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Bagels and a Big Penny
Mar. 27th, 2008 10:24 pmToday I decided to cash in my gift card for the bagel shop. For some reason, I decided to be super financially efficient with this free five bucks.
So before heading over, I checked out the nutritional information. I noted that virtually every bagel had very close to 300 calories and no other listed nutrients to speak of. There were a few with some calcium or protein, but those included significantly more calories.
So I decided to judge the nutrition solely based on fiber content. I wrote down the name of every variety of bagel that had at least 3 grams of fiber per bagel. On the sleeve holding my gift card. Oh, yes, I'm Miss Efficiency today.
When I walked in, I saw that they had all kinds of things: sandwiches, wraps, muffins, and of course bagels. I decided that plain bagels were the best deal, though the raspberry white chocolate muffins were tempting.
Most of the bagels were $0.99 or you could get a half dozen for $4.99. I made this my plan. I got three "good grains" and three "chocolate chip."
For some reason I didn't get charged sales tax. Isn't that the weirdest? In my area, necessities such as food are not taxed, but luxuries such as prepared food are. And this isn't like London where you can escape the value-added tax by taking it out of the restaurant instead of eating it there. I wonder whether getting the "cream cheese deal" that was twice offered to me would have transformed the bagels into prepared food. Because plain bagels, without any schmear, is obviously not ready to eat, and is therefore just food, and not prepared food. And yet, I have already eaten one of the bagels plain. I'm such a barbarian!
So, I have one penny left on my card. It's the largest penny I've ever owned.
Quote of the day (in dance class) - "Damn you for following my crappy lead!"
So before heading over, I checked out the nutritional information. I noted that virtually every bagel had very close to 300 calories and no other listed nutrients to speak of. There were a few with some calcium or protein, but those included significantly more calories.
So I decided to judge the nutrition solely based on fiber content. I wrote down the name of every variety of bagel that had at least 3 grams of fiber per bagel. On the sleeve holding my gift card. Oh, yes, I'm Miss Efficiency today.
When I walked in, I saw that they had all kinds of things: sandwiches, wraps, muffins, and of course bagels. I decided that plain bagels were the best deal, though the raspberry white chocolate muffins were tempting.
Most of the bagels were $0.99 or you could get a half dozen for $4.99. I made this my plan. I got three "good grains" and three "chocolate chip."
For some reason I didn't get charged sales tax. Isn't that the weirdest? In my area, necessities such as food are not taxed, but luxuries such as prepared food are. And this isn't like London where you can escape the value-added tax by taking it out of the restaurant instead of eating it there. I wonder whether getting the "cream cheese deal" that was twice offered to me would have transformed the bagels into prepared food. Because plain bagels, without any schmear, is obviously not ready to eat, and is therefore just food, and not prepared food. And yet, I have already eaten one of the bagels plain. I'm such a barbarian!
So, I have one penny left on my card. It's the largest penny I've ever owned.
Quote of the day (in dance class) - "Damn you for following my crappy lead!"