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Summer's Not What It Used To Be, and the $400 Melon
from Influencer Poison, Trump’s Lifeguard & The Migrant Summer | The Tim Dillon Show #506 · #506
4 min
Tim opens by musing on how summer mattered as a kid but became miserable once you're older, recalling Burger King's 2012 bacon sundae, then pivots to rage-bait luxury food stories like a $400 Hamptons melon and a $19 California strawberry.
- Summer means nothing to most people unless they have money—it only matters when you're a kid or when you get wealthy enough to actually enjoy it.
- Without resources or access to swimmable water, summer just becomes unbearably hot and miserable, with people stuck in cars melting into leather seats.
- Burger King released a bacon sundae in 2012—a vanilla soft serve with hot fudge, caramel, bacon crumbles, and a full strip of bacon, costing $2.49.
- This summer is full of rage bait from luxury destinations like Nantucket and the Hamptons where the cost to participate is offensive.
- Food markets are pushing $400 melons and $19 strawberries designed purely to generate publicity and make people angry online.
- Tim had a bite of the $400 Japanese muskmelon at a Hamptons grocery store and concludes: it's just a melon, and melons suck.