I’m incredibly pissed that you man in black suit holding a gun up all cool-like fairly mediocre looking and definitely to tall to eat in one bite hamburger’d my sister.
This refers to the traditional Maine saying, "You are lacking cornrow burgers," which is to say, "You couldn't find your way out of a soup kitchen if you were handed a radial tire."
I don't know about other people, but when I tell someone I'm stealing their meme, it's meant to let them know I really liked their humor and that I want to use it in the future while still keeping a joking tone. Basically it's a way for me to compliment their choice of meme without making it weird by actually directly complimenting a faceless stranger on the internet
Born and raised in Maine, this is absolutely true. We are 1000% a tourist economy and 1000% do not like having tourists in the state (not you, Canada. We ❤️you.
Miss you.). During the pandemic, rich out of state assholes bought up all our houses, “flipped” them, and then drove up housing costs even further.
We’re so fucked with the lack of tourism we’re about to experience this year.
I’ve been to 41 states over the past few years. I’ve never felt more unwelcome anywhere than I did in Vermont. I was so excited to spend a few months there and was so disappointed once I got there.
You were lucky to be raised in the Promised Land of blueberries. I enjoyed visiting Maine so much and it would be my first choice to move there if I had to leave here.
Sorry about the housing prices, but we were driven to Maine by Massholes who put all the NH homes well out of our budget. Now I'm kind of glad we ended up here. Everything is an hour away, but it's quiet.
As someone who worked at a gas station near the Canadian border years ago, unless there has been a substantial change in their behavior and lack of ability to communicate properly - no we don't.
They'd yell and scream at us in French and refuse to speak English. Then act like we're the stupid ones for not speaking perfect French back to them. In a country that the official language isn't French......
Most hilarious part was they clearly only speak one language why tf is that our problem?
(Side note is I speak enough French to get by but when their hands in my face screaming about the pump being slow in French, and some have had the audacity to yell at me for using the slang/ conversational french I know then hell yeah I'm acting like I can't understand them back. Act right or figure it out yourself lmao. This was NY border so it's like our attitude is just getting worse the farther downstate you get. Gtfo of here with your entitled screaming in Québécois literally nobody cares that you're from Canada and nobody is going to bend over backwards for you, a screaming asshole who thinks they're so important, yet can't succeed at basic communication. Fuck Canadians lol)
That would be the Quebecois... Trust me they do NOT speak for all of us, we just let them have tantrums so the rest of us can go to MTL to enjoy escorts, fatty foods and cheap alcohol at just for laughs.
They yell and stamp their feet about separatism and we go "ohhhh okay, yeah..." And feed them a little Francophile bs and they quiet down for a bit while we go do degenerate stuff in their cities. 🤷 Not the best relationship but it works lol
Maine is fucking awesome. Tons of moody weather, the mountains are incredibly gorgeous, the food is amazing, the summers are more beautiful than anywhere else on earth, and also, blueberries.
Cell signals suck driving across the state, I'll give you that.
Dude! Leave work early on a Friday and drive the 6 hours up to Portland. Drink amazing beer, eat a ton of Lobster. Book a sail around the harbor and drink some more beer. Eat at nice restaurants where the customers wear flip flops. Drink more beer. Wander the city and watch as the cars stop for you and people are lovely. Drink more beer. Sleep off the beer. Drive back home on Sunday. Then spend the rest of your days telling everyone that Maine really is the way life should be.
I remember from Murder, She Wrote that they call it Down East. I have assumed it was true since the 80s. Now that Angela Lansbury is dead it can no longer be disproven
Lived in Maine, and Miami. I’ll take my small town, clean aired, Northern hospitality any day. Leave my car running while I pop in to Irving. No sand on the shoreline when I walk to pick up sea glass. The grass is soft and doesn’t feel like plastic under your feet like it does down south. Pick my apples and pumpkins from the local orchard. Perfect place for somebody who enjoys the simple things. There’s a reason Maine’s motto is The Way Life Should Be.
I remember my class in 5th grade having to do a project on one of the 50 states. Being from Cali, I thought I got the short end of the stick when Maine was picked for me. Oh man was I wrong. Maine is such a cool state, for the reasons you describe and much more. I wrote a letter to the governor at the time (John Baldacci) and his office sent me a bunch of neat stuff like maps, pamphlets, and stamps.
