When life gives you lemons, should you just make lemonade?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is an optimistic proverbial phrase, with its own Wikipedia page, that says: 

 

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”

 

But at the Smarter & Harder web site on March 16, 2022 Sam has an article titled When life gives you lemons, DON’T make lemonade, and he lists four things to do instead:

 

1)  Find out if you like lemons

2)  Leave the lemons where they are and bail

3)  Make life take the lemons back

4)  Make an Arnold Palmer [half lemonade & half iced tea]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As shown above, you can buy a premixed, tall can of Arnold Palmer. Further, there are at least two other things you could do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One is to use those lemons to make a Lemon Battery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another is to save those lemons for later by preserving them in a jar with salt. There is a recipe by Julia Moskin at Cooking New York Times for making Preserved Lemons. And there is an article by Zaynab Issa at Bon Appetit on February 8, 2023 titled 17 Salty-tangy preserved lemon recipes to use up the whole jar.

 

Last but not least, on March 8, 2023 Dave Kellett published a Sheldon comic strip with the proverbial title and the following text:

 

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!

 

But to do that, you gotta buy a pound of sugar. Oh, and a pitcher. Get a pitcher while you’re there. And also one of those lemon-squeezy things. And water, of course.

 

When life gives you lemons, your troubles have only begun!

 

Images of lemons and a jar of preserved lemons came from Wikimedia Commons.