Given yesterday’s post about free food, I thought you might find this interesting.
NY Times writer Henry Alford conducted an experiment: Make dinner every night for a week using ingredients from 99-cent stores and then prepare a meal for friends made only from ingredients bought at 99-cent stores.
I was hoping that he was making meals that only cost 99 cents, but the article is still fun to read. He is quite the gourmand. I, on the other hand, am staring at an unlabeled chocolate egg from the leftover Easter candy bowl and fighting the urge to it eat.
The flesh truly is weak. I’ll let you know how it goes.
UPDATE: My idea was to keep that unlabeled egg around for a while. Take a picture of it on my desk. Make it this running gag and we would all have laughs about the unlabeled egg.
But I just ate it. And I bit off some of the foil, too, and it may or may not be stuck in my throat.
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eww…unlabeled eggs are the worst. but I think the persistent, unmerited optimism (”this time it might actually taste like Godiva”) tells us something profound about the human spirit.
wow! you’re getting deep.
I’m pretty sure aluminum foil is toxic. But probably not in small amounts.
This post made me smile…sounds like something I’d totally do!
i don’t think it was foil, but those unlabeled eggs are dangerous!
I was hoping that he was making meals that only cost 99 cents
If only it were true…
i know – that could’ve changed your life!
If the egg, or the foil, was bad enough, it could still have been a gag. It just wouldn’t have been a running one.
sad.
i know.