I’m walking with a colleague.
“I never manage to recognize this guy S when I meet him,” I say. “First, he lost an incredible amount of weight, then he gained it back again, and as a result I never recognize him.”
“And do you know how he lost all that weight?” the colleague asks. “All he had to do was give up on soda and carbohydrates. That is all he had to give up. Nothing else!”
“If he had to give up potatoes,” I say, “then there is nothing else left.”
“But that was all he had to give up,” the colleague insists.
“But potatoes. . .” I object.
“Yes, but that’s a small sacrifice.”
“BUT POTATOES!!!!!” I repeat.
Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians will never reach an agreement as to whether giving up potatoes is a huge sacrifice.
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