Posts Tagged ‘food’

• Yes, I would like my penny back

  Date: 2010.05.21 | Category: I'm just saying | Response: 10

  My cupboards are completely bare because no one has done any serious grocery shopping in weeks. Therefore, this morning I could either eat the very last bowl of cereal in the house — or — I could stop for a bagel at Panera. I chose the bagel.

  So I’m at Panera and I’ve ordered my bagel and the total comes to $0.99, to which I hand her a $1 bill. And do know what the Panera lady asked me? She asked me: “Would you like your penny back?”

  Seriously?

  I can’t even believe that she asked me such a stupid question. And it’s not even like Panera has a change cup next to the cash register for those who need a penny blah blah blah. I wanted my penny because it’s called change, and when you pay for something and there is change you expect it back.

  Yes, it’s only a penny. However, that penny goes straight into The Pig when I get home.

  The Pig is what my husband and daughter call this huge piggy bank that is painted to look like a cow that we bought in Cape Cod over 12 years ago. They feed The Pig like it’s starving! Sometimes they weigh The Pig to see how much it’s gained. Other times they empty The Pig, count up all of the change and then put it all back in. When does The Pig cash out? Right before we go on vacation.

  Anyhow, not that it’s any of the Panera lady’s business that the penny has a purpose and I’d like it back, but seriously, since when did Panera start asking their customers if they’d like their change back?

• Rolling the dice on a mushroom forage

  Date: 2010.05.07 | Category: I'm just saying | Response: 2

  Tomorrow my husband is going on mushroom hunt with Braise Culinary School. He loves mushrooms. I hate mushrooms. However, we both agree that they are very interesting to photograph.

  

  Anyhow, he’s going to be up bright and early tomorrow to spend the entire day hiking through the Northern Kettle Moraine, tracking down all of the edible mushrooms he can find.

  

  He has this book about mushrooms,  North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi, and I flipped through it a little bit and this is what I’ve deduced: if he eats the wrong mushroom he’s screwed.

  

  For someone who is afraid to be on an airplane, I’d say that rolling the dice on a mushroom is probably the equivalent of jumping out of an airplane and not being sure if you’ve grabbed the backpack that has the parachute in it or a backpack that is filled with crayons, Highlights magazines, a Nintendo DS, and a juice box.

  I’m just saying.

• Wordless Wednesday: Pizza by the lb.

  Date: 2010.03.10 | Category: wordless wednesday | Response: 1

  

• Cha-ching

  Date: 2010.02.19 | Category: I'm just saying | Response: 3

  Today I registered my new Starbucks Card online. It wasn’t that big of a deal, except that I couldn’t remember my login name so I had to plug in my email address and then Starbucks emailed me ALL of my accounts that are connected to that email address.

  It turns out I have three accounts.

  And each account had at least two Starbucks Cards attached to it.

  I don’t even know where all of those cards are right now. Garbage can? Dresser drawer? Super secret hiding place that is so super secret that I can’t remember?

  Anyway, because I had the newest card with me I was able to transfer all of the money on each and every Starbucks Card I had ever registered and put it onto the new one. I’m not sure, but I might have funneled my husband’s card balance to mine and if that’s the case — SORRY.

  (Just a little bit.)

  I stared with a balance of $2.74 and ended with a whopping $10.85! I can’t believe that I had that much coffee money just floating around out there on gift cards. It’s like reaching into the pocket of jeans and finding  five bucks that I forgot I jammed in there the last time I wore them!

  I’d better check to see if I’ve got more on other email address.

• Pomegranates Are Messy

  Date: 2010.02.01 | Category: I'm just saying | Response: 2