12/15/24 - My hungriest year, I bit my hand until it bled and licked up my blood.

A compilation of finding out how expensive something is only when you go to pay:

“June, 2024, my wife made a mistake. She said she thought the world had collapsed.” [A picture of a bag of mixed chocolates for 885RMB]

“A tea store at the entrance to Yongxing Fang in Xi’an, 158RMB for a pot of tea made with boiling water. Anyone on vacation knows that you’re gonna spend some money, but I really didn’t know how to react to a 158RMB pot of tea. It’s not even particularly fancy tea. It’s just a trap. But my husband and I had already sat down and we were both too shy to leave. Regretted it for a whole day. 158RMB isn’t that much money, but I want to curse the world spending it on a pot of water.”

“A couple of days ago, I had a cold and I went to the pharmacy to get some medicine. It was 60RMB for two boxes of pills. I had them put it back because I’m not some kind of cuck. Went to the clinic and got three days worth of pills for 15 RMB.”

“Six years ago, I went to get some mala hotpot meat and I didn’t even order much and it was 150RMB. From that point on, I learned how to cook, and I learn how to make anything I want online. Now all my family says I made great food. Thank you for helping me grow, mala hotpot.”

“Went to get medicine today because my kiddo had a sore throat. They gave me a box that was 200+RMB and said there were discounts if I buy a lot at once. Why do I need that much medicine? I just turned around and walked away, didn’t buy a single box.”

“I still remember Independence Day, 2019, I bought yogurt and fruit at Changsha’s Wuyi Plaza for 148RMB.”

“The supermarket downstairs, which is just a normal community supermarket that’s at most developments, I bought 6 kiwis. Went to weigh them and was told it was unnecessary, they’re sold individually. They didn’t tell me the price. I learned when I went to the cashier that they were imported and were 30RMB each. I picked them out and threw them aside.”

“One time, I was waiting for my boba tea at the boba tea cafe, and saw there was a dried fruit store next door, so I went and got a few pieces of dried strawberries and dried apricots. It really was just 5-6 pieces. It was 70+RMB when I went to pay. I thought the price was per pound, but it was actually per gram.”

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OP posts a news story of the “2024 Female Power Yearly Event, 16th of December, in Shanghai” and the people who were invited, all of which were in the entertainment industry, actresses, singers, etc. And writes, “Police, military, doctors, entrepreneurs, scientists: ???”

Comments say, “At first: Wow, they invited so many big names? And at the end, “Oh, Yang Li is there too. Then none of the rest are good people. You can tell what they’re after.”” [Yang Li is a famous female standup comedian that became famous for content mocking men.]

“Even female janitors and delivery drivers contribute more to society.”

“Not allowed to be at the table in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties—old-fashioned and uncultured. Allowed to be at the table in Northern and Southern Dynasties—ridiculous but beautiful.” [Northern and Southern Dynasties are known for practicing cannibalism as a fad, mostly targeting women and children.]

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A compilation of people’s hungriest moment:

“My hungriest year, the cafeteria lady was too slow and my meat skewer ended up in someone else’s mouth. I started freaking out and screaming in the middle of the cafeteria, crying to my school committee secretary, crying so hard that rice came out of my nose.”

“My hungriest year, I woke up too late one morning in primary school and didn’t eat breakfast. During math, there was a question about bread in the textbook. I was so hungry, I was lying on my table, crying, so dizzy that I almost smelled the fragrance of baked bread, and I tore the picture of bread out of my book and ate it.”

“In middle-school, I always brought Jianbing Guozi [Chinese crepes, usually savoury] for the girl I had a crush on. They happened to be selling the very last one when it was my turn, and that was when a 7th grade shortie suddenly cut in front of me and swiped his card and sneered at me. I smiled right back at him and took the crepe out of the lady’s hands.”

“My hungriest day, the cafeteria food sucked plus I’d just had a fight with my classmate and I was in the middle of an emotional breakdown. Went to the principal’s office and cried for two hours. He couldn’t take it and took me to McDonalds. For the next week, I got to order whatever food I want. Damn, that was great.”

“In 11th grade, the buns I bought had went mouldy and was all hairy. I was so hungry I couldn’t take it, and ran to the cafeteria and demanded they give me a new one. They insisted it wasn’t mould. I got so mad that I climbed the giant steamer, and the cafeteria manager got so scared he called the principal. When the principal came, I was stabbed the buns in the steamer with chopsticks while standing over the stove with the fire still on.”

“My hungriest year was 12th grade. My mom came to see me, and watched me eat an entire bucket of pig feet, a plate of green peppers and shredded pork, and 22 palm-sized seared buns. My mom fed me soup while telling me to slow down. In the end, I went back to my dorm chewing on an apple, and just left my mom to gather herself and go home…What a wonderful meal that was.”

