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It just occurred to me that were a person to complain about life giving them lemons, that’s basically like how Homer Simpson complained about finding money when he was looking for a peanut. It’s indeed true that money would be unpleasant to eat directly, but that’s not how it’s supposed to be used, anyways.
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 the hell 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 who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
The amount of times I quote this and people just look at me like I’m insane
-jack handy
Okay, but what happened in languages where lemons are called “citron”?
In Polish, the word for lemon is cytryna, but the word for citron is cytron
The answer seems to be that they mainly call a citron “cedrat”.
I looked it up and German has several translations, among them Zedrate, as you suggested, but also Judenapfel (Jew apple) for no obvious reason (according to dict.cc)
Luckily that isn’t the name of the Wikipedia entry
When lemons give you life, you are a citron tree
Don’t tell OP about tomatos…
Life didn’t give us lemons… We gave lemons life.
When life gives you lemons it’s because you put in the work.
If life doesn’t give you lemons make them yourself.
And then bitch about them.
Tell me something that doesn’t concern me.
Hrmm, I wonder if I’m getting an ingrown toe nail.
… Because we should all be concerned about lemons.
The metaphor still works. Making our own problems then complaining about them is our defining characteristic as humans.
You sure it’s not enlightened, euphoric even?
There’s a difference between citron and lemon ? As a french speaker this is very confusing, I thought “citron” was just our word for “lemon”
Citron en anglais serait “cédrat” en français. TIL
It’s citron in swedish as well. Citrus medica is what’s being referred here as opposed to Citrus × limon, which is what we call citron
In German it’s Zitrone so I’m also confused.
Norwegian here. “Sitron” is a direct translation of “lemon”. Meanwhile, apparently the English “citron” is in Norwegian called “cedrat”. So it’s extremely confusing, yes.
Yes, Citroën is just another word for lemon
I’ll show myself out
(also I don’t actually hate Citroën, only Peugeot. Citroën used to make cool shit)
peugeot cars may be crap, but their pepper grinders are pretty good.
Fun fact Citroën is called like that because the maker was of Dutch decent. He was called Citroen, Dutch for the fruit. One of his teachers mistakingly added the trema, and he sick with it, finding it more classy and easier to pronounce for the French than his Dutch spelled name.
A citron is a specific fruit that looks really funky
A citrus is a genus of flowering trees who’s fruits contain citric acid
A citron is a specific fruit that looks really funky
I don’t see how those look funky. Could I get a comparison? If you were at mine and told me to fetch a lemon from the store, that’s what I’d bring.
Edit okay maybe that’s actually knobblier than the ones in the shop. In Finnish that would be “sukaattisitruuna”
But they were all of them deceived, for another citrus was made…
But they were all of them deceived, for another citrus was bred. In the sun-scorched groves of Barbados, in hidden orchards, Captain Shaddock labored in secret to create the grapefruit, that would outshine all citrus. And into this grapefruit they nurtured all their boldness, their ambition, and their desire to reshape the taste of life itself. One fruit to eclipse them all.
didn’t realize the flavor of life was gross asshole.
not really surprised though eitherOne by one, the free gardens of Pan-Gaea fell to the power of the Grapefruit, but there were some who resisted. A last alliance of citrus and citron marched against the armies of Florida, and on the very swamps of Ever Glade, they fought for the freedom of Pan-Gaea. Victory was near, but the power of the furanco courmarin could not be undone. It was in this moment, when all hope had faded, that Tangelo, son of the king, took up his father’s rootstock.
Yeah, iirc there are only four original naturally-occurring citruses, of which one is inedible. All the rest are hybrids.
When life gives you lemons, be thankful for receiving enough vitamin C in your nutrition to avoid scurvy.
