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Comment on Discussion Thread 🐢 Friday 21 November 2025

People keep giving me lemon curd. Help.

We have a massive, decades-old lemon tree so guests and family keep asking “can i take some lemons?” And i am "please god take some lemons they are everywhere and the ones i miss that drop make the yard smell like pine o cleen as they rot yes please take the fucking lemons here’s a large bag fill it, fill it to the brim for christ’s sake And lo, they taketh of the lemon.

And then. Aaaaaand then. They feel bad about rescuing us from lemons and GIVE US FUCKING LEMON CURD IN RETURN. Always lemon curd. No tarts no cheesecake, no marmalades, no limincello, no lemonade, no lemon cakes, no lemongeddon solo derivatives no, just lemon curd. Curd upon curd upon curd. My life is becoming a hell of small repurposed cream cheese jars.

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Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
a big box of lemons on your nature should help get rid of lemons

the strangers won’t feel compelled to give you lemon curd or anything really, they know they are doing you a favour by taking them

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- Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  sadly last time I tried that the local meth head started hocking them at cars on South Road
  
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C0rn3lius@aus.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
@YarraByte @Taleya I will take your lemons and give you nothing in return. Nothing, do you hear me? Nothing.
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- Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  HOW MANY BAGS WOULD YOU LIKE
  
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huwr@aus.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
@Taleya sometimes local grocers take them to sell in their shops, which could be an option for you. You could swap them for something you want, or just donate them.
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RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Buy something large and heavy from Temu. Put in for a free return, but fill the box with an equivalent amount of lemons instead. Make sure you put the reason for return as “item was a lemon”.

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VWDasher@mymasto.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
@Taleya @YarraByte have these people never heard of lemon butter? Lemon tarts? Monsters.
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stufromoz@aus.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
@Taleya @YarraByte @stib preserved lemons? As per Moroccan tradition?
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- Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I made those once a few years ago. Didn’t care for them, so i’m cool with them missing the list
  
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  - stufromoz@aus.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    @Taleya they are an essential ingredient for a range of things, and useful in salads too. But mostly used in tagines
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CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t see the problem. Love the stuff.

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- Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  So do I. That should give you an idea of how much curd is being inflicted.
  
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  - CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Hahaha. I get it. It’s like when every year for birthdays, Christmas, Easter I receive boxes and tubs of Maltesers from friends and family. I love 'em but please stop.
    
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    LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Let me guess. They give you green olives?
    
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    Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    teach them to spanish stuff
    
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LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If you have heaps and are on the same side of town, I will happily take some lemons! I like the selling idea that Huw gave or even just leaving them in front of your house in a basket with a free sign

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- Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Image
  
  You don’t see the other side
  
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  - RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I will show this picture to my baby lemon trees as inspiration.
    
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  - Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I covet this tree
    
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    SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    My lemon tree shames his bloodline.
    
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    Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    He’s a true classic beast, came with the house. Farken pear tree is three times the size!
    
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  - LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Wonderful. Reminds me of my grandma’s lemon tree before her neighbour reduced it to a stump.
    
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Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Salt preserved lemons are good, and easy should you wish to try

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mativity@aus.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
@Taleya @YarraByte how sad for you.
I also have a loads and loads of lemons from the lemon tree, but noone wants to take them away and return them as curd to me.
Why don't you try giving the curd away.
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- Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  People want the jars back
  
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  - Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    accidentally put them in the recycle bin or say they broke because they shouldn’t have been repurposed
    
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    Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I can’t go smashing people’s jars in this economy!
    
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  - mativity@aus.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    @Taleya :blobcatsurprised: oh! how demanding!
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    Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I feel you are failing to understand the sequence.
    
    I am drowning in lemon curd. I Cannot on gift this lemon curd because the original gifters want the jars back. These jars therefore cannot in good faith be passed to yet another party who may fail to return them. I am now their custodian, the one to guarantee their safe return. They have become chinese obligations.
    
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PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Not a big fan myself. Lady who lives nearby was doing the same, taking lemons and giving us jars of curd. After the third time I said, can we stop giving lemons to this woman FFS!

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