring a couple boxes of Ruffles to the service.

Both my grandfathers have been dead since before I was born and my grandmother resents my father so much that she doesn't talk to me
... wanna trade? 🫶
My late grandmother did exactly the same thing with Speculaas, a kind of Christmas biscuit you get in Europe. I used to love that stuff, made the mistake of saying so one day, and then every time I went to visit her, she got me a stash of the stuff. A year later I was absolutely over it, and to this day I eat Speculaas very sparingly.
- There seems to be a pattern in this thread. Like it is elderly people doing this for their young relatives.

This is literally the situation with my mother in law.

My SO is an only child and I would describe her mom as having more money than sense (at least when it comes to her kid), so we're careful about mentioning anything that we need to go and buy or anything like that around her, or we're going to get a month's supply of that thing, every time we visit for the next six months.

I'm pretty sure we said little more than "we should pick up toilet paper on the way home"... Next time we were there, my trunk was filled with the stuff.

So we're rather careful about what we mention around her. She means well, but I don't have the space to support her filling up my home with toiletries on the mention of having to buy it.

I appreciate that she cares but we take care of ourselves in that respect.

A friend of the family is like that. I don't know what I am supposed to do with a machine that makes grilled cheese. Like okay one in a while, I don't need to make 40 at a time.

Probaby has a lot to do with if their generation overlapped the great depression. Scarcity mindset scars for life

I recently saw some videos about people freeze drying orange juice. Could be an option here.

I don't know about freeze drying, but when I was a kid, I remember most people getting orange juice concentrate in a frozen tube that you would defrost and add water to.
- Frozen concentrate is still common.
- I grew up with Five Alive. I believe it also came in a tube version.
- I still use frozen juice tubes! The stores near me used to have a great selection but now it's apple or orange. Honestly tastes similar to most of the name brand stuff.
- That stuff was so good. Gonna have to look for it now.

My grandmother always had hard boiled eggs in the fridge and seltzer in the siphon. How did she do that? Do you know how many times I've tried to accomplish that on a regular basis?

Grandmas are on some other fucking level, man. Do you know what kind of unrealistic expectations I got from never seeing dust in her house as a kid??
- The behind-the-scenes is brutal.
  Source: I live with someone else's grandmother. As soon as the grandkid visit ends, she goes to bed for the rest of the day to recover from all the prep.
Mine always had a literal year's supply of homemade berry juice, cloudberries and fresh cinnamon rolls

Imagine having a grandpa

If you can, please drink freshly squeezed OJ, otherwise you're tasting... Dunno, it tastes nothing like actual oranges..

Turns out the flavorful chemicals in fresh orange juice go bad really quickly. Standard industrial practice is to treat the juice to remove the flavor for bulk storage, then each brand has a proprietary "flavor mix" they add at the time of filling the individual containers.
- That sounds like an urban legend
- Keep in mind the flavour packs are typically made from oranges (that's how they can still call it 100% orange juice) but it's still weird to think about. This is also how different brands can have their own distinct and consistent flavour.

Can someone please mention to their grandparents they like the Barbie movie? Thanks.

This is how you wind up in a fridge, Margot.
- 😭

Me: "yeah, David [the toy from bd] is pretty nice"

Grandpa: fucking dies

Doesn’t have to be that old, man: my first is in college now. I no longer consume enough for Costco to be a good value, but you bet that if he mentions he wants something, I’m on my way to Costco