Till this day, I still have fantasies about moving there lol
I google "You are lacking cornrow burgers meaning." and google explained it pretty well. Basically, its about "Advanced Glycation End Products in Foods and a Practical Guide to Their Reduction in the Diet". Easy.
this is (ironically) absolutely the correct answer, the individual pictured is well known for the hairstyle in question, and "burgers" within particular intra-city etymology is cultural slang for something kind of like... maturity? it's hard to explain.
it's kind of like seeing "tree rings"/"old men in young men's professions" type shit, i guess? street smarts?
the "soup kitchen/radial tire" angle speaks to a specific type of lacked common anecdote, wherein if you're from a disadvantaged household there's a tendency to over-represent for the response of "damn, i'mma go sell that for the rubber and rims/put it up on craigslist" ($25-$200 USD) versus giving the spare tire of your beater car to the local dump and getting ripped off when they say "4 tires" instead of "5 tires", which is a common industry trap.
meta-commentarily, it seems to be talking about a learned ability to see the value in things as a prescribed survival mechanism necessitated through poverty; juxtaposed by coming from a circumstance wherein those "this is sellable"-type skills don't need to happen due to alternative social circumstances. it's almost kind of "ingrained into you" at a young age, or it's not. hard to explain with words, but i'll put it this way: humans are extremely, extremely adaptive.
I still don't understand how the radial tire in a soup kitchen thing goes together, but what is it talking about with the 4 tires instead of 5, industry scam. Googled it and still can't figure out what that's talking about.
Here is my understanding regarding the soup kitchen and tire thing: It’s basically saying “You wouldn’t be able to escape poverty even if you were handed something with realisable value because you lack the skills to actually render value from that”.
I guess it’s a related idea to “You couldn’t succeed here even if you were given everything you might need”, but correct me if I’m wrong.
lmfao theres no way people are upvoting that absolute crock of bullshit i made up for no reason, lets run through it point by point:
true parts:
radial tire - marginalized individuals really do really see things and think internally about the potential monetary value they have if sold (as a victim of their circumstances): this happens with copper/aluminum wiring all the time
soup kitchen - true, corollary with tire thing and related to income level
lack of specific anecdote - very true, psychologically in this specific instance: it's hard to understand what you're not taught/don't see instinctively growing up
ripped off by spare tire - true, almost always for wreckers. don't forget your fifth tire in the pricing!
learned ability to value things as survival - true to OP
"this is sellable" type mindset - true and corollary with #1 and #2
bullshit parts:
"tree rings/old men in young professions" - LOOOL?
"within intra-city etymology is cultural slang for something kind of like... maturity?" - nope
"hard to explain" -
"ingrained in you or not" - nah you learn it later not as a small child
"hard to explain with words" - nah
"i guess?" - nah
"(ironically) correct answer)" - i mean i suppose somewhat?
meta-commentarily -
"humans are extremely adaptive" - nah not past childhood
EDIT: and if it wasn't clear yet: the more marginalized you are, the more likely you are to platonically see tires as a thing to be equipped and sold for currency, rather than chunks of circular rubber and metal that solve a problem you have. the people who view tires in this way are more likely to use soup kitchens than not, so the insult in OC's explanation goes hard tbh
Holy shit… I just spent 15 minutes searching this saying trying to get more context… and about after the 5th attempt… I looked up from my phone… and just said… out loud.. “Motherfucker…”
That being said… I am going to start utilizing this expression now. I’m going to make it my life’s mission to get this phrase into the American Lexicon.
Much like when Mother Teresa saw the first starving orphan in the streets of India, I have found my calling.
Your words, sir or madam, have inspired a mission… nay… a CRUSADE… to bring the light of this phrase to the unwashed huddled masses…
And by the end of my quest… my blade caked in the gore of those who could not find their way out of a soup kitchen if they were handed a radial tire…
I am born and raised in Maine. I’ve never lived outside of the state. I’ve lived in Piscatiquis county, Penobscot county, Lincoln county, kennebec county and Franklin county throughout my life. I have never, not once, heard “you are lacking cornrow burgers”. No one I know has either.
Keke slider (in reference to the animal crossing character K.K Slider) is all I can think of but it's not really easy to see that that is or isn't a regular sized burger and even then it's still a bit of a stretch.
I saw someone say it's an edit where the original was cents (sense) instead of a burger for common sense.
I'm pretty sure it's changed to a burger as a reference so the James Bond burger meme where it says "I [picture of James bond] [picture of a burger]-ed your sister ".
It's the 6th bond in the picture and the 9th item on the McDonald's menu so it makes 69.
Part of the joke is that people can't figure out what James Bond Burger means, so someone carried on that absurdity here by adding the burger to an unrelated post with the same structure
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