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"Poor product quality, delivery time below expectation" is like the old joke:
"The food here is terrible."
"Yes, and such small portions."
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
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.
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.
That's really beautiful... in a sick, sad, & apt sort of way.