“My hungriest year, I taste-tested all my textbooks with the guy sitting behind me and came to the conclusion that English was the least tasty subject.”

“My hungriest year, two guys cut in front of me in the lunch line and I shrieked like a dolphin. The entire cafeteria was echoing with my shriek. The two guys got out of my way and the lunch lady gave me a pile of food.”

“My hungriest year, I had finally gritted my teeth and gotten a bowl of noodles with a marinaded egg, and a poached egg, and seafood. And someone was playing with their lunch card next to me and accidentally flung it into my noodles. And the noodles were so hot that I dropped the whole thing. I got so mad that I grabbed his card and shoved it in my mouth and chewed it into shreds. He got so scared me paid me 50RMB in cash.”

“My hungriest year, I bit my hand until it bled and licked up my blood and savoured it in my mouth. I was so hungry that I kept squeezing more blood out to suck, until I couldn’t get any more blood out and I switched to a different finger.”

“My hungriest year, as a tiny, skittish girl, I slapped the tall guy who cut in line ahead of me in the face.”

“My hungriest year, my entire dorm was too hungry to sleep and we talked it out and agreed to split up and eat my tube of toothpaste.”

“In 12th grade, the school wouldn’t let boarding students buy food outside. I was so hungry. The vice-principal runs laps around the field every morning at 6AM. I went to the field at 6AM every day to memorise English vocab so he knew me. That morning, I went to him and cried, wept snot and tears. The next morning, boarding students could go out to buy food. Later on, I got a government job and found that he’d become the Deputy Director of the Department of Education. He still remembered me because I cried to him that once. He even sent my employment photo to my old head teacher.”

“My hungriest year, I deliberately pretended to get hit by the principal’s motorcycle and then fall to the ground and refuse to get up. I told him I had low blood sugar and made him take me out somewhere nice to eat.”

“My hungriest year, in order to get food, I climbed out of my window. When I went to get food at the cafeteria, the lunch lady had really shaky hands and I was so mad, I just broke down. Cried my heart out while grabbing food right out of the lunch trays and shoving it in my face. The teaching director next to me thought I had gone crazy or something and called my mom to school. I grabbed his phone and told my mom to bring me 6 chocolate pies [palm-sized], 20 home-made tea eggs, and 6 red bean breads, plus whatever leftovers they had at home. They watched me lick the lunch trays clean. That’s the day I became famous in school.”

“My hungriest year, the second I got out of class, I’d start dashing towards the cafeteria with my unwashed hair. I’d run into my crush along the way and close my eyes and pretend I didn’t know him and just keep running. I didn’t even answer when he called my name, just pretended it wasn’t me. T_T”

“I had my period at the time, in a lot of pain, in a lot of hunger. I was in so much pain when I got to the cafeteria that I was covered in a cold sweat. There wasn’t a lot of people in line, so I figured it was going to be my turn soon, so I waited for a bit and ended up falling right on top of someone while mumbling, “Give me…food…I’m…starving…” The guy in front of me was so cared that he swiped his card to get me some food, and both of us ended up missing lunch because some guy picked me up and ran me to the nurse’s office all like, “Quick! Quick! She’s about to starve to death!””

“My hungriest year, I ordered some takeout and was scared of getting caught, so I went to the teacher’s bathroom to eat it. In the stall right next to me, some teacher was taking the loudest shit, while I finished my food with tears in my eyes. After that, I’ve never ordered spicy chicken again.”

“My hungriest year, I don’t board, but I was so hungry that I stole 7 of my classmate’s peaches (it comes as a part of school lunch, one per person, but I didn’t get any). I ran towards the school exit while I ate, and the lunch lady and 10 of my classmates chased me and none of them caught me. After I ate it, I’d even throw the pit at people.”

“My hungriest year, I was drinking black sesame paste in class and offered some to my classmate, and she told me on. Said I was trying to feed her shit.”

“I’m not that hungry, but I remember back in 12th grade, as soon as the lunch bell rings, all three grades in the corridors would move at once. Everyone is screaming and running at the cafeteria like a hoard of zombies. I was still on my way down the stairs, and some underclassman grabbed my shoulder and leapt clear over me to get over the crowd, and as he dashed away, he turned and yelled at me, “Sorry!” I bluescreen’d for a moment.”

“My hungriest year, I watched a guy come running around the corner and knock into me so hard it sent me flying. I crumped to the floor in too much pain to get up. He looked at me and didn’t even say sorry as he kept running to the cafeteria, and ended up slamming right into a pillar. It was a really loud bang, and in everyone’s shock and horror, he got back up and stumbled into the cafeteria. I can’t even imagine how hungry he must’ve been.”

“I started out laughing at the cafeteria, but the more I read, the more I randomly started crying. I feel so bad. The adult keep saying that studying is fun, there’s no hardship about it. I’m doing my internship now. I’m so happy I survived.”

