At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge $5 for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

A darkly comic riff on the “free sample” sales tactic, the joke turns on a sudden revelation: the first glass is implied to be harmful, and the expensive second glass is the “antidote.” Philips satirizes predatory business models that create (or exploit) a problem and then sell the cure at a premium—an exaggerated version of bait-and-switch, addiction economics, or even certain critiques of medicine and consumer culture. The innocence of a childhood lemonade stand heightens the absurdity, while the deadpan logic exposes how easily moral wrongdoing can be reframed as clever entrepreneurship.