“My hungriest year, I finally managed to get my favourite wontons, and a 10th grader underclassman bumped into me and spilled it all over the floor. I was so hungry that I grabbed his collar and demanded he pay me back for my wontons, while picking them up off the floor and shoving them in my mouth. The underclassman got so scared he bought me a double serving of wontons.”

“My hungriest year, because they suddenly delayed lunch, I ended up eating half of my English textbook. My head teacher got so scared she tried to take my book away from me and failed. In the end, the School Party Committee came, and I cried about how hungry I was, how I never get to eat my fill, that the food was so nasty I’d rather eat my books, while still chewing on my book. It took three teachers to rip that book away from me. From that point on, the school cafeteria got a lot better and the portions got a lot bigger, and our lunch started 10 minutes earlier.”

“Didn’t eat breakfast. Was hungry all morning until I finally made it to lunchtime. Wanted to run to the cafeteria and eat my fill and ended up behind a group of girls on the way walking down the corridor hand in hand. I kicked the middle girl out of my way.”

“My hungriest year, the teacher ran on for too long so I missed my lunch. I went to the principal’s office crying, weeping snot and tears about how I was so hungry, I couldn’t get any food, everyone else got there first. I’d been throwing up blood for a while during that time, and I got so agitated that I ended up spewing blood all over the place. The principal got so scared that he drove me out for lunch. I ate three big bowls of noodles, five doughnuts, and two eggs. The very next day, the principal held a meeting about how teachers aren’t allowed to run overtime.”

“My hungriest year, I was standing in line at the cafeteria, and a 180cm underclassman walked past me with a bowl of soup and stopped right next to me to talk to his classmates. The soup was right next to me, tomato and egg, and I took a sip by the edge of the bowl. I still can’t forget the way he looked at me.”

“One year, the lunch lady only gave me the chicken feet and neck for my meat. I got so angry that I took it to the principal’s office and threw it on the desk and told him to eat it. Then I sat down on the floor and started wailing. My year manager just about died of fright. Came over and grabbed me and tried to give me money to buy stuff to eat. I refused. In the end, the principal had to eat that neck and feet in front of me. After that, every day, head teachers would go patrol the school cafeteria.”

“My hungriest year, in order to get to the cafeteria first, I jumped from the 3rd story balcony to the school’s garden and ran to the cafeteria, and ended up getting ran over by the principal in his car. And I got back up and crawled my way to the cafeteria. I apparently made the principal cry.”

“My hungriest year, I was passing notes back and forth with my crush, and as soon as the lunch bell rang, I didn’t even finish the note and toss my pen aside and ran out the back door (I happened to be in the last row that week and the teacher was beautifying the blackboard), and just as I was inches away from the cafeteria, I fell down the stairs at the doorway. Dunno who made those stairs so oily. God, I was mad. My crush had slipped out behind me and saw me fall, so he helped me up, and the first thing I said was, “Hurry up, they have pickled fish today!” (my favourite) And my crush carried me all the way into the cafeteria. Later on, he was like, “I thought you’d gotten possessed by a hungry ghost or something.””

“My brother’s hungriest years, 2000RMB a month wasn’t enough for his food money. He ate it all in a week. We thought he was spending it on other things, so my dad went to his school to check on him, and watched him eat 8 ounces of noodles, two drumsticks, and a bread roll. He grew 17cm in a year.”

“My hungriest year, as a shy, skittish girl, I spent a month studying the security camera positions in my school, the security guard patrolling patterns, and the locations of various convenience stores around my school (my school’s fence is really low in some areas). And one day, in the middle of the night, I climbed over the fence bearing the will of my entire dorm to go find food.”

“My hungriest year, just as class started, I stole a piece of bread from the guy behind me, and tore it opened and told my deskmate, “Lemme show you something cool” and shoved the whole roll in my mouth, and ended up choking on it. My deskmate was yelling to the whole class, “Who knows how to do a Heimlich?””

“12th grade, lunch bell rings and I run to the cafeteria, and saw a female classmate fall, and her lunch card went flying too. Her friends tried to help her up, and she was yelling, “Forget about me! Grab my card! You have to buy the Rou Jia Mo [Chinese burgers]! I’ll be there in a bit!””

“My hungriest year, I found a pack of tissues in my teacher’s office and tried a bit and found it was kind of sweet, so I split half a pack with my classmate.”

“My hungriest year, I ran to the cafeteria to buy food, and a 2m tall classmate was running to his seat to eat food, and we ran into each other. A whole bowl of noodles went all over my head. I had noodles all over my face. But I’ve been wanting to eat these noodles for so long (I could never managed to get any in time) that I swallowed my pain and ate all the noodles around my face.”

“My hungriest year, I asked a friend I’d already broken up with for some bread…”